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: Show Discussion: Think Tank Series 2 »
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: Show Discussion: Spotless »
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: Show Discussion: Alphabetical »
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: Show Discussion: Cash Trapped »
Sundays, 8pm, BBC2 It’s been away for a while but tonight Robot Wars returns promising more story and emotion than ever before, which really captures the appeal of the original. I’m joking of course, people tune in for watching big old robots fight each other. And we’re not joking when we suggest old, there are… Read More: Show Discussion: Robot Wars »
Weekdays, 4pm, Channel 4 Quizzy Mondays get temporarily quizzier this week with the launch of The Question Jury on Channel 4 afternoons, in the fabled Benchmark slot no less. Or one of them anyway. Seven people in a jury room work as a team and face questions to win a cash prize of up to… Read More: Show Discussion: The Question Jury »