I’m not sure Rolling In It (7pm, ITV) series two is likely to be different enough to warrant a second show discussion page, so here’s a link to the first one. The new series of Millionaire starts after The Void at 9pm.
Show Discussion: The Void
Saturdays, 8pm,
ITV
Can you even begin to imagine 520 tonnes of water? That’s, like, so much water. Well your dream has come true with new action-packed physical gameshow The Void.
Contestants must must use their mental and physical skills (although to be honest I’m not sure how much mental agility is going to be involved) to cross a void to avoid falling into The Void. £25,000 is on offer to the person who best evades The Void.
It looks like cheap-ass Ninja Warrior, basically, but Ashley Banjo (of Can’t Touch This fame) and Fleur East are fun choices of hosts and it’s made by Gameface, the people who came up with The Cube, so hopefully it won’t be devoid of entertainment. The shape of the swimming pool looks ovoid.
Let us know what you think in the comments.
Let the Question see the Sport
Christ is that really the best we could do? Anyway, Paddy McGuinness has been announced as the new host of fairly rigorous long-running sports quiz A Question of Sport, following in the footsteps of David Vine, David Coleman and Sue Barker. Fighting Talk-ers Sam Quek (hockey) and Ugo Monye (rugby) are the new team captains, who I believe are the first female and black captains in the show’s history, so fair enough.
I mean, it’s fair to say I don’t think anyone saw it coming, but whilst I try and get my head around it from the BBC’s point of view they’re trying to attract a younger crowd for it, and who better to do that than 47-year-old saviour of Top Gear Paddy, although you’d think they’d try and lure Freddy Flintoff away from A League of Their Own to keep that partnership going. Still, though.
I look forward to seeing what new quizzes “inspire” rounds in the future.
The Swimming Pool
The Void starts on Saturday.
Quizone
Here’s a fun little curio FOTB Alex bought up on Twitter yesterday, an Irish RTE kids quiz called Quizone from around 2007. In it, three teams of five school friends must find the answer to a question (a bit chestnutty, but probably quite difficult if you’re of the age) using books and “the Quizone.tv Safe Search engine” whilst one of their number races around an adventure playzone as fast as possible, also hoping to find the golden snitch bonus ball in one of the bins located around the course, and hoping their team will have researched the right answer by the time they get to the finish line. Seconds equal points, but only the first team back with the right answer gets to bank anything.
The presentation is hilariously dramatic, but the music is fairly banging and the absolute highlight is the ten-year-old kiddy politics that run through it all, and the complete lack of tact on display despite the fact you can tell they’re trying quite hard to be tactful.
Bother’s Bar Plays Badly: Revolver and Co.
We’ve had our eye on this for a while. Out now on Switch and Steam (20% off at time of writing, will go up from £4.79 in a week), Revolver and Co invites you to shoot robot enemies with your trivia gun – the closer you are to the right answer, the less ammo you spend and the more money you make. It also features “millennial humour”.
Does it scratch a quiz itch, or will it make you want to shoot yourself? I hope you like fairly dry numbers based questions, for the most part.