Saturday night, 8:50pm BBC1 Well this has had a rather interesting past, Talkback Thames have been trying to work out how to put “counting to thirty seconds in your head” into a hit format for a-a-a-g-g-g-e-s-s, first to my knowledge in Dick ‘n’ Dom’s The Clock is Ticking (third story down – christ, over six years… Read More »
Weekdays, 5pm, ITV1 The Chase is on a break for a few weeks, last year the break gave us awesome and popular returnable hit series Tipping Point which basically successfully overcome the natural “urgh, this isn’t The Chase” reaction you’d expect from the audience, this year the slot has been given over to Julia Bradbury and eight… Read More »
I’ve just got back live from Broadcasting House viewing an audience showing of That Puppet Game Show (i.e. the show’s been recorded, we’re being shown an edited version so they can put our laughter and applause over the top). It comes out to 50 minutes, and is said to be going out on Saturday nights August/September… Read More »
…is this: Who thought THAT was a good design choice? Other than that the show is basically good fun – imagine Win Lose or Draw but with good celebs (Martin Short! Lisa Kudrow! Matthew Perry! Alyson Hannigan! Kristen Bell! Jin from Lost!) who have had a bit to drink, and at least one who needs… Read More »
Long time patrons of the Bar will know that we really like the Japanese show Dero! so much so that pretty much immediately after watching an episode we wanted to find out as much about it as we could and ended up writing this feature on it. So naturally we were quite excited when we… Read More »
Saturdays, 19:45 UK time, France 2 or naughty internet streaming Ah! It’s back. It’s funny to think we’ve gone from jumped-up outward bound centre to fully fledged fairy-tale-esque direction in the last few years, but if you can’t have an element of other-worldyness in a castle in the middle of the ocean where can you… Read More »