This has just been announced as a major Saturday night game show for BBC1.
New Saturday night game-show that will scour the country to find the most intelligent person in Britain. Contestants from all walks of life will battle it out to become The Brightest Briton.
With intelligence tests and show stopping games, brain power will be tested rather than general knowledge and the competitors will encounter a foreboding barrage of mental tests to prove they have what it takes to be Britain’s brightest. (four weeks of heats, a semi-final and a final)
Executive producer for RDF is Peter Usher and Mirella Breda for the BBC. Commissioned by Mark Linsey, BBC’s Controller of Entertainment and Danny Cohen.
Mmm. Lets hope it doesn’t fall into the same traps The People’s Quiz fell into.
It’s The Krypton Factor with just the mental agility rounds! HOW CAN IT GO WRONG?
(Very easily, I suspect.)
Excellent! Jamie Theakston and Zoe Ball back together on Saturday television! What, this isn’t just a straight lift of Britain’s Best Brain (2009)? Oh.
You’d think Sky would try getting The Amazing Race- it would fit with what they want…
http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/tv/news/a401738/sky1-wants-enormous-reality-show-from-ex-big-brother-boss.html
“‘We have Phil Edgar Jones who is the master of cruelty,’ Murphy told the Edinburgh TV Festival.”
Oh FFS. What a horrible priority to set.
They should pick up ‘Solitary’ – cheap to make and a bit cruel but much more dramatic and positive than something like ‘Shattered’ was.
No arguments there. Also: funny.
Sky doing ‘The Great Escape’ might be more interesting than picking up ‘The Amazing Race’.
A celeb special version of a sort of ‘TAR’on RTL Germany last Monday totally bombed, http://www.rtl.de/cms/sendungen/show/star-race.html
This is the same format as ‘Der Klugste Deutsche’ of ARD in Germany, FYI.
http://www.daserste.de/unterhaltung/quiz-show/der-kluegste-deutsche/index.html