Wednesday and Thursdays, 9pm,BBC1 and iPlayer I mean I think I’ve made my opinions on Destination X as a format perfectly clear by now (i.e. it’s OK but not worthy of the massive hype – and price – it’s been afforded), ultimately its fundamental mystery is not that interesting and it can’t really use its… Read More »
Weeknights, 7pm,Channel 5 First there was Puzzling with Lucy Worsley and nobody really watched it and now a few years later there is Celebrity Puzzling with Jeremy Vine, which appears to be revamped to the point where the only thing in common with the original seems to be one of the words in the title.… Read More »
Mondays, 9pm,U&Dave The latest format from the mind of Richard Bacon sees Dermot O’ Leary challenge an audience of 75 try and win £250,000 collectively by staying silent as teams of comedy and unusual variety acts (led by Katherine Ryan, Seann Walsh and current Taskmaster contestant Fatiha El-Ghorri) encourage them to laugh or otherwise make… Read More »
Wednesday and Thursdays, 9pm,ITV1 Blimey. It was August 2013 when we started banging on about Korean show The Genius, and it’s fair to suggest that we thought that first series was a bit of a mixed bag, but the hits *really* hit, and across its four seasons it really learned what worked and what didn’t… Read More »
From Wednesday 23rd April,Netflix The Paramount Reality Universe has long-running multi-show all-star reality challenge show The Challenge and now Netflix is getting in on the action with their NRU show Battle Camp. Battle Camp sees eighteen of your favourite Netflix reality stars (!) from shows such as The Circle, Love is Blind and The Mole… Read More »
Here’s some unexpected fun for the weekend, and thanks to Nico W on the Discord to alerting us to it – it’s Dutch Big Money Celebrity Sardines on Amazon Prime and it’s Very Much The Sort Of Thing We Like. Nine Dutch celebs travel around various Dutch landmarks on a bus playing Sardines for €18,000.… Read More »