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: Show Discussion: Alan Carr’s Picture Slam »
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: Show Discussion: The Finish Line »
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) »
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: Show Discussion: Popmaster TV »
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 »
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: Show Discussion: Puzzling »