Saturday, 6:15pm, BBC1 Mmm. OK, we have some history with Reflex, we saw an episode being recorded last year (where it was suggested that it would lead into The Voice, which it is, but not the series anyone was expecting) and 18 months ago Martyn wrote up the pilot, it’s fair to say quite a lot had… Read More »
Weekdays, 4pm, ITV1 Apparently the memorandum on TV shows not bothering to sound like Jerry McGuire’s “show me the money” because it sounds rubbish was ignored by ITV and Shiver who have done exactly that, hopefully it will be more successful than their recent Cook Me The Money. Richard Bacon hosts as a team of… Read More »
Weekdays, 3pm, BBC 1 A visually iconic quiz unlike any you have seen before. That’s what the blurb suggests, if the pilot is anything to go by it’s lots of mini-quiz formats you have seen before done but on a yay-big sized floor screen, not seen since the “place the thing on a map” bit… Read More »
Monday 28th October, 10pm, ITV2 One-off horror comedy gameshow with a view to a series. Reggie Yates communicates with a team of three friends sent into a scary forest to complete apparently terrifying tasks and challenges for money, which they only get to keep if they can outrun the titular hounds at the end and… Read More »
Sundays, 5:40pm, ITV1 It began in Mozambique last Autumn and somewhere between then and now it sounds like it got lost in Editing Hell – we’ve heard a number of interesting stories on the grapevine, our favourite being that ITV decided after filming that obscure TV host Alexander Armstrong turns out is a bit too… Read More »
Sundays, 8:30am, ITV and CITV Laura Hamilton and Andy Akinwolere are back with series four of the teen version of the legendary adventure game. It’s a pretty good version of the show’s duel format done as a series long tournament which mitigates the lack of surprise in determining the episode’s winners somewhat. If you’ve not… Read More »