Nerdy, middle-of-the-road comedy show with nerdy, middle-of-the-road comedians Marcus Brigstocke and Dominic Holland. And the extremely annoying Lee Hurst. It's an attempt to dumb up quiz shows a bit, and it's not half as bad as it should be, though maybe tvBite was a trifle easy on it, after just watching another execrable, script-free ep of Beautiful People.

tvBite, 20th November 2009

Weaver's Week

Marcus Brigstocke is our host, which is always A Very Good Thing. He's funny, warm, prone to go off on the most wonderfully entertaining rants, human, and never loses sight of ways to make the world a slightly better place. We like him a lot. Brigstocke knows a lot about making the mundane entertaining. He also knows a lot about science, nature, technology, human achievement, and snowboarding. Almost all of these skills are used on this quiz.

Written by Iain Weaver. UK Game Shows, 28th September 2008

It's a rare comedy show where you hear: "And what we have here are two parabolic mirrors..."

Slotting nerdishly into the QI and Brainiac gap, is this curious amalgam of science and gags. Team captains Lee Hurst and Dominic Holland are joined by genuine eggheads this week - a plant boffin and a Natural History Museum insect expert.

While many of us moan about TV dumbing down, attempts like this to dumb-up, as it were, leave you confused about whether to start laughing or cramming.

The Mirror, 5th September 2008