Sundays, 9pm,(but episode 2 Monday 9pm),Channel 4 Alan Carr and Susie Dent challenge ordinary everyday people who may have had their brainpower overlooked to games devised by British Mensa to see if secretly they’re actually geniuses, with the top twelve people from four regional heats going through to the final at Oxford. And from the… Read More »
Tuesday-Friday 7:30pm,Monday, Wed-Friday 7:30pm Wk 2,ITV1 Well… it was massively successful for a long time in Australia where it was a daily show for about a decade until The Chase basically killed it off, it’s been on in many countries, and finally it’s here. And I’ve never really loved it to be honest. Six people… Read More »
Sunday 4th January 8pm then Sundays at 7pm,ITV Let me just take you back to three years ago, a few days after The Floor started in the Netherlands where I said words along the lines of “hey! This isn’t rubbish!” Fast forward three years to today and the show has pretty much conquered the planet.… Read More »
New Years Day, 6pm,then weekdays 3pm from Jan 5th, ITV1 This will hopefully be quite fun, Sara Davies has always come across as The Dragon Who Is Probably Legitimately Into This Sort Of Thing so hopefully this translates into being good at it. Contestants start off with a load of money but they have to… Read More »
Netflix,From 17th December Neil Patrick Harris invites eight teams to figure out what prizes are in 12 giant boxes by way of quiz, the team with the most prizes at the end of the arced series wins what’s in the SUPER BOX worth over $250k – I know what this is but I will leave… Read More »
Wednesdays, 8:25pmS4C and iPlayer Well how’s that? Literally minutes after posting that there’s nothing happening I’m alerted to the fact Slam Television’s Y Deis launched on S4C last night, and you can watch it with English subs on iPlayer. This caught us off guard a bit as a press release announcing the show and its… Read More »