At 5pm on ITV1. I forgot to add this to the Board of Excitement, which suggests I’m not all that excited about it to be honest. Still, I’d be interested to see if they’ve made any changes from last year’s series.
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Minute to Win It has been renewed for a second season by NBC. It is a BIG BIG BIG Smash HIT for them!
I knew it, this show is far superior than ITV’s The Cube. It is exciting and edgy, perfect for the American audiences. The Cube will flop, it’s too slow, boring, and the slo-mo camerwork is overdone. Plus it’s an ITV show- bound to do badly.
Great news regarding Minute to Win It! 🙂
How much sarcasm?
None at all. Have you watched Minute to Win It? I think it’s the best gameshow on American TV at the moment. I prefer it to The Cube, which I cannot see going down well with the American public. It’s not exciting enough.
Yeah, I’ve watched it. And to put it bluntly, I think there’s nothing in there that The Cube can’t do better. But that’s just me. Also I don’t like the impression that the entire show feels like an attempt to make The Cube seem like a rip-off when it comes out.
It is a BIG BIG BIG Smash HIT for them!
Only if you don’t understand numbers.
The thing is that the ratings are quite good for NBC. However ‘quite good for NBC’ is lukewarm pretty much everywhere else.
Yes, and it’s also very, very cheap to make, I’d have thought.
Oh, I haven’t watched Divided. I’ll give it a go but I’m not optimistic as I heard it’s just a sort of revamped version of Goldenballs, with a slight twist.
It’s only like Goldenballs in the endgame. The majority of the show’s a straight quiz. The endgame might be an acquired taste (especially if you’re not a fan of people shouting over big money) though.
I really like Divided – its questions are really well written and the final 100 seconds can be full of drama.
Yes, the questions are the best bit of the show, and the final dividing bit left me wanting to punch something alive quite often, which is something I suppose.
Punching something alive is quite a gift Brig – they could do with that in A+E wards.
Love The Cube, one of the best game shows ITV have come up with.
It will flop in America.
This is very sad, as NBC have, as someone else has pointed out, made The Cube look like a ripoff of MTWI, not the other way around which is the case.
One thing Joe has said which made me think though.
The Cube isn’t exciting enough.
How many episodes have you watched? Yes, every now and then there’s a bad contestant, but one contestant that stood out for me was the guy who won the first three games without losing a life, then promptly dropped to 2 lives (or was it 1?) on the fourth. There were other contestants as well where the game swung so viciously both ways (usually against the player though), it was intense. But not American intense, where there’s loads of whooping and hollering whilst the game is being played like in MTWI, but British intense, gritty, silent TENSE intense like in The Cube.
And that’s another reason why it will flop in America, British intense is BORING because there isn’t a lot of action, and Americans like action.
Hope that makes sense to you, cos it hardly makes sense to me and I wrote it!
Hooray for Divided, all they need to do is pick up the pace a little and it will go from good to great. Also from what I’ve watched whoever is the selfless one is the one with the most control.
Prime example, in one of the episodes, first two went for the most money, third guy goes for the least and tells second person to go for the middle amount. Second person was so touched by that selflessness that she obliged. Everyone went home happy.
If there is no one selfless though havoc wreaks. And I love ORGANISED havoc and chaos on gameshows, and that’s why I love Divided. Even if I wish I could punch through the TV screen sometimes…
As an American who’s desperately looking forward to the Cube, I hope you’re wrong.
But suspect you’re not.
Where did Charlotte Hudson go? Now we have some generic female voice. Disappointment.
Oh man, she was absolutely the best thing about the first series. STUPID ENDEMOL.
I was disappointed too.
I noticed in the credits it’s now Rachel Pierman. An ex-Endemol employee.
She used to host Memory Bank on Five with Jonathan Gould on a rotating basis. She was hosting the day I was on the show.
Apparently my trip down under has really put me out of the loop – just found out that we’re getting Wipeout Canada late 2010 early 2011 for TVTropolis (their parent company, Global, shows the US Version up here).
Good night, and big balls, eh? Casting starts in June.
Bit off topic for Divided but…
1) Is UKGameshows still taking members to help them with the site?
2) Is the ‘How to devise a Game Show’ book STILL £59?
