New Shows

This page lists the most recent game show debuts and other shows almost ready for transmission.

New shows for 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008 and 2009 are also available.

(R) indicates a revival.

2011

January
Famous and Fearless Sport
The Magicians Variety
Penn & Teller: Fool Us     Variety

2010

December
Coronation Street: The Big 50 Quiz, themed (soap opera)
The Right Notes in the Wrong Order Radio, panel game (music)
November
Busnes-a Children's, business, regional (Wales)
Drop Zone Action/adventure
Four in a Bed Lifestyle
Meet the Parents Hidden camera
October
The Hairy Bikers' Cook Off Lifestyle
The Love Bus Dating
Mark Watson Kicks Off Sports
Monte Carlo or Bust Action/adventure
My Genius Idea Childrens
Party Wars Lifestyle
Street Market Chefs Lifestyle
September
Deg Jonathan Sports
Fee Fi Fo Yum Childrens
The King is Dead Comedy panel game
Beer & Pizza Club Comedy panel game
Secret Dealers Lifestyle
71 Degrees North Action/adventure
August
The Boss is Coming to Dinner Reality
Buzz and Tell Childrens
Dinner Date Dating
The Great British Bake Off Lifestyle
Must Be the Music Variety, reality
Take it Like a Fan Sports
July
Antiques Master Quiz, themed (antiques)
Celebrity Pressure Cooker Lifestyle
Don't Stop Believing Variety, reality
Escape in Time Lifestyle, educational
Magic Numbers Variety
Odd One In Panel game
101 Ways to Leave a Gameshow Family game show
Ten Mile Menu Lifestyle
June
Never Write Off the Germans Radio, comedy panel game
May
Family Food Fight Lifestyle
The Great Cake Bake Lifestyle
The Million Pound Drop Quiz, general knowledge
Mission: 2110 Childrens
Scream If You Know the Answer! Stunt/dare show
So Wrong It's Right Radio, comedy panel game
April
Cwis Cymru Quiz, regional (Wales)
The Door Stunt/dare show
Iron Chef UK Lifestyle
Kitchen Burnout Reality
The Whole 19 Yards Family game show
Three in a Bed Lifestyle
Your Hobby or Mine? Lifestyle
March
Antiques Road Trip Lifestyle
Auction Party Lifestyle
Country House Cooking Contest Lifestyle
The Fizzy Quiz Show Comedy panel game (British Asian culture)
A League of Their Own Comedy panel game (sports)
Over the Rainbow Variety, reality
The Umpire Strikes Back Comedy panel game (sports)
February
Brides On a Bus Reality
The Bubble Comedy panel game (news)
Dancing on Wheels Variety
Michael Winner's Dining Stars Lifestyle
Instant Restaurant Lifestyle
Kitchen Sink to Catwalk Reality
Mastercrafts Lifestyle
May the Best House Win Lifestyle, property
Push the Button Family game show
Ultimate Traveller Lifestyle
January
Bill Bailey's Birdwatching Bonanza Quiz, themed (birdwatching)
Football's Next Star Sports
Popstar to Operastar Variety, reality (music)
Relic - Guardians of the Museum Childrens
Sibling Rivalry Regional (Wales), family relationships
So You Think You Can Dance Variety, reality
Take Me Out Dating
What Do Kids Know? Family game show

