Saturday, 7:30pm BBC1 When something is described as “big in Spain”, we’re usually a little sceptical when it makes it to these shores. When something is described as being “big in The Netherlands” however, we pay a little more attention. And so we come to I Love My Country, a comedy quiz celebrating national characteristics… Read More »
Saturday night, 8:50pm BBC1 Well this has had a rather interesting past, Talkback Thames have been trying to work out how to put “counting to thirty seconds in your head” into a hit format for a-a-a-g-g-g-e-s-s, first to my knowledge in Dick ‘n’ Dom’s The Clock is Ticking (third story down – christ, over six years… Read More »
Weekdays, 5pm, ITV1 The Chase is on a break for a few weeks, last year the break gave us awesome and popular returnable hit series Tipping Point which basically successfully overcome the natural “urgh, this isn’t The Chase” reaction you’d expect from the audience, this year the slot has been given over to Julia Bradbury and eight… Read More »
Long time patrons of the Bar will know that we really like the Japanese show Dero! so much so that pretty much immediately after watching an episode we wanted to find out as much about it as we could and ended up writing this feature on it. So naturally we were quite excited when we… Read More »
Saturdays, 19:45 UK time, France 2 or naughty internet streaming Ah! It’s back. It’s funny to think we’ve gone from jumped-up outward bound centre to fully fledged fairy-tale-esque direction in the last few years, but if you can’t have an element of other-worldyness in a castle in the middle of the ocean where can you… Read More »
Weekdaily, 1:45pm, Channel 4 Four Rooms is one of those shows which is not massively massively popular, but rather a hit with the people who do actually watch it, so it will be interesting to see how it copes as a daily prospect, and without arguably it’s biggest personality in terms of Jeff Salmon. In… Read More »