Weekdays, 3pm, BBC 1 A visually iconic quiz unlike any you have seen before. That’s what the blurb suggests, if the pilot is anything to go by it’s lots of mini-quiz formats you have seen before done but on a yay-big sized floor screen, not seen since the “place the thing on a map” bit… Read More »
Monday 28th October, 10pm, ITV2 One-off horror comedy gameshow with a view to a series. Reggie Yates communicates with a team of three friends sent into a scary forest to complete apparently terrifying tasks and challenges for money, which they only get to keep if they can outrun the titular hounds at the end and… Read More »
Sundays, 5:40pm, ITV1 It began in Mozambique last Autumn and somewhere between then and now it sounds like it got lost in Editing Hell – we’ve heard a number of interesting stories on the grapevine, our favourite being that ITV decided after filming that obscure TV host Alexander Armstrong turns out is a bit too… Read More »
Sundays, 8:30am, ITV and CITV Laura Hamilton and Andy Akinwolere are back with series four of the teen version of the legendary adventure game. It’s a pretty good version of the show’s duel format done as a series long tournament which mitigates the lack of surprise in determining the episode’s winners somewhat. If you’ve not… Read More »
Thanks to @TeamXander1 for the following report on what must be about the 36th pilot of Battle of the Ages: It was in the Eldon Road section of Elstree Studios. Quite a nice green and yellow set, non-shiny floor, large hanging pictures of things meant to represent different generations – Andy Pandy, Angry Birds, a… Read More »
Thanks very much to Lewis Murphy of Fifty 50 Show for this, this recording was yesterday. – For the lazy, here’s the short version: it’s round 2 of Accumulate. – I had to go all the way to Sky Studios in Brentford for this. A long old trip across London to Osterley tube, then a… Read More »