Saturdays, 7pm, BBC1 Well this has had a slightly more interesting development than most but this week the BBC’s big new shiny expensive new Saturday night hope finally gets off the ground. On paper it sounds like Exactly The Sort Of Thing We Like – ten couples vie for a £100,000 prize, one half of… Read More »
Weekdays, 4pm Channel 4 A simple game with a simple host, Paddy McGuinness challenges ten people to answer a range of numerical questions, the average of which forms the notional Benchmark. The challenge for our plucky main player is to work out whether the actual answer is above or below the benchmark for big cash… Read More »
Well it’s not looking great so far. I’m not entirely certain what sort of number they are hoping for, for NEW QUIZ SENSATION you would probably be wanting closer to 3.0+, in actual fact this has started not far from where non-quiz sensation Million Second Quiz ended. Our hero could probably just duck under that… Read More »
Weekdays, 6:30pm, BBC2 Broadcasting LEGEND John Craven invites teams of four to take on the eponymous Brain to win a cash prize. Questions are of the brainteaser, logic, visual variety rather than general knowledge. Let’s see if it fares better than Brainbox Challenge with Clive Anderson back in 2008 which is probably the most recent… Read More »
I’m writing this here not having watched the first episode (because of work, mainly), but it’s on my radar and started last night on BBC3 and Tom F suggests: Thing which may be of interest, whilst it’s not much like Korea’s, we now have our own improvised-crime-investigation-with-celebrities offering: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b05tv211 Does this really count as a… Read More »
Well this was certainly different. If the pilot they shot last year with Bill Bailey was quite trad ITV light entertainment, this felt quite alien and brave but in an interesting way that I’ve got no idea how an audience would respond. It was certainly one of the most entertaining recordings I’ve been to… It was… Read More »