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On Thursday 19 September 2024, BBC One broadcasts The Answer Run!

Season 1 Episode 24 Episode Summary

The upcoming episode of “The Answer Run” on BBC One promises to be an exciting and engaging experience for fans. In this episode, three couples will take on a series of challenging 50/50 questions that will test their knowledge and teamwork. As the questions come flying at them, the couples must work together to answer correctly and build their cash pots.

The format of the show is designed to keep viewers on the edge of their seats. Each couple will face three rounds of questions, and the pressure will be on as they try to accumulate as much money as possible. The stakes are high, as only one couple will advance to The Final Run, where they will have the chance to win their accumulated cash prize.

With the blend of fun, tension, and competition, this episode is...

On Thursday 29 August 2024, BBC One broadcasts The Answer Run!

Season 1 Episode 9 Episode Summary

A new quiz show is set to debut on BBC One, and it promises to be a thrilling watch. Titled “The Answer Run,” this fast-paced game show is hosted by comedian Jason Manford, who brings his humor and energy to the stage. In each episode, three couples compete against each other, facing a series of 50/50 questions that challenge their quick thinking and teamwork.

As the questions come at them, the pressure builds, with “The Answer Run” hurtling towards them—adding an extra layer of excitement and urgency to their decision-making. The format of the show ensures that every moment counts, making it a tense and entertaining experience for both the contestants and the viewers.

With its blend of comedy, quick decisions, and competitive spirit, “The Answer Run” is set to become a must-watch for quiz show fans...

It premiered as something of an underdog, but after four seasons the AMC drama “Halt and Catch Fire” emerged as a cult and critical favorite, mining unexpected depths of drama from its depiction of the computer industry’s nascent days. And two of its biggest fans, from beginning to end, were computer experts Jim and Janet Miller, who had an intimate connection with the world depicted by the show — because the show’s journey directly tracked with their own lives.

Jim and Janet began their careers in Texas during the early 1980s, Aka the “Silicon Prairie” era, before moving to the San Francisco Bay Area in 1988 to work for companies including Apple, Hewitt-Packard, and Sap. (Along the way, they also raised two children: my brother Eric and I.)

As they’ve done for previous seasons, Jim and Janet (who still live in Silicon Valley) agreed to share their thoughts on...

[Editor’s Note: The following review contains spoilers for the “Halt and Catch Fire” series finale — Season 4, Episode 9, “Search,” and Episode 10, “Ten of Swords.”]

There aren’t a lot of TV shows that could get away with ending on a Peter Gabriel song — especially “Solsbury Hill” — but then there aren’t a lot of shows like “Halt and Catch Fire.” From the second the familiar strumming started, tears flowed and the question of how AMC’s one-of-a-kind drama series would end was answered: It ended as it began, literally and figuratively.

In a callback to the first episode, Joe MacMillan (Lee Pace) walks in front of a classroom and says, “Let me start by asking a question.” Anyone who remembers the pilot episode knows that question will be, “How many of you desire to be computer engineers?” And perhaps Joe is hoping to see the next generation of Cameron Howe (Mackenzie Davis) walk in, plop down in the back row, and impress him. Or maybe he’s hoping the real Cameron will show up,...

Odd Mom Out is really going to be feeling left out now.

Bravo has cancelled the scripted comedy after three seasons, creator and star Jill Kargman announced via Instagram:

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Odd Mom Out starred Kargman as a fictionalized version of herself, navigating the world of Upper East Side mommies. The cast also included Abby Elliott, Andy Buckley, Joanna Cassidy, Kk Glick and Sean Kleier.

The Sept. 13 season finale will now serve as the show’s series ender.

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* The second half of The Tick...

Every week, IndieWire asks a select handful of TV critics two questions and publishes the results on Tuesday. (The answer to the second, “What is the best show currently on TV?” can be found at the end of this post.)

This week’s question: What’s a show that you may have quit or written off, but were happy that you gave a second chance?

(This could mean a show that got better as it went along, a show that course-corrected, a show that you felt got lumped together with others and therefore didn’t get a fair shake at first, or one that you see differently because of some changed perspective in your own life.)

Pilot Viruet (@pilotbacon), Vice

This question is good timing because I just spent my weekend watching all of Halt and Catch Fire! I remember watching the first episode at a preview screening and struggling...

“Dice” Season 2 opens with an “It’s a Wonderful Life” parody.

[Editor’s Note: The following review contains spoilers for “Dice” Season 2. Proceed at your own behest, but IndieWire believes “Dice” is not a show that can be spoiled by sharing genre plot details.]

Titled “It’s a Miserable Life,” the premiere shoots into an alternate reality — fitting, given it airs with “Twin Peaks” in Showtime’s Sunday night lineup — after Dice, the character inspired and played by Andrew Dice Clay, is told the world would be a better place without him in it. Specifically, a rabbi screams at him, “The world would be a better place if Andrew Dice Clay had never been born!”

