Dara O Briain’s University of Practical Mathematics has been picked up for an eight-week run on Dave. In it, people are challenged to solve problems – O Briain using his mathematical background and a special guest trying more practical methods.

Based on a Japanese Beat Takeshi format (Comăneci University Mathematics, apparently) we’ll try and find some Youtube clippage over the weekend (although don’t get too excited).

It’s our favourite Irish TV house Wild Rover co-production.

3.8m and 4.1m for Red or Black? last night.

It is only fair we do a graph later.

Quite enjoyed the Celeb Big Brother final last night, if you hadn’t gathered the new civilian housemates will be joining Baywatch star Pamela Anderson this evening.

The new series of Schlag den Star begins tonight (7:15 UK time) on Pro Sieben.

It’s basically the same as Schlag den Raab except it’s smaller stakes, nine games and the contestant can call upon Stefan Raab to play for them once. And obviously it’s against a celebrity, and much shorter.

Here’s a story that’s doing the rounds today – English teacher currently living in Spain gets a pilot through BBC Entertainment’s Future Formats initiative, called Cloned.

The show doesn’t do much for me on the description – can you spot which is the real celeb from the CGI clones by (I don’t know) watching them carefully or something. It’s all a big puff piece for their initiative (it’s frankly not that exciting, it’s getting a pilot which Danny Cohen might have a look at). So why are we being told all this now, hmm?

Meanwhile, here is photo from the set of Guess the Star pilot which filmed recently. Christine Bleakley is involved in some form.

It’s slow other than Red or Black?, so here’s a heartwarming story nicked from GSNN – do you remember the non-hit John Barrowman shouty quiz The Kids Are All Right? Well it has sold to Vietnam.

Most exciting comment of the story:

The show has much popularity in countries like Poland, Chile, Argentina, Canada, Egypt,  Mexico, Holland, Norway, South Africa, the US and Portugal.

Hmm.

Oh here’s fun, according to The Guardian, two people have been removed from future Red or Black? live shows after failing background checks and will not be replaced. That means that potentially it could go from 7 to 3 to 1 couldn’t it? Do they have a contingency? How are they going to explain it?