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The Answer Run is coming soon

By | August 6, 2024

The Answer Run with Jason Manford is coming later in the month to BBC1 afternoons and here’s the press release. Contestants swipe to place things into A or B categories to build up money which they’ll play for in an endgame (i.e. it’s Tinder: The Quiz Show). As we can see, Manford has done a… Read More »

John Anderson

By | July 28, 2024

Sad tonight to hear about the passing of legendary Gladiators referee John Anderson at the age of 92. Amongst other things like training the Glads, his stewardship of the role, with his instantly recognizable booming voice and no-nonsense attitude, was a massive part in setting the tone of the original show that made it the… Read More »

ITV’s up to Summit

By | July 25, 2024

Thanks. The Sun reporting that ITV have bought the rights to Australian format The Summit, which of course is being described as The Traitors meets SAS, because everyone in TV is lazy and not worth your time. It’s had two series in Australia where it has done mediocrely and will be launching in the US… Read More »

Some upcoming things on Netflix

By | July 12, 2024

Don’t have a go at me, it’s not my fault there’s nothing interesting happening on linear right now. Also it’s the Summer. This may or may not end up being all that interesting to us, it’s about social media influencing, but it’s from South Korea so obviously it looks modern and incredible on screen, and… Read More »

WIDM’s good again you guys

By | July 8, 2024

Wie is De Mol?, the Netherlands’ long running domestic version of De Mol is hugely successful, running almost annually since 1999 and regularly achieving figures over 3m even now (to put that into context, scaled up for population, that makes it a hit equivalent to a good year of I’m a Celeb over here) but… Read More »