Poor The Way Out, it can’t get a look in. Richard Osman announced on The Rest is Entertainment this morning that he’s going to be the host of new ITV Talpa/Studio Lambert quiz The Golden Elevators (that title has to change surely). One of Osman’s first writing jobs was on Incredible Games in the 90s, now he will likely loom large on some screens in some lifts so in many ways this represents a career full circle for him.

The show was originally announced in February with the US getting in on the action as well but the host announcement (Richmond Osman apparently) was this morning. The premise seems simple, ten contestants, a question with two answers and two elevators. Pick the right elevator and go up, pick the wrong answer and go down and get eliminated. Get to the top and win £100,000. Difficult to see where the secret sauce is based on that premise – how do you win the show, do you go “no, you go for that answer, I’ll heroically sacrifice myself and go for this definitely wrong answer right here?” Is it just going to be endless blocks of five minutes of people arguing as to what year England won the World Cup followed by some lifts moving tediously slowly? I guess that almost works for Joko and Klaas’ Ein Sehr Gutes Quiz. Anyway I can’t wait to find out, and there’s going to be eight episodes.

And as I write this some BREAKING NEWS, or some BIG BREAKING NEWS rather (thanks), 20 episodes of Big Break with Paddy McGuinness and Stephen Hendry coming to BBC 2 daytimes, 30 minutes each. Unusual (although almost certainly overdue) but fun commission!

We’ll have a show discussion post for The Way Out go up tomorrow, so I can showcase this today – Knight Terror, by Hat Films, part of the Yogscast cinematic universe. It’s a comedy reimagining of Knightmare, and there is a lot to like, and it sounds like this is the first episode of several (although I may be wrong).

Technology is probably reaching the stage where the ideas behind Knightmare from a technological perspective are probably more doable by amateurs than it’s ever been, and that might be a fun and interesting space for people to try and conquer on Youtube.

Edit: Season two launches on Netflix on Monday and continues weekdaily. Discuss it here if you want.

Fun thing spotted by TV Zone this evening, ITV are lining up Alison Hammond for a Name That Tune revival. The show has successfully been running on FOX in the US since 2021. Interestingly in the US it’s a two-games-in-one-hour deal, each one featuring a rotating round, Bid A Note and the big money Golden Medley, the release doesn’t seem to suggest whether it’s a thirty minute show for filling a half hour 7:30 slot (probably not giving away the same sorts of money as the US one) or for an hour on Saturday or whatever. The US show is filmed in Ireland, whether we piggy back that or whether we film it here also remains to be seen.

The last time we did it it was part of Alan Carr’s Epic Gameshow, but that was a few years ago now (where it actually performed worse than everything except a Strike It Lucky celeb special). Previous to that there was an attempt to relaunch it a decade ago with Bill Bailey and a second go with Frank Skinner and Alex Horne. Will this beat The Hit List? The main problem Name That Tune has is that other shows do Name That Tune better than Name That Tune.

Bid A Note remains the worst iconic round in television.

Edit: You’ve got a month to apply, if you want.

Well Amazon evidently couldn’t make it work, how will it fare on Netflix? Of interest, we’ll probably get some actual numbers when the next dump comes out in July, so we’ll find out. The second season (series) is played in pairs and will go out weekdaily from May 11th and will ape it’s mother show with three weeks of winner-stays-on play and the best teams across the (quite short) run battling it out in an end-of-season tournament.

If people can save their shiny floor drama for a day when I’m not out and about in future that would be great, thanks.

Anyway Giant (Jamie Bigg) is leaving Gladiators, he did a post on Instagram suggesting basically he was asked to do something that didn’t align with his values so he’s off (you can read the story on BBC News). The first Gladiator to leave! It’s probably not quite Jet leaving, but he’s certainly one of the bigger (as it were) faces of the revival.

Two, well three things of interest:

• What was the thing he was asked to do he would not? On the Discord I joked American Gladiators, this got no reaction but probably would have got quite a big laugh on Have I Got News For You.
• They didn’t have social media in the nineties, but now we’re going to have things play out through he said/she said comments on social media for this sort of thing now aren’t we?
• Many of the Gladiators turn up on each other’s social videos in their non-Gladiator guises – he’s been in plenty of Legend’s (Matt Morsia) Mattdoesfitness videos, for example. Does this make this sort of thing politically difficult going forward? Is this going to set a number of dominos toppling? There were a lot of injuries last year, are we going to hear of many other Glads leaving in the next couple of weeks before filming?

The impression I got was that it was a bit of a difficult third album to film last year but they seemed to edit it together quite well. Is this where it begins to fall apart? I thought it would be three and out but the numbers have held a lot better than anticipated.

(If you’re looking for the Show Discussion post for The Neighbourhood which has been pushed down, it’s here).