Category Archives: Show Discussion

Show Discussion: Puzzling

By | June 21, 2023

Thursdays, 8pm, (8:15pm ep1)Channel 5 Historian host Lucy Worsley invites six people to compete in rounds involving various aspects of puzzle solving (words, maths, lateral thinking, observation, memory – it’s like the Olympics OF THE MIND) starting off as two teams of three and then the winning team competing against each other to find the… Read More »

Siren: Survive the Island

By | June 11, 2023

This new Korean show came out almost a fortnight ago on Netflix but thanks to peak-period work and, er, Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom I’ve only just got around to starting watching, I’m four episodes in now, and my Tl;dr opinion is: it’s good and an interesting idea, but it’s appeal isn’t quite immediate and… Read More »

Show Discussion: Scared of the Dark

By | April 15, 2023

Sunday-Thursday, 9pm,C4 Apparently the first reality show to be named after a Steps Top 40 hit (although surely there’s a gameshow called 5, 6, 7, 8 waiting to go somewhere), Scared of the Dark sees Danny Dyer challenge eight celebs (one of whom is already blind and presumably there as a sort of control subject)… Read More »

Show Discussion: Tempting Fortune

By | March 25, 2023

Sundays and Mondays at 9pm,Channel 4 Paddy McGuinness challenges 12 people to yomp across South Africa in an arduous journey to win a shared £300,000 – that’s £25,000 each! But there are temptations in store along the way, expensive ones designed to make life easier in the moment, that will knock money off. And if… Read More »

Show Discussion: Rise and Fall

By | March 18, 2023

Sunday to Friday, 9 and 10pm starting 19th MarchChannel 4 Greg James fronts new POWERFULLY MESSAGED returnable social reality experiment (i.e. gameshow) that happily for us basically just looks a bit like US Big Brother but without the elimination. A group of people are split into Rulers and Grafters, the Rulers live in luxury in… Read More »