Three eps on Wednesdays for three weeks from March 26,Netflix 12 people rock up at Peter Serafinowicz’s mansion and each shown to a room, and inside each room a box, and inside one of the boxes one MILLION dollars. That’s for that player to take away provided none of the other contestants suspect them of… Read More »
Saturdays, 6pm,ITV 100 people in a warehouse play silly games guided by Adam and Ryan Thomas. You don’t have to be any good at any of them, but importantly you must not come last in any of them or be eliminated, the last one standing wins at the end of the series wins a whopping… Read More »
Amazon Video from 20th March Jimmy Carr invites a fairly stacked line-up of UK comedians into a room and challenges them to make each other laugh whilst not laughing themselves or risk elimination. The last one left is the winner. The Documental format has been a worldwide streaming success across the last decade, it’s surprising… Read More »
Whilst we wait with bated breath for Genius Game to land, it transpires there’s a corporate knock-off currently being uploaded to Youtube and it’s… pretty good? Life’s Game is LG Electronics’ very own take on the The Genius brain-survival genre, in it, 12 LG employees compete in games of strategy and intelligences social and logical… Read More »
Mondays, 8pm,BBC2 This is a big swing (they’ve put it in the Only Connect slot, BBC2’s highest rating slot of the week) and I’m here for it, but they’re already doing things that on paper seem more amateur than Grandmaster. I mean look at that subtitle! Is this the first or last series? Sue Perkins… Read More »
From Wednesday 5th February,Netflix Holly Willoughby invites 12 celebs to the Costa Rican jungle where Bear Grylls will put them through their survival paces, the celebs deemed to be not up to scratch will have to fight for their survival avoiding capture whilst being hunted by the ex-head of the Scouts. Netflix have given this… Read More »