Thanks to Travis for finding this information (although I should just stress I can’t find a printed source for it, although I’ve got no reason to believe he’s making it up), it looks like Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? is making some changes. Quote: It looks like Millionaire is ringing in the changes for… Read More »
So it looks like commercial television in the UK is going to be allowed to start ‘doing’ product placement, except for anything that advertisers would probably want to advertise in shows: As revealed by the Guardian last week, the legislation will prohibit the placement of alcoholic drinks, foods and drinks high in fat, salt or… Read More »
I’ve just noticed Bank It or Bin It is filming Tursday, is anyone going to that? Similarly, fingers crossed I should be able to ‘do’ a report on Cat Deeley’s Treasure Tag on Monday night, so look out for that.
…this makes me quite sad. That being said, I’m intrigued to find out what was cut from the first episode of Solitary 4.0, as my problems with it (entertaining as it still was) went a bit deeper than what may or may not have been cut out by rubbish channel execs. Namely that the make-yourself-sweat… Read More »
Via two lines on Broadcast, then better via Quizzlestick, via The Independent, on shows Channel 4 have lined up to replace Big Brother: Bellamy talks often of “the national conversation”. He hopes it will be reflected in The Drop, the first commission from the newly-appointed Channel 4 head of entertainment Justin Gorman. Ironically, this is… Read More »
Not much today, but Total Wipeout‘s new series sort of starts this evening on BBC1 at 5:30, and Solitary 4.0 is on tonight in the US as well. I’m out this evening, but hope to have some fascinating opinions for you all tomorrow, alongside the Board of Excitement and some new old features.