Tuesdays, 8pm, Sky One AND SKY ONE HD Join Davina McCall and Freddie Flintoff as professional darts players play with amateurs to help them win cash prizes. Will there be enough here to sustain an hour? We shall see. It looks like there are different sorts of dartboards and targets though.
Thursdays, 9pm, Channel 4 We should be all over this as The Sort Of Thing We Like but really something about it is rubbing me up the wrong way before it’s even aired and I can’t put my finger on what it is. Nevertheless Hunted asks 14 people to go on the run for 28… Read More »
Weekdays, 2:15pm, BBC1 The second series of this (and so soon after the first one which had been lying on a shelf for ages) despite being rather down on the slot average invites a bit of comment and speculation – they weren’t watching it before I’m not quite sure why they’d start watching it now… Read More »
Weekdays, 5pm, ITV Sports journalist Sean Fletcher hosts a new quiz for everybody to moan about in the The Chase slot for the next fortnight and here is is holding a question card, if I’m responsible for the resurgence of hosts holding question cards in promo shots then I am a happy man. Apparently it’s… Read More »
Weekdays, 5pm, ITV1 We’ve always known that physics is cool and great for games but it’s only really since Tipping Point that television makers have tried to tap into this burgeoning branch of science. The latest show to try not to fail in the The Chase summer slot is Freeze Out hosted by Mark Durden-Smith and… Read More »
Thursday, 8:30pm ITV1 I mean I’m not really expecting much discussion of this to be honest, and you do rather get the impression it’s been designed to a) fail and b) get people talking about (the current state of) ITV. But saying this shepherding is a proper skill so there’s no real reason why you… Read More »