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Go 8-Bit TV show to be presented by Dara O’Briain

Steve McNeil and Sam Pamphilon’s Go 8-Bit TV show has been announced, will be presented by Dara O’Briain, probably won’t be terrible.

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5 years ago

22nd March 2016

Tom Baines

TV shows about video games are usually terrible. GamesMaster carries all sorts of nostalgic fuzziness, Charlie Brooker’s GamesWipe is splendid, and Video Gaiden is a thing if you’re in Scotland, but other than that? Generally quite dreadful.

Go 8-Bit hopes to change all that. For starters, it’s based on an already-successful live show format by Steve McNeil and Sam Pamphilon, which is ostensibly based on the super-successful TV panel show format, where they (as team captains) pit comedians and celebrities against each other in video game-based challenges.

Also in its favour, the Go 8-Bit TV show is going to hosted by one of the legends of British comedy panel shows, Dara O’Briain, who you may not know is a bit of a video game aficionado. Here’s the man himself doing a bit on conveniently placed waist-high cover and being shit at Metal Gear Solid:

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Header image: BBC archive image for Dara O’Briain*.

*Not really.

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