Sundays and Mondays at 9pm,
Channel 4

Paddy McGuinness challenges 12 people to yomp across South Africa in an arduous journey to win a shared £300,000 – that’s £25,000 each! But there are temptations in store along the way, expensive ones designed to make life easier in the moment, that will knock money off. And if someone leaves £25k gets knocked off automatically. Will there be anything left to split at the finish line?

It’s not quite a new idea, Stranded With A Million Dollars and Money Game have explored the “big prize but £1,000 for a cup of tea” idea internationally and this is coming on the scene amongst a bit of a terrestrial reality gameshow glut and may well get a bit lost. Perhaps of interest, perhaps not, it’s a co-production with Roku and will show on The Roku Channel in the US at some point in the future.

But is it any good? Let us know in the comments!

Sunday to Friday, 9 and 10pm starting 19th March
Channel 4

Greg James fronts new POWERFULLY MESSAGED returnable social reality experiment (i.e. gameshow) that happily for us basically just looks a bit like US Big Brother but without the elimination.

A group of people are split into Rulers and Grafters, the Rulers live in luxury in the penthouse, the Grafters live in penury in the basement. The Grafters will do challenges to earn money for the prize pot (which we have heard is £100,000 max), the amount of money for each one and the difficulty will be determined by the Rulers. There will be ways and means for Rulers and Grafters to swap places in some sort of power struggle and in the end there’s a winner who wins the money in three weeks. My money’s on the Grafters having a vote on their favourite Ruler. Or perhaps the Rulers will vote on their favourite Grafter. Who knows?

This might actually be quite fun, the people behind The Traitors UK are behind this and the treatment and choices they made with that compared with the original were intelligent. Is it going to be so good I’m not going to mind a three-week hour a night commitment? Don’t know. Let us know what you think in the comments.

Saturdays, 8:50pm,
Five

Anneka’s back with her logistics-em-up show The Challenge Programme Feat. Anneka Rice!

Last seen in a set of specials on ITV in 2006, two things remain to be seen, namely if doing it on Five has the same sort of appeal from companies offering their labour and parts as it did getting a plug on the BBC and whether, well, is there a need for Challenge Anneka in a TV landscape that’s ripped it off loads in the last thirty years. We hope it’s more building stuff than human interest at any rate.

It’s not a good sign that this completely slipped my mind it was on until an hour into the first 90 minute show and I’ve backtimed this post. Nonetheless we hope it’s good and will catch up in due course. If you watched it, what did you think?