Strictly Come Dancing’s James Jordan has said that he is sure to win when he takes part in BBC’s celebrity Total Wipeout.
“I would rather die than lose. I am so sure I will be in the top three, I’ll bet my house and even Ola [Jordan, wife] on it,” he told the Daily Star. “I should win. I love sport and have done anything from motorbiking to bungee jumping to wakeboarding.
"Dancers don't tend to do things like that because they're worried they'll break their legs but I say you only live once."
Viewers are in for a real treat this winter as Richard Hammond returns to present two hilarious celebrity editions of Total Wipeout.
Expect more magnificent mud splashes and comical crushes as ten celebrities go head to head in each episode in order to win £10,000 for their chosen charity.
Now that the nights are drawing in and it’s just too dang cold to go anywhere, why not cosy up with your telly and a duvet, because there are some great shows on this week.
And as it’s soon Halloween, we’ve got lots of scary recommendations that should make sure you need to sleep with the light on for a week or so! Read more & comment »
Do you pity the people daft enough to tackle the Total Wipeout giant obstacle course? Do you laugh out loud when they land head first in the mud or ricochet off the big red balls?
Well, your prayers have been answered because new and exclusive to Watch is series two of Total Wipeout USA. It’s like the UK version but the contestants are bigger, bolder and even cry out for their ‘mommies’!
This November, Sky1 promises to have you glued to your TV sets as the channel makes its launch into daytime television. Following the start of ANGELA & FRIENDS on Monday 9 November, ex Blue Peter presenter Gethin Jones will present a great new and innovative quiz show called SELL ME THE ANSWER.
The stakes are high in this game of all or nothing that packs a powerful punch. This fast-paced and fresh quiz show will leave you wondering just who you can trust when everyone is out for themselves.
Watch, will let the kids take control in its new tea-time TV show, Tarrant Lets the Kids Loose. Presented by Tiswas entertainer and Who Wants to be Millionaire host Chris Tarrant, the eight-part series gives three- to six-year-olds the green light to fulfil their greatest ambitions in the adult world; whether running a photographic studio, a radio station or an ice-cream van!
Would I Lie to You? is the comedy panel show hosted by Rob Brydon with team captains David Mitchell and Lee Mack.
Over a series of rounds, the teams compete head-to-head, as each player reveals amazing facts and embarrassing personal tales for the consideration of their rivals. Some of the yarns are true; some are not, and it’s the panellists’ task to separate the fraudulent chaff from the genuine wheat.
Joining David Mitchell this week are fashionista Trinny Woodall and League of Gentleman and Psychoville star Reece Shearsmith; and teaming up with Lee Mack are West End star Michael Ball and acerbic critic and TV presenter Charlie Brooker.
On this week’s Would I Lie To You?, we saw Gabby Logan admit to wearing red underwear when she presents a show for the first time. On next Monday’s show (the final of the series), find out if Lee Mack really did keep his car running for two months by cracking an egg in to it every day.
As I sat down to watch this new Five show, I didn’t expect to like it at all. I thought it was going to be full of vapid, shallow women and a leering, sex starved farmer. And it was, which made it compulsive viewing.
I’d thought all those elements would put me off, but they were in fact what made it worth looking at. It was the TV equivalent of junk food and one of those ‘guilty pleasures’ shows. The ones you’d never admit to watching but would secretly record if you couldn’t watch it alone.
Of course dating shows are nothing new; there’ve been dozens of them, but this one is sort of a new concept in that it’s picked one profession – farming – and sifted through the applicants to find suitably eligible bachelor farmers with whom literally hundreds of women would like to get their hands, and other bits, dirty. Read more & comment »
If there was entertainment to be had in Running In Heels, I’m afraid I missed it. Likewise, I missed any hint of a new concept; it’s just yet another show of The Apprentice ilk, or even Jade’s PA, or in the really worst case scenario, Paris Hilton’s Best Friend bilge. And having watched episodes two and three last night, I’m afraid it definitely fell into the latter category.
Joanna Coles is editor-in-chief of Marie Claire in New York and as such, commands – apparently – much the same worship as God, but she has infinitely more clothes; up to five different outfits on any given day actually, according to the lady herself. She therefore has someone who attends to that for her and makes sure she has all the power outfits she needs to hand.
How nice for her. As a lowly TV critic, I must choose my own clothes and have nobody to hand to find my underwear for me, which, to be honest, sucks. Read more & comment »
September 10th, 2009 by Lisa McGarry. Tags: Ant-And-Dec, ITV
Declan Donnelly has revealed that he and Ant McPartlin are currently recording a pilot for a brand new ITV gamehsow.
The presenter told The Sun that the new show would be “Family Fortunes meets The Generation Game”.
Donnelly said: “It’s great fun as we’re recording it up at Pinewood on a massive sound stage. It’s quite a physical show – really different to what we normally do – so we need the space.
Following my first, and last, viewing of Clever v Stupid a couple of days ago, it got me to wondering which other game shows could be considered Worst Ever? Clever v Stupid certainly is right up there, but I can think of plenty of other contenders, so here – Clever v Stupid aside – are my suggestions for the top three most lame game shows…
At number three, I’m voting for 3-2-1, the horrendously cheap show that was hosted by Ted Rogers, the highlight of which was hoping he’d get his quick-fingered 3-2-1 countdown wrong and inadvertently give us viewers the V. Read more & comment »
Oh. My. God. Whoever brought this abject drivel onto our screens needs to be lined up and shot, but only with rubber bullets, merely to inflict pain equal to that to which they subjected us viewers.
During a bout of insomnia last night – I’m normally sound asleep before most toddlers – I was having a flick through the TV channels and happened upon the telly equivalent of horse dung, Clever v Stupid on BBC3.
I’m going to try to describe the hideousness that it was, but it’s not going to be easy to find suitable adjectives without resorting to using profanity… Read more & comment »
I’m so glad that Saturday night TV is picking up. Mind you, after the god-awful summer schedules for Saturday, it doesn’t take much.
That said, Walk On The Wild Side and The Cube both make excellent half-hour-each diversionary telly, and both are brilliant in their own way.
This weekend is the first time I’ve seen Walk On The Wild Side and having seen it, I’m going to catch-up on the previous episodes on iPlayer. In case you’ve never seen it, the concept uses footage of animals and Jason Manford – and a whole host of other folks – do voiceovers to provide very amusing ‘what they might be saying’ stuff. Read more & comment »
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