Isn’t it the Dutch that have a word for that period between Christmas and New Year? Anyway it’s the Saturday of it, and it turns out there’s loads on. I’m not qute sure what my strategy for all of this is going to be yet. 30 Years of CITV – I was always more of… Read More: Super Duper Festive Saturday »
Right, we’re back from watching Dale’s Generation Ga… Dale’s Great Getaway I mean and now I’m going to talk about it. This will be going out late December in a primetime slot, and as such I won’t be giving away anything relating to results. In fact if you want to know anything about it (I… Read More: Watching Telly: Dale’s Great Getaway »
Weekdaily, 3:30pm, Channel 4 Sandi Toksvig hosts a new afternoon quiz where celebrities ask questions of people on things you probably really ought to know. Hey, that sounds a bit like the Open Door round in De Slimste, but we digress. Answering the easy questions lets you answer harder questions for money. That’s all we… Read More: Show Discussion: 1001 Things You Should Know »
4:30pm, weekdaily BBC2 Nick Hancock’s back with surprise afternoon moderate hit Breakaway. There have apparently been some modifications to the game for the second series (from what we can gather fewer questions and the lives and what you can do with them work slightly differently). We discussed series one here. Let us know what you… Read More: Show discussion: Breakaway series 2 »
Thursday, 10pm, Channel 4 Of course we’re not expecting this to be a “serious” game show, but we’re very interested to see what Vic and Bob do with this, a show that’s set to be a sort of sequel to the long-running, popular (and axed) celebrity TV quiz Shooting Stars. Expect a lot of sketches and… Read More: Show Discussion: Vic and Bob’s Lucky Sexy Winners »
ITV1, Weekdays, 5pm New relationship testing quiz with the usually awesome Tim Vine. Went to a recording, thought it was a bit meh although also thought the end game was quite fun, but you never know how it will all come across in the edit do you?