The entire list of nominees for the Rose D’or has been announced. The full list is here (pdf file), but for the purposes of the Bar I’ll just write out the gameshow ones:
- Bingo Banko (Babyfoot, Denmark)
- Cash At Your Door (Matal, Israel)
- Extreme Wedding Album (Armoza, Israel)
- Hot Seat (Nine Network, Australia) [This is Millionaire Hot Seat, presumably.]
- I Know What You Did Last Friday (Eyeworks, Netherlands)
- One World (Zodiak, UK)
- The Cube (Objective, UK)
- The Golden Bell Challenge (KBS, South Korea) [Hasn’t this been nominated before?]
- The Line Up (Eyeworks, Netherlands)
For the record: One World involves celebrities trying to pull off the most impressive public stunt, Bingo Banko is TV bingo with It’s a Knockout style games to determine the numbers, Extreme Wedding Album involves bride and groom performing stunts to pay for a spectacular wedding, The Line Up involves guessing what people will and will not know (whilst teaching us some surprising things about stereotypes, inevitably). If The Golden Bell Challenge is what I think it is, kids sit a 50 question exam and if anyone gets all the answers right they get to ring the golden bell and get their name engraved on it. The rest I don’t know, but will attempt to research.
It’s a bit of an uninspiring line-up to be honest – The Cube may well walk it.
Info on the two Eyeworks shows…
The Line Up is a revised version of 50 Blondes- they just use several different groups. IKWYDLF is a hypnosis game show (contestants are hypnotized and have to guess what they did while they were under)
Cash At Your Door is a generic one-player increasing cash prize quiz with the added novelty of it being inside the contestant’s home. Sounds odd.
Extreme Wedding Album involves bride and groom performing stunts to pay for a spectacular wedding
…So, Love Me Do but without Shane Richie singing, then?
I think that a former Krypton Factor contestant called Jon is on The Chase at the moment.
Yes thats correct and they managed to get under the chasers skin and that seams like a very winning tactic as he got a couple of very simple questions wrong in the final chase.
I have to say im really starting to like The Chase, its a nice change to see a quiz with a great variety of questions on ITV (that is not Millionaire).
The Chase, IMO, is the best gameshow ITV have done for many, many years.
Loved it when the Chaser just stormed off in a huff at the end… brilliant!!!
That’s Mark Labbett for you. Like Stefan Raab, he is very competitive but hates losing.
LOL at “shut up you”.
I’d love the German Chase with Stefan Raab.
But there are a couple of glitches.
1 – what happens if none of the 4 get through to the final chase? The padding to fill out Part 4 (which is around 9 mins) would be noticable during the rest of the show. I take it, if this happened, the episode would not even make it to air?
2- It happened this week, and had me cursing the development team. I like the way if in the final chase, if the chaser gets the question wrong or passes, the team if they get that question right they push the chaser back one step – but – there is no penalty if the chaser get the first question wrong and the team answers it correctly.
Clumsy – should have covered that one. Either deduced 5 seconds of the remaining time for the chaser, or, they have to answer two questions correct to move off the first step.
If the Chaser defeats all four players then he/she offers them a second chance. All four players can win £1,000 each (£4,000 in total) but they must decide and nominate one person to answer the questions in the final chase but they don’t have a head start.
So far it has only happened once, which was in the series pilot last year.
Thanks for that Travis. Nice little harmonious wrecking team twist that.
Just to add to the list – Coach Trip is up under Reality & Factual and the 09 Eurovision Final is up under Variety & Live Event
And two more: “MI High: The Grand Mistress Mystery” is one of a few tv tie-in games in the Multi-Platform category, for where the web meets the box. And the Variety ‘n’ Live Event category also has “Battle of the Blades”, CBC’s knock-off of “Dancing on Ice”, pairing professional ice dancers with former ice hockey stars.
“Battle of the Blades” is coming back for a second series I’m told; however I don’t believe that the Rose D’or win or loss would affect it that much… is it just in Europe that it gets some press?
