I don’t know the exact details but if they can make Bridge of Lies with Ross Kemp, they can make Kick The Can. The ultimate would be Kick the Can – a slightly confusing game we played in Deerpark CBS where you kicked the empty coke can on the ground and then got the shite kicked out of you. But what if there’s an Irish Ranger shouting foul mouthed abuse at them while they do so? ‘In and out the Dusty Bluebells’ in the playground is a charming little game where a child weaves in and out of a circle of handholding classmates. Teams of MMA athletes trying to break through the line and they lose a significant amount of money if they get captured. Red Rover is a natural choice but a bit more jeopardy will probably need to be added. Also the rules around who is “on” first will need to be cleared up. Complete with referees weighing into disputes about whether you actually did “get me” or not. It does beg the question: what other children’s games could make it into TV? Kiss-chase, with its loose definition of consent, is a no-no but a good old fashioned tip-hunt must be an option. You don’t want to touch the floor because the floor is lava and no one wants incineration. It comes from the game played by children (and a surprising amount of adults) where you try and cross a room by jumping from furniture to furniture without touching the floor. (‘Dream Home Makeover’ where the main point is that everyone should be joy-crying by the end of it.)Īnd a show about people trying to avoid falling into fake lava. They are making the transition from cartoons to “real life programmes” which means more cake-based stuff (‘Is It Cake?’) and home makeover shows. This is a longwinded way of saying I’m watching “The Floor Is Lava.” with the children.

Now with streaming, the choice is infinite, but impulses are the same. (An Australian soap opera set during World War 2 that travelled at the same pace in time as World War 2) In the old days when there was less telly to watch, so it could be anything from Mart and Market to The Sullivans. It’s that time of year isn’t it? When you kind of watch any old thing that’s on, slumped indoors, an Irish human bear scratching around in the den in mid-Hibernia-nation.

World war toons being remade