Sat/Sun/Mon for two weeks, 9pm,ITV1 This is going up a bit earier than usual because I would like, if I may, to have a quick chat about Saturday nights and ITV entertainment. What are the most recent new game-y hits on Saturday night across the last five years? They are Gladiators, The Wheel and The… Read More: Show Discussion: Nobody’s Fool »
Tuesdays, 9pm,U & Dave It’s nice to see Dave try and get back into the game, especially since TLC has basically taken their territory in terms of original programming and on the face of it this sounds Very Much The Sort Of Thing We Like – Mel Giedroyc challenges two teams of comics led by… Read More: Show Discussion: The Way Out »
Friday-Sun 9pm and then Thurs-Fri 9pm,ITV1 It feels like ITV are really pushing this, six families (or various) move into a street and will compete in challenges and politically strategize to eliminate everybody else (although it sounds like others will move into the street as the 12-episode run progresses). The winning household gets £250,000. Graham… Read More: Show Discussion: The Neighbourhood »
Sunday-Tuesday, 9pm,C4 We quite enjoyed Celebrity Bear Hunt on Netflix last year even though its numbers were evidently disappointing and we remember Capture on The CW around a decade ago which promoted itself as a Hunger Games-style competition show – this seems to have a very similar look and feel to that even if the… Read More: Show Discussion: The Hunt: Prey vs Predator »
Saturdays, 8pm,ITV1 Watch out Dommett’s About! Hidden camera prank show where Joel Dommett, Judi Love, GK Chesterton Barry (thanks Jack), Sam Thompson and a number of guest stars undertake tasks in secret based around sabotaging the efforts of a group of people who believe they’re on a real TV show, earning cash for those civilians… Read More: Show Discussion: Celebrity Sabotage »
Weeknights, 6:30pm,BBC2 New series of cozy post Richard Osman quizzing hosted by the unlikely pairing of Vernon Kay and Paul Gorton off of The Traitors. Every night across a week, three celebs (in week one it’s Anneka Rice, Shane Todd and DJ Remi Burgz) are asked to sort fact from fiction about different places in… Read More: Show Discussion: Do You Know Your Place? »