Streaming on Amazon Prime from 10th November Brian Cox (not that one) invites nine couples to try and win a million pounds completing missions around the world, the completion of each one ending up with a briefcase with a question in it – get the question right, bank the money, travel to the next mission.… Read More »
Saturdays and Sundays after Strictly (8-ish),BBC1 and iPlayer 21 years since we last did it, the BBC resurrects Survivor with Joel Dommett, 18 players will try and survive the elements AND EACH OTHER for 34 days to win £100,000… cash. a £900,000 reduction in prize from the original, but six days fewer so that’s alright… Read More »
Saturday, 5:50pmBBC1 You’ve got to feel a little bit for the BBC here. Announced first last year as a Saturday night quiz where contestants have to identify pictures, it was apparently set to go out in the Spring where it was beaten to the punch by In With A Shout (a Saturday night quiz where… Read More »
Weekdays, 4:30pmBBC1 New quiz from the makers of The Chase, contestants try and win up to £5,000 in a quiz version of those donkey-derby machines you get in funfairs (you know the sort, where you roll the ball in the hole and your donkey goes along a track) only this time the contestants are in… Read More »
Monday to Friday (and the next Monday) 8pm,More 4 It’s radio’s cult music quiz Popmaster but now Ken Bruce isn’t working for Radio 2 anymore, it’s on More 4. There are some modifications for this TV outing – five sixty-minute heats all this week with the winners going through to the Grand Final the following… Read More »
Thursdays, 8pm, (8:15pm ep1)Channel 5 Historian host Lucy Worsley invites six people to compete in rounds involving various aspects of puzzle solving (words, maths, lateral thinking, observation, memory – it’s like the Olympics OF THE MIND) starting off as two teams of three and then the winning team competing against each other to find the… Read More »