Thursday, 9pm, ITV2 Ten contestants given fifty lives each to complete five very difficult challenges, whilst “hilarious commentary from Irish comedy duo The Rubberbandits” is promised. It looks like a very lo-fi take on the slapstick physical comedy game, and we do have something to compare it to – we wrote a thing about the… Read More »
Wednesdays, 10pm ITV2 [The premiere is viewable at time of writing on ITV Player if you can’t be bothered to wait for Wednesday. Involves signing up. It looks like it will go offline at midnight Tuesday and return tomorrow.] We’re super pleased for the return of horror game Release the Hounds, now Reggie Yates and his van have… Read More »
Tuesdays, 8pm, Sky One AND SKY ONE HD Join Davina McCall and Freddie Flintoff as professional darts players play with amateurs to help them win cash prizes. Will there be enough here to sustain an hour? We shall see. It looks like there are different sorts of dartboards and targets though.
Thursdays, 9pm, Channel 4 We should be all over this as The Sort Of Thing We Like but really something about it is rubbing me up the wrong way before it’s even aired and I can’t put my finger on what it is. Nevertheless Hunted asks 14 people to go on the run for 28… Read More »
Weekdays, 2:15pm, BBC1 The second series of this (and so soon after the first one which had been lying on a shelf for ages) despite being rather down on the slot average invites a bit of comment and speculation – they weren’t watching it before I’m not quite sure why they’d start watching it now… Read More »
Weekdays, 5pm, ITV Sports journalist Sean Fletcher hosts a new quiz for everybody to moan about in the The Chase slot for the next fortnight and here is is holding a question card, if I’m responsible for the resurgence of hosts holding question cards in promo shots then I am a happy man. Apparently it’s… Read More »