I want to talk about The Influencer on Netflix. Because it is good. The Influencer is a seven-episode long Korean survival variety reality show where 77 social media influencers compete for W300m (about £200,000). If you’ve watched many of these before you know the drill – a disembodied voice sets tasks on an incredible set,… Read More »
Tuesdays and Wednesdays, 9pm,U&Dave, series on UKTV Play Dav… sorry, U&Dave’s hunt to find the next Taskmaster continues. This one’s not an original, it’s based on a Korean format. Here Jimmy Carr challenges two teams of two celebs to live in an empty box for 24 hours, each pair the other side of a wall.… Read More »
I don’t have Nebula, but The Getaway from the Jet Lag guys drops on it today. What if The Mole, but all the contestants were secretly Moles? It’s a funny idea, but I would say there’s normally an entertainment limit in watching people consistently doing things badly, even The Mole has a bit of give. I’m intrigued… Read More »
Monday-Thursdays, 9pm, also repeated around 11:45pm and 3amITV1 Thanks to The Traitors, we’re probably in for a full raft of strategic reality games where people hold some sort of secret but we as the audience know everything and the contestants don’t. For The Traitors, our privileged position works, conversations aren’t just conversations, they are loaded… Read More »
Thursday, Fridays various, 8pm,Channel 4 Channel 4 take on the BBC’s successful Enterprise Thursdays block with a new reality gameshow. Sue Perkins gives couples £250 seed money which they have to double within a time limit to stay in the game, then they must keep redoubling until presumably one team remain standing who win… some… Read More »
On Monday on NBC/Peacock the first episode of Deal or No Deal Island dropped, the show that asks the question “what if Deal Or No Deal, but you made people wade through mud for fifteen minutes first?” Well we finally have an answer and that answer is: duller than you’d hope. 12 people (including Boston… Read More »