Tuesdays, 9pm,
U & Dave
It’s nice to see Dave try and get back into the game, especially since TLC has basically taken their territory in terms of original programming and on the face of it this sounds Very Much The Sort Of Thing We Like – Mel Giedroyc challenges two teams of comics led by the thinking man’s Stephen Mulhern Ed Gamble and Nish Kumar to “do” bespoke escape rooms, hopefully with hilarious consequences.
The format has actually done pretty well internationally – it’s originally Flemish (so likely to have a slightly insane touch) and has done six series, Amazon Prime recommissioned the German version quite recently and apparently it’s very popular in the Netherlands. For some reason they’ve chosen to launch this right up against the first Eurovision Semi-Final, presumably nobody at Dave believes there’s any crossover in “the sorts of people who’d watch comedians doing escape rooms” and “the sorts of people who are above-averagely into Eurovision”, an interesting strategy and we’ll see if it works out for them.
Four episodes. Let us know what you think in the comments!
It has completely passed me by, but you’ll be able to watch it on All 4 if you can’t be bothered with UTV’s player.