Oh this is interesting, Deadline are reporting that the third series of The Floor with Rob Lowe will launch directly on FOX after Superbowl LIX on Feb 9th. That’s a huge seal of approval and launchpad for what is probably the world’s most successful new quiz right now, and whose second series is currently airing so you wouldn’t have long to wait to see the third.
Now that it sounds like In With a Shout won’t be returning, is there now room for The Floor UK, or does Alan Carr’s Picture Slam still take up too much space in the “recognising things” genre? We were on board really early.
Edit: You Bet! down for Saturday 7th December at 8:15pm. The suggestion is that it’s a 60 minute slot, although the press release suggested 75 minutes, so who knows what’s going on there. Edit Edit: John Williams has changed the tweet, it’s 75 minutes now.
Edit edit edit: And now we’re getting FOUR new episodes of The 1% Club 9-12th December. This feels a bit mad, I’m not sure what they’re expecting stripping it across weeknights, I don’t think it’ll be half as successful as it is at the weekend (which the rest of the series will be). We’ll see.
Yeah, with Picture Slam, Catchphrase, individual picture rounds in various shows and Pictionary on its way, the UK is perhaps well-served already.
Looking at the current slate for Saturday nights and with Gladiators now to consider, I think ITV may give up and air a film or Chase/TP repeat, move Wheel of Fortune to Q2 with 99 to Beat, and as Strictly season seems out of bounds for new shows these days there doesn’t seem to be anywhere for The Floor which ITV would want to do well to go. It’ll take WoF to keep underperforming and/or 99 To Beat to flop before we see any changes I reckon but then we’ll probably get a series of You Bet. Either that or Ant and Dec decide to end Limitless Win, but for that slot I’d look at something similar yet different like Press Your Luck.
I would be *absolutely fascinated* to see what a modern Press Your Luck UK would be like, especially its choice of prizes. It’s a shame none of the Paul Coia hosted 90s one has shown up on Youtube yet, really.
Haven’t even seen a screencap. The US show has its own fandom with a list of prizes – https://press-your-luck.fandom.com/wiki/Prizes_in_Press_Your_Luck. Slightly better than £200 (top prize in the UK)! Understandable why it was that but done properly the show would stand a chance.
I’m 4 episodes in on Season 2 of The Floor, and they’ve added a new rule for this season. If a player wins 3 duels in a row, they earn a Time Boost, which will add 5 seconds to their timer (so 50 seconds instead of the usual 45) on any duel of their choice. There are also 100 players in this season, whereas Season 1 had 81.
I’ve also been watching the newest incarnation of Trivial Pursuit, hosted by LeVar Burton on The CW.
3 players start the game and are asked questions on the 6 classic TP categories: Geography, History, Science and Nature, Sports and Leisure, Art and Literature, and Entertainment. The first category is picked at random and whoever buzzes in with the right answer gets 100 points and a corresponding wedge along with control of the category for the next question. The idea is to collect as many wedges as possible as they are worth 200 points each at the end of the round. A player can only have 1 wedge of a particular category, but will still score the 100 points for a correct answer. After 3 sets of questions have been asked on each of the categories, the scores are tallied and the 2 highest scorers move on to the next round.
In Round 2, the 2 remaining players put the 6 categories in order, starting with the category that they don’t want to answer a question on, and the remaining 5 being worth 200, 400, 600, 800 and 1,000 points. Starting with the trailing player, questions are asked alternately and are now 3-answer multiple-choice questions. Whoever has the most points at the end of the round moves on to the final round to play for up to $20,000. This round can also end early if one player is too far ahead so the opponent can’t statistically catch up.
In the final round, the winning player has 60 seconds to answer one question in each of the 6 categories, starting with the category of their choice. Each correct answer is worth $1,000 but getting all 6 correct augments their winnings to $20,000. After a commercial break, there is a second game with 3 new players.