Saturday, 8pm, Channel 4 Now this is interesting, it certainly feels rather out of place for a Saturday night on Channel 4. And the set looks horrifically garish. And I hate the logo and typeface. But! I like Alan Carr and I like The Price is Right so tonight will be interesting. Clearly they won’t… Read More »
Saturday, 7pm, ITV When I first heard about this I thought “that sounds compellingly awful”. I think it’s the title more than anything else, which evokes Butlins more than primetime ITV. But here we are. What we have is sort of Celebrity Stars In Their Eyes but in reverse – celeb dresses up as iconic… Read More »
Netflix, from December 15th New series of Sylvester Stallone and Netflix’s very own large-scale obstacle course show where competitors from six countries, this time the US, Spain, France, Italy, China and India compete to tame the four stages of The Beast, a huge obstacle course built in California. We enjoyed series one up to a… Read More »
Weekdays, 3:50pm, CBBC Medieval Mario Party Raven returns, although it’s not clear why it was ever axed in the first place, with a new slightly speedier tournament over three weeks rather than four and also, you cannot not notice, a new Raven in the form of River City‘s Aisha Toussant. Time will tell if she… Read More »
Weekdays, 2:15pm, BBC1 BBC1’s newest star of daytime Susan Calman presides as three armchair detectives attempt to solve a murder in a fictional Scottish village by watching an investigation play out in front of them. You can definitely see the appeal behind commissioning such a show – detective dramas are massively popular (Father Brown is… Read More »
Weekdays, 7pm (and 7:30pm) Dave For a long time now Dave have been at the forefront of taking slightly unusual show ideas and making a success of them (School of Hard Sums! Go 8 Bit! Taskmaster!). However I’m slightly baffled by this commission of a format that’s been knocking around for years and years. Jason… Read More »