Not a huge amount but fairly decent quality, let’s get stuck in:
- Social media sleuths have potentially figured out the lineup for s12 of taskmaster after one of the contestants posted about needing 10 unique outfits for something (the studio recordings) and found out that there were a few people who all followed each other and taskmaster related pages about the same time. It’s Alan Davies, Desiree Burch, Guz Khan, Morgana Thompson and Russell Kane.
Make of that what you will. Guz Khan ought to be quite good. Have suspicion Desiree Burch and Russell Kane would fit the format well. Naturally this might all be rubbish.
- Cbbc are looking for a big event gameshow with the potential to be a co production with international production companies. They mentioned splatalot as an example, with the set potentially being built in another country but they can fly their UK audience to take part, when covid restrictions are lifted of course.
Raven: The One Set In India 2
- Not sure if this stretches the definition of game shows…. BBC2 have commissioned a new series giving members of the public the chance to investigate police corruption. A fictional case is played out that is then investigated in real time. A game show Line of Duty. It’s a serious show, so won’t be called Bent Coppers I’m sure.
Can definitely understand the appeal of this, and have heard this on the grapevine elsewhere, although it makes me sad they stopped making Murder in Successville.
- Studio Lambert are making an ‘immersive dating show’ for Amazon Prime Video which should be ready to air this autumn. The idea is that a group of UK singletons will move into a custom-build American High School, and do all the standard film fodder events such as cheer-leading tryouts and a prom.
This is just E4’s Sorority Girls, surely?
- A new series of UK Total Wipeout is set to film (hopefully) this Summer on the set of the current TBS series. No host locked down for it yet, but I’m hearing that it could be Jordan North and Mollie King
Mmm, not sure – the point of making it in Argentina is that it was quite cheap, so unless there are suddenly massive economies of scale filming in Texas I’m not sure it’s worth it. Didn’t the Freddy and Paddy voiceover repeats do quite badly?
- BBC are down to their final two new formats to choose which one to take to series for daytime meaning the other channels are now being bombarded with ‘new’ quiz shows that these companies have ‘jist come up with’ Rejected BBC ideas include one form of quiz chicken, one using a grabber, one using marbles, one using an internet search engine and at least two trying to do a quiz version of Masked Singer with answers.
Yep, was aware a grabber quiz was being looked at. Quite like the idea of Quiz Chicken. Obviously I’ll be taking anyone who does a marble racing quiz to court. Televised Internet Searching would be boring as, so that sounds correct. Masked Singer with answers? That’s just Pick Me isn’t it?
In other news that came to light today, there’s a new Taskmaster book coming out, and it sounds like it’s going full on Masquerade. Where will Greg Davies’ golden head (I presume) be buried?
Finally, just going to leave this here:
Worth clicking through for a minute promo vid – it looks like they’ve added Ask the Host as a lifeline, which is fun. Starts June 10th on TBS.
