Mondays from September 5th, 10pm, Dave The first episode is currently online on UKTV Play. Edit: As promised, this is the post made last Monday bumped up for the television premiere. Dave has started a trend recently of putting the first episode of their new series’ up a week before it gets broadcast as a sort… Read More »
Saturday, 7pm, ITV New talent challenge show fronted by Stephen Mulhern, people with unusual talents are put to the test in challenges devised for television, if they can complete the challenge they win £1,000, if they lose they have to take a Take Me Out-esque Walk of Shame. We saw an episode being filmed although… Read More »
Monday 9pm, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday 8pm, ITV Probably the most intriguing of all the MEGA MONDAY shows, popular ITV1 personality Giles Coren (Vicky’s brother and outspoken restaurant critic) fronts the much anticipated UK version of so-so popular throw-everything-at-a-wall-and-hope-it-sticks US quiz 500 Questions. 500 Questions charges contestants with answering 500 questions correctly without ever getting three… Read More »
Weekdays, 6pm, BBC2 It’s fair to say that this Mega Monday has four new shows but there are two shows that are of most interest to us. This is one of them. Debatable tasks contestants with finding the correct answers to questions for big money but helping or hindering them are a panel of three… Read More »
Weekdays, 6:30pm, BBC2 And so Eggheads takes its regular Summer break (does it? I don’t know) to be replaced temporarily by Make Me An Egghead, a tournament where quizzers compete to become one of two new Eggheads to replace CJ and Daphne. To all intents and purposes it appears to be exactly the same as… Read More »
Weekdays, 3:25pm, BBC1 Bill Turnbull’s back with a second run of Think Tank, now in a later slot. Think Tank invites contestants to answer questions with the help (or not) of a resident rotating team of guests known as the Think Tank who have answered most of the questions before the show. In the end the… Read More »