Oh this is interesting, Deadline are reporting that the third series of The Floor with Rob Lowe will launch directly on FOX after Superbowl LIX on Feb 9th. That’s a huge seal of approval and launchpad for what is probably the world’s most successful new quiz right now, and whose second series is currently airing so you wouldn’t have long to wait to see the third.
Now that it sounds like In With a Shout won’t be returning, is there now room for The Floor UK, or does Alan Carr’s Picture Slam still take up too much space in the “recognising things” genre? We were on board really early.
Edit: You Bet! down for Saturday 7th December at 8:15pm. The suggestion is that it’s a 60 minute slot, although the press release suggested 75 minutes, so who knows what’s going on there. Edit Edit: John Williams has changed the tweet, it’s 75 minutes now.
Edit edit edit: And now we’re getting FOUR new episodes of The 1% Club 9-12th December. This feels a bit mad, I’m not sure what they’re expecting stripping it across weeknights, I don’t think it’ll be half as successful as it is at the weekend (which the rest of the series will be). We’ll see.
Yeah, with Picture Slam, Catchphrase, individual picture rounds in various shows and Pictionary on its way, the UK is perhaps well-served already.
Looking at the current slate for Saturday nights and with Gladiators now to consider, I think ITV may give up and air a film or Chase/TP repeat, move Wheel of Fortune to Q2 with 99 to Beat, and as Strictly season seems out of bounds for new shows these days there doesn’t seem to be anywhere for The Floor which ITV would want to do well to go. It’ll take WoF to keep underperforming and/or 99 To Beat to flop before we see any changes I reckon but then we’ll probably get a series of You Bet. Either that or Ant and Dec decide to end Limitless Win, but for that slot I’d look at something similar yet different like Press Your Luck.
I would be *absolutely fascinated* to see what a modern Press Your Luck UK would be like, especially its choice of prizes. It’s a shame none of the Paul Coia hosted 90s one has shown up on Youtube yet, really.
Haven’t even seen a screencap. The US show has its own fandom with a list of prizes – https://press-your-luck.fandom.com/wiki/Prizes_in_Press_Your_Luck. Slightly better than £200 (top prize in the UK)! Understandable why it was that but done properly the show would stand a chance.