Host Jeremy Vine introduces the programme as “an hour of the most relentless puzzling television ever”. It’s an over-sell, of course, but not preposterously so. The questions are on the right side of difficult – taxing but not impossible or requiring specialist knowledge.
Carol Vorderman and Ore Oduba (Photo: ITV Studios/5 Broadcasting Limited)
As in Osman’s series, rounds are supposedly randomly generated, bearing names like “In Other Words”, “Thirdle”, “Funundrum”, and “Cinema Cypher”.
But Osman’s show has been on air for years and has an almost endless back-catalogue of games to call upon… I wonder whether Vine’s question-setters will be able to dream up enough new ideas to compete.
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Vine and the team captains have obviously been told to smile and laugh often because there’s a lot of exposed tooth enamel on display, which does lend a good-humoured vibe to this confident start. Vine, Radio 2 broadcaster and erstwhile cycling video-vigilante, makes for a genial but quick-witted host. He’s far more natural at this sort of gig than the verbose Stephen Fry (Jeopardy!) and Graham Norton, who seems out of his comfort zone on Wheel of Fortune. All those years hosting Eggheads have stood Jezza in good stead.
Gareth Malone and Sally Lindsay (Photo: ITV Studios/5 Broadcasting Limited)
The rounds then become progressively harder (in my estimation), culminating in that memory round where Vorderman suddenly comes into her own. But despite Vine’s best efforts to make the contest sound exciting, does anyone really care who wins these quiz shows? The only one I can ever get remotely invested in is Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? as I congratulate myself on hypothetically having just banked another £250,000. Anyway, here Team Vorders crept home by 41 points to 40.
A quiz show like Celebrity Puzzling will happily bridge the gap between their daytime fodder and all those divertingly trashy thrillers and documentaries about Yorkshire, royalty and the 1970s. Will it prove as popular as House of Games? That’s a question nobody can yet answer.
‘Celebrity Puzzling’ continues tomorrow at 7pm on 5
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