FOR FACTS SAKE
BBC1, 9.30pm
It may have the worst title in all of television history, not to mention Marmite star Brendan O’Carroll (that’s Mrs Brown to most) as the presenter, but this new panel show promises lots of laughs.
Brendan, who ditches his wig and pinny on this occasion, is a good host, holding it all together as players occasionally go offpiste with their facts.
He explains: “We will take subjects that we all know something about and then amaze ourselves with facts that we didn’t know we never knew that we didn’t know about in the first place.” Or something like that.
In this first episode, Mrs Brown’s Boys stars Danny O’Carroll and Paddy Houlihan are captains, alongside team members pulled from the audience.
They try to outfox each other with their fascinating facts. So if you want to learn some random things about everything from bananas to hyenas, from Shakespeare to Pluto, then this is the show for you.