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: Show Discussion: 1000 Heartbeats Series 2 »
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: Show Discussion: The Money Pit »
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: Show Discussion: The Edge Series 2 »
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: Show Discussion: Eternal Glory »
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: Show Discussion: The Almost Impossible Gameshow »
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: Show Discussion: Release the Hounds Series 2 »