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Fifty Fifty reaches its LANDMARK 39th episode, this week Travis Penery and Caroline join host Lewis Murphy to talk about board game adaptations of gameshows and gameshow adaptations of boardgames.

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In the red corner, recently weighing in at over three million viewers with repeat episodes it’s the undisputed champion of the world Pointless!

In the blue corner coming back after six weeks off inevitably with some smutty questions it’s the undisputed champion of the world The Chase!

New episodes start today! SECONDS OUT.

Expect Pointless to take an early lead whilst people rediscover The Chase is back, it took the best part of a week for Take On The Twisters to lose the audience, I know for a fact that many people won’t know The Chase is back so will take a little while to build up momentum.

I.e. The X Factor starts tonight. Still, quite a few intriguing things happening today:

• Fighting Talk – New series starts on 5 Live with rotating hosts ex-host Christian O Connell, Jonathan Pearce and (obviously) Matt Johnson. I reckon Pearce might be quite a good fit. It’s always a bit weird when they get a substitute host in, at best they sound a bit like a supply teacher (Nick Hancock, who at least did this sort of thing as stock in trade in the 90s), at worst they’re absolutely terrible. None of them sound very convincing with the in jokes. I hope the new hosts will get to write their own intros, initially anyway. (11am, Five Live)
• That Puppet Game Show has been moved (let’s be honest, demoted) to 5:15pm on BBC1.
• Stepping Out is a new dancing competition featuring real life celebs and their real life partners dancing and hopefully having a tiff on live television presided over by Davina McCall. Celebrities are Brian McFadden, Denise Welch, Oritsé Williams, Laurence Llewellyn-Bowen, Carl Froch and Dempsey and Makepeace. (ITV 6:30)
• The X Factor – The fifth judge turned out to be you! I don’t think anyone saw that coming. (ITV, 8pm)
• Through the Keyhole – If I don’t see you through the week I’ll see you through the keyhole. Keith Lemon hosts a comedy take on a panel show classic. For some reason Dave Berry is a regular panellist – I’m sure DB is a lovely guy but ITV’s recent obsession with finding a format for him is a bit baffling. Actually you could probably say the same for Keith Lemon. (ITV 9:20pm)

Not forgetting that Pointless Celebs, I Love My Country, Break the Safe and the last episode of the series of Fort Boyard France tonight, tomorrows ratings should prove fairly interesting.

It’s a slow news period, so in honour of Whodunnit? and the fact I quite enjoyed watching Wentworth on Channel 5 last night here’s the title sequence for Cluedo, in Italian.

In other news, just two and a half weeks until NEW Avanti un Altro! Amazing.