We were discussing this on Twitter last night, but if you missed it it’s worth reading.
The next series of Red or Black to have “much more of a Noel’s House Party atmosphere”
Mmm. It’s all “could return” with Red or Black isn’t it? By the way everyone seems to go on about it it is happening, and they’re spending the next six months trying to work out a way to best couch it to make it sound like a worthwhile endeavour.
Despite our best efforts, the next episode of Accumulate! is now available! Show 4×04 is a ‘return guests special’, one team gets a second chance at getting through to the next round. You can watch it at http://ruon.tv/ondemand/video.php?vidid=463 .
Incidentally, time to shamelessly plug myself here, I’m now looking for jobs (preferably telly related). So if you know of any or have any recommendations for me, please email me at email@danielpeake.com, and I’ll be rather pleased.
Thanks very much – enjoy!
Red or Black. Ways to improve.
Mr Cowell talking to you here sonny- pork pies this way..
Pre-record. Calm the audience down. Try and wean the LD off his Vari-lite habit. Totally remove the VT’s where the contestants sob and say it’s there last chance to make something of their lives and to win £1million.
Offer upto £1 million – but no less than £100,000 in prize money.
Less OB set-pieces where over three quarters of those who turn up to play are effective by-standers within 2 minutes.
Don’t hire out Wembley Stadium for stunts the footage of which are then brutally assulted in the edit suite.
Hire out a stage at Pinewood – and if you must do some sort of mass elimination game, make that stage at Pinewood capable of holding 500. (a) Easier to control (b)loosers become the audience.
You need to think about putting in some sort of skill game somewhere in the show – Like right at the end, for the money.
So, Start with asking them to choose which colour they fancy red or black. Then introduce the wheel which is spilt into 20 same size wedges – 19 of the other colour to that they choose, and 1 sector in the one that they did.
Introduce a sound proof booth and stick the show winner in it.
Give the contestant 1 minute to answer as many questions as they can, each correct answer, puts another of their choosen coloured wedges on the wheel.
The more correct answers – the more sectors are put on the wheel in their choosen colour.
Passes, don’t knows, and wrong answers incure a penalty which doesn’t affect the wheel sectors but does reduce the prize money up for grabs by £50,000 each time.
End of the minute, spin the wheel, chuck on the beachball and see where it lands.
Simples.
Mr. With a Y Not an I makes some interesting suggestions about how to improve . The point differentiating from every other show is that it is a test of luck and nothing else.
An idea strikes to build up the prize money, while retaining the eight into four into two into one mechanism. Broadly, it’s a round nicked from . Get the contestant to give a blind answer (for instance, “Times or Table”) and then that completes a statement (“The newspaper owned by Rupert Murdoch is The — Table”). Correct answers get first dibs at choosing red or black, wrong answers get whatever’s left.
Questions in the round-of-eight are for £1000, in the next round two each for £10,000, and the last two get four each for £100,000. If the prize pool starts at £112,000 (which could be done by Ant and/or Dec doing demonstration questions), the theoretical maximum is a million quid.
This maintains as a game of sheer luck, now with a prize determined by sheer chance. Of course, if the producers want to cut down on the winnings, they make some of the questions a one-in-three chance.
I like the idea of the contender building up spaces on the wheel, but skill and knowledge feel out of place. I’m particularly not enamoured of Yet Another Quickfire Quiz Round, leave that to the experts on . Perhaps make the wheel of 36 spaces, give them six of their colour free, then make four more random decisions, each winning six spaces. *On average*, it’ll be an 18-18 split.
Arrghh. Wembley Arena I meant, not Wembley Stadium.
a timely Arrivederci on Affari Tuoi
please skip to 14:20
I quite like what they’ve done with the set.
I think it’s quite an interesting twist.
What’s left of Celador (CPL) has been sold to Germany’s ProSieben:
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/red-arrow-entertainment-group-buys-cpl-296232
UK Eurovision entry revealed tonight at 10:30pm, apparently.
I’ve just noticed The Mad Bad Ad Show on 4+1 now. They use Wii remotes as buzzers!
Be the last time you’ll see them – C4 have pulled it after ratings which made The Bank Job look like The X Factor.