6:45, ITV1 and ITV HD, Sundays
Philip Schofield and The Body return for a second series of critical darling The Cube.
New games and returning favourites are promised, apparently there were sixty games prepped for series one but without counting I don’t think we saw more than about 60% of those, so “new” might be relative. Still though.
They’re pushing the iPod app on the website, I’ve reviewed it already.
Alright peeps, here are some things to start you off, do add more and I’ll add them later:
So what else is exciting?
7:15pm UK / 8:15pm Germany, ProSieben or hopefully naughty internet streaming
Well, it’s back from its sommerpause (that means summer break) and tonight Stefan Raab defends his €1m from another challenger, probably by winning a game involving predicting precisely how many crisps it takes to weigh exactly 245 grams on some sort of weighing scale, making sure to use at least three different types.
It’s also Celebrity Total Wipeout tonight at 6:30. Jeff Brazier is a contestant. And Merlin is on after that, so by the time that finishes SDR should have finished selecting a player. That is your evening taken care of, do remember to eat.
Brilliantly, it looks like there’s an official stream! Actually on reflection it probably isn’t. Still though.
… it’s Series 3, Celebrity Episode 1 (of 2) of Total Wipeout tomorrow.
Other things this weekend: Schlag den Raab, new series of The Cube starting Sunday (look out for Show Discussion posts for those two), The INTERACTIVE Board of Excitement AND! one OR MAYBE TWO App reviews.
Well, The EXTREME Games. Well, Famous and Fearless at any rate. Broadcast suggest 12 celebrities will be doing things like monster truck racing, skydiving and the like for two hours a night live across a week on Channel 4 with the best celebrities winning money for local community projects in their home town.
The Games was, of course, smashing. But this is a Princess Production rather than Endemol, so who knows what’ll happen.
Channel 4 are also doing a show called Four Rooms, which is being billed as Antiques Roadshow meets Deal or No Deal. People sell items and they get offers one by one by people in some rooms, once you reject an offer there’s no going back. Fascinating.
Potentially some very exciting news – you may have heard new BSkyB acquisitions Bravo and Channel One are getting the axe. Well, apparently the Channel One spot on Freeview will be taken up by Challenge.
Will this mean they’re going to put a bit of effort into their programming now, which they haven’t done for a while? Exciting times.