Mission 2110:
Enquiring minds need to know.
Bonus question for D Peake or G Male: In the title sequence of Accumulate! there’s a round of Speculate to Accumulate going on with the answers shown as ‘Floods’, ‘November’, and finally ‘Accumulate’. What was the question? Also please use “you lost, you chost” next series please thanks.
Via two lines on Broadcast, then better via Quizzlestick, via The Independent, on shows Channel 4 have lined up to replace Big Brother:
Bellamy talks often of “the national conversation”. He hopes it will be reflected in The Drop, the first commission from the newly-appointed Channel 4 head of entertainment Justin Gorman. Ironically, this is a show made by Endemol, the production company synonymous with Big Brother. Bellamy plans to screen the hour-long show across six nights of the week. “It is live event meets game show,” he says. “I’m very interested in taking different genres and colliding them.” Contestants are given £1m, but must answer 10 questions or watch it all disappear through a series of trap doors.
The format, untried in international television markets, contains “a whole bunch of smart interactive thoughts, twists and turns” and allows viewers to be rewarded for questions which fool the contestants.
So it’s a live million quid quiz, not seen since the glory days of The Vault all those years ago, with added physical set element and where the people set the questions like The People Versus. I’m not generally speaking a fan of shows where you get a top prize that gets reduced as a penalty, because it gives people the opportunity to switch off if it’s not going so well – it doesn’t feel like risk even if they dress it up to look like risk. We’ll see.
Excitement!
And don’t forget that next Sunday is the first event of the Bother Series of Poker 2010.
I’ve updated the Specials Board for your delectation and delight with Alta Tensione, Blokken and what represented your best chance of watching Solitary years ago.
Not much today, but Total Wipeout‘s new series sort of starts this evening on BBC1 at 5:30, and Solitary 4.0 is on tonight in the US as well. I’m out this evening, but hope to have some fascinating opinions for you all tomorrow, alongside the Board of Excitement and some new old features.
It’s very very late, but I think it would be good to have a quick round-up of some stories covered in the comments you might have missed:
Thanks to Greg Scott on Twitter for flagging this up, it’s not technically gameshow related but it is probably of interest – last night’s lotto prize breakdown:
| Match 6 | 5 | £264,490 | £1,322,450 |
| Match 5 plus Bonus | 41 | £9,924 | £406,884 |
| Match 5 | 1,402 | £181 | £253,762 |
| Match 4 | 46,269 | £12 | £555,228 |
| Match 3 | 550,174 | £10 | £5,501,740 |
| Totals | 597,891 | £8,040,064 |