Looks like your girlfriend had quadruplets.

The clip below is from the Mexican TV show “Asgaard”.  ToplessRobot has the awesome trailer as well.  Contestants live-action role play their way through an insanely complicated set, winning real ounces of silver as prizes.  They have enemy characters trying to set them back and allies to help them.  It’s like a pile of Dragon back issues exploded all over this set and the contestants, and all they got were some silver pieces.  Seems like a lot of work for something worth $15 an ounce.  How many pimp cups full of mead can you get for that these days?

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What show do you think of when you hear the phrases “cheesy looking creatures,” “vague gibberish that defies logic” and “a British industrial site that kind of looks like a future world”? If you answered Doctor Who, well, you’re right. But you could just as easily be describing a new British game show that will send children to the year 2110 to save the world. Yep, to win it, you just have to completely defy the laws of physics and rescue the human race from a human-killing robot apocalypse. So, no pressure, kids.

The show, Mission: 2110, will be a 13-episode game show from BBC Scotland, where kids will be “taken” a hundred years into a horrifying machine future where mankind is dominated by the Roboidz, a race of self-replicating robots who apparently have lost the ability to spell. If it sounds a little Doctor-Who-esque, the show’s back story was written by Phil Ford, who wrote the Doctor Who special The Waters of Mars and was head writer for the second season of The Sarah Jane Adventures.

The 16 contestants will have to capture “bio rods” which will contain life energy that they’ll use to fix the world. And how will the BBC create the desolate future of the Roboidz? They’re going to shoot it on a giant container ship sitting in a loch. So, if you want to picture the future…just imagine something as empty as a Scottish export ship.

[Forargyll & Digital Spy]