To celebrate GSN’s doomed to failure US version of Pointless, here’s another version that I thought did a pretty good job but didn’t last, the German version Null Gewinnt (Zero Wins) from 2012 on ARD. Each episode was self-contained, no rolling jackpot, but you got €1,000 for every Pointless answer you gave anyway. Of course the German Richard Osman is cheating by actually having his computer turned on.
And Paul O’ Grady’s doing Blind Date! Wowsers.
And the new Great British Bake Off line-up is Paul Hollywood and Prue Leith judging, Sandi Toksvig and Noel Fielding hosting.
Fielding is not to my taste but I’m hoping his upcoming stint on Taskmaster might turn me, Sandi feels like a natural fit, I don’t know Prue Leith very well.
Prue Leith does a good job as effectively the ‘head judge’ on Great British Menu. There’s no official top judge but she is the one I actually remember by name, so.