New episodes Thursday 9pm, repeated variously across the week, Challenge TV New Challenge original programming, which is good to see, and this sounds like a proper old-school quiz, fronted by a proper old-school entertainer host Brian Conley. I always liked Conley growing up, so I hope this works out for him. Lewis Murphy saw an… Read More »
Saturdays, after Ant and Dec (For episode one that’s 8:20pm), ITV We haven’t done a Show Discussion post for a series of The Cube for ages but tonight apparently sees a large refresh of the graphics and audio so I figured it would be worthwhile. I also expect this to be a last roll of… Read More »
Weekdays, 6pm BBC 2 CJ de Mooi is back, BACK, BACK! In his own Eggheads spin-off with Jeremy Vine, where a team of five take him on to win thousands of pounds. They are already promising a de Mooi/Vine bromance. This will either be hilarious, or tries too hard to be hilarious and comes across… Read More »
Weekdaily, 5:30pm, C4 It’s that That’s My Dog unofficial reboot we’ve all been waiting for, in the run up to Crufts John Barrowman puts pooches and their owners to the test. Features a “dogstable course”. Might be fun but we’re not expecting much. This is part of Channel 4’s new afternoon schedule we’ve been discussing here.… Read More »
8pm tonight through Thursday, 9pm thereafter Channel 4 Davina McCall and Alex Brooker host as a bunch of celebs take on alpine sports, the worst performers having to do a live ski-jump at the end of the show to keep their place in the competition. It’s the Winter Olympics in a few weeks you know.… Read More »
OK, so another show debuted this week in the Netherlands on Wednesday, Beat the Crowd. It’s a Talpa production, and very much the sort of thing I could see being tried out in a lottery slot here. You will need to use the dark arts to watch it as RTL geoblocks some of its stuff,… Read More »