Right, eyes down look in. As ever, we cannot confirm the veracity of anything submitted but I think there’s likely a grain of truth in most of this, we’ve filtered out the ones that feel a bit attention-seeky – maybe I have turned down The Beatles who knows?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Micah Richards lined up as one of the presenters of the Gladiators<\/strong> revival<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
RE: Sheffield Arena – no-one’s approached over booking the site for Gladiators<\/strong> yet. If it was here, we don’t have the ceiling height of the NIA, so good luck getting the old games in.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
We have<\/em> heard mention of the ceiling height at Sheffield perhaps being an issue which is quite interesting. Nobody is going to want to watch a 20 foot Wall are they? Especially as it’s probably one of the easier events to translate from a safety perspective.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Heard ITV have axed TV Showdown<\/strong> with Paul Sinha<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
I’ve also heard rumours of this but I understand nothing officially confirmed. I do wonder if Saturday night was the best place for it, but there we are.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
New Big Brother<\/strong> won’t have a custom-built house, it’ll be a regular house (albeit a really big one) rigged up with remote cameras. It’ll be in Manchester, so that it counts towards ITV’s regional quota.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
I know there was a suggestion it was going to be filmed at Bovingdon Airfield a few days ago, I still think the rigging up of an existing house is more likely if we’re looking at an April\/May timeframe. It’s basically how they do Love Island<\/strong>, and I think recent reboots of Big Brother<\/strong> on the continent have gone down this route. It also feels like a lot less of a risk if it turns out to be a massive flop.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A senior team member on programmes such as Pointless<\/strong>, Million Pound Drop<\/strong> and The Wall<\/strong> once told me “the key thing for any new format is you have to hope Bothers Bar likes it”.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
Oh stop. What a pity we’re basically just trading on a name these days now that the light entertainment industry has imploded.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Moneybags<\/strong> fans might be interested to know that Alex Brooker was originally supposed to be the host, not Craig Charles.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
Bother’s Bar Favourite Moneybags begins with a week of celebrity specials starting Monday at 5pm on Four. There’s going to be what sounds like a playalong app<\/a>, although seeing as the last one Youngest Media gave us was Small Fortune<\/strong> which charged 99p for a life maybe temper your excitement for now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A Belgian quiz format might be coming to a UK broadcaster. Sadly it’s Two To The Power Six<\/strong> which isn’t as good as De Slimste Mens<\/strong> but at least it’s something<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
That’s a pity but I can understand it as a choice with its regular rotating panel of celebs which is very “in”. I can’t say I’ve kept up with the format over the years, but here’s an explanation of an early series of it<\/a> where we use the word “sophistiquiz” which just shows we used to be better ten years ago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Naked Attraction to expand from 6 contestants to 7.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
This is a bit of a non-story and it might not even be true (I thought Naked Attraction<\/em> was five people – oh I suppose five plus picker), but I’m extremely entertained by the idea of trying to work out where they’d fit an extra round in. Feet only for all the internet foot fetishists?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Here\u2019s the Spanish version of Lingo<\/strong><\/a> – other than the reduced stakes, the main difference is the endgame: they have 90 seconds to solve a 5-letter word for half the bank, then a 6-letter word for the full bank, then a puzzleword for double the bank\u2026 <\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
I remember Spanish Lingo<\/strong> from the 90s when it seemed to have a peacock character as a mascot, for some reason.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
There is apparently a casting call going around hinting at a possible German version of RuPaul’s Drag Race<\/strong>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
Trying to figure out a Snatch Game<\/em> pun for Punkt Punkt Punkt<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Ant and Dec’s Limitless Win<\/strong> to be stripped across one week in the new year – Millionaire<\/strong> style<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
LIMITLESS CON<\/em>, CALL IT BY ITS NAME.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Well there we are.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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