Anyone Seen The New Game Show - Unbeatable..

[ToraToraTora]

Dull, dull dull! I like Jason Manford but even he couldn't save this.

[Buenchico]

I've got better things to do with my time than watch quiz/game shows, TTT!

From Jason Manford's own lips:
"There will be a lot of ‘shoutability’ at home, where you’ll be shouting at the screen . . . "
https://www.beyondthejoke.co.uk/content/10483/jason-manford-unbeatable

I get the impression that you've been shouting at the screen for the wrong reasons though ;-)

[ToraToraTora]

I like to give new ones an airing.

[Cloverjo]

I happened to come into the living room while Husband was watching this. I didn’t hang around long. Awful! And couldn’t someone have found something better for him to wear than that horrible jumper?

[Cloverjo]

Manford, not Husband re horrible jumper!

[Buenchico]

^^^ Only Gyles Brandreth is allowed to wear appalling sweaters when presenting TV programmes ;-)

[pastafreak]

There's a couple more new game shows starting on C4 this week...they don't look very promising. Like you Chris, I'm not a fan.

[andy-hughes]

If Jason Manford as a quiz show host is anything like Jason Manford as a radio host, I shan't be tuning in.

He spends three times as long talking as he does playing records, on 70's network, chatting with some nameless bloke like two old men in a bar boring everyone within earshot.

Of course, in a bar, you can simply move out of earshot (I would) or change the radio station (I have) or avoid him in a quiz show (I will.)

[Buenchico]

>>> He spends three times as long talking as he does playing records, on 70's network

I wonder if that might be due to the cost of the broadcasting rights involved in playing more records?

The reason that BBC local radio stations play only a handful of records every hour, including during their evening broadcasts (even though there's no 'current local affairs' content to fill up time then, as there usually is during the day), is simply that Aunty Beeb can't afford to pay the massive fees associated with playing more records. So the presenters are forced to spend a great deal of their time waffling and/or taking calls from listeners.

Perhaps Absolute Radio is similarly strapped for cash?