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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
First fortnight Tues and Weds, 9pm,Then Tues 9pm,ITV1 and ITVX Well, not sure what anybody’s expecting with this, it’s been a non-hit in the several places it’s been tried and actually was originally down to go out last year, but for whatever reason was pushed back to 2026. Fourteen people have fourteen days to climb… Read More »
Sundays, 9pm,(but episode 2 Monday 9pm),Channel 4 Alan Carr and Susie Dent challenge ordinary everyday people who may have had their brainpower overlooked to games devised by British Mensa to see if secretly they’re actually geniuses, with the top twelve people from four regional heats going through to the final at Oxford. And from the… Read More »