Tuesdays 9:15pm, All other days (except Saturday) 10pm Channel 4 For next three weeks Channel 4 explores how people try and attain popularity on social media with The Circle. Maya Jama and Alice Levine host as a group of people live in separate apartments in block, communicating with each other only through a bespoke social… Read More »
Weekdays, 2:15pm BBC1 New daily afternoon quiz fronted by BBC Breakfast and sports host Dan Walker. Five contestants and five cases, each with different amounts of cash. However nobody knows what’s in their own case, but by answering questions they can earn the right to find out what’s in somebody else’s. At the end of… Read More »
Wednesdays, 9pm, Dave and UKTV Play I think Taskmaster‘s the only show we’ve bothered to give a show discussion post to seven different series now and here we are again as Rhod Gilbert, Kerry Godliman, Phil Wang, James Acaster and Jessica Knappett compete in ridiculous tasks over the next ten weeks. In related news, Alex… Read More »
Sundays, 7pm ITV Philip Schofield returns with a new series of visi-quiz 5 Gold Rings and its pretend hi-tech floor. There have been a number of changes since the first series – new set (the last series was filmed in the Netherlands on their set, this one was filmed at Elstree) and new gameplay mechanics… Read More »
Ultimate Beastmaster series 3 has dropped on Netflix, and this one’s especially interesting because there’s a Great Britain team. At time of writing I haven’t had a chance to watch it yet so don’t know what other changes there are (although I’ve read there’s a new tournament format and eight countries being represented this time… Read More »
Thursday, 9pm, ITV2 Three celebs find themselves on island in a human zoo run by highly intelligent monkeys, who set them challenges for money. But one can’t see, one can’t hear and one can’t speak (the three wise monkeys, you see?). From the trailer it looks like a slightly different take on the Release the… Read More »