Friend of the Bar Martyn With A Y Not An I went and saw this yesterday and I think it sounds very encouraging, he wrote this: I guess you would call it a crash between Minute To Win It (short snappy rounds) and the first round of The Krypton Factor (speed thinking puzzles) and, bar… Read More: Watching Telly: 5 Minutes To A Fortune »
So I went and saw Pointless being filmed today, the first of series seven (I think) (Apparently not, thanks Dan H) at the new digs at Elstree. Basically nothing’s changed, so the apparently very exciting new endgame is being saved for another series. Still if you’re going to waste my time and money, at least… Read More: I went and saw Pointless and all I got was… »
New daytime quiz beginning apparently March 4th. TV’s Paul Brassey suggests the inspiration for it comes from not being able to convert early poker tournament leads into actual victories which is very interesting and you can see in the format, although apparently he hasn’t been involved with it for a long time. This was filmed… Read More: Watching Telly: Beat the Pack »
You may remember we saw the pilot to this back in August. Has anything changed? The titles are a neat mash up of the two original Walker title sequences, beams of light going round a maze but this time clearly in SPACE. The theme is a pretty good remix of the original 80s Walker theme.… Read More: Watching Telly: Catchphrase »
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 »