Wednesdays, 8:30pm,
BBC4
Griff Rhys Jones invites experts to do quizzes and play games informed by pieces in a different museum each week in an idea everyone seems to be calling new except Codex did it ten years ago. Whatsmore this appears to be even less sexy than that going by the adverts. Still, let’s not pre-judge.
This isn’t my sort of thing, seemingly aimed at the sort of person who laughs *slightly* too hard at a *mildly* clever joke which I find a bit offputting – but that’s fine, the BBC is for everybody. I was hoping the treasure hunt was going to be more interesting – like Codex I don’t really think the show makes the most of its surroundings, but if you like this sort of thing then this is the sort of thing you will like. Um.
The theme is quite jolly.
Well, that was most certainly a TV show.
Erm, not a whole lot else to say about it, unfortunately.
A strong start for this, with 689,000 viewers – more than double the slot average, and the second highest rated multichannel show of the day behind Hollyoaks.
1,000 Heartbeats has been struggling a bit without its Tipping Point lead-in. Below a million yesterday for the first time.
I had an inkling 1000HB would peter out as the series progressed, although I’d have been intrigued to know how much Tipping Point contributed to keeping it afloat.
The editing and sound need some serious work. It felt like the show had no real structure. They need to introduce the teams properly, have title cards in between rounds, and make it less like a bunch of people chatting about the weather.
It’s alright but it’s incredibly hotch-potch with minimal structure and an unexplained points system – it falls bizarrely between panel show and serious quiz.
Everything bar the treasure hunt round could have essentially been done in a studio which was a shame and even those we saw in a strange described flashback
You really need to know your stuff to play along so it’s more a learning show than a quiz show (not that that’s necessarily a bad thing particularly with the channel etc)
There were also a surprising amount of cheeky (for want of a better word) questions for a single episode at 8:30 on BBC4!
Considering one of the USP’s for this show was being in a different museum each week, you didn’t actually seem much of the Ashmoleon in the show…