Weekdays, 4:30pm, Channel 4 TV chef Simon Rimmer challenges two teams of two to answer general knowledge questions to win ingredients and then cook things with those ingredients. The best dish as determined by Rimmer and judge wins a prize. It’s Ready Steady Quiz! Who will make a meal of it and who will make… Read More »
Fridays, 9pm, Channel 4 The show is live and appalongable, so you might want to download the app in advance. It comes in Android AND iDevice flavour and before the live show works to a pretty high standard. Yes yes OK, as we’ve pointed out it’s perpendicular Rising Star, several months before RS launches on ITV.… Read More »
I watched this this afternoon, I mentioned it briefly on Twitter, I briefly mention those things again here: Needs better chemistry between the regulars. Needs to be funnier. Needs to drop the Question of Sport branding, it doesn’t help either the main show or this spin-off – in fact just calling it Super Saturday and… Read More »
So, if you’ve been following our Korean chum Bump. on Twitter you may have gathered there’s a new show called Crime Scene currently airing. In it six Korean celebrities roleplay as suspects in a mocked-up murder (apparently based on an actual real case but with the personal details changed). As is traditional in these things, all… Read More »
4:30pm Weekdays, Channel 4 First there was the briefly popular Zynga app Draw Something, then about six months to a year later they filmed this new show based loosely on it, and now a year later it’s finally getting an airing. Channel 4 riding the zeitgeist as ever. Still it’s got some good people behind… Read More »
1:25pm Bank Holiday Monday, 2:15pm weekdays thereafter, BBC1 Answer questions and try to work out the link between the answers. We liked it when it was called Connections with Sue Robbie in the eighties, but now famous actor Mark Williams (The Fast Show, Harry Potter, Prudential advert) will be offering teams cash money to do… Read More »