On Channel 5! Hands up if you predicted this and don’t work for 12 Yard or Channel 5. I wonder if they’ll be less waffle when four minutes is shaved off for ads.
There’s an argument that if it does the same sorts of numbers it did on BBC2 then it’d be a very smart pick-up for them, but that’s a very big ‘if’.
Not sure how it would get the same numbers as on BBC2 but it’s a nice low-cost format.
I’ll be interested to see where they schedule it
So game of talents premiered in the u.s this week. Through the seven seas, I watched the ep as itv are planning their version to air this year.
Its a good simple format, the masked singer influncer is very obvious, they have video clues with clues to the talent, although sometimes to shake it up, they have a picture clue.
The contestants have a list of 7 talents to guess from, 6 of those will appear while 1 is a decoy.
They must work out the talent with the clues given.
The video clues are done in a skit like clip, with variation, one was a fake gameshow, one was a anon interview with a criminal, one was an ad for a restaurant with the dialogue containing hints to the talent.
The clues vary, some of them were quite obvious, they had a gospel singer and the clues were painfully obvious
Some of the clues were too lateral compared to the others, they had a levitator and both teams guessed wrong and even when the clue was revealed it was like really?
The final round is guessing from the last two options which I think makes it a bit too easy, for the final round they should add some more decoy answers other than just one.
But overall I think this should be good for itv.
The scoring system is atrocious- the round values are $10K, $10K, $15K, $15K, and $60K. That means the first four rounds are irrelevant- whoever wins the last round wins the game even if it’s the only round they won. Also, the first four rounds have the teams alternating control (in rounds 1-2 they can see the clue before deciding whether to make a guess or force the other teams to guess, in rounds 3-4 they have to decide before the clue is shown to play or pass)- but in round 5 it’s a buzzer round (they both start to see the clue, and when a team is confident they stop the clue by locking in their guess- so it’s basically do you want a 1 in 3 chance of winning but control what your answer will be or a 2 in 3 chance of winning but have no control on what answers you get).
I just had a ton of problems with it. The ratings were OK because of The Masked Singer overrun in the first half hour, but the 18-49 rating went down a ton between the first and 2nd half-hours.
Thirty seven celebrity episodes broadcast between 2017 and 2018, as well as the two Are You An Egghead? series and the last five Make Me An Eggheads were all 45 minutes long. I suspect it’s more likely that Channel 5’s version will air for an hour including adverts. But I hope I’m wrong.
It’s 40 x 30′ I think.
In fact it says so in that tweet.
*raises hand*
I mean, the trend during COVID is you want a show with a lot of people, so the comeback was inevitable. Altho, I was expecting a 60 minutes show. If you can stretch LINGO & Winning Combination into an hour show, surely you can stretch the Eggheads. Just make each round has 5 questions/player and you are already asking 50 Q in 44 minutes, a faster pace than BBC’s 30 Q in 30 minutes. The show can afford to ask questions at a faster pace.
Hopefully, they have an extra budget to double the jackpot to 2k, and pay writers to have 4 questions/player in each round? Surely they can’t be that cheap.
I think part of the issue with the format is that the more questions you have, the more opportunity there is for the Eggheads to overhaul the challengers. When they do get beaten, it’s usually one tricky question that they trip up on that gives the challenger an opening.
Didn’t they stretch the final to 5 questions at one point, before reverting back to 3?
I wonder how they’ll schedule it, especially as they don’t have many other half-half shows. Strip it at 4pm and commission another half-hour quiz to air alongside it maybe?
Sounds like they’re after teams of four and a reserve.
I think the most exciting prospect of this is the idea that Channel 5 wants to get back into quiz shows proper. I can’t imagine the plan is to attract the Eggheads audience and then give them nothing else.
Here’s a pitch I’ve thought about for a long team: Celebrity Eggheads… where the Egghead quiz team is replaced by celebrities taking on members of the public.
Team member ideas: Shaun Williamson, Lucy Porter, Bobby Seagull, Angela Barnes, Gyles Brandreth.
Good enough for series two it looks like, they’re looking for teams of five (although I don’t know if that’s 4+1 in reserve or they’re extending the episodes).