This is quite lengthy so just to be sure you don’t miss it, our reaction to Full Tilt’s suspension can be found here. Preview: it sounds like HORSE is off the menu.
Anyway, friend of the Bar Paul Brassey is after contestants for a run through:
The BBC’s Format Development team are looking for teams of contestants (two per team) to take part in a run-through of a brand new daytime quiz in front of an important BBC commissioner.
Where: BBC Television Centre, Wood Lane, London W12 7RJ
When: Monday 18th July 2011 – 11am – 4.30pm (approx)
This is your chance to:
- Try out our exciting new format before anybody else!
- Prove your intellectual worth by vanquishing all before you!
- See the sixth floor of TVC (where all the important folk sit) before they turn it into a Starbucks or something!
We’re looking for quiz fans with a decent level of general knowledge (this is for the old Pointless / Perfection slot, so think along those lines) who are bright and enthusiastic.
As this is a run-through there’s no prize, I’m afraid (we are funded by the license fee after all). We will, however, cover reasonable travel expenses (if you’re not sure what’s “reasonable” just ask) and provide lunch, snacks and unlimited hot drinks. You will also earn the eternal gratitude of our whole team and, as an additional enticement, should the format go forward to series we will guarantee an audition to anybody taking part in this run.
N.B. Although the show is designed to be a competition between pairs we realise it’s not easy for two people to get time off from their work or studies for such pursuits, so we’ll also consider pairing up individuals on the day. In other words please don’t be put off getting in touch if you can’t find somebody willing and able to pair up with you.
If you’re interested then please email paul.brassey@bbc.co.uk with the following information:
- Your name, age, hometown and occupation, and that of your teammate (if applicable).
- A photo of yourself and one of your teammate (if applicable) – one from facebook or similar is fine.
- Your quiz experience (televised or otherwise). We’re very happy to hear from people who’ve been on TV before so please be honest. If you know the dates that any quiz shows you’ve appeared on were televised then please include them. Also include any links you’re aware of to TV appearances that might be on YouTube or similar.
Many thanks. Hope to hear from some of you soon.
It’ll probably be a lot of fun, so get to it, Punters.
101 Ways to leave game show injury.
Hmm.
“..should the format go forward to series we will guarantee an audition to anybody taking part in this run.”
Only an audition?
I’d have thought a fast track into taking part on the actual show (should the nod come from the commissioner of daytime entertainment) would have been more attractive. Afterall, isn’t being a crash test pilot dummy, just like doing an audition?
Just wunderin…
Hi Mart,
Alas with a project at this early stage we’re very constrained in what we can and can’t commit to. This doesn’t just extend to contestants but talent, staff, pretty much everyone involved. It’s not ideal, but who’s to say what might happen down the line? I can promise people the world now and cross my fingers it all works out for the best or I can try and be as honest as possible and hope some people will be interested regardless.
I’m very aware that people taking part in this run will be doing us a favour, and not the other way round, and as such I promise to bear that in mind in the future. I also promise to try my utmost and make the day as enjoyable as possible for them. Hopefully the Bar punters who did a run for me a few years back will look back on it as a positive experience (I’m aware there was a cash prize then that there isn’t this time).
I’d love to be able to promise more, but unfortunately I’m just not able to.
I’m happy to answer any questions people have, either publicly here or on twitter or privately by email.
Now off to watch The Apprentice.
Regards,
Paul
P.S. What does “101 Ways to leave game show injury.” mean? Did I miss something?
I think it’s a reference to a tweet a made earlier – I noticed I was getting a couple of hits for people searching for 101 Ways… injury, I wondered if there was a story there or whether Americans just misunderstand risk management. Who knows what wacky Endemol Joe will do next?
But, if I’m allowed to ask, is it *our* Endemol Joe? I know it’s happened before that someone’s tried to sock puppet under his name (and you’ve caught them in the act). It doesn’t seem like Joe to post not only a non-sentence, much less one that leaves half of the words in the title of one of his shows uncapitalized, but also one that casts a negative light on a show he promotes. (Sorry if this post sounds like a dig on Joe.) I don’t have all the information Brig has, but I’d call bollocks on the above post.
Yes it’s our Endemol Joe.
Thanks for you honest reply, Paul.
I would have thrown a helping wink your way on this, but alas, the pressure of work means I can’t.
As I’ve made one attempt at getting into the world of gameshow development before, I’ve always thought that anyone who helps out and plays ‘pretend contestant’ during the pilot stages of any of my shows (not that they are likely to ever get made!) would be offered a place on screen when the production decamps from the production office to the studio. Obviously with the hole in the pocket of the channel commissioners growing bigger by the year, even that may be an daydream too far.
Hey ho. Whatever happens, good luck with trying to smuggle the show on air at some point in the future.
And if the show does need an audience – please try and throw in a couple of daytime recordings at Television Centre! I’m growing tired of watching good shows being put in boxes and lugged up the M6 to Pacific Quay.
BBUS released the names of the 8 new HG’s this morning…Yes, only 8, because the twist this year is that there will be 3 “dynamic duos” from the past who will be joining them to bring it up to 14 (that won’t be identified until the premiere)…They went the Survivor route with mixing vets in with newbies.