Sundays, 5:30pm,Five This has all the makings of something that might be quite fun, extremely dire or anything in between really. Channel Five will be showing two live NFL games on Sunday nights over the next six months (or however long the season is), and wrapped around the first one will be a gameshow/entertainment show/whatever.… Read More »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »