Whenever you want, Netflix We’re very excited to see more Korean variety programming come to Netflix (COME ON, THE GENIUS), this one sounds a little bit like Whodunnit? and looks like it might be great fun. The Netflix blurb: Tackling different mysteries in each episode of this game show, seven sleuths get closer to solving the… Read More: Show Discussion: Busted »
Wednesdays, 9pm Dave (also UKTV Play) It says something about a show that we’re willing to put up a show discussion post every time a new series comes up, but there’s usually so much to comment on regarding Taskmaster it seems the best way really. So here we are again. The victims for season six… Read More: Show Discussion: Taskmaster S6 »
Fridays, 8:30pm, BBC1 Now here’s an interesting one. Ostenably it’s Taskmaster mixed with a bit of Gogglebox, from the mind of Alex Horne of Taskmaster. Five families each have a button installed in their house with a screen on it. At any time the button might go off. They push the button and are set a task,… Read More: Show Discussion: The Button »
Weekdays, 5:30pm, Channel 4 Inventors attempt to sell ideas to an audience armed with buttons and lights, and if at least one person reckons they’d buy the product it’s thrown open to a panel of buyers who may or may not make an order. Perhaps they should have called it Sell Me Out. Given how… Read More: Show Discussion: Buy It Now »
Fridays Sundays, 8pm, Channel 4 No point giving Series 1 Block 3 a new post, so I’m bumping this one up instead. (The post for the Celeb editions and the several hundred comments they generated can be found here). And so we come to the year’s main event, the civilian run of The Crystal Maze. Merely… Read More: Show Discussion: The Crystal Maze »
Fridays, 8pm, Channel 4 Workers of the world unite! Alan Carr gives people the chance to win an entire year off work and a year’s salary (£8,000! Nice!) provided they’re willing to resign there and then. It’s never been done before, provided you conveniently forget 2000 to 1. That’s the premise, but we’ve no idea… Read More: Show Discussion: I Don’t Like Mondays »