Mondays, 8pm,U&Dave Apparently this idea has been knocking about for years and years. Three comedians team up with smart kids to solve practical problems – the kids aren’t in the room, they can only communicate verbally. After two puzzles, the two best performing teams go through to the final round to decide the winner. It’s… Read More: Show Discussion: Jack Dee’s Help Me Tiny Big Brain! »
Sunday 1st November, 9pm,Channel 4 Look, now, you see the thing is is that we don’t actually know. As presented, Bradley Walsh invites three contestants to a quiz where one of them could win a million pounds. A “one-off quiz event”. The big twist, revealed this week, is that the contestants bring their own bank… Read More: Show Discussion: Bradley Walsh’s Million Pound Shot »
Friday 30th October, 7pm,Netflix This is a bit sad really in that The Future Of Sportertainment feels like it’s already been murdered in plain sight by The Celebrity Traitors – the date for this was set months ago and they presumably weren’t to know the BBC were going to change their scheduling strategy from Wednesday/Thursday… Read More: Show Discussion: Beat Luke Littler »
From Wednesday 23rd September,Netflix On paper this is a pretty perfect idea for an eliminatory reality competition seeing as the original Roald Dahl book is basically sort of structured a little bit like one anyway (Agatha Christie basically invented the eliminatory reality TV gameshow with And Then There Were None in 1939 – there’s no… Read More: Show Discussion: Wonka’s The Golden Ticket »
Monday-Thursday, 9pm,Sky One and NOW TV Not sure precisely how much in our purview this is but seeing as it’s basically like a new version of Crisis Command: Can You Run the Country? we’d be remiss not to at least give it a mention as the sort of thing you might find of interest as… Read More: Show Discussion: The Wargame »
Saturdays, 9:15pmBBC1 John Bishop puts Francis Galton’s wisdom of crowds theory to the test as an individual attempts to answer estimated guess questions better than an increasing number of crowdmembers – 200 in the studio, in order to win a large cash prize. We have a rough idea of what to expect as we had… Read More: Show Discussion: Wisdom of the Crowd »