Weekdays, 3pm,
ITV1
Or David Dickinson’s Name Your Pric£ to give it its proper #hostholdingaquestioncard title. The Duke describes antiques but he’s lying about some of them. Can our three pairs of contestants work out which are the Bobby Dazzlers and which are in fact cheap as chips?
There’s £5,000 up for grabs in an endgame that sounds pretty much exactly like the one from For What It’s Worth, except with a buy-out option.
Let us know what you think in the comments.
By pure chance I’ve just discovered that Bother’s Bar’s OFFICIAL favourite Korean electronic supergroup Idiotape (sonic visionaries of The Genius) have a new album out and it came out just last week and it’s called Dystopian? which sounds like a The Human League album title.
It’s £5.99 on iTunes (for some reason it looks like track 1 is missing on that listing but if you buy the album you still get it) and Google Play.
Edit: Looks like Apple have fixed it.
Series 28 starts tonight at 7:55pm UK on France 2. Edit: 8pm now by the looks of things thanks to the laissez-faire way French television operates, apparently. Don’t worry, the wacky goings on of Parents Mode d’Emploi are still on.
No VPN? OK Live TV will probably be alright, you may find better. Naughty streaming is on your own head. This link seems to work alright but you’ll want some ad-blocking – click at your own risk. Edit edit: That link was decent quality but one of its ads made my antivirus go off so please be careful if you use it in future.
Fridays, 9pm,
Channel 4
Episodes available to watch from Wednesday night on Thanks 4.
It’s the show that has repeatedly come top of “shows they ought to bring back” lists, well 22 years since it was last properly on it’s now a reality as new Mazemaster Richard Ayoade leads a group of five adventurers around the Maze, testing their skills in a bid to win crystals, each one worth time in the Crystal Dome.
The remake begins with a run of celebrity specials.
Hoo boy, I think it’s likely you will have an opinion on this so do add yours in the comments below.
We have linked to this before but it seemed appropriate to combine Very Much The Sort Of Thing We Like Week with the ongoing heatwave narrative, here’s an episode of Desert Forges in German, because there doesn’t seem to be any in English or French or Quebecois on Youtube. The British version rather famously and sarcastically said in quotes “bravely” replaced word riddles with algebra.
Still, we enjoyed it even if there are things we’d probably have done differently.
The Palace of the Forges built for this still stands in Jordan (it was re-used a few years ago for a kids show called Power Struggle) and was even briefly mentioned in a tourist guide I read recently. So.
This actually passed me by, but you may be interested to note a 6-DVD box set of The Adventure Game came out last Monday, featuring almost all episodes of the show, currently priced £21.99 at Amazon. It features 20 of the 22 broadcast episodes across the four series – one episode from series one and two is missing believed lost.
That should go some way to making up losing them from the BBC Store.
With The Crystal Maze and Fort Boyard starting this weekend, June 2017 will forever be known as The Month Of Very Much The Sort Of Thing We Like.