Category Archives: Show Discussion

Show Discussion: Blind Date

By | June 17, 2017

Saturdays, 7pm, Five It looks like Episode one is being repeated Friday at 8pm. It’s-a Blind-er Date with new host Paul O’ Grady. And Our Graham is now Our Melanie Sykes. This is a really interesting one – if anyone’s going to be able to make it work in 2017 it’s the warm but acidic… Read More »

Show Discussion: CelebAbility

By | June 15, 2017

Thursday, 10pm, ITV2 Frankly it’s a bit of a mouthful to pronounce but this might be quite good fun. Scottish comic Iain Sterling, fresh from narrating the extraordinarily performing Love Island just an hour previous, invites a team of five members of the public to battle five celebrities in tasks the celebs reckon they’re good at. Winning… Read More »

Show Discussion: !mpossible Series 2

By | May 21, 2017

Weekdays, 2:15pm, BBC1 The speedy return of the afternoon quiz with Rick Edwards where a group of thirty 24 contestants must try and answer multiple choice questions but one of the choices is impossible (i.e. they satisfy none of the conditions in the question) and if they pick that they’re eliminated for the rest of the… Read More »

Show Discussion: Babushka

By | April 30, 2017

Weekdays, 5pm, ITV Right, well, somebody decided this was worth a commission, so here we go. It’s also another show that’s marketed itself as being a bit like Deal Or No Deal, but still, over ten years on, misunderstands Deal or No Deal. Rylan Clark-Neal invites couples to attempt to win up to £44,000 by answering… Read More »