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Game shows

July 2024

  • Joe Swash and Seann Walsh in Battle in the Box.

    The watcher
    Battle in the Box: kids’ birthday parties have better games than Jimmy Carr’s tedious new show

    Two teams of celebrities are locked in a container for 24 hours and compete for points as the comedian host tells the most soulless jokes you’ve ever heard. You’ll yearn for Taskmaster

June 2024

  • Lee Hye-ri in Agents of Mystery.

    TV review
    Agents of Mystery review – a gameshow that is pure escapist joy

    This immersive Korean escape room series is hugely watchable, silly fun. Its adorable celeb guests prove something, too: K-celebs are much, much nicer than British ones

April 2024

  • Travis Kelce after winning Super Bowl LVIII on 11 February, 2024.

    Travis Kelce to host celebrity spin-off of Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader?

  • Imperial College London's team on screen

    ‘Astonishing speed!’: the University Challenge final reviewed by last year’s winner

  • The Imperial College London team on University Challenge

    A challenge to the BBC’s Oxbridge bias

  • John Torode, left, and Gregg Wallace dish up a new series of Masterchef

    TV tonight
    TV tonight: Gregg and John celebrate 20 years of MasterChef

January 2024

  • Helen and Charlie, contestants on Limitless Win, embrace

    Million schmillion! Why we’re so bored by people winning big on TV gameshows

    Thanks to shrinkflation, there was barely a stir when a Suffolk couple took home a million on Ant and Dec’s Limitless Win last week. These days, we demand infinite cash!
  • Bercow with Alan Cumming in The Traitors

    ‘Backstabbing is part of politics’: John Bercow joins US version of The Traitors

    Former Commons speaker is one of 21 celebrities competing for cash prize at castle in the Scottish Highlands

    • ‘We need jungle, I’m afraid’: how University Challenge went viral on the rave scene

    • Claudia Winkleman’s tartan moment shows kilts are ‘well and truly back’

    • TV review
      Taskmaster’s New Year Treat review – a magical, miraculous hour guaranteed to lighten your mood

December 2023

  • George and his daughter Hannah, who won £3,668 on The Hit List, holding cocktails and a beach ball, and wearing sunglasses

    2023 Christmas puzzles special
    ‘I won a conservatory – I didn’t even own a house’: TV gameshow winners on what happened next

    After the titles roll, and you’ve won big money – or some egg cups – what do you do with your prize? And does it change your life? Contestants on shows from Bruce’s Price Is Right to Deal Or No Deal reveal all
  • Amol Rajan on University Challenge

    BBC called to defend ‘elitist’ format of University Challenge

    Professor complains that show’s Oxbridge bias is even more pronounced in Christmas specials and calls for public debate

    • ‘Watch through your fingers’ – Squid Game: The Challenge is the guiltiest TV pleasure of all time

    • Why Squid Game the gameshow has trapped me with its tentacles – I can’t tear myself away

      Emma Brockes

    • University Challenge special axed over lack of support for disabled contestants

November 2023

  • nigel farage in the jungle, arms outstretched with a small log in each hand

    Observer TV reviews
    The week in TV: I’m a Celebrity…; Squid Game: The Challenge; Doctor Who; Boat Story; Such Brave Girls – review

    A desperate Nigel Farage is eclipsed by the horribly addictive gameshow version of Squid Games, it’s a bumpy if enjoyable ride for a regenerated David Tennant, and a sisterly comedy directed by Simon Bird has promise
  • Brian Logan

    Soho’s new home for cabaret is so slick it’s like countercultural cosplay

    Brian Logan
    The opening shows at London’s Underbelly Boulevard – Bernie Dieter’s Club Kabarett and Batsu! – are less edgy than you might expect, and more pricey, but there are some impressive turns
  • Squid Game: The Challenge

    TV review
    Squid Game: The Challenge review – the most gripping reality TV since The Traitors

    The real-life version of the Netflix drama is a grandiose, addictive spectacle that will have you shouting at your TV before the end of episode one. Expect treachery, hilarity and a $4.5m jackpot

September 2023

  • Richard Osman peeking out from behind a giant stack of books

    Richard Osman: ‘I would have been terrible in MI6. I’m too tall, spill secrets and can’t lie’

    After getting ‘the tap’ at Cambridge, he went from a behind-the-scenes TV ideas man to a fixture in front of the camera. Then the Pointless star’s Thursday Murder Club books became the biggest thing in fiction since Harry Potter
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