There we are, after wanting a new thing to come along I get an E-mail from Lost in TV advertising a new ITV4 show called Mark Watson Kicks Off, a brutal no-holds-barred comedy discussion show made from 100 per cent pear that sounds exactly like Fighting Talk and is made by World’s End, the same people… Read More »
I’ve not seen any TV magic for about six months, and I’m aching for the heady and exciting days of new Endemol pilots that take about six hours to film to write about/slag off. Please do some new shows please thanks. In London. Or Cambridge. In fact I’m so bored I’ll deploy this interesting gossip which… Read More »
This week one of the clues on Only Connect was Pif! Paf! Pof!, which it turns out is a foreign version of Snap! Crackle! and Pop! and not, regrettably, a connection to do with Eurovision entries. (Note to puritans: mild sexual suggestion) This is, of course, from Alan Cumming sitcom The High Life.
Simon Cowell and People’s Princess Cheryl Cole have been confirmed as being two of the judges on US The X Factor next year (September 2011, apparently). Edit: Maybe not, but it was all over Twitter this evening. Meanwhile, the American Idol judges are Randy Jackson, Steven Tyler and J-Lo. If it’s boot camp this week,… Read More »
6:45, ITV1 and ITV HD, Sundays Philip Schofield and The Body return for a second series of critical darling The Cube. New games and returning favourites are promised, apparently there were sixty games prepped for series one but without counting I don’t think we saw more than about 60% of those, so “new” might be… Read More »
… it’s Series 3, Celebrity Episode 1 (of 2) of Total Wipeout tomorrow. Other things this weekend: Schlag den Raab, new series of The Cube starting Sunday (look out for Show Discussion posts for those two), The INTERACTIVE Board of Excitement AND! one OR MAYBE TWO App reviews.