This period’s Netflix Not The Traitors reality show, The Trust: A Game of Greed, begins tomorrow (Jan 10th), dropping four eps initially and a further four eps across the following fortnight. In it, Brooke Baldwin who was a CNN journalist invites 11 players to a villa where they will split $250,000 equally amongst themselves, which… Read More »
Saturday, 6pm,ITV The double for Whisper/Sony. And I’m afraid I think this is another one of those “shows too prosaic to work here in 2024” and it is at least fun to see the hypothesis tested, it’s not really all that interesting a game and now there’s an hour of it. I am a little… Read More »
Monday 1st Jan 5:45pm, weekdays 4pm afterITV1 For years and years and years nerds up and down the country have gone “we want a UK version of Jeopardy!” something that’s been done three times in the past now already and I for one am glad it’s finally happening so people might shut up about it.… Read More »
Netflix from 22nd November and across three weeks Coming just two years after the drama that inspired it, people went “hey that looks like fun, can we play it without the whole dieing thing?” then a year later Mr Beast obliged condensing the whole thing into 30 minutes, and now another year later Studio Lambert… Read More »
Weekdays, 4pm,ITV1 I ought to start by saying how much I enjoyed Deal or No Deal back in the day – in some ways it was the ‘making’ of this site, when people were offering live commentaries on a daily basis and I was stuck at work F5-ing like mad waiting to see what happened.… Read More »
Streaming on Amazon Prime from 10th November Brian Cox (not that one) invites nine couples to try and win a million pounds completing missions around the world, the completion of each one ending up with a briefcase with a question in it – get the question right, bank the money, travel to the next mission.… Read More »