Show attended: Cambridge Junction 2, 2pm, 1st October £15 + booking fee WiFi Wars website We quite like Go 8 Bit on Dave, not perfect but entertaining enough, a TV show based on an Edinburgh show where celebs play video games. You may remember there’s a voting mechanic where the audience vote on their phones… Read More »
Thursdays, 9pm, Channel 4 Last year’s apparent megahit (provided you don’t look at the numbers past episode one too carefully) Hunted returns and ten more people go on the run, hoping to evade capture from professional trackers for 28 days only this time they’re playing for a share of £100,000. Last series felt like a curious… Read More »
Thursdays, 8:30pm, BBC4 New series of highbrow(ish) hexagonal wordsearch quiz fun with Fiona Bruce. The first series we respected, and it certainly had its fans, but try as we might we couldn’t really get into it – it’s a fun idea but how much you like it tends to depend largely on Can You Do… Read More »
Mondays from September 5th, 10pm, Dave The first episode is currently online on UKTV Play. Edit: As promised, this is the post made last Monday bumped up for the television premiere. Dave has started a trend recently of putting the first episode of their new series’ up a week before it gets broadcast as a sort… Read More »
Saturday, 7pm, ITV New talent challenge show fronted by Stephen Mulhern, people with unusual talents are put to the test in challenges devised for television, if they can complete the challenge they win £1,000, if they lose they have to take a Take Me Out-esque Walk of Shame. We saw an episode being filmed although… Read More »
Monday 9pm, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday 8pm, ITV Probably the most intriguing of all the MEGA MONDAY shows, popular ITV1 personality Giles Coren (Vicky’s brother and outspoken restaurant critic) fronts the much anticipated UK version of so-so popular throw-everything-at-a-wall-and-hope-it-sticks US quiz 500 Questions. 500 Questions charges contestants with answering 500 questions correctly without ever getting three… Read More »