Taskmaster – Season 17

A very close second to last season’s brilliance – this saw the lateral-stylings of Jon Robins, the carefree madness of Joanne McNally, the timid & good-natured earnestness of a Dracula-costumed Nick Mohamed, the borderline incomprehensible logical leaps of Sophie Willan,

MasterChef 2024

The bespectacled ogre and his scrotum-faced keeper drag another batch of hopefuls through the repetitive competitive kitchen-based challenge, this year spicing things up by bringing back a busload of near-misses from last season. Was that for variety, or because there

Masterchef: The Professionals – 2021 / Season 14

Possibly the most appealing aspect of this cooking competition programme is that everybody in it is competent. The field of entries for “The Professionals” has clearly been sifted thoroughly before we get to the first round – and though the

Quiz

Holy shit! ITV Hub has historically been a seething cesspool of tedium, however this 3-part dramatisation of the scandal of “The Coughing Major” on UK breakout gameshow Who Wants To Be A Millionaire was surprisingly captivating television!  A little laborious

The Great British Bake Off

It’s fair to say that I totally missed this the first time around.  And the second.  And probably would’ve kept ignoring it in the same way that I do with things that Normal people watch on terrestrial TV.  Liz got

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