Hmm, I wonder if anything will be joining the usual suspects this week?
- Only Connect (BBC4, Monday 8:30pm) Record ratings for the show last week, this week it’s Philosophers vs Hitchhikers. I noticed this week that this show has the honour of being series stacked on iPlayer, which is pretty rare for a quiz. So if you’ve missed an episode, you’ve got until the end of the series to catch-up with it, so it seems.
- The Krypton Factor (ITV, Tuesday 7:30pm) Despite deciding it had got away with dropping the Intelligence test previously, last week was the first time I felt it needs… something more. We’ll see, though.
- Total Wipeout (BBC1, Saturday 5:30pm) It’s the first episode of series three, although it’s probably not going to be advertised as such! It’s apparently the only episode on for the next four weeks! Well done the BBC.
- Solitary 4.0 (Fox Reality, Saturday) A welcome return for VAL in what will doubtlessly be the most brutal (and fingers crossed not final) series yet. And when we say Saturday, it’s probably not going to be “available” until Sunday, if you see where I’m coming from. Edit: Actually ep 1 is apparently going out on Friday night after the season three marathon and repeatred on Saturday. So there we are.
The first airing of episode 1 of Solitary 4.0 is on Friday night so should be “available” on Saturday. The series runs on Saturday nights from then
Yes, I wondered what they meant by “stealth launch”.
They didn’t even bother mentioning the new series at the end of Total Wipeout last night – not even an “actually, next week we have a brand new episode” after showing the trailer within the show for the next episode featuring the introduction of the Dreadmill.
I know what you mean about KF. Thanks to your excellent preview of the series in December, I had my doubts about this series. After watching the first episode of the 2010 run I felt 4 rounds was too light and would become too samey soon enough.
The falling viewing figures seem to suggest many others agree? From 3.2m down to 2.8m, could dip below 2.5m soon.
Much different feel to the show too this run. 2009 was very straight like the original, with Ben Shephard’s rather bland and low key presenting style a contributor. Now he and show seem more confident and chatty. Not entirely sure it’s for the best though.
Regardless, still 23 minutes of decent telly.