Category Archives: Show Discussion

Show Discussion: Win Win

By | September 5, 2025

Saturday, 7:15pm,ITV1 Or to give it its full name Win Win With People’s Postcode Lottery, this is certainly quite interesting from a broadcast perspective. They’ve mainly funded it. It’s claiming to be the Most Interactive (pre-recorded) Show Ever, and it’s guaranteeing to give away £1,000,000 to a player at the end of the series (against… Read More »

Here’s What You Do

By | September 3, 2025

I was tipped off about a new quiz podcast the other week, Here’s What You Do which launches properly today. It is the brainchild of James Smales (who helped developed Bother’s Bar favourite The Answer Trap amongst other things), Dave Maguire (game designer for things like entertainment shows like Celebrity Juice) and their non-TV mate… Read More »

Show Discussion: The Inheritance

By | August 31, 2025

Sundays and Mondays 9pm,Tuesdays 9:30pmChannel 4 From the people who bought you The Traitors and, er, Rise and Fall, comes new reality game The Inheritance, where 13 people vie for the fortune of The Deceased (played by Elizabeth Hurley) by competing in devious tasks she’s left in video messages, whilst Rob Rinder acts as the… Read More »

Show Discussion: You Bet! On Tour

By | August 28, 2025

Saturdays, 8pm,ITV “Hang on Brig, this is just an extension of the brand, shouldn’t you just be pointing to the previous You Bet show discussion page and leaving it there?” Possibly. Possibly. I was as prepared to write this off as much as anyone, the two “specials” being a fabulously aggravating, poorly directed, poorly formatted… Read More »

Show Discussion: Final Draft

By | August 11, 2025

From August 12th,Netflix We like Physical 100 – impressively scaled studio physical tests from Korea and a fine example of the “authoratitive voice commands a process” genre the Koreans have made their own and it seems to have become such a breakout hit that there are various regional spin-offs coming, starting with a pan-Asian one… Read More »

Show Discussion: Destination X

By | July 29, 2025

Wednesday and Thursdays, 9pm,BBC1 and iPlayer I mean I think I’ve made my opinions on Destination X as a format perfectly clear by now (i.e. it’s OK but not worthy of the massive hype – and price – it’s been afforded), ultimately its fundamental mystery is not that interesting and it can’t really use its… Read More »