It’s getting lighter outside, but it’s getting heavy on the Board of Excitement, or something.

• The Bother Series of Poker Game 3 (Full Tilt, 2000 GMT/1500 Eastern, Sunday) – basically I’m missing flops and playing really badly, so it’s just free money. Let’s hope that no German bandits interrupt our game (thanks to David for the spam-filtered link). The page for Game 3 discussion is here. Edit: Congratulations to David for winning this, and unbelieveably we were attacked by German bandits. Oh man!
• Man In Box (All week, The Internet): I’m sort of not-quite addicted to this, but I am intrigued to see how it will all play out. Will it be break free… or breakdown?
• The Amazing Race (CBS, Sunday): The Cowboys are one of my favourite teams ever, I think. Although it was quite lucky that the tasks last week basically involved being a cowboy.
• We Are The Champions (CBBC, 4:30pm, Monday to Friday): Back for Sport Relief and repeated on BBC1 next week. Paddy MacGuiness hosts, swapping ‘Take Me Out’ for “away you go!” and celebrity coaches are promised.
• Pointless (BBC2, 4:30pm. Weekdays): The return of last year’s surprise sleeper hit with Alexander Armstrong and geek hero Richard Osman (presumably). It’s still 45 minutes, but there is one less couple so I don’t know how it’s going to work.
• Only Connect (BBC4, Monday, 8:30pm): Second quarter-final with the Brasenose Grads versus Tommy Scott And The Hitchikers.
• The Krypton Factor Grand Final (ITV1, 7:30pm, Tuesday) – Strange things are afoot – not only are there now proper adverts during the ad break, but it was actually advertised before Push the Button last night, despite not actually having been advertisied before now and the fact the ratings have consistently dropped over the series. I’m idly wondering if ITV are considering making a third series off their own back this year if Sage drop out. Anyway I was at the final so I know who wins, it’s a very exciting finish.
• Survivor (CBS, Thursday): This really has been tremendous so far. Although this weeks looks like another brawling-based challenge which seem to be getting more and more violent, which is increasingly uncomfortable viewing.
• Your Country Needs You (BBC1, 8:30pm, Friday): Yes, it’s time to vote for whoever is going to sing Pete Waterman’s Eurovision winning song this year. After last year’s successful series, this appears to be a one off vote.
• Solitary 4.0 (Fox Reality, Saturday): After a rather lacklustre previous episode, last week’s was once again tremendous featuring a bust-out of prison challenge (and OF COURSE the final key was hidden in the officer’s trousers that were hanging up – very Mole-like, which is interesting since US Mole had a similar task of its own a long time ago) and the return of the spin-lots-of-times-on-a-chair-until-you-can-take-no-more Challenge, this season with added mini-golf element. What’s not to like? I confidently predict this episode will be similar to the previous one, but with one less contestant.