New interactive cartoon thing from top Gilles De Coster lookalike Charlie Brooker hot off the heels of originally doing this sort of thing with Bandersnatch a few years ago. We said the trailer for this looked interesting last week. Well now it’s out, what’s it like? It’s fun! If you grew up watching old Looney… Read More »
Saturdays, 8:30pm,ITV Altogether now: “If you could be a popstar, who would you be? Come share your dream with us, the makeover’s free!” In this totally unique and different talent show, people get professionally made-up and perform as their favourite popstars whilst Olly Murs looks on. Only this time three people are pretending to be… Read More »
Saturdays, 8:30pm,ITV Well there’s nothing like making a rod for your own back is there? Ant and Dec offer to potentially bankrupt ITV (spoiler: they haven’t bankrupted ITV) in the world’s first limitless jackpot, provided you don’t count any existing winner-stays-on shows, and does so in a method that if the adverts are anything to… Read More »
Saturday, 6:10pm,BBC1 No your eyes AREN’T deceiving you, The “The” is now officially part of the title again after twenty years in the wilderness, for no discernable reason. Look, we wanted Judge Rinder to host. But we like Romesh and can understand why they’ve gone for mildly-pissed-off-uncle in this lighter, brighter The Weakest Link reboot,… Read More »
Thursdays, 10pm,Channel 4 The latest creation of Format Powerhouse (or at least, Person) Richard Bacon sees Jimmy Carr asking questions about things that have just happened in the studio for £25,000. It’s an observation and memory quiz basically. What might be fun is that this interview suggests they’re going quite big on the meta, “we… Read More »
Nightly 12th-17th December, 8pm,ITV Simon Cowell’s new musical competition/gameshow thing which seems to suggest someone will be walking away with £500,000 at the end of the week. To be honest, we’re not quite clear on how the format works other than an apparent exciting bit at the end of each episode where the winner has… Read More »