Tuesdays, 10pm, Dave and on demand on UKTV Play. We’re super pleased for the return of last year’s surprise hit, which ranked second on the OFFICIAL list of last year’s best new gameshow formats. Another five comics (Doc Brown, Jon Richardson, Katherine Ryan, Joe Wilkinson and TV’s hardest working man Richard Osman) are challenged to complete… Read More »
Weekdays, 2:15pm, BBC1 The first series of this was a bit of a surprise hit, we liked it – a Bullseye-esque combination of quizzing and antiques valuation, but crucially not an antiques quiz which I would have found dull, it wasn’t quite perfect but it had a pretty good mechanic at its heart and was entertaining,… Read More »
Semi-Final 1: Tuesday 10th May, 8pm (UK), BBC4 Semi-final 2: Thursday 12th May, 8pm (UK), BBC4 THE UK VOTES IN THIS ONE. Grand Final: Saturday 14th May, 8pm (UK), BBC4 You can also watch live internationally on the Eurovision website. Except for viewers in the US who can watch the final on Logo. Phew, a lot… Read More »
Android only (right now), Google Play Store link, Free to demo, full game unlock £3.50 And so to an app that was off my radar but asked to try out, promising to be an amalgamation of various different formats in one app. In Gameshow Adventure you are tasked with climbing pyramids (Aztec, Egypt, Vegas), each… Read More »
I was very cynical when news of this first broke – great, some posh hipsters are going to piss all over my childhood. The good news is that that initial opinion is very much unwarranted. However you do need to go into this on the understanding that it’s an interactive theatrical adaptation of the TV… Read More »
Weekdays, 2:15pm, BBC1 New month, new attempt to find a daytime quiz hit which makes my job interesting at least. This one sees Matt Allwright and Lesley-Anne Brewis challenge teams of between one and three people to answer questions to find a combination to a safe. Inside is £3,000, but one wrong answer eliminates the… Read More »