Was The Cube season 2 cancelled? Is Love Island unique?
In today’s Ask Andy, an answer to a scheduling question about The Cube, plus a question about Love Island that I’m hoping you can help your fellow reader answer—if there is an answer!
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Rat in the Kitchen: Can someone call an exterminator for this show?
TBS’s reality competition Rat in the Kitchen attempts to apply The Mole’s format to
The Cube’s ‘simple tasks become epic challenges,’ but it’s too often an empty shell
Dwyane Wade hosts TBS’s version of the hit UK game show The Cube, on which pairs compete have in challenges that take place in a cube.
Rat in the Kitchen: now The Mole’s format is being used for a cooking competition
TBS’s new reality competition Rat in the Kitchen has an “undercover” chef “who sabotages fellow contestants’ chance” to earn money—just like The Mole. Well, except for the cooking part.
Tournament of Laughs: a bracketed comedy competition where we pick the winners
Comedians face off in a bracketed competition that’ll be judged by viewers in TBS’s new competition Tournament of Laughs, which
Drop the Mic chemistry leads to a reality show pilot for Shaq and Ken Jeong
Unqualified will follow Ken Jeong and Shaq “as they try their hands at jobs that have always intrigued them, along with a few they’d rather avoid.”
How Drop the Mic’s celebrity rap battles are written
The new TBS series Drop the Mic features rap battles between celebrities, and one of its writers detailed how those are scripted by the show’s writers.