Off topic totally but I’ve just caught up on Who Dares Wins from 3rd April and was surprised to see such a easy category for the second £50,000 list!
Although I wonder what would have happened had they said ‘Itchy and Scratchy’ as one answer.
And a few obvious answers weren’t there either, i.e. Kent Brockman, Mayor Quimby, Professor Frink etc!
Did the producers want a ‘sob story’ happy ending? (Well it wasn’t a sob story but the guy was pretty emotional!)
They were going on the character list from the official thesimpsons.com website.
Nick said the contains the regular characters from the official website, thus this site.
http://thesimpsons.com/characters/home.htm
There are only about 30+ names
One of the names the pair mentioned was Bumblebee Man, good thing they didn’t say him.
In the not-news-but-still-gameshowy department: I understand probably 1% of what’s being said, but it’s still quite interesting (heh)… Dutch QI: http://omroep.vara.nl/Uitzending-gemist.6199.0.html
When I read that “Minute to Win It” had been renewed for the Fall season, my first reaction was “What?!” The second reaction is probably going to be “Why?”
NBC’s ratings this year have been as bad as, or worse than, last year. Their experiment with putting Jay Leno in a five-a-week comedy show was a disaster, and soured relations between the Network and the Local Stations.
I suspect that they don’t have a lot of shows that get good ratings these days. This is no new experience for NBC. Thirty years ago, they were in the same pickle. The closest thing they had to a star then was pint-sized Gary Coleman, and they tried to shoehorn him into other sitcoms, and even into “Buck Rogers”, yet! This dire situation lasted until the rise of “The Cosby Show”, and after that, NBC went from strength to strength.
So, the “Why?” of “Minute to Win It” is pretty clear. It’s either that, or another hour of “Dateline NBC”.
“Minute to Win It” seems like a rush job. It’s not really. In fact, back last autumn, Fox was considering picking up on both MTWI (then known as “Perfect Ten”) and “The Cube”. It does not take a little genius to know what happened next.
I think, however, that “The Cube” will do just fine here. First off, if CBS puts it into the Sunday night slot currently held by “The Amazing Race”, (opposite MTWI, be it noted), it should have an advantage right there. “60 Minutes” is still a sterling lead-in, even if it does “skew old”. And people are used to tuning in to CBS on Sunday nights.
Also, there is the presence of Neil Patrick Harris as host and US executive producer. NPH is a known quantity. People remember him from “Doogie Howser M.D.”, and they’ve seen him hosting various awards shows, and on “How I Met Your Mother”:. They know him. and they like him.
As can be seen from the Saudi version, “The Cube” is a show that can work in any language, almost in any culture. It’s intense, in a way that MTWI only fitfully is. Those who like good game shows will recognize “The Cube” for what it is–a stunt show like none before.
NPH was also star of the rather popular web-musical “Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog”. And he hosted the Emmys. And performed the opening number at the Oscars. And he was a guest judge during this year’s American Idol audition. He’s pretty much ubiquitous at this point.
NBC’s also dealing with public backlash over the Leno thing, because a lot of people – mainly in the younger demographic – were angry at the way they treated Conan O’Brien and his staff.
He’s on Glee too soon.
CBS seem in no hurry to get this to air though If only they’d got moving a lot quicker and perhaps given it the post Superbowl slot for it’s premiere (or at least as a “preview”) it would pretty much have been a guaranteed hit.
I’m guessing it won’t be on CBS now until the “fall” at the earliest.
I’m pretty sure it’ll be summer. They’ve been casting for the past month so they’ll have the contestants. CBS doesn’t have their upfront announcement until May so we wouldn’t hear about the show being greenlit until then. They don’t have to build a set. They just have to ship contestants and the host over, make sure the UK crew is ready to go, and tape some shows. Especially since Portugal is taping their own version soon I’d imagine that set will be ready to go.
In 2007 Power of 10 was announced in mid May and it debuted in August, and they had to get the set together and clear time to do it in NYC which is really hard (studio space is hard to come by) and they still were yet to cast contestants at that point. I think it’ll be safe for summer.
Excuse me, I probably couldn’t have been more wrong
http://rtp.pt/multimedia/index.php?tvprog=26112
Portugal Cube already taped and airing. The guy who sent me this said they built their own set. No idea if they actually did officially.