The Guess List

Rob Brydon is set to host a new quiz called The Guess List where five celebrities help two contestants win bespoke prizes. Six episodes, forty minutes each, happening in the Spring.

However we’re BETTER than places that just reprint press releases. FOTB TellySpy went and saw the pilot back in August and told us about it, and I’ll reprint what he had to say now:

It was a bit like Blankety Blank. Two contestants answering questions, with five celebs (Gary Lineker, Hary Judd, Larry Lamb, Deborah Meaden, Sally Lindsay). One contestant then booted and the remaining plays for crap prizes like a breadmaker, chicken strimmer etc. Round one questions are like ‘In a survey, what is the most annoying thing on a plane…’ And in Round Two, the answers are numerical- celebrities answer and then an average is taken and the contestant has to decide whether its higher or lower. I.e how many arguments do the average couple have a week. It was funny and is a lot better than the BBC’s current Saturday night output. Would be very surprised if it wasn’t commissioned. The entire audience were in hysterics.

So there we are. At the time it was going under the title Rob Brydon’s Celebrities, and presumably it’s roughly the same format as Mrs Brown’s Celebrities 12 Yard were working on before Brendan O’ Carroll decided he didn’t need to water down the Mrs Brown brand.

Meanwhile you can apply to be on upcoming BBC quiz The Link if you want. It’s an STV Production for the BBC, excitingly.