Sunday 1st November, 9pm,Channel 4 Look, now, you see the thing is is that we don’t actually know. As presented, Bradley Walsh invites three contestants to a quiz where one of them could win a million pounds. A “one-off quiz event”. The big twist, revealed this week, is that the contestants bring their own bank… Read More: Show Discussion: Bradley Walsh’s Million Pound Shot »
Friday 30th October, 7pm,Netflix This is a bit sad really in that The Future Of Sportertainment feels like it’s already been murdered in plain sight by The Celebrity Traitors – the date for this was set months ago and they presumably weren’t to know the BBC were going to change their scheduling strategy from Wednesday/Thursday… Read More: Show Discussion: Beat Luke Littler »
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 »