Weekdays 4pm, ITV Filling in Tipping Point‘s slot, here’s another show featuring tipping things – chairs in this case as Andi Peters asks questions of contestants who when they get one wrong have to answer another right before their chair reaches the end of the track, tipping them backwards and out of the game. On… Read More »
Saturday 9:30pm, BBC1 Rob Brydon hosts a new quiz that’s a bit like Blankety Blank but without the format fee except not. We don’t have an awful lot to go on, but it’s certainly a show with a bit of history – it was set to be Mrs Brown’s Celebrities, then when Brendan O’ Carroll decided… Read More »
Saturday 8:30, ITV Amazing Greys is the show that pits young people against the elderly in a battle of the ages, each young person tries to beat two of the Amazing Greys out of three in order to earn themselves a £10,000 prize. But it won’t be easy, they might be past their best but… Read More »
Saturday 5:15pm then weekdays 4:30pm, Channel 4 And so prosaic quiz week on Bother’s Bar ends with the revival of the show die-hard quizzers love but which I always found a bit dull really – Fifteen to One. And I think they’re in a tough spot. The reason the original was so beloved is that… Read More »
Prosaic quiz week continues! TV3’s 3 Studios have prepped The Lie and Crossfire for international sales and whilst Crossfire is basically really boring, I reckon The Lie might have the chance of being a minor success. It’s already had one series in Ireland fronted by Jonathan McCrea, and a Scottish version fronted by comedian Susan… Read More »
Excitingly Talpa have yet another Dutch lottery show just started – Kluizenspel – Safe Game – which is apt because it features very little in the way of new ideas, although what’s there hangs together fairly well. It’s Pressure Pad with a budget, basically. Fronted by Mark Klein Essink (who also in hosting Kies de… Read More »