Philobiblon

The Guardian reports:

The British Museum has become the first national museum in the world to throw open its doors to a television gameshow. Codex, due next winter on Channel 4, is filmed in the galleries and Great Court, with a code-breaking finale in the Round Room, the former British Library reading room where Karl Marx and George Bernard Shaw pored over their papers.Already TV companies and museums around the world are watching with interest. The executive producer of the series, Roy Ackerman, said yesterday: “Our dream is to move on to conquer the Louvre, the Cairo museum, the Smithsonian.”

Well … whatever gets in new visitors – particularly of the non-traditional sort. And it does sound like there is some sort of intellectual content.

Can you hear me convincing myself?