The trailer last month for Epic gameshow stated ‘this April’ so I imagine that will be coming soon, though I imagine In for a penny was brought forward a couple of weeks following the takeaway highlight shows. I hadn’t even heard of the John Bishop chat show.
Super Saturday branding sent me looking through YouTube to remind myself of these from
2016:
Epic Gameshow was supposed to be at 6:30 (or 7:00 with Penny at 06:30), they started trailing it a bit weeks ago, but then pulled it when it became evidently clear that there is now a massive gap where the BGT live shows, soap awards, soccer aid and the euros should have been in late May and June
Certainly make more sense for the Saturday Night Takeaway / The Voice combo. Still no idea really what they'll air in the autumn - even less so now. I suspect The Voice Kids might be held back to air there, but can't see a revival of Stars in their Eyes being ready in time now.
I hope ITV resist the temptation to bring forward and rush to air with series 2 of The Masked Singer.
Series 1 was recorded at Bovington in mid-September last year - just the time where the holes in production shutdown on autumn shows in pre-prod around about now, will start to show in the schedules.
Could the BGT Live Shows be broadcast in the Autumn do we reckon? They could easily fill Saturday nights with that.
The only tricky thing is Ant & Dec's availability given I'm a Celeb will be looming. So they may need the replacement in the form of The Masked Singer / Stars In Their Eyes for October onwards. But with productions still currently shut down it's going to become increasingly difficult.