Sundays, 8:30am,
CITV

We’ve long thought some of the most fun ideas on telly are kids shows, Spy School is of interest as it’s from the team behind Fort Boyard: Ultimate Challenge, a fairly successful adaptation of Fort Boyard for a specifically kid’s market.

Spy School, led by Agents J and L, asks a team of two kids to complete a mission by disrupting the intentions of the evil Goldfist. This seems to involve doing a spy obstacle course in a warehouse (doing it within a time limit earn “hacks” – extra advantages in challenges to come), solving a load of puzzles at HQ with Agent J to give Agent L information out in the field then finally going out into the field to do a task of their own.

Really this sends out a lot of 90s kids show vibes – a bit Timebusters, a bit Swap Team, rather a lot of Mission: Pirattak – but that’s in a good way. The kids don’t seem to have to do a great deal, mind, except solve a couple of puzzles (which are quite inventively spun even if in episode one they were basically just touchscreen Mastermind and anagram solving), ending with a communication test at the Natural History Museum. I would suggest the time limits for most of the tasks seem a bit tight, especially the end one which they need to pass in order to “graduate”.

A fun enough way to spend 25 minutes though. Watched it? Let us know what you thought.

Saturday, 7:25pm,
BBC1

Lorraine Kelly and Rob Beckett preside as two about-to-get-married couples and their families compete for prizes and to have their wedding broadcast to the nation on primetime BBC. It’s not a bad idea, weddings feel like an untapped entertainment market in the UK, although whether this will successfully capture the feel good of the ceremony – and indeed the drama of the drunken arguments of the reception – remains to be seen.

This is not the first time this sort of thing has been done of course – Love Letters was an enormously successful show in the Netherlands in the 1990s and 2000s offering basically the same thing, becoming the rather less successful The Shane Richie Experience/Love Me Do on ITV in 1995. Clips from this suggest a rather more action-orientated It’s a Knockout style experience, one game appears to be a reimagining of Pump Up Your Postie from Saturday night non-hit The National Lottery Red Alert, so there’s that.

Having this and And They’re Off on the same night seems like odd scheduling on the face of it, but we’ll see.

Saturdays, 6pm,
BBC1

New Ore Oduba physical challenge show.

Celebrities take on wacky and muddy obstacle course races whilst members of the public try and predict the winners for big prizes.

How wacky and large scale remains to be seen – looks like they’re pre-records if the trailer is anything to go by so anything is possible. Might be fun.

Watched it? Let us know what you think in the comments.

Saturday, 8pm,
Channel 4

Now this is interesting, it certainly feels rather out of place for a Saturday night on Channel 4. And the set looks horrifically garish. And I hate the logo and typeface.

But! I like Alan Carr and I like The Price is Right so tonight will be interesting. Clearly they won’t be playing it with a straight Leslie/Brucie bat so it will be interesting to see how much comedy – deliberate or otherwise – they put in it, we were always big fans of the overtly comic French version with Vincent Lagaf which proved that it can be done, and whilst it never really caught on I thought the Joe Pasquale version had some great form-playing gags in it occasionally.

The press blurb seems to suggest five games, so no idea how they’ve formatted that, if indeed that’s how it’s going to work. Let us know what you think in the comments.

Saturday, 7pm,
ITV

When I first heard about this I thought “that sounds compellingly awful”. I think it’s the title more than anything else, which evokes Butlins more than primetime ITV.

But here we are. What we have is sort of Celebrity Stars In Their Eyes but in reverse – celeb dresses up as iconic pop star, apparently mimes a tune (if what I’ve read is correct they don’t even sing) and then three teams (Diversity, Coronation Street and daytime television) of celebrities try and guess who it is behind the make-up. Jonathan Ross presides.

Who knows, perhaps it will be better than it sounds.