More Things! Shiny things! More! More!
- Actually before the new things, an old thing you mind find interesting – the entirety of American Gladiators, the original 90s stuff and the Hulk Hogan one is now up on Amazon Prime. Big points!
- Also Happy One Question Series Two day! We thought it would never happen, but here we are. You can read the original Show Discussion post from 2022, if you want.
- Channel 4 have signed up to The Hunt, which sounds basically like Non-Celebrity Non-Bear Hunt! Actually it reminds us a bit more of a show from 2013 in the US called Capture, which had a Hunger Games vibe. Contestants hunt or are hunted in the woods, doing tasks to build a prize pot of up to £100,000, but with roles switching after getting caught. As Tantusar on my Discord suggested, “its just fuckin tag in the woods innit,” and really how could I possibly argue?
- Channel 4 are also signing up to The Inheritance from the makers of C4 non-hit Rise and Fall Studio Lambert (and also The Traitors). 12 people get set tasks by The Deceased from videos “beyond the grave” to add money to a pot which they’ll have to decide between themselves who can be trusted with it. The Deceased set to be played by “a British icon” – sounds as if they’re going to go high camp for this, my money’s on a Joan Collins/Judi Dench type.
- Alan Carr and Susie Dent – together at last! for a show also on Channel 4 attempting to find Britain’s Secret Genius which from the TV Zone description sounds a bit like The Piano, but for people who can do sudokus.
If anyone saw the pilot for The Winner Takes It All, does anyone know who the hosts were?
And the major problem with One Question shows its head. I knew the answer to the question ‘What is brown?’ as soon as the answers came up. I’m now watching without any interest.
I knew it as well but still found it fun to watch.
I’m sure I read they were making changes for the second series but it’s exactly how I remember the first, which isn’t a bad thing – it’s a strong concept which deserved a bigger audience. The contestants so far seem a little less… loud than I remember from the first series, which is welcome, but might not be reflective of the rest of the record.
The only change I would make is doing the prove-out of the other “answers” when people lose for us folks playing along at home.
There were originally 20 answers and they had to eliminate two from each row initially, but other than that I don’t see much difference format wise either.
First episode did just short of 700k overnight – well up on the slot FWIW.