Category Archives: Show Discussion

Show Discussion: Pressure Pad

By | November 3, 2013

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 »

Show Discussion: Fort Boyard Ultimate Challenge (Series 4)

By | October 19, 2013

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 »

Fifteen to One

By | September 20, 2013

Friday 20th September, 8pm, Channel 4 Well it’s finally here, Adam Hills hosts the return of the knockout quiz that puts fifteen contestants up against each other in a knockout quiz. In this one-off-with-a-view-to-a-series, those fifteen people are celebrities playing for charity, for Channel 4’s Eighties Weekend. I expect the celebrity one to do OK this… Read More »

Avanti un Altro 2013/14

By | September 16, 2013

It’s back! It’s time to join Bonolis and Laurenti for the quiz where anything could happen and uniquely actually might as AuA returns for another seven-day-a-week run on Canale 5 in Italy for the next however many months. New mini-world characters are promised and maybe a modification to the end game. And who knows what else?… Read More »