Thursday 16th Jan, from 8pm
BBC3 (online)
Yung Filly invites a team of three to try to earn £5,000 by doing tasks overnight in a shopping centre. Unfortunately, each time one of them screams £100 gets knocked off, and even more unfortunately the location has been rigged with a load of comedy scares. How much will they take home?
It reads like Five Nights At Freddies: The Live Action Gameshow, basically, and for now it’s a one-off. One Night At Filly’s.
We’re very much positively disposed to this sort of thing and look forward to watching it. I bet they’ll be questions as to “what constitutes a scream or involuntary noise,” though. Anyway let us know what you think in the comments.
The first series of Big Brother on Channel 5 had a task with a similar conceit I believe, and I remember that being really enjoyable.
Dark arts might be required- but here’s the first ep of US Crystal Maze:
https://youtu.be/tuLy_6BEZ6A
Some info:
-2 games in each zone, Mega-Crystal available once (so max Crystal Dome time is 45 seconds)
-Rules are a little more relaxed (for example, a don’t break the lazer game will be a lock-in after 5 breaks, not 3)
-Crystal Dome reward is Gold tokens minus Silver tokens x $100. If total is $10,000 or more, it gets bumped to $25,000 (and I think the ratio of gold to silver is higher than UK)
I’m going to start a new post for this, so everyone hang fire.
Here, for future reference: https://www.bothersbar.co.uk/?p=12766
Host adds nothing to this, it feels really redundant throughout the show to have him say exactly what they’ve said immediately after.
Format is fine however and can be a sort of replacement of release the hounds but I think you could do this with just the players interviews and no host at all.
In its current state I won’t be watching any more I don’t think. Passable but only just.
I don’t know, I liked it slightly more I think – some really fun ideas and neat effects, my main issue is that I found it quite irritatingly edited although I ponder if that’s old age on my part, at least get some steadycams for goodness sake. I can see the appeal of Yung Filly, but yes he seemed rather surplus to requirements.
Enjoyable enough for BBC3 fodder, seemed to fizzle out a little towards the end though by the time they got to the lift (thought at least they could have knocked the lights out and make it a bit Tower Of Terror style for a few seconds!)
I did particularly enjoy the (if not slightly predictable) viewer jump scare at the end