As we know, Richard Osman has stepped down from being the richardosman on Pointless (although he’s still doing the celebrity shows) and is being replaced by a series of guest hosts doing, I believe, three week stints. Sally Lindsay is the first one, Alex Brooker, Lauren Laverne, Stephen Mangan, Konnie Huq and Ed Gamble are also being lined up in what must surely be a future Pointless question in 2032.

It will be interesting to see if this provides a fillip to the numbers, but also interesting to see how it affects the BBCs repeat policy on this show in future – it should be much harder to hide the repeats now.

Edit: Wow, thanks to @danielmarkhurst on Twitter for the head’s up, Kevin Duala off of Challenge TV and Blue’s Clues (and to be fair the recent Bidding Wars on Channel 4) is hosting the final four eps of this series of Moneybags Thursday through to a double bill on Saturday (3:25pm onwards). I wonder why Craig was only available for the first ep?

Edit Edit: This has somehow completely passed me by, the new series of The Tournament begins today at 4:30pm on BBC1. The first series was awkward and a bit dull, it sounds like the new series won’t be quite so awkward at least. We discussed the first series here.

It started in The Netherlands, the first series was a hit, the second series did OK but took a significant (i.e. about a third) fall. And there’s been a third on a streaming service.

Already we’ve got versions coming in the UK, US, Australia, France, Belgium, Norway and probably quite a few other territories I’m not aware of.

I love This Sort Of Thing so I’m hoping it’s good and a success, but there’s an element of unproven, unearned success here and I’ve a horrible feeling it’s the next Too Big To Fail format heading for a fall.

Look, the Strictly launch show has been postponed until the 23rd (the day before the first live show, but it’s a prerecord so it’s OK), let’s be honest you’re not going to watch The Masked Dancer, so why not join us on the Discord from 7:15pm UK as we watch two famous German comics battle it out over 15 mystery events to win a €100,000 briefcase? There’s usually “fun” and “bants” and the bonus fun of figuring out what the games are. Join us!

Dutch Genius arrives on 3rd October and that ought to be PRETTY EXCITING as the Dutch tend to do this sort of thing well.

The Mole on Netflix arrives 7th October and is likely to be PRETTY UNDERWHELMING as US versions of things frequently are, not helped by a rather unusual content drop strategy of five straight off, three the following week and the final two the week after. It’s not like a lot of the excitement building for The Mole is allowing people a proper chance to digest and discuss, is it. Still, our expectations being pretty low means it might be a pleasant surprise if it’s basically any good at all.

20 contestants, 16 episodes.

In other news, Unbeatable starts its three week 30 minute run after House of Games tonight, before returning to 45 minute episodes in the daytime. Our show discussion post of the first series is here.