Sundays, 6:40, ITV Features app playalong: Android, Apple Phil’s back with a new visual quiz where contestants are challenged to answer questions by putting a ring around where they think the answer is on a big touchscreen floor. Two couples play, each one hoping to win £25,000. After each question their personal pot goes up… Read More »
From Friday 24th February variously worldwide, Netflix Now this is quite exciting and no mistake, Netflix enters the obstacle course reality competition genre (Christ) with the Sylvester Stallone produced Ultimate Beastmaster, apparently filmed on the old [Total] Wipeout ranch in California. In each episode 18 contestants, hailing from the US, Brazil, South Korea, Mexico, Germany… Read More »
Aww, we’d been looking forward to this for a while and… you know that bit in Race to Escape when two teams couldn’t see a code written in big numbers on a wall for twenty minutes and the editors stuck with it and let it play out and it was actually quite brave and exhilarating and funny?… Read More »
Thursdays, 9pm, ITV2 Or Celebrity Release the Hounds as normal people will call it. Anyway we gathered there was a third series happening and we were wondering where the contestant call-out for it was so when we heard that this third series is going to be exclusively (ITV sub-channel) celebrities playing for charity that rather… Read More »
Sundays, 5pm, Sky One Join Sue Perkins, Moira Stewart and Joe Lycett as twenty kids vie across eight episodes in spelling-based challenges in order to become champion. The show is based on Endemol’s Spelling Star format which has had some success as The Great Australian Spelling Bee on the Ten Network in Australia. Spelling Bee… Read More »
Thursdays, 9pm, Channel 4 Another year, another entry into the burgeoning Tough Occupational Reality Challenge subgenre, this one is Spies from the makers of the gritty SAS: Who Dares Wins. This one features fifteen people being put through their paces by three proper spies and being eliminated if they don’t make the grade. It’s not the… Read More »