Be it the fervor with which the words are conveyed or the religious status of the rabbi screaming them, Dice is profoundly affected. The next thing you know, he’s waking up in a hotel room, alone, with a whole new life. He’s not a washed-up comedian anymore. He never was one.

Instead, he’s a bespectacled salesman on a trip to Las Vegas to make a...

Julian McMahon is returning to the Marvel playground — this time as a good guy. Maybe.

The actor, who played Victor Von Doom in the 2005/2007 Fantastic Four movies, has joined the cast of Marvel’s Runaways, “the story of six diverse teenagers who can barely stand each other but who must unite against … their parents.” The series premieres Tuesday, Nov. 21 on Hulu.

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McMahon will play Jonah, a “pivotal” player in the Runaways’ battle against their parents, though little else is known about him, including his “origins and ultimate intentions.

Difficult People gets political, going wholly anti-“Bazinga!” in its Season 3 premiere.

The Hulu comedy returned Tuesday with three episodes, beginning with Billy and Julie interrupting CBS’ live broadcast of Sunday in the Park With George, which has been retitled Bazinga in the Park With George and stars the cast of The Big Bang Theory. Billy’s sign reads “Keep your Bazinga! out of my park,” and it’s perfect.

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Not to worry, though. While Enemy No. 1 is now the Chuck Lorre sitcom,...

On the Season 3 finale of Casual, one Cole child officially leaves the nest, while another makes a surprise entrance.

The series’ central family grows — both in emotional maturity and, potentially, in size — in the slow-burning conclusion of the Hulu comedy’s stellar third season, which finds Alex and Val (finally!) back together under one roof. As we cross fingers for a Season 4 renewal, read on for a recap of “The Hermit & The Moon.”

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Father Alex | Alex starts the episode still blissfully unaware that Judy just dumped him. Unfortunately, his...

Mindy-Danny fans, your happy-ish ending may be nigh.

At the Television Critics Association’s summer press tour on Thursday, Mindy Project star/Ep Mindy Kaling announced that Chris Messina will reprise his role as Danny for “multiple episodes” during the comedy’s 10-episode sixth and final season (premiering Tuesday, Sept. 12 on Hulu). But don’t expect the exes to ride off into the sunset, at least not in the traditional sense.

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“We aren’t super interested in [tying everything up in a bow],” Kaling told reporters of the series finale. “We’re trying to avoid [that], while also leaving...

Hulu is bringing back the best night of the week.

The streaming service has acquired the rights to more than 800 episodes from Tgif — the classic lineup of ABC comedies that aired on Friday nights in the 1990s — which will be available to stream beginning on Friday, Sept. 29.

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As part of Hulu’s exclusive deal with Warner Bros. Domestic Television Distribution, every episode of Family Matters, Full House, Step by Step, Perfect Strangers and Hangin’ With Mr. Cooper will join the Hulu library.

“These shows are more than just...

We’ve got questions, and you’ve (maybe) got answers! With another week of TV gone by, we’re lobbing queries left and right about shows including Orphan Black, Game of Thrones, The Fosters and Hawaii Five-0!

1 | Orphan Black fans, are you missing Felix something fierce? Isn’t it weird that he’s been off-screen for so many episodes during the show’s final run?

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2 | Does Once Upon a Time‘s “new Cinderella” sort of scream, “We realized we had no good fairy tale characters left to make Henry...

How I Met Your Mother, Burn Notice and the acclaimed Korean War dramedy M*A*S*H are among the series of which Hulu will now be streaming every episode, as part of a monster deal with 20th Century Fox Television Distribution.

Other series set to make their Hulu debut in the coming weeks include Raising Hope, White Collar, The Glades, Dollhouse, NYPD Blue, The Unit, Better Off Ted and Witches of East End.

Additionally, the complete libraries for Glee and Bones will finally be available on the streamer.

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All told,...

Grimm really lives up to its name in the Season 6 premiere, an episode in which the series’ title also can be applied to:

* Nick’s chances of surviving the next 24 hours

* Eve’s potential for getting her hexenbiest powers back

* Adalind’s future, stuck in the mansion with a fuming Renard

* Bud’s ability to experience a siege by Portland Pd without needing Tums and/or a new pair of underwear

Read on to see how the Scoobies fare in “Fugitive.”

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Don’t cry because it’s almost over, smile because it woge‘d.

That’s our mantra as we head into Grimm‘s final season, which kicks off Friday (NBC, 8/7c). TVLine visited the Portland, Ore., set several times during the supernatural drama’s run, and while we were there, we did what any self-respecting TV lover would do: We took photos and videos like a crazy person.

