Weekdays, 7pm (and 7:30pm) Dave For a long time now Dave have been at the forefront of taking slightly unusual show ideas and making a success of them (School of Hard Sums! Go 8 Bit! Taskmaster!). However I’m slightly baffled by this commission of a format that’s been knocking around for years and years. Jason… Read More »
Weekdays, 2:15pm, BBC1 I’m not expecting a great deal of discussion for this, this year’s third series, but it helps break the page up. Of interest, it sounds as though the two recording blocks of fifteen episodes are being split into two separate runs, as is all the rage these days. Sort of makes sense,… Read More »
Tuesdays, 9:15pm Channel 4 Celebs go on the run for Stand Up To Cancer. They are: Jamie Laing and Spencer Matthews from Made in Chelsea. Jay Macguiness and Siva Kaneswaren from ironically titled pop band The Wanted. Steph and Dom from Gogglebox. AND! Anneka Rice from Treasure Hunt! They’ll be trying to evade capture for… Read More »
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 »