Mr and Mrs: The Next Generation

Remember Mr and Mrs? Tatty old game show in which husbands and wives used to have to answer questions about each other to win prizes – well, a carriage clock anyway? Came back briefly with Julian Clary back in ’99?

Well, it’s back again, this time hosted by Philip Schofield and Fern Britton (who everyone thinks are a married couple. Except they aren’t. Now, of course, since ordinary people are to be confined to reality TV shows and game shows are now the province of the celebrity, it’s celebrity partners who have to answer the questions, this time to win money for charity.

And, yes, you lucky people, you can get tickets (from SRO audiences) to see them being filmed at the London Studios. Some interesting names in the mix and nice to see there are non-marrieds and at least one gay couple in there:

  • Neil and Christine Hamilton (18th March)
  • Steve Bakley and his wife (18th March)
  • Anthony Head and partner Sarah (29th March 7.30pm)
  • King Of The Jungle Christopher Biggins & partner Neil (29th March 7.30pm)
  • Kerry Katona and husband Mark Croft (25th March)
  • Vic Reeves and Nancy Sorrell (26th March)
  • Laurence and Jackie Llewelyn Bowen (30th March 4.30pm)
  • Vicky Entwistle and her husband Andy (29th March 4.30pm)
  • Lembit Opik and Cheeky Girl Gabriela Irimia

God, that Lembit Opik’s everywhere now. What’s he trying to be? The new Charles Kennedy? As for Kerry Katona and Mark Croft, anyone who’s seen them on Kerry Katona: Crazy in Love will know how appetising that sounds. We had to take out the Sky Music Mix to get MTV especially…

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    I’m Rob Buckley, a journalist who writes for UK media magazines that most people have never heard of although you might have heard me on the podcast Lockdown Land or Radio 5 Live’s Saturday Edition or Afternoon Edition. I’ve edited Dreamwatch, Sprocket and Cambridge Film Festival Daily; been technical editor for TV producers magazine Televisual; reviewed films for the short-lived newspaper Cambridge Insider; written features for the even shorter-lived newspaper Soho Independent; and was regularly sarcastic about television on the blink-and-you-missed-it “web site for urban hedonists” The Tribe. Since going freelance, I've contributed to the likes of Broadcast, Total Content + Media, Action TV, Off The Telly, Action Network, TV Scoop and The Custard TV.

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