Round Up

Here’s some stuff from recent comments you might have missed:

• Benchmark – Paddy McGuinness is to host a new quiz for C4 daytime called Benchmark, in it a player is helped by a crowd of ten people in answering numerical questions for big cash prizes, and the crowd are simultaneously competing to come back as the contestant in the next show a bit like Judgemental. I assumed this was going to be “guess whether the actual answer is above or below the average” but David B points out it might be a bit like Wits and Wagers, which might be interesting. Anyway it doesn’t sound like the sort of thing likely to set the world alight, but it is a show by Bother’s Bar Recommended Victory Television and Stuart Shawcross (Five Minutes to a Fortune, Win Your Wish List) so WE’LL SEE.
• Keep it in the Family returns for a second series, which might come as a bit of a surprise given it seemed like a pretty expensive show for the numbers it was getting. Still though, I did think there was a spark of something there even if it didn’t really come through in the first series (even if it was mainly confidence), hopefully the Nanas will be given something a bit less tedious to do (it went on forever watching live and only felt slightly better on screen) and the whole thing will feel a bit less flat in the edit next time round. If you’d like to be a contestant:

Here’s the announcement you’ve all been waiting for…WE’RE BACK!! #KeepItInTheFamily http://t.co/vVxQ0LtzWl pic.twitter.com/GB5uOeGWKE

— KeepitintheFamily (@KIITFOfficial) February 12, 2015

• I’m a Celebrity – Now YOU can experience life as a camping celeb in the brand new I’m a Celebrity Get Me Out of Here Maze at Thorpe Park! Relive the sensations of having lots of things crawl on you without having lots of things crawl on you or eating things, and without Ant and Dec laughing at you.

• And finally, it looks like BBC4’s replacement for Only Connect is Codex The Quizeum where Griff Rhys Jones guides some teams of experts through quizzes and treasure hunts in the UK’s most exciting museums. “Thought to be a television first,” apparently.