Monday, 10pm E4 We’ve been waiting for this for a little while, it’s a dating show meets Jackass and seems to have a high silliness quotient. Potential suitors in a fairytale land try and impress a lady’s overprotective father through a number of physical stunts and tests, ending in a power ballad sing off to… Read More »
We’ll come back to this when we’ve had a chance to watch it later, but the first episode of SyFy’s Robot Combat League is online and currently viewable from the UK. Go have a look! It’s basically massive humanoid robots beating the hell out of each other.
Weekdaily, 3:30pm Channel 4 Well it’s finally here, the show we’ve jokingly referred to as Only Connect For Thickos and condensed to The ConDom gets an mid-afternoon outing. The belief from going to see it being recorded is that it’s a good concept slightly let down by unspectacular and boringly safe production. Phil Spencer is… Read More »
Weekdays, 3:30pm, Channel 4 We don’t know an awful lot about this other than a) Rory Bremner’s hosting and b) It’s seems to be effectively Quiz Chicken. Contestants answer questions against the clock building up a bank and hoping not to be in control when it hits zero, but never knowing how much time is left. Also… Read More »
Saturday, 7:10pm, BBC1 They seem very reluctant to call this a gameshow don’t they? Anyway, this “talent” show based on the successful German show Der Klügste Deutsche on the first channel challenges people not only on traditional IQ sort of things but also on other things like emotional intelligence, multitasking, that sort of thing. The challenges look quite… Read More »
Saturday 7:15pm, ITV1 We’re not going to lie to you readers, we put this up as a show of note but I suspect most of the regulars will be watching Britain’s Brightest on at the same time if anything at all. Still it’s certainly a format that’s been causing a, heh, splash in the format… Read More »