Saturdays, 8pm(ish) BBC One I almost forgot about this but DON’T PANIC 12-YARD STAFF, I have remembered. Families split by geography do a quiz to win cash and hopefully get a lovely reunion. Nick Knowles hosts.
OK, I’m out this evening so I’m not going to get to watch until tomorrow, but it looks like the first ep of Science Channel in the US’ Race to Escape is online. Although I’m just getting a black screen at the moment, regardless of using dark magic or not. I’m hoping it will eventually… Read More »
Tuesdays, 8:30pm, BBC4 Fiona Bruce chairs this new BBC4 quiz where two teams of three answer clever questions by finding the answers in a hexagonal wordsearch. As a replacement for Only Connect (which has of course moved to BBC2) it doesn’t look like the apple has fallen far from the tree – teams of three,… Read More »
Sundays, 7pm, Sky One + HD Konnie Huq invites eleven of Britain’s brightest to Nerdvana to take part in a series of tasks and challenges based around pop-culture, intelligence and ingenuity over eight weeks to determine who will get to sit atop the Throne of Games. The original US show is good fun so we… Read More »
Saturdays, 7pm, BBC1 Well this has had a slightly more interesting development than most but this week the BBC’s big new shiny expensive new Saturday night hope finally gets off the ground. On paper it sounds like Exactly The Sort Of Thing We Like – ten couples vie for a £100,000 prize, one half of… Read More »
Weekdays, 4pm Channel 4 A simple game with a simple host, Paddy McGuinness challenges ten people to answer a range of numerical questions, the average of which forms the notional Benchmark. The challenge for our plucky main player is to work out whether the actual answer is above or below the benchmark for big cash… Read More »