Broadcast reporting ITV Be is going to be shut down with its hit shows moving to ITV2, and the channel is going to become ITV Quiz, playing quiz and game shows “akin to a FAST channel”.

Quite interesting, it will presumably cost pennies to run if its not going to have any of its own commissions. Does anyone watch much of the FAST channels on ITVX? Is this just going to have The Chase, Tipping Point and Celebrity Catchphrase on a loop or will it be more interesting than that? Is that American BBC quiz FAST channel still going and has it added anything interesting in the last year?

Edit: Sounds like U&Dave’s Silence is Golden starts on May 5th, where an audience must keep silent as comics try and make them laugh to win a dwindling share of £250,000. This will need to hit the ground running early, Last One Laughing UK has been a big hit and the timing makes the comparisons inevitable, unfairly or not (this was revealed and recorded last year).

Looks like we’re getting many of the hits, the Zombie Infection game, what I originally thought was Middle Race but might on closer inspection be actually be Scam Horse Race (with some other animals), elements of some sort of flash-forward/flash-back at the end, phwoar at the set (although it does look, dare I say, a bit more cramped than the original).

Our season commentaries for the original seasons of The Genius a decade ago are still up on our Specials Board, if you are that way inclined. We will inevitably be chatting about this and other Brain Survival Spring games in the Discord under #geniuschat.

Well fans of the genre are about to be spoilt – already we have the surprisingly good LG Genius corporate rip-off Life’s Game on Youtube, adverts for ITV’s Genius Game have started going out – rumours suggest an April 30th start but we’ll see and this morning the trailer and date for Devil’s Plan 2: Death Room on Netflix has dropped – May 6th, and it looks goooooood.

The Devil’s Plan is a kind of legally distinct sequel to The Genius, made by the director of the original and some of the staff. The first series had lots of great moments, even if it was sometimes a bit more ponderous. And now it looks like we’re going to have Genius vs Devil’s Plan at the same time, which we wondered might happen when we knew DP2 was Q2.

Got To Get Out is the new Glenn Hugill produced show for Hulu starting next week (so no idea if this will be officially viewable in the UK anywhere) where a mixture of reality celebs and non-celebs try and escape a house as a money clock counts up to a million dollars. It looks quite fun from the trailer, although the trailer also details a major spoiler which suggests episode 3/4 will probably be worth a watch so you might as well not bother with any of the other ones. Also it occurs the reason it looks quite fun is because it was quite fun when it was basically Jailbreak with Craig Charles on Channel 5 about 25 years ago.