Monday-Thursdays, 9pm, also repeated around 11:45pm and 3amITV1 Thanks to The Traitors, we’re probably in for a full raft of strategic reality games where people hold some sort of secret but we as the audience know everything and the contestants don’t. For The Traitors, our privileged position works, conversations aren’t just conversations, they are loaded… Read More »
Thursday, Fridays various, 8pm,Channel 4 Channel 4 take on the BBC’s successful Enterprise Thursdays block with a new reality gameshow. Sue Perkins gives couples £250 seed money which they have to double within a time limit to stay in the game, then they must keep redoubling until presumably one team remain standing who win… some… Read More »
On Monday on NBC/Peacock the first episode of Deal or No Deal Island dropped, the show that asks the question “what if Deal Or No Deal, but you made people wade through mud for fifteen minutes first?” Well we finally have an answer and that answer is: duller than you’d hope. 12 people (including Boston… Read More »
Saturday, 5:50pm,BBC1 Goodness me, this has put us through the ringer a bit. We really really want this to be good, but surely health and safety in 2023/4 will make this a completely pointless reboot. Fear not! At least two injuries happen. The Sheffield arena isn’t as big as the Birmingham one. But look at… Read More »
This period’s Netflix Not The Traitors reality show, The Trust: A Game of Greed, begins tomorrow (Jan 10th), dropping four eps initially and a further four eps across the following fortnight. In it, Brooke Baldwin who was a CNN journalist invites 11 players to a villa where they will split $250,000 equally amongst themselves, which… Read More »
Saturday, 6pm,ITV The double for Whisper/Sony. And I’m afraid I think this is another one of those “shows too prosaic to work here in 2024” and it is at least fun to see the hypothesis tested, it’s not really all that interesting a game and now there’s an hour of it. I am a little… Read More »