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I imagine Walk The Line will air in December after IAC is done and dusted.

eyeTV post_id=50320 time= user_id=1517 Wrote:

Newshound47 post_id=50319 time= user_id=1854 Wrote:I wonder how Walk the Line will do - it’s clearly targeted at younger audiences who are harder to attract to new shows. I can’t see it even getting a great sampling by older audiences as presenting and judging lineup is not greatly attractive to a lot of thar demographic.

Yeh Craig David, Mabel & Simon Cowell. I'm not sure that is right at all.

It will be stripped across a week so I guess that is a lower risk strategy. But I'm not sure who it appeals to.

Has this been confirmed? I really thought that Simon might sit out from judging.

iloveTV1 post_id=50333 time= user_id=1057 Wrote:

eyeTV post_id=50320 time= user_id=1517 Wrote:

Newshound47 post_id=50319 time= user_id=1854 Wrote:I wonder how Walk the Line will do - it’s clearly targeted at younger audiences who are harder to attract to new shows. I can’t see it even getting a great sampling by older audiences as presenting and judging lineup is not greatly attractive to a lot of thar demographic.

Yeh Craig David, Mabel & Simon Cowell. I'm not sure that is right at all.

It will be stripped across a week so I guess that is a lower risk strategy. But I'm not sure who it appeals to.

Has this been confirmed? I really thought that Simon might sit out from judging.

I must have missed Simon getting confirmed. I am not sure that is wise at all. It will make it seem like a X factor spin off.

The Cube finishes next week though I'd have thought promos would have started by now if it was to air the week after.

EDIT: Missed the comments about it being stripped.

Simon was confirmed as the head judge in the original press release

https://www.itv.com/presscentre/press-re...how-format

If Walk The Line is successful, you have to wonder about the long term future of The X Factor and the effect of adult singers choosing WTL over BGT. Presumably more kids to get through to the semi-finals on the latter but the overall standard of acts may drop.

eyeTV post_id=50320 time= user_id=1517 Wrote:

Newshound47 post_id=50319 time= user_id=1854 Wrote:I wonder how Walk the Line will do - it’s clearly targeted at younger audiences who are harder to attract to new shows. I can’t see it even getting a great sampling by older audiences as presenting and judging lineup is not greatly attractive to a lot of thar demographic.

Yeh Craig David, Mabel & Simon Cowell. I'm not sure that is right at all.

It will be stripped across a week so I guess that is a lower risk strategy. But I'm not sure who it appeals to.

Maya Jama hosting as well makes it feel like they’re going very young. I think they need a fourth judge in there with older appeal if that’s who they’re going with.

Simon Cowell was confirmed right from the outset like you say and I think it’s right that he’s judging because he’s probably the only person that’s been rumoured with any appeal to an audience.

A strip the week after I’m a Celeb does seem likely, so I guess they’ll have a lot of young viewers to plug it to, but I still think there’s a decent chance of it struggling, just because the audience for these shows is narrower than it used to be and there’s a disconnect between who they’ve booked and the 9pm ITV audience.

Score post_id=50343 time= user_id=1126 Wrote:

eyeTV post_id=50320 time= user_id=1517 Wrote:

Newshound47 post_id=50319 time= user_id=1854 Wrote:I wonder how Walk the Line will do - it’s clearly targeted at younger audiences who are harder to attract to new shows. I can’t see it even getting a great sampling by older audiences as presenting and judging lineup is not greatly attractive to a lot of thar demographic.

Yeh Craig David, Mabel & Simon Cowell. I'm not sure that is right at all.

It will be stripped across a week so I guess that is a lower risk strategy. But I'm not sure who it appeals to.

Maya Jama hosting as well makes it feel like they’re going very young. I think they need a fourth judge in there with older appeal if that’s who they’re going with.

Simon Cowell was confirmed right from the outset like you say and I think it’s right that he’s judging because he’s probably the only person that’s been rumoured with any appeal to an audience.

A strip the week after I’m a Celeb does seem likely, so I guess they’ll have a lot of young viewers to plug it to, but I still think there’s a decent chance of it struggling, just because the audience for these shows is narrower than it used to be and there’s a disconnect between who they’ve booked and the 9pm ITV audience.

The X factor the Band aired in that slot two years ago and was a disaster ratings wise. This could be the same.

Is it live, or at least recorded pretty close to transmission, or did Cowell sneak back into the UK at some point? Has anything been said about resuming AGT: Extreme since the accident last week - the sort of accident that often gets a show pulled.

Brekkie post_id=50381 time= user_id=976 Wrote:Is it live, or at least recorded pretty close to transmission, or did Cowell sneak back into the UK at some point? Has anything been said about resuming AGT: Extreme since the accident last week - the sort of accident that often gets a show pulled.

Recording soon I think, it’s listed on Applause Store but no dates yet. There will apparently be a live final, so the rest must be recording pretty close to transmission.

No word on AGT Extreme resuming yet, last I heard was that it’s been pushed back to at least after Thanksgiving. Which will make it difficult to schedule with Cowell returning to the UK to do Walk the Line, followed by BGT auditions in January. I’m not sure whether they’ll go back to it, and if they do I expect it’ll be one season and done. Terrible accident, and if nothing else who is going to insure them after that?

The main thing of course is that it sound like the guy involved in the accident is going to be OK, which given what happened is pretty miraculous really.

New episodes of Epic Gameshow commissioned. Child's Play added to the roster.

https://www.tvzoneuk.com/post/epicgameshow-oct2021

tellyblues post_id=50496 time= user_id=1333 Wrote:New episodes of Epic Gameshow commissioned. Child's Play added to the roster.

https://www.tvzoneuk.com/post/epicgameshow-oct2021

Sounds like there is only going to be 3 shows, Bullseye, Strike It Lucky and Child’s Play.

iloveTV1 post_id=50502 time= user_id=1057 Wrote:Sounds like there is only going to be 3 shows, Bullseye, Strike It Lucky and Child’s Play.

There is still a civilian episode each of Play Your Cards Right and Take Your Pick left from the last series (plus an unknown episode which I assume is an Xmas special).

So tag those 2 on to the 3, plus a few celebrity specials (which might be some of the other shows) and you’ve got a full series.

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Re Walk the Line, the first 2 recordings are now showing on Applause Store for 11th & 14th November.

I thought I knew my game shows but have never heard of Child's Play. It only gets a single sentence synopsis on UKGameshows.com

It appears to just involve people guessing words based off a child's definition.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Child%27s_...game_show)