Just help yourself…
- The Cube (7pm, Sunday, ITV1): will never be the same again since Harry Hill revealed THE TRUTH about The Body.
- The X Factor (8pm, Sunday, ITV1, also 7:45pm, Saturday, ITV1): I think the competition is actually much wider open this year than it has been for a while, with four or five people who stand a chance. But those 2.5hr Saturday nights feel properly lengthy, so thank goodness with just twelve acts left next week it’s only going to be on for two-and-a-quarter hours.
- Only Connect (8:30pm, Monday, BBC4): Mountain Men vs In-laws. Only one more first round match to go after this one.
- The Apprentice (9pm, Wednesday, BBC1): What struck me most about the Book-eeze is that it would become very irritating very quickly to have to keep taking the book out and turning the pages over. I’m backing either Jamie or Stella to win at this early stage.
- The Challenge: Cutthroat (Wednesday, MTV US): Genuine tragedy this week as host TJ Lavin, also a pro BMX-rider, had an accident this week putting him into a coma. When I first watched him, I thought he was a bit of a charisma vacuum but actually I think this is unfair, he’s quite entertainingly dry and I like the way he sticks up for contestants who don’t deserve their fate. Last week featured a tough challenge involving having the team suspended upside down by their legs and having to transfer colour coded beer steins, which most teams did entertainingly badly at.
- Schlag den Raab (7:15pm UK/8:15 Germany, Saturday, ProSieben/The Internet): This has come round very quickly. Having come up with two jokey ideas for the last two which seemed to have then turned up in one form or another, I’m looking forward to seeing if it happens for a third time.
Anything else?
The director of The Cube and DoND, Richard van’t Riet has confirmed on his website that Push the Button returns in January for a live second series. This confirms the Digital Spy rumour earlier this year with the show returning live but in the autumn.
Live? Might be interesting.
Do you have a link to his website please?
Here it is:
http://thefabulousnobody.com/Home.html
Talking of Push The Button – Vincent Lagaf’ is currently shooting a pilot for a french version . Not sure if it will sell.
It’s not a cube, it’s a rectangular cuboid!
*gets hit by the £10,000, £20,000 and £50,000 numbers*
OK, it’s a cube!!!
Good episode tomorrow. IIRC, I get insulted in it.
“Insufferable know-it-all”?
Well really – How rude!
I was just pointing out on Twitter it was a shame they didn’t put that in the credits.
First of the two repechage matches on UC tomorrow night: Cardiff v Exeter.
Exeter lost 265-165 to a Peterhouse Cambridge side that was just that bit quicker on the buzzer. Cardiff, meanwhile, took on Oxford Brookes in undoubtedly the best of the first-round matches, losing on a third tiebreak starter after it finished 210 apiece.
The Welsh side were understandably gutted, having led for so long and by around a hundred points at one stage – but did they get over it in time for this match?
Find out at the usual time.
To whoever wrote the Oscar the Grouch question: Thankyou for the first five I got at home for ages. (Granted under studio conditions, unless trailing wildly, I’d have waited for the carpetbag to confirm)
Thank you and well done. Hopefully one day a tea will have the courage to go for a 5-pointer in studio conditions…
Team. Damn Wiimote.