I’d have loved to have seen this live myself and it’s filming in Salford all this week and some of next, but I can’t. Happily there are people who can be my eyes and ears, and today we have the lovely John Round who went to this afternoon’s first session and has told us all… Read More: Watching Telly: Deal or No Deal (2023) »
Been a while since I’ve done this! But that’s the reality of everything getting shot in Salford, so when something new and London based turns up I’ll try and jump on it. Password is a remake of an old US show that has been tried here several times 40-60 years ago and last year Jimmy… Read More: Watching Telly: Password »
Here’s some fun, FOTB Ryan Vickers went and saw the new Quebecoise version of Taskmaster being filmed and he’s written a report. Take it away Ryan: Taping occurred on Friday, August 5th at the Rialto Theatre in Montreal. We were let in early and I sat in the balcony (limited standing space was downstairs). We… Read More: Watching Telly: Le Maître du Jeu »
Just got back from Elstree for my first Watching Telly for several years. Exciting. They seem desperate for audience members, so if you’re free Friday/Saturday hit up SRO. So here’s a new show set to go out on Netflix whenever. Superficially it’s a bit like Bullshit – it basically involves answering questions and trying to… Read More: Watching Telly: Cheat »
Well this almost didn’t happen. As you may have been aware, there was a lot of snow about on Sunday, and whilst I was quite fortunate in that trains to and from Cambridge weren’t affected too badly, loads of production staff (and Phillip Schofield!) were delayed by several hours (six, in the floor manager’s case).… Read More: Watching Telly: 5 Gold Rings S2 »
Friday 17th, 10pm, BBC2 It didn’t seem worthwhile giving this a separate discussion post given it’s a “one-off” and likely to be slightly different in nature to a run of Saturday night shows it hopes will happen, so here is the report from the recording bumped up for tonight’s show. If you have any questions,… Read More: Watching Telly: Weakest Link for CiN »