Coming up

  • Trade Your Way to the USA - Teams of three children take part in buying and selling challenges. The two best teams are taken to the USA for the final challenge, which is selling food at an American Football game. (Leopard Films for CBBC, 2011)
  • Gory Games - game show spin-off from the Horrible Histories series. (CBBC, 2011)
  • Hot Like Us - Several couples, consisting of professional models, live together and take part in a series of relationship and modelling tasks. The winners get an agency modelling contract. (BBC in-house for BBC3, 2011)
  • Wordaholics - wordy panel game with Gyles Brandreth. (Radio 4)
  • It's Your Round - Panel game in which the competitors provide their own rounds for the others to play. Angus Deayton keeps some sort of order. (Radio 4)
  • Tool Academy - Bad boyfriends compete to be the 'Ultimate Lad', or so they believe. The truth is their girlfriends have actually enrolled them in a course designed to help them improve their wayward attitude towards their relationship. The winner pockets £25,000. Rick Edwards hosts. (Objective Productions for E4, 2011)
  • Impossible? - Illusionist Philip Escoffey invites contestants to guess whether a series of challenges he intends to perform can be completed or are impossible. Contestants who guess correctly are rewarded with cash. (Gogglebox Entertainment and Group M Entertainment for Channel Five, 2011)
  • Four Rooms (working title) - Members of the public bring along their collectibles to sell to one of four buyers. However, they can only hear each buyer's offer one at a time, and they cannot go back to an offer once they have rejected it, meaning they must decide whether to stick with the offer they have received, or move onto the buyer in the next room in the hope their offer might be better. (TalkbackThames for Channel 4, Spring 2011)
  • The Great British Hairdresser - Ten hopefuls are given a series of tasks by stylist James Brown, with one hopeful being eliminated each week. The last remaining hopeful at the end of the series wins the chance to style a celebrity for a photo shoot, and a position working alongside Brown. (Splash Media for E4, 2011)
  • Perfection - Contestants are asked a series of true or false questions. However should they get just one wrong, then one of three other players can steal the game from them. The final sees the contestant in play attempt to win the jackpot, either on their own, or with the help of another player, in return for a share of jackpot. Nick Knowles hosts. (12 Yard for BBC Two Daytime, 2011)
  • A Dream Life In The Country - Nine couples compete to win an agricultural smallholding rent-free for a year. Presented by Jimmy Doherty, as is the law. (BBC Two, 2011)
  • The Beat Goes On - two teams of three compete in singing, dancing and music trivia rounds. Your host is Dave Berry. (Gallowgate / Group M for Five, early 2011)
  • Wannabe - Talent show along the lines of Let Me Entertain You. Claudia Winkleman hosts. (Channel 4, 2011)
  • Splatalot - A Medieval-themed physical gameshow which sees a group of 12 teens, known as 'Attackers', travel to that well-known Medieval location of Toronto to compete against a group of Medieval Gladiators, known as the 'Defenders' in a series of three rounds - Cross the Moat, Storm the Castle, and Steal the Crown - with the last Attacker standing being declared the Prince or Princess of Splatalot. (marblemedia in association with the BBC, YTV Canada and ABC Australia for CBBC, Spring 2011)
  • Michel Roux's Service (formerly At Your Service) - Restaurateur Michel Roux Jr. takes eight young people aged 17-24, and over eight weeks trains them in the art of providing the perfect front-of-house restaurant service. Probably not hugely gameshowy, though at the end of the series, two of the eight receive a six-month scholarship with the Academy of Food and Wine, where they can develop and refine their newfound skills. (Ricochet / Million Media for BBC Two, 2011)
  • Give Us a Clue - the charades-based game looks set for a revival following a pilot with George Lamb as chairman and Kirsten O'Brien and Rufus Hound as captains. (TalkbackThames for whoever wants it)
  • Fight for Me - The people behind Walking with Dinosaurs and Primeval do a "fighting robots" show. The world says "it's a bit like Robot Wars". We say, "more like FightBox, surely?" (Impossible Pictures / ITV Studios for ITV1)
  • The Village - A bunch of townies move into the North Yorkshire village of Grassington, and the existing residents vote for who gets to stay. (Studio Lambert for Channel 4, early 2011)
  • Date Me Baby One More Time: One half of a recently separated couple tells the story of their break-up, before staging a stunt in public to try to win back their ex. (TwentyTwenty for BBC3, pilot 2011)
  • Cat Deeley's Treasure Hunt (formerly Treasure Tag): Contestants follow a treasure trail around London, banking money along the way, then play for it in a studio-based endgame. Co-created by Deeley and Eurythmics chap David A Stewart, apparently. (Whizzkid Entertainment pilot)
  • Bank It or Bin It: Contestants are asked to guess which of two things is more valuable. (Monkey Kingdom for Sky1, pilot 2011)
  • Secret Fortune - The inevitable hybrid of Deal or No Deal-style elimination game and In It to Win It-style multiple choice quizzery. A set of cheques in sealed envelopes are eliminated one by one and the last one contains the player's "secret fortune". Nick Knowles hosts. To be tied into the National Lottery. (Wild Rover/BBC Northern Ireland for BBC One, 2011)
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