Weekdays, 4:30pmBBC1 New quiz from the makers of The Chase, contestants try and win up to £5,000 in a quiz version of those donkey-derby machines you get in funfairs (you know the sort, where you roll the ball in the hole and your donkey goes along a track) only this time the contestants are in… Read More »
Monday to Friday (and the next Monday) 8pm,More 4 It’s radio’s cult music quiz Popmaster but now Ken Bruce isn’t working for Radio 2 anymore, it’s on More 4. There are some modifications for this TV outing – five sixty-minute heats all this week with the winners going through to the Grand Final the following… Read More »
Thursdays, 8pm, (8:15pm ep1)Channel 5 Historian host Lucy Worsley invites six people to compete in rounds involving various aspects of puzzle solving (words, maths, lateral thinking, observation, memory – it’s like the Olympics OF THE MIND) starting off as two teams of three and then the winning team competing against each other to find the… Read More »
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 »