Weekdays, 3:00pm, BBC1 Shane Richie challenges teams of three to keep a golden wall of cash intact across three rounds with the hope of the team taking away whatever’s left in a nailbiting race against the clock in the final round. Unfortunately each wrong answer costs 10% of their bank at the beginning of the… Read More »
Monday, 8pm, Watch There only appear to be two episodes of this on the schedule right now, and they’re both half hour eps on Monday night. Seven people pick an envelope containing a mystery amount of money between 1p and £10,000 and are filmed throughout the day. During the day they will be offered the… Read More »
Saturday, 9:20pm, ITV Holly Willoughby is joined by team captains Bradley Walsh and Frank Lampard for a show that might as well be called A League of ITV’s Own if the description is much to go by. Made by the same people behind the recent Reality Bites on ITV2, so likely to have the same… Read More »
Saturdays, 7pm, ITV ITV’s Super Saturdays kick off with Ninja Warrior UK, the home grown version of the popular Japanese event show Sasuke (which in itself was a spin-off of a show called Muscle Ranking (known here and in the US as Unbeatable Banzuke) which already made it to the UK as Under Pressure on Channel… Read More »
Fridays, 8pm, Sky 1 (HD) Also on Sky On Demand. Mel Giedroyc is your jovial host as eight families battle it out across the series to be declared Relatively Clever champions. It’s a bit Ask the Family, a bit University Challenge (Pass the Baton era), and a little bit Only Connect, but in honesty quite a… Read More »
Wednesdays, 8:30pm, BBC4 Griff Rhys Jones invites experts to do quizzes and play games informed by pieces in a different museum each week in an idea everyone seems to be calling new except Codex did it ten years ago. Whatsmore this appears to be even less sexy than that going by the adverts. Still, let’s… Read More »