You’d normally see this man (Dermot Murnaghan) treading the thin-line between affable and hard hitting on BBC’s Breakfast in the mornings. Obviously, he’s a bit lost in the afternoons, so he taken a punt on being a quiz show host on Eggheads.

Eggheads is a odd little programme. Deliberately frill free (well, I think it’s deliberate) and slow paced (slow means serious), the show is basically 5 members of the public tackling 5 super trivia brains (one of which is Judith Keppel who won the jackpot on Who Wants To Be A Millionaire).

One weakness of the show is the eggheads themselves. They are smug beyond belief. It’s sad when you ask Joe Public a question, they get it wrong, and the presenter and the eggheads slyly gang up on you. Dermot will take a slow intake of breath and then say "Of course, a bet the eggheads know it" to which all five of the gits will say the correct answer in perfect unison.

Another odd thing about the show is the way that conferring is dealt with. Instead of taking a hard line like, say, Paxman in University Challenge (that basically means Paxman shouting at people), Eggheads has developed an overly fussy and visually horrifying way around it. They send the contestants (one member of the public in one room, one egghead in another) and show them on huge screens behind their respective teams. This gives the illusion that some of the team members are in fact giants.

Players are eliminated as they go head-to-head against one of the boffins, and in the case of yesterdays show, the boffins won all the rounds… meaning that you had five smuggos sat at a desk facing one Irishman backed by his four enormous pals. This made the Irishman look tiny and almost toddler like. Bizarre. As far as the questions go, they’re reasonably difficult, and give the illusion that virtually anyone could go on and not embarrass themselves… in saying that, the eggheaded ones know ALL the answers, and as such, no-one really wins. Except the BBC of course.[Mof Gimmers]