Christ, it’s almost Christmas ALREADY.
- The Amazing Race (Sunday, CBS): Well last week’s saw some teams take some excellent transportation gambles, only for the Race organizers to screw over the clever ones with a bunch point. Go go Team Cowboy!
- Only Connect (8:30pm, Monday, BBC4): it’s the first quarter final so the questions are set to be a little harder than usual (although it was nice to see two teams get lots of big point questions last week, good AGGRESSIVE play as we say in poker), this week it’s the housewives favourites the Exeter Alumini vs the Archers Admirers.
- The Krypton Factor (7:30pm, Tuesday, ITV1): the second semi this week, and goodness, how much did those audience shots add to the show? Well worth dropping the intelligence test for, that’s what I say. Don’t know if the audience coloured lighting was in effect, it didn’t look very obvious on screen.
- The Whole 19 Yards (Wednesday, Pinewood Studios) – look out an audience report on Wednesday. Why not try and predict a) how many references to Vernon Kay’s saucy text scandal the warm-up man will make and b) how far over the predicted 8:15pm approximate finish time the recording will overrun to? If you’re reading from Endemol – get your old Total Wipeout episodes on standby, it genuinely worked brilliantly last time. Actually give us new ones!
- Survivor (Thursday, CBS): I haven’t watched episode three yet but I intend to after I’ve written this. Bother’s Bar: reliably mediocre.
- Ant and Dec’s Push the Button (8pm, Saturday, ITV1): Already went on about this in the previous post. This probably won’t get another billing here, but I liked the show enough that I’ll watch it if I’m in.
- Who Dares Wins (8:30pm, BBC1, Saturday): Nicky Nacky Knowles is back for another series of the mildly entertaining list quiz that’s popular here and basically nowhere else.
- Solitary 4.0 (Saturday, Fox Reality): well after the brilliance of the last few weeks, circuit training in a gorilla suit is a bit of a let down. Still though. I confidently predict this episode to be like the last, but with one fewer person in it.
- The Bother Series of Poker Game 3: Actually next Sunday. If you missed it last time, you missed an amusing conversation about the Austrian version of You’ve Been Framed. You don’t get THAT on Channel 5’s Party Poker coverage.
About bloody time that Who Dares Wins returned after over a year off the screens…
TF1 continue their commissioning to-and-fro over A Prendre Ou A Laisser – contestant call’s just been announced, with the show having been canned last year (again) after it bombed against the Gallic Come Dine With Me.
I quite enjoyed tonight’s Solitary. I think it was the funniest episode I’ve seen.
There was a moment that made me laugh for a good 10 minutes during the test. The actual event, and then the player’s reaction to it..
According to Digital Spy, PtB got 6.6m, peaking at 7m. That’s actually quite good – better than what The Cube was getting, I think.
True though it was heavily advertised, Next Week’s results will be telling
Certainly didn’t deserve that rating – of all Ant and Dec productions for ITV in recent years, it’s probably the worst. I say probably because they did the All Star Cup!
And in I thought it was close enough to being about game shows but Brig didn’t news, Wired’s Repo Men game has started. It’s a a bit like Wanted played across the continental US but with web coverage instead of TV shows.
Solitary is getting harder to watch, because I think I realized midway through this episode that I’m actually quite okay with all five people left. There’s no one in particular that I’d want to leave right now, although I’m quite disappointed with who did leave. I expected him/her to be in the final three.
Not a ‘housewife’ as such – but the Exeter Alumni with the swoonsome Ian were thrashed
**SAD FACESLOL!1**