Chris Moneymaker, Justin Young and Norm Macdonald are the players. Jeff Platt is the host. PokerGO is the channel. What you’re about to watch might be the most fun quiz show you’ll see this year.

If you haven’t watched Episode 1 of The Big Blind, then you’re missing out. This review is going to have spoilers, so if you seen it yet, then sign in or sign up and check it out here.

Poker and quiz shows don’t always go to plan. Shark Tank was… interesting. PokerFace on ITV was… a minor disaster in broadcasting terms, only saved by the hosts. The Big Blind has come into territory where there is a sign planted in the ground warning those who have made it so far to think very hard about travelling further down the road they’re on.

If The Big Blind is Wile E. Coyote chasing an impossibly smart Road Runner, then it is living on the edge, trying to survive in a world designed to make it fail. Quiz shows are vastly popular. Poker is the most played card game on the planet. But the combination of the two has never seemed to work. The Big Blind might just be the show to break the mould.