Category Archives: Show Discussion

Saturday, 8pm (GMT) / 9PM (CET)France 2 …and hopefully Youtube. It’s not every day you get an entertainment show that lasts thirty years. Even fewer that after thirty years get their own spin-off series (A Question of Sport: Super Saturday?). But here we are, and it looks like it’s got a budget to boot. Willy… Read More: Show Discussion: Boyard Land »

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: Show Discussion: The Switch »

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: Show Discussion: Cash Trapped S3+ »

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: Show Discussion: Killer Camp »

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: Show Discussion: Head Hunters »