Weekdays, 4pm, Channel 4 Well it had been a daily show on the continent so in that sense there’s no real reason why it couldn’t succeed. Davina’s back with a version of The Million Pound Drop but with everything divided by ten – the prize, the bundles of cash (£2.5k each now) and by the… Read More »
Sundays, 2am and 8pm, Sky One New vehicular based combat show which has gone heavy on Mad Max style theming which might be good fun. Freddie Flintoff, Vick Hope and Lethal Bizzle watch as customised cars bash into each other in order to be the last one standing. I don’t have access to Sky One… Read More »
Saturday 9:15pm, Rest of the week 9pm, ITV It’s back for a week of specials for the 20th anniversary (i.e. it’s a sly pilot) and it’s got a new host in the divisive Jeremy Clarkson. But Millionaire is back, whether anyone really gives a damn or not. Also back: the 15 question money tree and… Read More »
Whenever you want, Netflix We’re very excited to see more Korean variety programming come to Netflix (COME ON, THE GENIUS), this one sounds a little bit like Whodunnit? and looks like it might be great fun. The Netflix blurb: Tackling different mysteries in each episode of this game show, seven sleuths get closer to solving the… Read More »
Wednesdays, 9pm Dave (also UKTV Play) It says something about a show that we’re willing to put up a show discussion post every time a new series comes up, but there’s usually so much to comment on regarding Taskmaster it seems the best way really. So here we are again. The victims for season six… Read More »
Fridays, 8:30pm, BBC1 Now here’s an interesting one. Ostenably it’s Taskmaster mixed with a bit of Gogglebox, from the mind of Alex Horne of Taskmaster. Five families each have a button installed in their house with a screen on it. At any time the button might go off. They push the button and are set a task,… Read More »