This new Korean show came out almost a fortnight ago on Netflix but thanks to peak-period work and, er, Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom I’ve only just got around to starting watching, I’m four episodes in now, and my Tl;dr opinion is: it’s good and an interesting idea, but it’s appeal isn’t quite immediate and… Read More »
Sunday-Thursday, 9pm,C4 Apparently the first reality show to be named after a Steps Top 40 hit (although surely there’s a gameshow called 5, 6, 7, 8 waiting to go somewhere), Scared of the Dark sees Danny Dyer challenge eight celebs (one of whom is already blind and presumably there as a sort of control subject)… Read More »
Saturday. 6pm,ITV1 Joel Dommett presides as two teams of three shout answers at televisions in a bid to win up to £20,000. Thanks to this Radio Times article we’ve an idea of the principle of the show – basically select a category and you get 80 seconds worth of three-second clips (I wonder if this… Read More »
Sundays and Mondays at 9pm,Channel 4 Paddy McGuinness challenges 12 people to yomp across South Africa in an arduous journey to win a shared £300,000 – that’s £25,000 each! But there are temptations in store along the way, expensive ones designed to make life easier in the moment, that will knock money off. And if… Read More »
Sunday to Friday, 9 and 10pm starting 19th MarchChannel 4 Greg James fronts new POWERFULLY MESSAGED returnable social reality experiment (i.e. gameshow) that happily for us basically just looks a bit like US Big Brother but without the elimination. A group of people are split into Rulers and Grafters, the Rulers live in luxury in… Read More »
Saturdays, 8:50pm,Five Anneka’s back with her logistics-em-up show The Challenge Programme Feat. Anneka Rice! Last seen in a set of specials on ITV in 2006, two things remain to be seen, namely if doing it on Five has the same sort of appeal from companies offering their labour and parts as it did getting a… Read More »