Some new BBC commissions

By | February 28, 2018

Press release.

Hardball was looking for contestants under the working title of Moneyball I think and appears to be basically the endgame from Rebound with Ore Oduba and a more physical clock.

Chase the Case sounds like Indian Poker with briefcases and a general knowledge element with Dan Walker.

Both coming later in the year.

Ultimate Beastmaster 3 is a thing and the UK and Australia are in it

By | February 27, 2018

Hopefully it will continue going in the right direction after Series 2 turned out to be much more watchable than series one, this time round nine countries will compete including the UK and Australia, with wrestler Stu Bennett (aka Wade Barrett) and journalist Kate Abdo commentating for the UK and Dannii Minogue (!) and rugby player Nick Cummins commentating for Australia. And the Brazilians and South Koreans are back! Hurrah.

Season 3 will go out on Netflix later in the year.

Wade Barrett joins Richard Osman, Mark Labbett AND Tom Davis in being a 6ft 7in game/reality show connected celebrity. I wonder who would win that fight?