New Shows

Revision as of 13:33, 7 May 2010

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.

2010

Coming up

• Meet the Parents - Hidden-camera-type show in which men supposedly meet their girlfriends' parents for the first time, except that the parents are actually actors who secretly put them through various challenges. A twist on My New Best Friend, essentially. (Objective for E4, pilot)
• Must Be the Music - Another reality-talent-y show, this one open to musical performers in any style. Weekly vote, hundred grand top prize, bish bosh, sorted. The last acts standing will have singles released in semi-finals week, which would suggest there might be a Popstars: The Rivals-type chart-off to decide the winner. (Princess Productions for Sky1, summer)
• Ten Mile Menus - Two teams, one made up of celebrities, the other of professional chefs, travel around the country, competing head-to-head in cooking competitions. (Cactus TV for ITV1, Summer 2010)
• Celebrity Pressure Cooker - Lorraine Kelly hosts as three celebrities undergo training from a professional chef before having to create a meal in the chef's style in order to be crowned 'Cook of the Day' (Cactus TV for ITV1, May 2010)
• Dinner Date - A single person has three meals cooked for them by blind dates and picks the best. Something like Come Dine with Me meets Dishes with maybe a hint of Cinio Caru. Stripped daytime show. (Hat Trick for ITV1)
• 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)
• Ramsay's Best Restaurant - the competition from Gordon Ramsay's The F Word gets its own spin-off series. (Channel 4)
• The Village - A bunch of townies move into a village, and the existing residents vote for who gets to stay. (Studio Lambert for Channel 4)
• Don't Stop Believing - shamelessly aligning itself with a popular drama aired by a rival broadcaster, Five does a talent show for Glee-style singing groups. (Shine / Group M for Five)
• Family Food Fight - Chefs Matt Tebbutt and Jean-Christophe Novelli go head-to-head with rival families in a cook-off. Advertiser-funded by Unilever. (Cineflix Productions for Five, May 2010)
• Antiques Master: Quiz show seeking the nation's most knowledgeable amateur antiques expert. Twenty years on from Connoisseur, an idea whose time has surely come (again). Sandi Toksvig is your interrogator. (BBC Manchester for BBC Two)
• The Great British Bake Off: Mel and Sue reunite to front a nationwide baking competition. Mmmmm... cake. (Love Productions for BBC Two)
• 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 2010)
• Odd One In: Bradley Walsh hosts what sounds like an updated version of Tell the Truth in which the studio audience will also get to play along (and there will be a phone-in element too, if that gets past the "compliance" department). Jason Manford and Peter Andre (we'd hate to meet the person who thought that was a dream pairing) make up the resident team who will be challenged by celebrity guests. (Zeppotron for ITV1, late summer 2010)
• The Million Pound Drop (formerly The Money Drop): Quiz which sounds something like Who Wants to be a Millionaire in reverse; the prize fund starts at £1m but the money disappears through trap doors when questions are answered incorrectly. Davina McCall is your host. (Endemol for Channel 4, 2010)
• 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 Eurythmics chap David A Stewart, apparently. Cat Deeley hosts. (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 2010)
• This Kid Could Change the World: Children put forward their ideas to change the world and compete to see whose idea is best. (Shine for CBBC)
• 101 Ways to Leave a Game Show: Another one of those manic Saturday night physical game shows like Hole in the Wall and Total Wipeout. This one's set in a tower from which losing contestants can be ejected in a variety of entertaining ways. And there had better be 101 ways, otherwise there'll be trouble. Steve Jones hosts. (Endemol for BBC One)
• 71 Degrees North - Two teams of celebrities - Shane Richie, Joe Absolom, Andrew Castle, Konnie Huq, Suzy Amy, Lesley Garrett, Gavin Henson and Michelle Mone - trek over 2000 miles across Norway to the edge of the Arctic Circle. A variety of tasks are completed by the celebrities en route, from kayaking rivers, to climbing glaciers, with one celebrity being sent home in each episode. Gethin Jones and Kate Thornton host. (Fever Media/Nordisk Film TV for ITV1, 2010)
• 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, 2010)
• Magic Numbers - live variety show built around a phone-in quiz. Piloted with Stephen Mulhern, who is now confirmed as host. (CPL for ITV1)
• It's Going to Penalties - Sports quiz with three teams. Sporting Triangles, anyone? James Nesbitt "referees", while team captains are David Ginola, Shane Warne and Jodie Kidd. (Objective for Sky 1, 2010)
• Name That Tune - The classic 1980's series is revived once more. (Gallowgate/Group M Entertainment for Five, 2010)
• Escape in Time - twelve locks, sixty keys, four contestants, one tiger. Can they... Escape in Time? Just kidding! Actually this is a spin-off from the Victorian Farm documentary series in which two families compete at various country skills, something like Meet the Challenge goes agrestic. (Lion TV for BBC2)
• Drop Zone - Sounding like a cross between Lost and The Amazing Race, teams are dropped by helicopter into an unfamiliar location, where they must complete tasks. Last team back to the helicopter gets left behind and is eliminated. Steve Jones hosts. (BBC1 in-house, 2010)
• The QI Test - daytime quiz spin-off from QI. (TalkbackThames for BBC)
• Time of Your Life - game show featuring people facing major life events, hosted by the ever-available Michael McIntyre. (Open Mike for BBC One)