Sundays and Mondays at 9pm,Channel 4 Paddy McGuinness challenges 12 people to yomp across South Africa in an arduous journey to win a shared £300,000 – that’s £25,000 each! But there are temptations in store along the way, expensive ones designed to make life easier in the moment, that will knock money off. And if… Read More »
Sunday to Friday, 9 and 10pm starting 19th MarchChannel 4 Greg James fronts new POWERFULLY MESSAGED returnable social reality experiment (i.e. gameshow) that happily for us basically just looks a bit like US Big Brother but without the elimination. A group of people are split into Rulers and Grafters, the Rulers live in luxury in… Read More »
Saturdays, 8:50pm,Five Anneka’s back with her logistics-em-up show The Challenge Programme Feat. Anneka Rice! Last seen in a set of specials on ITV in 2006, two things remain to be seen, namely if doing it on Five has the same sort of appeal from companies offering their labour and parts as it did getting a… Read More »
Netflix,From 1st March We’re getting to test out a lot of my hypotheses this year, firstly that Jeopardy‘s not going to work from cold in 2023 on ITV, secondly that quiz shows hold an extremely low value on streaming services where people can choose what they want (as opposed to on broadcast TV where they… Read More »
Weeknights 20th-24th Feb, 11pm,Channel 5 Well here’s some fun, the UK’s first domestic season of The Challenge, MTV’s demanding physical challenge with a bit of strategy and usually a bit of fighting and shagging show, comes to Channel 5 and they’re so happy and confident in it they’re putting it out over a week at… Read More »
The first two eps “dropped” on Netflix yesterday and it looks like we’re getting two eps a week, nine total. Physical 100 is the latest in the popular “Korean reality gameshow where the whole thing is marshalled by a mysterious voice” genre. The premise of this one: 100 fit people do eliminatory “quests” to determine… Read More »