#hostholdingaquestioncard
Weekdays, 3pm,
ITV,
Sean Fletcher is back with another twenty episodes of Rebound, one of the few shows to replace The Chase in the Summer and come out the other side with moderately positive reviews and not disasterous ratings. How will it fare it 3pm? We will find out.
Six contestants face each other and the terrifying computerised bar bouncing back and forth across the studio in a quickfire-ish quiz to win a decently large amount of money.
We liked the first series with some caveats and look forward to seeing if it has made any positive changes for this second series. Let us know what you think in the comments.
Rebound was great to watched during the first series at 5pm, but at a new time of 3pm its going to lose a few people. ITV should of either taken the chase or Tipping Point off for four weeks.
Also DOND is back for the last 45 shows and is facing against Rebound.
My perdiction is:
Rebound 800K
DOND 380K
I am disappointed they put it at a 3pm slot. I might watch a few on the ITV Hub.
One change that sticks out a mile. In the final round, Sean now gives wrong answers as he goes along, rather than save them up for the end.
Otherwise, don’t think there’s any major difference. Decent show.
The budget has come down, questions in the first Fast Cash are now worth £ 500.
Yes that probably takes two or three potential questions out of your final run. A couple of other changes of note:
Biggest change for me was in First Fast Cash: This is now 5x £500 questions rather than 3x £1,000 questions – Takes £3,000 out of play.
Stop The Bar: Handicaps are now 4 and 2 secs whereas UKGameshows has them at 6 and 3 in the first series – Wrong answers now cost you 3 secs, not 2.
Final: Rather than picking each category from a board of six you now get a choice of two for each five-question block
I think the recalibration of the timings on Stop the Bar improves the round a bit in that it feels more possible for the lead to change. I still think it would be improved by being played slightly more intensely with less chat between questions – at heart I think it’s a good round I think I’d have produced slightly differently. Also having the clueword slide from underneath the three answers is actually spectacularly irritating – did they do that last year?
I have it on good authority (from a format peep) that there is less time on It’s Sean Fletcher Does Runway endgame as well. It was quite interesting that last year it felt like a good game but it rarely felt tense, I’m not sure if this makes it better – I thought the guy had a pretty good hit rate today but still fell quite short. Perhaps some sort of compromise with the new speed on the way out but the old speed on the Rebound. Don’t know, need to see it play out a few more times I think. There’s almost certainly going to be a tighter prize budget at 3pm I’d have thought, and despite the lower money on round one the bank was still quite large.
At least to my eyes the buzzer responses felt a little bit more precise. And there were certainly some good quiz bouts today. Were most of the Fast Cash questions MPD style highest/strongest/furthest questions last year as well?
I forgot how irritating Fletcher’s habit of asking “why did you pick that answer” was. The position of ad breaks is also annoying. This could probably be trimmed down to at most 45 minutes if Sean stopped being so nosy.
Is it just me or does the first round feel slow.
5 questions go quick, but all the back and forth feels sluggish.
The whole show lacks tension – even when the bar goes back and forth.
You’d think the bar would give tension, but it doesn’t. Probably because the games are all so short.
I can see why the ratings were quite low.
I wish someone would reply to “Why did you pick that answer?” with “Because it’s Correct!”
And please can someone stop Sean saying “The most amount of money” Aaarrggghh!
See if you can find Joe Pasquale’s performance on The Chase With Celebrities – I remember him doing just that.