Fridays, 8pm,Channel 4 (and all on All 4, apparently) I am ridiculously excited about One Question. There’s no time limit, no buzzers, no complicated rules. A sofa, a chat, just one question that could win our players £100k. Not only that, we give them the answer. Tricky part is we give them 19 wrong answers… Read More »
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 »
Monday to Friday, 9pm,ITV Well it’s been delayed several times, it’s gone through several name changes (I’m told this was going under The Real Olympics at one point when it was due to up against the actual Olympics, which is certainly a choice, then The Real Games which is terrible) before seemingly landing on what… Read More »
Surprise cash-in launch on mobile, is it any good? There’s a microtransaction sting in the tail – you need to spend 10,000 coins *every time* you want to get to the 1% questions if you want to see them again, the price of those coins and to remove the advert is 89p on Android.
Saturdays, 8:30 (ep 1), 9:30 (subsequent),ITV It’s one-half Test The Nation: The National IQ Test and one-half Everybody’s Equal, Lee Mack gives 100 people £1,000 each and challenges them to hold on to it by answering multiple choice logic questions that have been tested by a sample of the public. The questions get harder as… Read More »
Weekdays, 4:30pm,BBC1 Hot on the heels of Danny Dyer (The Wall), and Steve McFadden (er, Britain’s Hardest) former Eastenders hardman Ross Kemp has been drafted in to host a quiz and it’s one that seems a bit more gamier than most so we’ll soon see if this is a smart bit of casting or stunt… Read More »