RelatedGrimm Season 6: Cast, EPs Talk ‘Great Sorrow and Great Hope’ in Final Run

And on the eve of the premiere, we thought we’d share all of that smartphone fodder with you.

If anyone won Grimm‘s fifth season, it was Captain — er, make that Mayor — Sean Renard.

With the backing (and meddling) of Black Claw, the strapping Zauberbiest cheated his way into Portland, Ore.’s highest office. He blackmailed Adalind into pretending to be his adoring fiancée. He helped decimate the Hadrian’s Wall resistance. And he witnessed the return of his long-lost daughter, Diana, who was reunited with her estranged parents.

But soon after the supernatural drama’s final season bows on Friday, Jan. 6 (NBC, 8/7c), things are gonna take a sharp turn for His Honor.

NBC has yet to officially announce it’s moving forward with a Will & Grace revival, but Karen Walker’s beloved frenemy may have just let the cat out of the bag.

In a recent interview with radio station Kpbs, Leslie Jordan — who won an Emmy for his role as Beverly Leslie — came forth and insisted that NBC has already commissioned a 10-episode follow-up to begin shooting next summer.

“It’s back,” Jordan said. “Here’s the way it works: [NBC] has ordered 10 [episodes]. It’ll be for next season, so they’ll go in in July.

Revenge alum Nick Wechsler is moving up the ranks with a recurring gig on Chicago P.D., where his gang-unit member Kenny Rixton won’t get the warmest of receptions.

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When Voight brings his former protégé Kenny into Intelligence during next Wednesday’s episode (NBC, 10/9c), it doesn’t sit well with some of the squad.

“They want to know the story: Who am I working with? Who am I trusting my life to?” executive producer Matt Olmstead previews.

Voight, however, “isn’t in a big hurry to over-explain himself...

Saturday Night Live‘s current season got off to a great start, and it was only partially thanks to Donald Trump.

Though the president-elect provided the Not Ready for Primetime Players with an extraordinary amount of material, the show excelled — at times, even more so — with some of its apolitical humor.

RelatedSNL‘s Anti-tv Host Bias: Insiders Try to Explain the Inexplicable

With the late-night program on hiatus through Jan. 14, we here at TVLine decided now would be a good time to look back at SNL‘s fall run and handpick the ten best sketches. Among them, you’ll...

The good news: TV’s “winter vacation” feels shorter this year, with shows such as Grey’s Anatomy and S.H.I.E.L.D. foregoing extended midseason breaks.

The bad news? That means you have less time to pare down your DVR stockpile.

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TVLine has hand-crafted this calendar of return dates (The Flash! This Is Us! Lucifer!), season premieres (Bones! Scandal! Homeland!) and series debuts (Taboo! Riverdale! Emerald City!), peppered with a sprinkling of finales (including Salem‘s very final witching hour).

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The Machine is critically wounded — and at a critical juncture in Samaritan’s ascent to power — as CBS’ Person of Interest opens its 13-episode farewell run tonight at 10/9c.

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In the year-ago (!) Season 4 finale, Team Machine learned that She had been eluding Samaritan by hiding in the nation’s electrical grid. With the Machine forced into the proverbial corner of a ConEd substation in Brooklyn, Finch (played by Michael Emerson) compressed the vast amount of code into a suitcase stuffed with memory cards, as Reese and Root (Jim Caviezel and...

FX and Fxx are adding a pair of female-centric comedies to their stables.

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FX has ordered a 10-episode first season of Better Things, starring Pamela Adlon (Louie, Californication). Co-created Adlon and Louis C.K., the comedy centers around Sam (Adlon), a working actress struggling to raise her three daughters by herself. According to a press release from FX, “Her life is funny to watch, but you wouldn’t want to live it (except sometimes).”

Fxx, meanwhile, has ordered the animated comedy Cassius and Clay to series; it stars Kaitlin Olson (It’s...

Rizzoli & Isles are staying chained to each other.

TNT has renewed the cop drama for Season 7, to air in summer 2016, the network announced Thursday.

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The upcoming run will consist of 13 hours, the smallest episode order since its 10-episode freshman season.

Rizzoli opened its current run in June with 4.4 million viewers and a 0.7 demo rating, and frequently leads basic cable in total viewership. At last tally, it pulled 4.2 mil and a 0.6. With On Demand, digital and mobile views factored in, the procedural is averaging 11.1 million viewers weekly.

The playing field — and Tom Mason — were quite different as TNT’s Falling Skies unleashed its fifth and final season on Sunday night.

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Picking up right where Season 4 left off, Tom has a conversation with the Et (Espheni queen?) that he had woken up to after the moon mission — though he sees her as his wife Rebecca. Fashioned as a “memory” of a convo the marrieds once had about her breast cancer, Rebecca speaks in words that apply just as well to the war on Earth,...