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: Show Discussion: The Tournament »
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: Show Discussion: Sitting On A Fortune »
Saturday, 6:30pm,ITV Well what a story this show has had – a name change from The Money Shot as it’s a bit rude, the mechanism apparently not working on their first set of recordings so it all had to be postponed and reshot more recently… it’s a miracle it seems to have made it at… Read More: Show Discussion: Moneyball »
Tuesdays, 10pm,Dave Better late than never for a show discussion post I think (the first episode went out a few nights ago) but the feedback I’ve heard from it has been encouraging so I look forward to catching up in a spare hour, Richard Ayoade invites three comics to come up with their own quiz… Read More: Show Discussion: Question Team »
Tuesdays, 9:30pm,C4 Ian Rankin has killed someone on a Scottish Island and eight amateur sleuths will spend six episodes trying to answer the question whodunnit? Of course Iain Rankin hasn’t actually murdered anyone and no actual murder has taken place, this is a fictional world he’s written that our real contestants, with the help of… Read More: Show Discussion: Murder Island »
Saturday, 6pm,BBC1 I forgot to watch the pilot episode ages ago but the BBC have made a four-episode series of this, where contestants compete for A PLACE ON THE PLANE! tickets to go to Las Vegas. Suspect this is more about having a vehicle for the nation’s sweethearts Brad and Holly on BBC1 than being… Read More: Show Discussion: Take Off With Bradley and Holly »