First of all The Answer Run starts its new series this afternoon from 4:30 on BBC1, might as well use the previous Show Discussion post for it. Similarly 007: Road To A Million starts on Friday, and here’s the previous Show Discussion post for it to use. However we were alerted to A New Thing… Read More »
Look it sort of works. An interesting story came out over the weekend, Yann Le Gac, the man who has played Fort Boyard‘s Pere Fouras for 34 of the last 36 years, is thinking about joining close friend Olivier Minne (who is having to leave thanks to signing to a different network) out the door… Read More »
TV Zone reporting that The Floor is indeed for ITV, as if we hadn’t guessed already. Ten weeks, 81 players, looks like they’re using the variety of rounds the show can provide rather than just “identify the the thing in the picture”, although that will probably still be 70% of rounds. No idea of host… Read More »
There are a lot of interesting shows new and returning in August, so here’s a kind of signpost as to where you can put some thoughts down. Don’t forget the Bother’s Bar Cinematic Universe is bigger than the website which is a bit of a loss-leader these days, more-up-to-the-second discussions can be found on the… Read More »
Tonight’s ‘of interest’ is the 2,000th episode of Pointless (7:30pm, BBC1) and if you’re pondering yes 16 years feels like a long time to reach that figure for a daily show with weekend celebrity specials (although it took eight years to hit 1,000 episodes so actually it tracks), but it was apparently recorded over two… Read More »
Tomorrow (Saturday) at 3pm on Radio 3 and Live from the Royal Albert Hall, Claudia Winkleman introduces music from The Traitors, classical pieces about deception and gothicy pop covers the show is famous for, meanwhile Katie Derham has a chat with the show’s composer Sam Watts and Linda the opera singer from last year. Should… Read More »