Basically, if it wins then the format tends to get a massive boost. Usually the judges get it about right (Don’t Forget Your Toothbrush! Wanted! The Phone!), occasionally they let Oblivious win for a laugh.
Or, indeed, The Black and White Minstrel Show.
You can watch Iain Weaver and his fighting company live from Moscow.
I will get bored of this eventually, but evidently not quite yet.
Christophe loses for the 3rd time at TLMVPSP. Corinne rejects the offer of 3400 Euro and unseats him.
It should be noted that he didn’t really want to offer anything, but was sort of goaded into it by Nagui. He really didn’t do all that bad so I can understand why he left.
Also, I was under the impression that you could offer once but on your second defeat you had to leave?
No, the champion can make ONE offer after each defeat. That’s one of the advantages they’re giving him.
Can anyone remind me how the briefcase negotiation game in the uk MOLE worked please?
There were four players, four cases. One contains a free pass to the next episode, one contains free answers for the questionnaire, and contains a cash sum (£1,000 I think), and the other contains nothing (in International ones, it could contain a prize of a phone conversation with a heavily voice-edited Mole).
They’re given some time to discuss who wants what, and then they make their choice in secret. If they’ve all said different things, that’s all well and good, everyone gets what they chose, and £5,000 (may be 10, forgot) goes into the kitty. However, if two or more people pick the same case, the players that picked that case get nothing.
Replace the ‘and’ with ‘one’ there. The answers don’t come with the cash sum.
One other complication is that the players are not all permitted to discuss this at the same time; the four participants split into two pairs and discuss, in each of the three ways this can happen. (At least, if I recall correctly, this is how it happened in the UK version.)
David, wasn’t this one of ours? Heavily based on an obscure US game show, though the communication twist was new, and it worked…
(Unrelatedly, Iain Weaver won again and is guaranteed at least a silver medal with one more fight for a gold!)
That was one of the games I devised for the UK version. I was unaware of how Temptation worked – just goes to show there’s little new under the Sun. Also, I wasn’t aware other Moles had done it.
It’s fair to say that your one came first, but several other international versions that came after used the idea. Evidently there’s some sort of central pool of ideas.
Not only that, but they’d often share locations for big stunts, so certain games would work as a ‘carousel’ production, as it’s called.
Heads Or Tails not nominated then?
Tch… No justice.
Small bit of ratings news. Yesterday’s (Thursday) showing of The Chase won the 5pm time slot and beat Weakest Link by 100,000 viewers. You could say Mark Labbett has knocked Anne Robinson off her perch.
Anyone know any more about this little format?
http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/ustv/news/a225492/nbc-orders-hughley-gameshow-pilot.html
I assume this is the same project Star Now were looking to recruit contestants for a run-through for – with some marketing guff about it being touted as the next Millionaire…
Double Cross will sue. Har.
haha, no. This is just an unbelievably weird coincidence. This has to be that Secret Treasure show that was being announced for NBC by ITV Studios in April. It lines up perfectly, all descriptions.
Secret Treasure was announced the same day DC debuted. It’s just a very eerie coincidence. I have the format for Who’s Bluffing Who on Buzzer. The format, frankly, blows. It’s a been there-done that quiz with a Deal or No Deal-like money box element that has absolutely no bearing on the format than to randomly give $250,000 to someone despite no risk.
If nothing else this clearly shows me why the Double Cross format is being drastically changed for season two. It didn’t work out the way I intended, though I was alright with it. I’m working with GSN on a new podcast for a gigantic prize (by their standards) so that’s taken a tiny back seat for now. Double Cross definitely has a big future coming up soon depending on this GSN podcast. Stay tuned.
In completely unconnected and rather old news, I’ve only just discovered that Olav Bjortomt has a blog.
Children’s TV presenter Fred Dineage and ‘Allo ‘Allo actress Vicki Michelle are made MBEs
Nothing for Fred Dinenage, then. Alas!