The highlight of the calendar, Belgian Mole, returned to Play4 last night and it sounds like it might have been a belter.
The good news is is that it sounds like unofficial English subs are incoming, hopefully they won’t take too long. Or you can be adventurous with a VPN and watch it on the Play4 site. When we know, you’ll know!
Don’t forget that our usual chat is now on the Discord under #molchat.
Well this was rather unexpected – a sequel to 2015’s evidently-enough-of-a-hit Trivial Pursuit Live, turning the board game into a gameshow you can play on or offline. It’s been developed by Snap Finger Click of It’s Quiz Time fame. £16.24 at time of recording, is it worth it, and is it all that different to the original?
MEANWHILE on Sunday night we’re holding a Switch Mario Kart Tournament. The important thing to note is that it’s 8:30pm to 10pm UK and you will need a code to get in. You can drop in and out as you please, but the winner will be the person with the most points after 90 minutes.
The code to join is 0923-4078-7755.
Anyone can join. However there may be different rooms in play depending on when you join. If you’re not with a large group that means a) there are more than 12 people in the tournament or b) you’ve been placed in a different room. My advice to you is to quit out and rejoin and if the timing’s right you’ll get into the right room.
I’m going to do another Mario Kart session next Saturday, but this will be me inviting Switch friends unless this tournament is massive – details to come next week.
Unbeatable is returning, the first run was basically decent but not much fun, nobody watched it but it’s coming back anyway and people wonder “why IS linear TV dying?”
Still at least we will have lots more Manford smart-casual looks to look out for, so that’s nice.
In other news it’s been suggested Issa Schultz will be guest Chasing in the upcoming series of Beat the Chasers. Absolutely no issue with Issa Chasing in the UK. I do ponder if Beat the Chasers is the correct format to introduce guest Chasers though, I’d at least hope he’s being given some daily shows so the viewers can get used to him first.
Weekdays, 4:30pm,
BBC1
Hot on the heels of Danny Dyer (The Wall), and Steve McFadden (er, Britain’s Hardest) former Eastenders hardman Ross Kemp has been drafted in to host a quiz and it’s one that seems a bit more gamier than most so we’ll soon see if this is a smart bit of casting or stunt casting gone wrong.
Teams of individuals must cross the eponymous Bridge of Lies – an electronic screen made up of tiles in a diamond formation but only stepping on the correct answers that fit the question – from the promo we’ve seen, the questions are a bit Moneybags-esque which isn’t a bad thing. The steps of the Bridge are covered until you’re a step away so it will be interesting to find out if the positions of the questions on the bridge are entirely pre-determined or whether the correct route is pre-determined but right or wrong questions are just distributed from a list – it seems like there’s potential for backtracking and picking up extra money en route.
Criticisms that people have picked up on just from the promo is that it’s the shame all the writing on the tiles is going to be at 90 degrees for the viewers at home, and that the game is against the clock (to HUNDREDTHS of a second no less) but there’s still quite a lot of step on answer, pause for drama, reveal going on which seems a bit rum. Hopefully there’s enough else about the show to cancel the issues out.
STV Studios had a quite fun format called The Lie knocking around a few years ago which we always thought would have been a great half-hour filler show, so if it’s at least as decent as that than that’s a good sign. But is it? Let us know what you think in the comments.
Sundays, 6pm,
Channel 4
Dara O’Briain invites teams of three to try and win a million quid by answering seven seven-answer multiple choice questions to keep the pot in play, knocking a zero off for each incorrect answer. As an added fillip, at points during the game the team must reduce their number, hoping to keep the brainiest on for the final questions. And for some reason the set looks like a sort of art gallery.
It’s an unusual timeslot for a big money quiz and Dara’s not an obvious choice of host for the channel – maybe these things combined will make people sit-up and take notice. Whether they’ll stay taking notice when the prize money hits £10,000 I don’t know. Let’s see, shall we?
Let us know what you think in the comments.
ITV2 via ITVX, Loaded in Paradise comes across as a mixture of Greece Uncovered and Wanted – five pairs of mates compete to live it up going around Greece spending on a luxury credit credit card that gets reloaded on a daily basis, but they have to watch their backs as the other groups will be trying to find them and steal the card off them so they can have the luxury themselves. Sounds like there are fifteen “rounds” and I’m expecting the final round to end with a decently large cash prize for whoever’s holding on to the card at the end.
It will be very interesting to see what sort of balance there will be between the inevitable naughtiness and staying on the run, and it’s certainly a more interesting idea to us than another go at something Love Island-y. My interest is piqued.
In other news, and a week late, pleased to see the return of The GladPod – the first series had some really good and relevant guests on it so looking forward to see who they’ve got lined up for series two.