Weekdays, 3pm, ITV Jeff Stelling returns with a new run of the alphabet-based quiz which promised lots of questions and nothing but, and yet when it came to the end game managed to ask not enough questions and proved impossible to win – not because of difficulty of the questions per se, because the contestants… Read More »
Sundays, 8pm, Channel 4 Scrapheap Challenge meets dehydration at last as five engineers (led by survival expert Ant Middleton) are dropped inside hostile terrain with only the wreckage of a large crashed vehicle for company, the object being to salvage parts and to build a new vehicle and… escape. It will be interesting to see… Read More »
Thursdays, 9pm, ITV2 When in Rome do as the Romans do, as the old adage goes. Eight couples travel back to Ancient Rome where the men will compete in tough physical challenges in the hope of making it to the Emperor’s Games at the end of the series with a cool £10,000 on offer to… Read More »
Wednesdays, 9pm, Dave UKTV Play Great stuff, our favourite new show of the last X years returns to Dave for an eight episode run, where five more comedians will put their problem solving, comedy and gamesmanship skills to the test. This series we have (from left to right in the promo shot): Bob Mortimer Mark… Read More »
Weekdays, 2:15pm, BBC1 I’m not even sure this needs a follow-up discussion post (the first series one’s here) but this is BB 4.0 now and today that’s how we roll. It sounds like the opening speed round to determine the first Boss has gone to be replaced by someone picked at random. Hopefully that loss… Read More »
Weekdays, 6pm, BBC2 Richard Osman displaces Eggheads, as is his wont, and invites four celebrities into his House of Games where each night they will play games and quizzes in the hope of leaving on Friday the overall winner. It’s the unofficial celebrity reversioning of QD: The Master Game some of us have waited 26 years… Read More »