There are never-ending variations of the comedy panel game show, here are three upcoming ones you can go and see if you want to:
Name: Us vs Them
Description: Jack Dee hosts a quiz to see which team of celebrities knows more about the week’s news.
Apparent Unique Selling Point: It’s got two teams in it.
Filming dates: Looks like a pilot is being filmed in 25th March… hey, that’s today!
Name: David Walliams’ Wall of Fame
Description: David Walliams hosts a quiz to see which team of celebrities knows more about the week’s celebrity news.
Apparent Unique Selling Point: It’s got a video wall.
Filming dates: Wednesday 30th March.
Name: Alexander Armstrong’s Big Ask
Description: Celebrities are given random topics and have to make up and ask questions to other celebrities on those topics whilst Dave Lamb off of Come Dine With Me checks facts.
Apparent Unique Selling Point: It’s Mental – The Music Quiz for 2011! With Jane Austen-esque uncomfortable silences.
Filming dates: 6th April
Big Ask would be our pick I think, even if it is called something rubbish like Big Ask, as a proper Would I Lie To You?-esque battle of wits.
In other news! Don’t forget it’s BotherSOP Sunday this Sunday. The clocks will have gone forward, but you should still find it begins at 8pm UK time (3pm ET) – and many of the regulars can’t make it this week so it’s likely to be shorter (and easier to win) than normal.
So if a tank of manatees is used to generate Family Guy jokes, what animal is responsible for churning out panel show formats? Basket of voles, I reckon.
I’m reliably informed it *is* a brilliant wall, though.
I bet it doesn’t render in 16 Z-planes like ours does.
Haven’t posted on here since days of the DoND stats commentaries, but I didn’t see this posted anywhere so thought I’d come out of semi-lurkerdom
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/the-number-is-up-for-the-bbcs-national-lottery-draw-2251151.html
Dunno if this would have any effect, but it would be an end of an era for lottery based game shows…
“Lottery based” game shows are history anyway. Now what we get on Saturday nights is “lottery interrupted” game shows.
So could we be seeing the lottery draws on ITV from 2013 onwards? 😯
If this is indeed the case, it wouldn’t surprise me one bit if the monkeys signed up Myleene Klass to be the main host… 🙄 😉
Hmm.
Given that Camelot get 0.5p from every £1 spent on the lottery (so yesterday every line played on the Euromillions trousered them a penny) it seems to me, that rather than the BBC paying £800,000 for the rights, Camelot could happly bankroll the budget of every lottery quiz show on a Saturday night and not really notice it on the end of year balance sheet.
12Yard (Who Dares Wins, In It to Win It) are now owned by ITV so it would be a matter of channel hoppping if it was the case in 2013.
Thats not going to happen. If the Beeb want to keep them they could, ITV Studios need more not less outside buyers.
If ITV decided they wanted In it to win IT and Come dine with me on ITV, then they would have pissed of 2 of their biggest customers and will get no new commissions.
I think it’s more likely Desmond would bid to put it on CH5, to be honest…if this other lottery he’s got involved with recently bombs.
Which it will.
The draws on Channel 5? That would be even more shocking IMHO… 😯 😯
It wouldn’t surprise me, though, if they too wanted Myleene to host them… 🙄 😉
I think Noel’s Saturday Night Lottery has a good ring to it ITV.
Wonder if people would still watch crap gameshows on ITV if they shove the lottery in them?
Wonder if people would still watch crap gameshows on BBC1 if the lottery wasn’t shoved in them!
It’s an absolute travesty something like Duel gets axed after one series, yet there is no end in sight to the bloody awful In it to Win It after a decade or so.
Amusingly, Secret Fortune has just been recomissioned for a second series.
Good to hear. I suspect with the steady high 5/low 6 million would be enough. BBC have been after for a replacement for 1 Vs 100 and they found it. Cannot see the second series airing this year since we got Who Dares Wins and another series of In It to Win It to come. Come then we will have Strictly airing again.
