Weekdays, 4:30pm,
BBC One
Ore Oduba asks questions of six contestants, each trying to outrun the Hardball as it makes its way along 25m of track by answering general knowledge questions in the hope of winning cash prizes.
Don’t know much about the format other than that, presumably they’re keeping it simple and hoping lots of questions will suffice. Pity the set is just a track in front of a giant screen, though.
Let us know what you think in the comments.
Do you remember Bother’s Bar favourite 31 Questions? It was a low budget student comedy quiz for local television in Australia that was sort of a general knowledge quiz with actual real people, but really an excuse for loads of gags and some sketch comedy.
Well some of the staff are back with a show called Quiz Night, which is sort of like 31 Questions if it was played with local comics doing topical improv, but mixed with 31 Questions-esque sketch bits. It appears to have been spun-off from a local topical satire show called The Leak.
Here’s the Youtube channel, take a look.
And I have never been less excited.
Semi 1 – Tuesday, 8pm BBC Four
The UK votes in this one.
Semi 2 – Thursday, 8pm BBC Four
Grand Final – Saturday, 8pm, BBC1
Join Scott Mills and Rylan for the live semi-finals on BBC Four and Graham Norton on Saturday for the Eurovision Grand Final to watch Surie finish about 14th, all LIVE from Lisbon.
Don’t know what it is but I’m really not feeling it this year. Might be because I have so much stuff to catch-up with the prospect of seven plus hours of Eurovision on top doesn’t appeal, but I’m going to watch the final with friends anyway, not sure I’ll bother with the semis.
But the problem here is me. Do feel free to discuss anything Eurovision 2018 related here.
Weekdays, 4pm,
Channel 4
Well it had been a daily show on the continent so in that sense there’s no real reason why it couldn’t succeed. Davina’s back with a version of The Million Pound Drop but with everything divided by ten – the prize, the bundles of cash (£2.5k each now) and by the looks of things the size of the drop.
Contestants try and keep hold of £100,000 across seven multiple choice questions. Will there be much appetite for watching people struggle to win £2,500? Don’t know. Putting it up against Tipping Point is either ingenious (TP skews old and The Money Drop traditionally skews young) or an acknowledgement that it probably doesn’t work, but they’ve sixty episodes to get through so we’ll see. As yet we don’t know if you can play along on some kind of app.
Ah, do you remember when pointless viewer interactivity was the in thing? Great days. Anyway you can let us know what you think in the comments.
So much stuff going on and things to get lost, so if you’re just coming to the front page here are some signposts for you:
Phew, and I’ve got no spare time to watch much of it, aggravatingly. Still, interested in your opinions as ever.
Sundays, 2am and 8pm,
Sky One
New vehicular based combat show which has gone heavy on Mad Max style theming which might be good fun. Freddie Flintoff, Vick Hope and Lethal Bizzle watch as customised cars bash into each other in order to be the last one standing.
I don’t have access to Sky One at the moment so I will try and find other ways and means, in the meantime if you watch it let us know what you think of it.