Weeknights, 6:30pm,
BBC2

New series of cozy post Richard Osman quizzing hosted by the unlikely pairing of Vernon Kay and Paul Gorton off of The Traitors. Every night across a week, three celebs (in week one it’s Anneka Rice, Shane Todd and DJ Remi Burgz) are asked to sort fact from fiction about different places in the UK (week one includes Whitby, Cardiff, Bolton, Jedburgh and Coleraine), in a bid to see who knows the UK best, presumably. Vernon hosts from the studio, Paul has been out and about doing the VTs.

How much more there is to the show remains to be seen – maybe its simplicity will be enough. Let us knoiw what you think in the comments.

First fortnight Tues and Weds, 9pm,
Then Tues 9pm,
ITV1 and ITVX

Well, not sure what anybody’s expecting with this, it’s been a non-hit in the several places it’s been tried and actually was originally down to go out last year, but for whatever reason was pushed back to 2026.

Fourteen people have fourteen days to climb to the top of a mountain in New Zealand, each initially carrying an equal share of the £200k prize fund. If people can’t hack it, the money they’re carrying is lost as well. At various points the mysterious Mountain Keeper will instruct them to do some sort of jumped-up Go Ape-style traversal task, and at periodic camps they’ll need to vote each other out. If they run out of time they all win nothing, so there’s an element of strategy in being popular and not being too weak. “£200k divided by 14, £14,285.71, that’s an unusual amount for people to be carrying isn’t it?” Yes. And that headline figure will not be given away. In fact making it to the end won’t guarantee anyone gets the £14,285.71 they’ve been lugging all the way if other versions are anything to go by, for reasons you can spoil for yourself if you want.

Ben Shephard is at least a believable host of this having done charity mountain climbs before and being quite a sporty guy so no issues there. Whether this will outperform how the format tends to do internationally remains to be seen – hey it sort of did with Destination X. Let us know what you think in the comments.

Sundays, 9pm,
(but episode 2 Monday 9pm),
Channel 4

Alan Carr and Susie Dent challenge ordinary everyday people who may have had their brainpower overlooked to games devised by British Mensa to see if secretly they’re actually geniuses, with the top twelve people from four regional heats going through to the final at Oxford.

And from the adverts this looks like it might be good fun – large immersive set-ups like games from The Crystal Maze which we presume have been edited for playalong value (in fact there’s even a playalong website for it). Alan Carr basically Doing A Claudia, presenting shorthand that a format that might sound a bit weird and unappealing might actually be for them. Would presume Susie Dent does the explanation heavy lifting. Surprised it’s taken this long for Dent to get a format outside of Countdown, actually.

But is it any good? Let us know what you think in the comments!