Consolevania is a video games TV show filmed in and around Glasgow, Scotland. It is notable as one of very few online TV shows to make the leap onto broadcast TV as the show videoGaiden, which has had four series shown on BBC Scotland. The name Consolevania is a reference to Konami's long-running horror-adventure game series Castlevania and was chosen by Rllmuk forum members before the first episode was shot. Fittingly, the first game reviewed on the show was Castlevania: Lament of Innocence. The first episode was filmed in early 2004 and initially distributed on CDs posted out by the team. Eventually all episodes became distributed online via the BitTorrent peer-to-peer network, although an archive of http first and second series downloads now exists and lower quality http downloads are released concurrently with the more recent BitTorrent releases. On January 23, 2017, it was announced via Patreon that a new series of Consolevania was planned for production. The first episode of the new run was released on February 18, 2017, and the show is following a regular monthly release schedule. History Consolevania was first released online in 2004, presented by Robert Florence, former writer for BBC comedy Chewin' the Fat, and Ryan Macleod. Primary coverage was of console games; however, since the donation of a PC by sponsor Alienware at the start of Series Two, PC games have also been reviewed. Much of the audience for the early episodes came from various online discussion forums, in particular Rllmuk (itself seen by many as the spiritual home of Consolevania) and NTSC-UK. The show gradually gained a substantial internet following, largely by word of mouth, and began to attract the attention of both mainstream and video gaming media. Following the description of the show by Sky News as having "something that almost every other games show ever created has lacked: true passion for the subject matter," the BBC expressed interest in the show, reportedly since it garners "more viewers than some shows they produce already.". The show received widespread underground popularity and is now a global entity. BBC Scotland commissioned a games review show from First Person Shooters in a similar vein to Consolevania, titled videoGaiden. This was broadcast on BBC Two Scotland from November to December 2005 for six weeks. In April 2006, it was reported that Consolevania had acquired the movie rights to the Jeff Minter computer game Hover Bovver.