(mutters mental arithmatic whilst typing)
So, both In It To Win It and Who Dares Wins both have 8 episodes each, that’s 16 in total – 4 months worth of shows. If Strictly returns on the first week of October (as it usually does – unless the BBC bean counters make them start a couple of weeks later this year) that’s 28 weeks from this coming Saturday.
So I take it then, if you take out one week for Schlag den Eurovision, that leaves 11 free weeks. I guess during June July and August the lotto draws will be reduced to the midweek-stylee 10 min self contained programme – even though there’s no World Cup football to shred the schedules this year?
I won’t be surprised if they will have draw only programmes when Doctor Who is on air for six weeks. Secret Fortune finishes on 16th April, with Doctor Who returning the following Saturday. Now that SYTYCD will be into the live shows come Easter, there won’t be any room in the schedule for either Who Dares Wins or In It to Win It.
Why “amusingly”?
I think it’s great news that SF is getting a second series.
However, one can’t help but wonder what will happen to the viewing figures now that the £100k has been won… 😕
Well it was under 5m last night…
That’s because In It to Win It is a show for the whole family to play along and it’s got that fluffy good feeling on a Saturday night. Oh and Dale is popular as well. Duel never took off with someone like Nick Hancock in control, who was let out of the storage cupboard after nearly two years.
As for the “Wonder if people would still watch crap gameshows on BBC1 if the lottery wasn’t shoved in them!” it’s already been proved with The People’s Quiz.
secret fortune has a question on game shows, which has had the most hosts of krypton factor, family fortunes, wheel of fortune and generation game,
i wonder if ukgameshows was used as a source?
The Phone: play along
at home!in San Jose last September!I really enjoyed this article in today’s Guardian, which – in passing – makes a remarkable supposition comparing the conventional notion of “evil” with “displaying a lack of empathy”.
There is a long-established sub-genre of game shows, though one particularly waxing over the last 10-15 years or so, in which viewers are invited to play along at home not so much by facing the same challenges as the contestants but by trying to empathise with them as they play the game. There is a great deal of overlap with constructed reality shows that surround their contestants with an all-encompassing game environment, but also a great deal of overlap with decision-making shows, at the level of Deal or No Deal (and For The Rest Of Your Life, etc., but historic precedents could be said to include Take Your Pick) or – from another perspective – judgment shows, whether the judgments are delivered by a panel or (in the genus comedinewithme) by the contestants themselves. I don’t like the term “reality show” as such; it’s often used in a way that is so vague as to be meaningless, but this might be a more meaningful degree of commonality between Deal (which, I suppose, does build up a game environment around the contestants, even if the link between the gameplay and the environment is somewhat implicit) and the likes of Big Brother than the one usually applied.
However, when shows have previously invited their viewers to empathise with the participants, it seems really dangerous to me for shows (and I refer here to game shows at large rather than specific game shows in particular) to change their appeal from “come and show empathy!” to “come and show antipathy!”, which is pretty much a direct parallel for, to use another term bandied around these parts, negative entertainment: taking joy from contestants’ negative emotions. Most shows will offer both options and let the viewers take from them what they will, but producers’ decisions (for instance, cruel tasks within Big Brother – recall, for instance, Andrew’s discomfort at having to participate in “Nasty Nominations”) and choices of emphasis, whether through editing or through the selection of a more empathetic or antipathetic host, set the tone. Other coverage of the shows elsewhere in the media, whether taking an empathetic or antipathetic stance, can also affect the overall audience reaction to a show.
TL;DR version: more empathy and less antipathy in game shows, please, to make this world a nicer place.
France 3 are doing a ‘host swap’ this Friday as part of some hilarious gag for April Fools’ Day – so the regulars on Questions pour un Champion, Des Chiffres et Des Lettres and Slam are doing each other’s shows.
So there you go.