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: Show Discussion: Benchmark »
Well it’s not looking great so far. I’m not entirely certain what sort of number they are hoping for, for NEW QUIZ SENSATION you would probably be wanting closer to 3.0+, in actual fact this has started not far from where non-quiz sensation Million Second Quiz ended. Our hero could probably just duck under that… Read More: 500 Questions »
Weekdays, 6:30pm, BBC2 Broadcasting LEGEND John Craven invites teams of four to take on the eponymous Brain to win a cash prize. Questions are of the brainteaser, logic, visual variety rather than general knowledge. Let’s see if it fares better than Brainbox Challenge with Clive Anderson back in 2008 which is probably the most recent… Read More: Show Discussion: Beat the Brain »
I’m writing this here not having watched the first episode (because of work, mainly), but it’s on my radar and started last night on BBC3 and Tom F suggests: Thing which may be of interest, whilst it’s not much like Korea’s, we now have our own improvised-crime-investigation-with-celebrities offering: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b05tv211 Does this really count as a… Read More: Murder in Successville »
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: Show Discussion: Decimate »
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: Show Discussion: 7 Envelopes »