Bond! Brian Cox is having a ball, by the way, and really glues this whole thing together. I’m just shown a 30-second recap of a mountain they climbed for eight hours, given some vague backstory, and now I’m watching two other people sprint across a piazza in Italy. I am not constantly being prodded to have an emotional connection with the pairs, like a really macho episode of First Dates. I slightly know that two of the contestants are children of divorce, and I sort of figure a couple of them are married, but that’s about it. We use Google reCaptcha to protect our website and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.Īs well as being careful not to bang on about Bond too much, the show does well not to do that reality competition thing of trying to make me care about the contestants by bleeding a sob story out of them. For more information see our Privacy Policy. Privacy Notice: Newsletters may contain info about charities, online ads, and content funded by outside parties. When they retrieve the suitcase they have to answer a fairly tricky trivia question, and if they do they win a staggered cash prize up to the fabled £1m. Various teams of two (two brothers, or a married couple, or friends who work in a noble profession such as nursing) are thrown into lush spy-themed challenges – climb a mountain and retrieve a suitcase, say, or go into the jungle and retrieve a suitcase, or go to Italy and retrieve a suitcase. It’s called 007: Road to a Million (Prime Video, from 10 November) and, on paper, it makes absolutely no sense at all. I should probably hurry up.Īmazon has done a new series where, for some reason, Brian Cox is torturing people who like James Bond. Yep, the suitcase has started beeping very rapidly. “I have a little job for you … see if you can get through an entire TV preview about a new Bond-themed challenge show on Prime Video without succumbing to trope.” I think it may be a little late for that. “I see you’ve been keeping you busy.” I don’t really know what that means, device. “Hello there, Watcher,” the device purrs.

Ah, no: I’ve stumbled across a smart chrome suitcase with three bleeping kill-switch buttons inside, and a device playing a disembodied voice.

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