Saturdays, 6:50pm, BBC1 Dermot O’Leary returns to Saturday nights with a new show that purports to be about driving, right, but is actually about relationships, unlike any show involving two or more people who know each other already. Crazy. Various driving challenges ensue and the best couple will race against Top Gear‘s The Stig to try… Read More »
Weekdays, 2:30pm, BBC One Fern Britton ably assisted by an antiques expert leads three teams in a general knowledge quiz, doing well allows them to add antiques to their collections, each presumably worth differing amounts and presumably the team with the biggest value collection will win something. Antiques not really my thing (although I will watch… Read More »
Weekdays, 3pm, ITV Vernon’s back with another thirty episodes of mental agility and heart rate control quiz 1000 Heartbeats. By the sounds of it it’s been taken apart, the bits cleaned up and put back together again with new games and new music from Paul Farrer And His Hat performed by the Heartbeats Strings Quartet… Read More »
Thursdays, 7:30pm, Dave Normally when a show starts you’ll see it advertised or production people will bang on about it on Twitter. The first time we’d heard that The Money Pit had started was when a telly person asked us what we thought of it, which is embarrassing. Still better late than never (it’s episode four… Read More »
Weekdays, 2:15pm, BBC1 The Gabster Gabby Logan is the new host of surprise second series of test-your-strength bowling quiz The Edge. We are aware of minor changes but not the broader picture, it has been intimated that The Edge is a bit bigger on the larger lanes, for example, but hopefully it will have corrected some… Read More »
Tuesdays, 8pm, ITV New reality sporting competition in a bid to lure people (hopefully advertiser friendly males, by intention) away from the Champions League which has now vacated ITV. Richard Bacon hosts as eight sporting stars battle it out in various challenges testing all sorts of physical and mental prowess and their will to win.… Read More »