Weekdays, 3pm,ITV “It’s easy to get rich if you survive The Switch!” Thank goodness the words “rich” and “switch” rhyme, because “it’s easy to become moderately well off if you survive Whooping Cough” probably wouldn’t sell in quite the same way. Comic and actor Sanjeev Bhaskar hosts four contestants trying to win a large amount… Read More »
Weekdays, 5pm,ITV Well this is a brave move – taking off popular established quiz The Chase during what is probably peak advertising season and replacing it with a successful Summer alternative – but an alternative nonetheless. It’s been a while since the previous series of Britain’s Favourite Tactical Quiz (TM), hosted and invented by Bradley… Read More »
Starting Sunday and then daily until October 31st,9pm,ITV2 Well this sounds like Very Much The Sort Of Thing We Like, a comedy reality whodunnit inspired by slasher flicks of the 80s, and made by loads of people who worked on Bother’s Bar horror favourite Release the Hounds. Contestants turn up at an American-style Summer Camp… Read More »
Saturday, 8:35pm,BBC One We may never officially know which came first – Endemol buying the The Wall format or hiring hardman cockney actor Danny Dyer to be a gameshow host, and let’s be clear – it’s stunt casting that’s either going to look ingenious or fall very flat, and that’s just Angela Rippon reading the… Read More »
Weekdays, 2:15pm,BBC1 Well we’ve had quiz business politicking with The Boss, now Rob Beckett is hoping his new quiz will be employed a little bit longer. Contestants must try and win a rolling jackpot at the end of the show by getting nine questions correct. To help them, they can build a team from a… Read More »
Thursdays, 8pm,BBC3 (on iPlayer) It’s been a long time coming but US cultural phenomenon Rupaul’s Drag Race begins in earnest on BBC3. Michelle Visage, Graham Norton, Alan Carr and a bevy of guest judges will help determine which of the drag queens has the charisma, uniqueness, nerve and talent to rule them all, and it… Read More »