I’m convinced I’ve forgotten something off of this list, so if you remember it do say something:
- The Amazing Race (Sunday, CBS)
- Deal or No Deal – LIVE! “What, you mean it isn’t live already???” Anyway two weeks of live Deal start on Monday. It will be interesting to see how they keep to time. (4pm, Monday-Friday, C4)
- Only Connect – The first quarter final is between the Social Networkers and the Antiquarians. From this week you will be able to playalong LIVE! with the Connecting Walls online. I’m not massively convinced it will work very well, but then it’s not as if you have to do it. (8:30pm, Monday, BBC4)
- Coral Late Night Poker – It will never be quite the same as it was with the rather smokier atmosphere, but at least Vicki Coren is an amusing commentator. Probably needs a looser partner than James Akenhead, though. This is the second half of the first game. (1am, Monday night, C4)
- Minute to Win It (8pm, Tuesday, ITV2)
- High Stakes – Well, you never know. (8pm, Tuesday, ITV1)
- Impossible? – Well nobody watched it last week but I’m going to bill it anyway because I think it deserves a bit better even if the charity angle of the celebrity specials is a bit misguided. This week, the folks from OKTV have a go by the looks of things. (11pm, Wednesday, Five)
- Ton of Cash – This has proven so popular on VH1 in the US they’ve moved it to two in the morning to as to not show up the other programmes on the network. (God knows when, VH1 in the US)
- Schlag den Raab – We’re now looking to bill Stefan Raab every week. The jackpot is €500,000. Pro Sieben have scheduled Zombie Strippers afterwards. (7:15 UK time, Saturday, Pro 7 and hopefully naughty internet streaming)
We’ve reached the repechage on Uni Chal, the first match of which is between Homerton Cambridge and the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine.
Weren’t the LSHTM in action only last week? They sure were – pushing Nottingham hard before losing 215-155.
Homerton, meanwhile, lost 205-200 to Balliol Oxford on 1st August. That match was by far the best of the first round – but it wasn’t without controversy… 😉
Given the teams’ respective bonus conversion rates – a brilliant 20/27 for Homerton, an ordinary 13/25 for the LSHTM – I’d have to go for the Cambridge side here.
BTW, we’re well into autumn now, and still no sign of Mastermind in the schedules… 😕
Much appreciation for from here, and readers can expect a shining write-up in next week’s edition of the Week. It’s the sort of programme I’d have associated with late night Channel 4 about a decade ago.
Des has neatly summed up the first half of the Monday quiz hour, and for readers who can’t be bothered reading back issues, the controversy was all about the flag of the East India Company, and whether it was the standard standard of George Washington’s rebel army, or just one of many standards.
Elsewhere, Victoria Coren’s World Domination Tour continues when returns on Friday.
If you didn’t see the original shows, the direction has improved quite a lot from where they started from. Also, they’ve tried a bit harder with the set design too. So, it’s a very low benchmark from which they were starting.
Is this regarding Impossible?
I think it mainly is going to boil down to ‘do you like Philip Escoffey?’ I’ve really warmed to him.
High Stakes is 11.05pm in the UTV region
That’s actually genuinely hilarious.
Hey, the first series of Panic Attack aired at 10:35pm… 😉
New offer record on The Chase yesterday of £70,000 only to be beaten in the very next round by one of £73,000. The £70k got rejected but the last bloke went for the £73k, got both his Qs wrong and immediately got caught by Paul. It was also only the third time ever that all four people got caught and they had to use the “back from the dead” rule.
I’d say it was also the most money ever offered by a Chaser in higher offers. £30k for the first player, £50k for the second, £70k for the third and £73k for the fourth. Overall, that’s £223,000.
I think you’re probably right.