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: Show Discussion: Revenge of the Egghead »
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: Show Discussion: Superstar Dogs »
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: Show Discussion: The Jump »
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: Postcode Loterij Beat the Crowd »
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: Show Discussion: Reflex »
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: Show Discussion: Show Me The Telly »