Weekdays, 2:30pm (2:10 for ep 1), BBC 1 Rick Edwards hosts a new quiz from the feverish mind of Tipping Point‘s Hugh Rycroft where contestants fight it out to win a daily £10,000 jackpot. We’re not quite sure of the format at time of writing, but from what we’ve pieced together contestants answer questions and earn… Read More »
Christmas Eve, 6:30pm, ITV David Walliams returns with an art-deco reboot (well, one-off with a clear view to a series) of Blankety Blank, no doubt helped by a successful reboot of Match Game in the US this year. Panellists are Joe Lycett, Anne Robinson, The Chuckle Brothers, Lesley Joseph, Louis Walsh and Brooke Vincent (who’s… Read More »
Monday 19th – Thursday 22nd, 10pm, Friday 23rd 11pm, Channel 4 I don’t expect this will generate much discussion, being at heart a comedy quiz show more than anything, but I’ve got to fill the week up before Christmas with something. Anyway there is quite a fun twist in that each of the three panellists… Read More »
Mondays, 9pm, BBC4 This almost slipped past but thankfully we remembered just in time, food critic and wargame fanatic Gregg Wallace (yes, really) oversees this three episode reboot of Time Commanders. This time two teams will take on the computer war simulation (Total War, if you were wondering) before taking on each other in the… Read More »
Weekdays, 4pm, Channel 4 We are totally stoked for this, something I reckon they should have done *years* ago, for the next two weeks to bring eleven years of Deal or No Deal to a close the Banker is taking his boxes on tour. But not just to places like, I don’t know, Acton or… Read More »
BBC4, 9pm I’m sorry I’m completely out of the loop right now, there’s a documentary on quizzing tonight (which I thought was on Thursday for some reason). Blurb: We all love a good quiz. So here’s a question – when did ordinary contestants turn into the pro-quizzers of today? Giving the answers are Victoria Coren… Read More »