From August 12th,Netflix We like Physical 100 – impressively scaled studio physical tests from Korea and a fine example of the “authoratitive voice commands a process” genre the Koreans have made their own and it seems to have become such a breakout hit that there are various regional spin-offs coming, starting with a pan-Asian one… Read More »
Wednesday and Thursdays, 9pm,BBC1 and iPlayer I mean I think I’ve made my opinions on Destination X as a format perfectly clear by now (i.e. it’s OK but not worthy of the massive hype – and price – it’s been afforded), ultimately its fundamental mystery is not that interesting and it can’t really use its… Read More »
I haven’t watched this yet but celebrity FOTB Tom F (he was on 99 to Beat) recommeded it in the Discord and I trust his judgement, and he thinks it’s at risk of being criminally overlooked. So because I am powerful, and because it’s easy content, here is a plug! The show is called Theme… Read More »
Weeknights, 7pm,Channel 5 First there was Puzzling with Lucy Worsley and nobody really watched it and now a few years later there is Celebrity Puzzling with Jeremy Vine, which appears to be revamped to the point where the only thing in common with the original seems to be one of the words in the title.… Read More »
Mondays, 9pm,U&Dave The latest format from the mind of Richard Bacon sees Dermot O’ Leary challenge an audience of 75 try and win £250,000 collectively by staying silent as teams of comedy and unusual variety acts (led by Katherine Ryan, Seann Walsh and current Taskmaster contestant Fatiha El-Ghorri) encourage them to laugh or otherwise make… Read More »
Wednesday and Thursdays, 9pm,ITV1 Blimey. It was August 2013 when we started banging on about Korean show The Genius, and it’s fair to suggest that we thought that first series was a bit of a mixed bag, but the hits *really* hit, and across its four seasons it really learned what worked and what didn’t… Read More »