According to Broadcast the BBC have commissioned a new daytime quiz from the brain behind Tipping Point called Decimate, where Shane Richie challenges people to hold onto a £20,000 pot, wrong answers decimating the prize money, and will educate the populace of the correct definition of decimate.
And it’s a CPL production.
I like Shane Richie as host, slightly baffled that he was played down on Reflex.
MORE NEW THINGS! There’s a pilot of Name That Tune filming at ITV Studios on July 16th, and a new Davina Hat Trick quiz called Honey I Blew A Fortune where members of your family decide how much a question is worth filming same place July 2nd. Both are SRO – not sure I can make Davina because of prior commitments but will endeavour to have a spy at Name That Tune I think.
I like that, mostly because it gives us a reason for a new term. If a money tree has increasing sums of money, what’s the term for a money un-tree? A money… mineshaft? Also, bonus geek points for really funky sums of prize money: after four wrong answers, “You’re playing for £13,122!”
My initial fear for it is “ooh, maths.”
I’m intrigued to see how it works, by my reckoning you’d have to be decimated 29 times before that £20k becomes a BBC Daytime friendly “£just shy of a grand”.
As far as I know, ‘decimate’ means to lose 1/10th of something, so by the looks of things, it would go: £20k, £18k, £16,200 and so on, or would it be really pedantic and just cut £2k for each wrong answer? I guess we’ll have to wait and see…
Given that this is daytime television, I suspect it’ll be as uncomplicated as possible. £2000 off for each error, and ten wrong answers means a grand jackpot of Zero Pounds.
We will have to see.
You’re not a million miles off, although it’s round-based, so ten wrong answers in a single round (which is extremely unlikely) is the only way to lose everything. My work on this one has been purely practical (producing run-throughs, writing questions, scripts, treatments), my contribution to the format is precisely nothing. Still, I’m contractually forbidden from revealing anything interesting I’m afraid. And Dan – I will respond to your email when in the office on Friday (I’m only part time these days).
Ah, I think I see how it basically works, ta.
Well, you’re all the true meaning of Decimate which is, of course, Ant.
I’ve just noticed that Name That Tune is down for Tuesday 16th July, but the Tuesday is the 15th. So don’t know.
Teams of three wanted for Decimate, you can apply through SRO, closing date July 7th.