Just a quickie to point out in the likely case people missed it (most likely because you’re twenty years above the target age group), Ludus began on CBBC on Monday (and it’s on Mondays at 5pm), a new show where kids try and save their friends and family from becoming game characters owned by camp… Read More »
OK, so another show debuted this week in the Netherlands on Wednesday, Beat the Crowd. It’s a Talpa production, and very much the sort of thing I could see being tried out in a lottery slot here. You will need to use the dark arts to watch it as RTL geoblocks some of its stuff,… Read More »
Saturday, 6:15pm, BBC1 Mmm. OK, we have some history with Reflex, we saw an episode being recorded last year (where it was suggested that it would lead into The Voice, which it is, but not the series anyone was expecting) and 18 months ago Martyn wrote up the pilot, it’s fair to say quite a lot had… Read More »
I’ve just come back from this filming at Studio 2 of The London Studios. John Robins was the warm-up, which was exciting as I hadn’t experienced him before. He was alright. This is also the first time I’d seen Nina Conti properly (I think) and she kept up the comedy ventriloquism up solidly for about… Read More »
Weekdays, 4pm, ITV1 Apparently the memorandum on TV shows not bothering to sound like Jerry McGuire’s “show me the money” because it sounds rubbish was ignored by ITV and Shiver who have done exactly that, hopefully it will be more successful than their recent Cook Me The Money. Richard Bacon hosts as a team of… Read More »
Thanks very much to Lewis Murphy of Fifty 50 fame for being our roving reporter at the Celebrity Squares pilot last night, here’s what he thought: – It was filmed at ITV Towers, conveniently on the south bank for the evening’s Puzzled Pint I was hoping to make after recording. More on that later. –… Read More »