Thursdays, 10pm,Channel 4 The latest creation of Format Powerhouse (or at least, Person) Richard Bacon sees Jimmy Carr asking questions about things that have just happened in the studio for £25,000. It’s an observation and memory quiz basically. What might be fun is that this interview suggests they’re going quite big on the meta, “we… Read More »
Nightly 12th-17th December, 8pm,ITV Simon Cowell’s new musical competition/gameshow thing which seems to suggest someone will be walking away with £500,000 at the end of the week. To be honest, we’re not quite clear on how the format works other than an apparent exciting bit at the end of each episode where the winner has… Read More »
Sometimes we discover things by chance, frankly we’d probably have no idea this existed before stumbling on a Twitter conversation, but one of the great things about running this Bar is that I can signal boost something worthwhile. And so we come to New World on Netflix, a new Korean variety/reality show. In it, six… Read More »
Sundays 7pm E4’s Youtube channel,Repeated Wednesday 10pm on E4 And so the speculation can finally come to an end and we can find out if the idea was worthwhile. What’s the point of rebooting GamesMaster? The kids are all getting their gaming content from Youtube anyway and they seem perfectly happy with that. And most… Read More »
Weekdays, 2:15pm,BBC1 And so the BBC try out a new format in the apparently challenging post-Doctors slot, this one’s a quiz that’s been devised by the people behind QI and fronted by ex-football captain Alex Scott. Despite its octagonal title card, our eight contestants will not be battling it out in mixed marshal arts, instead… Read More »
Sundays, 7pm,ITV Gary Lineker invites contestants to a game of knowledge and strategy in order to win up to £100,000. Contestants choose where to sit on a row of chairs with the person at the front of the queue facing questions. Getting a question wrong means moving to the red chair at the back of… Read More »