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?
Micah Richards lined up as one of the presenters of the Gladiators revival
RE: Sheffield Arena – no-one’s approached over booking the site for Gladiators yet. If it was here, we don’t have the ceiling height of the NIA, so good luck getting the old games in.
We have 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.
Heard ITV have axed TV Showdown with Paul Sinha
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.
New Big Brother 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.
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, and I think recent reboots of Big Brother 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.
A senior team member on programmes such as Pointless, Million Pound Drop and The Wall once told me “the key thing for any new format is you have to hope Bothers Bar likes it”.
Oh stop. What a pity we’re basically just trading on a name these days now that the light entertainment industry has imploded.
Moneybags fans might be interested to know that Alex Brooker was originally supposed to be the host, not Craig Charles.
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, although seeing as the last one Youngest Media gave us was Small Fortune which charged 99p for a life maybe temper your excitement for now.
A Belgian quiz format might be coming to a UK broadcaster. Sadly it’s Two To The Power Six which isn’t as good as De Slimste Mens but at least it’s something
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 where we use the word “sophistiquiz” which just shows we used to be better ten years ago.
Naked Attraction to expand from 6 contestants to 7.
This is a bit of a non-story and it might not even be true (I thought Naked Attraction 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?
Here’s the Spanish version of Lingo – 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…
I remember Spanish Lingo from the 90s when it seemed to have a peacock character as a mascot, for some reason.
There is apparently a casting call going around hinting at a possible German version of RuPaul’s Drag Race.
Trying to figure out a Snatch Game pun for Punkt Punkt Punkt.
Ant and Dec’s Limitless Win to be stripped across one week in the new year – Millionaire style
LIMITLESS CON, CALL IT BY ITS NAME.
Well there we are.
Naked Attraction does start with 6 as it stands. Though they struggle to cast the show as it is so I’d be amazed if they added another box. In terms of an extra round they could do a double elimination. Or a bum round. Weirdly they rarely focus on bums. I can’t believe I’ve just written that.
Random thought after learning Kaye Adams is going to be on Strictly…surely ITV could have a crack at The People Versus Version 3 in the 3pm slot, especially considering 20 years later the viewers could fire in their questions via about 100 social media platforms
Surely the half a million quid set is just gathering dust in a warehouse somewhere rather than thrown in a skip, I still have a soft spot for the V2 conveyor belt contestant system