Last night I discovered that Rebound (in the Summer 5pm Chase replacement death slot from next Monday) is a quiz “inspired by the bleep test.”
If you don’t know what the bleep test is, here’s a primer.
I absolutely love the idea. A while ago I made a gag on Twitter that Million Dollar Bleep Test was the next big format in the making – it won’t be of course, because most of the episode will be people coping just fine, even the much missed yet forgotten Body Heat cut to something else and came back for the bit when people started to struggle. But the central idea, that effectively it’s trying to keep up pace running up a mountain that got steeper and steeper is a sound one and ripe for tension and excitement.
We still don’t know much about Rebound as a format, only that it involves six people answering questions whilst a bar travels across the studio increasingly fast and it has to fill an hour.
The question is: what other fitness tests could you do a quiz version of?
I believe that Rebound was devised (at least in part) by my old friend (and co-creator of Bother’s Bar favourite The Colour of Money) Daniel Moody. As such I will be rooting for it to succeed.
Well now I can’t wait for the quiz machine.
Start the Machine! 😉
The audio is very much out of sync in this clip (start around 6:00 if the video doesn’t load there), but they had the bleep test as a round on Bwrw’r Bar, which I think Brig once declared as the official game show of Bother’s Bar.
https://youtu.be/qXghiO5jO4U?t=351
That almost certainly sounds like the sort of thing I’d have said once, with no clue as to the context. Thanks!
I remember Body Heat fondly and wish Challenge would pick it up for a repeat run at some point. As well as the bleep test, I also remember the Batak Wall from it, that giant wall of big buttons that you had to hit with something resembling a ping-pong bat
In the age of local TV, surely now’s as good a time as any to pitch somewhere a revival of Batak Attack, surely? It’d be cheap!
The “bleep test”… that brings back memories of PE at school…
I filmed an episode of Rebound last week. I’m not quite sure what happened between the press release and the recordings but there was no sign of a bleep test.
I think it’s far better than Freeze Out, but then you can never really tell when you’re recording these things just how it’ll turn out. I suppose I’m probably also a touch biased.
Anyway, we’ll have a better idea from Monday!
Ignore my last post. I’ve re-read the Wikipedia page and now know where the press release is coming from. I’d originally assumed it was saying the show had an element of running around and/or fitness – which it doesn’t.