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 »
Wednesdays, 8pm ITV1 Warwick Davies is the unusual choice to front a revival of Bobby’s Big Box Game, this time round with a £20,000 jackpot prize and with Tim Vine and 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown favourite Joe Wilkinson as regulars. And an extended 60 minute running time, so expect more arsing about from… Read More »
So the other night I got the chance to watch John de Mol’s new singing talent show Beat It! currently going out on Saturdays on SBS6 in the Netherlands (catch-up available but geoblocked). In it, team captains Jan Smit and Gerard Joling act as both judges and partner each to nine singers. The host is hosted… Read More »