From Wednesday 23rd September,Netflix On paper this is a pretty perfect idea for an eliminatory reality competition seeing as the original Roald Dahl book is basically sort of structured a little bit like one anyway (Agatha Christie basically invented the eliminatory reality TV gameshow with And Then There Were None in 1939 – there’s no… Read More: Show Discussion: Wonka’s The Golden Ticket »
Monday-Thursday, 9pm,Sky One and NOW TV Not sure precisely how much in our purview this is but seeing as it’s basically like a new version of Crisis Command: Can You Run the Country? we’d be remiss not to at least give it a mention as the sort of thing you might find of interest as… Read More: Show Discussion: The Wargame »
Saturdays, 9:15pmBBC1 John Bishop puts Francis Galton’s wisdom of crowds theory to the test as an individual attempts to answer estimated guess questions better than an increasing number of crowdmembers – 200 in the studio, in order to win a large cash prize. We have a rough idea of what to expect as we had… Read More: Show Discussion: Wisdom of the Crowd »
Saturday (8:15pm) and Sunday (8pm) for two weeks then Sunday nights,ITV1 Gary Lineker invites ten celebrities to get inside yellow boxes which will be placed before a challenge, opened, and the celebrities will quickly have to work out what the challenge is and then get on with doing it as fast as possible, scoring points… Read More: Show Discussion: The Box »
Mondays, 8:30pm, BBC ScotlandTuesdays, 7:30pm, BBC2And it’s all up on iPlayer. “Based on a Canadian original” is not a phrase you tend to hear very often but here we are. Iain Stirling off of Love Island challenges seven pro-amateur teams to create sand sculpture masterpieces on a beach in St Andrews in Scotland before the… Read More: Show Discussion: Race Against The Tide »
Thursdays from 16th July, 9pmITV1 and ITVX Paris, Zurich, Lisbon, Athens, Barcelona, Rome. When The Chase says it’s going around the world, boy do they mean it. The Chase Around The World sees six pairs of contestants with pre-existing relationships race around these worldwide cities searching for a pair of Chasers who have set up… Read More: Show Discussion: The Chase Around The World »