Weekdays 2:15pm, BBC1 New quiz fronted by popular grumpy Scotsman and beekeeper Bill Turnbull featuring a cast of regular contributors (it says here) called the Think Tank who have answered hundreds of questions beforehand and who may or may not be of use to the three daily contestants hoping to win a bit of money.… Read More »
Saturday/Sunday, 8:25am (repeated 3:20pm), CBBC Press release Well it had to happen eventually, a Robot Wars-esque gameshow about drones, and it’s no accident that it might look and feel Robot Wars-esque given that this too apparently comes from original TV RW-supremo Steve Carsey. It even has house drones, apparently. Will Best and Rachel Stringer guide… Read More »
Weekdays, 3pm, ITV We forgot this started on Monday and we haven’t actually watched it yet. Still, Alan Titchmarsh (who according to this press release, came up with the idea himself) invites teams round various stately homes to play various antique based games, winners of which get to go to the Masterpiece Gallery to try… Read More »
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 »