Weekdays, 6pm, BBC2 It’s fair to say that this Mega Monday has four new shows but there are two shows that are of most interest to us. This is one of them. Debatable tasks contestants with finding the correct answers to questions for big money but helping or hindering them are a panel of three… Read More »
Weekdays, 6:30pm, BBC2 And so Eggheads takes its regular Summer break (does it? I don’t know) to be replaced temporarily by Make Me An Egghead, a tournament where quizzers compete to become one of two new Eggheads to replace CJ and Daphne. To all intents and purposes it appears to be exactly the same as… Read More »
Weekdays, 3:25pm, BBC1 Bill Turnbull’s back with a second run of Think Tank, now in a later slot. Think Tank invites contestants to answer questions with the help (or not) of a resident rotating team of guests known as the Think Tank who have answered most of the questions before the show. In the end the… Read More »
Saturday, 7:15pm, ITV Well here’s an interesting one and no mistake, a “one-off summer special” (i.e. broadcast pilot) involving mess going out probably an hour later than it probably ought to against the final night of the Olympics. If you were to ask me if I thought ITV were expecting big things from this then reading between… Read More »
Weekdays, 5pm, ITV And so the next Summer quiz contender approaches and this time it’s Jeff Stelling with a UK version of a European reversioning of a light UK daytime panel game. That panel game was The Alphabet Game, the most famous European version is the still running Pasapalabra from Spain (Although it’s travelled to most… Read More »
Weekdays, 5pm, ITV It’s The Chase Summer Replacement time, this year ITV have come at it with a slightly different strategy opening with a show with the same host but with a different format in a clever bid to not haemorrhage viewers – and being supported by Tipping Point for the entire fortnight as well no less.… Read More »