Pop quiz

NICK GRIMSHAW took up the presenter slot of Radio 1’s Breakfast Show late last year, and whether you like him or not as a replacement for Chris Moyles, he has got the nation talking – which makes him the perfect choice for That Music Show.

Oh, that and the fact he knows a thing or two about music.

In the one-off quiz show, the years 1995 and 2005 have been plucked out of the musical back catalogue as being well worth a good discussion for point-scoring purposes.

Grimshaw oversees the proceedings as two teams of the mouthiest musicians and the cockiest comedians battle it out to prove who knows most about the music of the eras.

The show strikes a balance between traditional panel show and live music gig, as Glaswegian alt-rock outfit Primal Scream and London-based electro pop duo AlunaGeorge provide the music for the night. The programme is recorded in front of an audience at the Brixton Electric.

The show is one of two new offerings in C4’s bid to shake up music contributions on the channel, the other being Smells Like Friday Night, featuring pop duo Rizzle Kicks.

C4’s head of formats, Dominic Bird, said: “Bringing a mainstream audience to music is a real challenge, and these two shows provide us with a great opportunity to put music back on the agenda.”

A series of That Music Show could well follow, which is good news for Grimshaw, who already fronts BBC3’s Sweat the Small Stuff.

However, he appreciates that TV and radio are simply worlds apart. “They’re really, really different,” he says. “With radio, it is kind of up to you. There are producers to assist you and direct you and do the technical stuff, but it is really down to you to talk for three and a half hours. But TV involves so many people and it is so structured.

“You know exactly what you are doing and where you are going, whereas radio could go any way. I like them both for different reasons. Telly feels quite proper, and there is someone to do every job, whereas radio is sometimes a bit more like, ‘let’s see what happens’.

“You cannot always prepare for radio, so that can be scary.”

THE re-run of the final episode of the last series of Sherlock offers a chance to try to work out exactly what happened in the cliffhanger.

The episode is The Reichenbach Fall, a new twist on one of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s most famous and dramatic tales.

When the Tower of London, the Bank of England and Pentonville Prison are all sprung open on the same day, but without anything being stolen, Sherlock (Benedict Cumberbatch) is convinced it can only be the work of one man – criminal mastermind James Moriarty (Andrew Scott).

With the help of trusty sidekick Watson (Martin Freeman), the detective prepares to join his arch-nemesis in one final battle of wits. But is Holmes in for a fall?

ALBERT EINSTEIN once said that, should bees vanish from the Earth, humankind would only have four years to live.

He was, of course, prone to bold, sweeping statements that were not always entirely accurate, but he was also a genius.

Let us hope he’s wide of the mark with this particular theory, though, as the Horizon Special What’s Killing Our Bees?

makes bleak viewing for apiarists and the rest of us, if Einstein is to be believed.

BBC Breakfast journalist and beekeeper Bill Turnbull investigates the dramatic decline in the numbers of bees in recent years, as he examines a wealth of conflicting evidence to try to determine what could be behind the depressing figures.

Not only are bees worth £430m to the British agricultural sector, but a third of the UK’s food is reliant on them for pollination.

Could radar technology help scientists figure out the causes of their diminishing numbers?

Turnbull hopes so, as he meets the boffins who are fitting tiny transponders to the insects.