Category Archives: Show Discussion

Show Discussion: You Bet!

By | December 6, 2024

Saturday 7th December 8:15pm,Sunday 22nd December 7pm,ITV1 It’s actually been a while since we last had a show that was a bit like You Bet! – Epic Win with Alexander Armstrong and Joe Lycett, Go For It! with Stephen Mulhern were 2011 and 2016, it was probably only a matter of time in our age… Read More »

Pop Culture Jeopardy

By | December 4, 2024

The one that might work on streaming, Pop Culture Jeopardy, is now out to watch on Prime Video and in actual fact the first three episodes are up in the UK storefront right now. New episodes go up every Wednesday, and it’s a 40-episode run. Pop Culture Jeopardy sees teams of three battle it out… Read More »

Show Discussion: Junior Taskmaster

By | November 7, 2024

Fridays, 8pm,C4 It’s Taskmaster but with precocious kids! Normally we wouldn’t bother listing a kids version of an existing show, but there are a few things that make this a bit more interesting. The Taskmaster is Rose Matafeo with Mike Wozniak as the assistant, which strikes us as being a pretty good combination, both feel… Read More »

Show Discussion: Password

By | August 31, 2024

Saturdays, 9:40pm,ITV1 After what seems like forever (we watched a recording of it June 2023), Password finally appears after a fairly successful US Jimmy Fallon reboot. Of course it’s not a new show, we’ve had versions on various channels across the last sixty years or so, although I think the last version here was the… Read More »

Show Discussion: The Answer Run

By | August 17, 2024

Weekdays, 4:30pmBBC1 Christ a new format, how exciting this is for us. And we’re hoping this is good fun, it looked quite fun from the trailer. Questions fall down the screen, contestants must swipe left or right to determine which of the two options the answer relates to. Get it right and bank the cash,… Read More »