Saturdays and Weekdays, 9pm,ITV It’s back, and now it’s Ben Shephard’s production company making it. The biggest changes, other than being filmed without an audience, is that Philip Schofield now presides over teams of two, and that the top prize is now a million quid. It looks like the Swap now replaces the Trial Run,… Read More »
Thursdays, 9pm,Channel 4 And so we’re finally here, it’s moved from Dave to Channel 4 and we’ll finally be able to find out if this changes the show for the better or worse. Not that it will be a fair fight, this (and the next) series have been filmed under COVID conditions, with audience reaction… Read More »
Sundays, 9pm,Channel 4 And so the show that we thought might have been a reboot of Survivor but isn’t begins, instead a UK version of a French flop where twelve people must build a 250m bridge within a time limit to a pontoon with £100,000 on it then decide amongst themselves who gets to keep… Read More »
Various channels, Various times,But it mainly looks like first run on Comedy Central Mondays at 8pm and Channel 5 repeat Friday 10pm although apparently that’s only the first episode. The first ep is on tomorrow at 8pm on Comedy Central as well. Slightly baffling Comedy Central commission that makes a bit more sense being repeated… Read More »
Sundays, 8pm,ITV It’s back, and this time it has normal, natural un-media trained everyday families competing for big cash prizes by guessing how 100 people responded to survey questions and trying to avoid the dreaded er-errrs. The big twist this time round is that it’s being hosted by popular Italian chef Gino d’Acampo so we’re… Read More »
Saturdays, 6:25pm,ITV Here we are then, Stephen Mulhern (almost wrote Merchant then, must be the heat) brand new (filmed a year ago) arcade machine quiz where three celeb/civilian pairs of contestants answer multiple choice questions and roll giant coins down a giant coin rolling machine in the hope of avoiding the bankrupts and going home… Read More »