Sundays, 8pm,ITV1 I know there was a post for the Xmas Special/Pilot/Whatever but I think taking the show to a series brings with it its own set of challenges – namely as a “one-off” you can do all the nostalgia hits and spend twenty minutes applauding Luke Litter coming on stage and whatever, but a… Read More »
Tuesdays, 9:15pmChannel 4 Six youths who haven’t travelled are paired up with six elderly people who want to prove that age is but a number for a treasure hunt around Japan, where the pairs must look at things closely to answer observational questions to stay in the competition and hopefully win a £50,000 prize. Will… Read More »
The Celebrity Inner Circle5:35pm, Saturday, BBC1 The Inner Circle4:30pm, Weekdays, BBC1 New quiz with everybody’s favourite Eurovision jury returns officer Amanda Holden. We’ve got a decent amount of intel on this, basically contestants are randomly allocated a secret cash amount from very small to £4,000 (£5,000 in the celebrity one). Through a number of quiz… Read More »
Netflix from Tuesday 23rd September This week’s excitement is a reboot of a Korean show we quite enjoyed over a decade ago and seems to have spawned an entire real-life entertainment genre in China, Crime Scene Zero. In the original, six celebs went to fictionalised crime scenes, they were each randomly assigned a character (and… Read More »
Sundays, 5:30pm,Five This has all the makings of something that might be quite fun, extremely dire or anything in between really. Channel Five will be showing two live NFL games on Sunday nights over the next six months (or however long the season is), and wrapped around the first one will be a gameshow/entertainment show/whatever.… Read More »
Saturday, 7:15pm,ITV1 Or to give it its full name Win Win With People’s Postcode Lottery, this is certainly quite interesting from a broadcast perspective. They’ve mainly funded it. It’s claiming to be the Most Interactive (pre-recorded) Show Ever, and it’s guaranteeing to give away £1,000,000 to a player at the end of the series (against… Read More »