Weekdays, 4:30pm,BBC1 It’s time to rattle those pots and pans! (*) Who else but Rylan Clark-Neal resides over two pro-am teams of cooks coming up with meals in twenty minutes made from a variety of items from the contestant’s shopping bags, but now there’s a second round with all sorts of mystery ingredient twists –… Read More »
Wednesdays, 8pm and 10pmMore 4 Here’s a show that sets its stall out quickly: C4 newsreader Jon Snow’s here and he’s going to be asking some very hard questions. For an hour. Two teams will be battling it out in what looks like a single-elimination knockout tournament for a trophy (if the advert is anything… Read More »
Thursday 16th Jan, from 8pmBBC3 (online) Yung Filly invites a team of three to try to earn £5,000 by doing tasks overnight in a shopping centre. Unfortunately, each time one of them screams £100 gets knocked off, and even more unfortunately the location has been rigged with a load of comedy scares. How much will… Read More »
Saturday, 7pm,ITV International singing sensation lands on ITV. Somewhere, someone at ITV is kicking themselves for not going far enough previously. Celebrities make their way through an elimination singing competition all the while being dressed in spectacular and ridiculous costume. A panel of celebrity judges judge them whilst also trying to work out who they… Read More »
Saturday, 8:15pm,BBC1 Here’s a format that’s been knocking around for absolute donkeys years, originally piloted with Justin Lee Collins about a decade ago for Channel 4 (IIRC), an unsuccessful run in Italy, another pilot with Lee Mack and finally, FINALLY the BBC have decided the time is right for First and Last with Jason Manford… Read More »
Sunday, 6pm,ITV Jeremy Vine hosts as fifteen of the most successful TV quizzers in the country battle it out to see who is the quizziest of them all in a format which isn’t just 15-to-1 but does feature our contestants being whittled down to one winner across 90 minutes. Quizmaster, a 90-minute peak time special,… Read More »