8pm, Wednesday, Sky 1 Sorry I’ve just discovered this is on tonight and I’m busy and writing this on my phone so will come back to this tomorrow, tonight a Doctor Who fan, someone who likes boxing and a London Underground enthusist take part in a quiz. Whether you need to have an interest in… Read More »
Saturdays, 7:40pm (ep 1) BBC1 Shane Richie gives couples the chance to win their dream prizes in this new National Lottery game show. How similar or otherwise it will be to Gift Wrapped I don’t know. Shows based around non-cash prizes seem to be quite a hard sell to viewers these days. We like Richie as… Read More »
So last night I watched new Irish show Brian Dowling’s Sassy Quiz Sitting On A Fortune (made in association with RDF Television) from TV3 and if you can get round the geolocation you can watch it here. In it, three couples try and win as much money as possible by sitting on a sofa as much… Read More »
Sundays, 7pm, ITV Well look, we saw an episode being recorded, this is very much the sort of family entertainment show that everyone on the internet says there should be more of on television only for nobody to actually watch it. Except this time they might! Except this one is up against the Strictly results… Read More »
Mondays, 9pm ITV2 Well here we are then, perhaps unexpectedly, perhaps not, Release the Hounds has made it to a full series after a pilot last Halloween. Which I thought was disappointing. And then international one-offs for it haven’t done very well either. Still someone thinks it’s worth bothering with and we really hope the… Read More »
Oooh yes! Bonolis and Laurenti return to Italian TV tonight for another seven-night-a-week run of Avanti un Altro, one of our favourite foreign shows of the last five years. In an alternate universe Michael Barrymore’s presenting a daily UK version at 5pm on ITV and it would be massive, but seeing as that’s an alternate… Read More »