{"id":8604,"date":"2015-05-21T00:04:16","date_gmt":"2015-05-20T23:04:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=8604"},"modified":"2015-05-21T16:17:53","modified_gmt":"2015-05-21T15:17:53","slug":"richard-quest-vs-the-demographic-dragon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=8604","title":{"rendered":"Richard Quest vs The Demographic Dragon"},"content":{"rendered":"

500 Questions<\/strong> starts tonight! And as the US’ big new event show that’s already had loads of interest from other countries despite not having aired anything and aiming to redefine the gameshow genre (a bit like Million Second Quiz<\/strong> two years ago) we’re paying close attention to the numbers. With\u00a0THE TERRIFYING DEMOGRAPHIC DRAGON. Will Quest complete the quest, or will he BURN?<\/p>\n

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We’ll be updating this over the next week or so – it’s the first\u00a0tonight, a double-episode tomorrow, one on Friday, then repeats on Saturday and Sunday, and then on nightly next week, finishing on a double.<\/p>\n

I’m going to be a bit behind with watching it (because of work commitments this week, aggravatingly), I’ve been down on it from ever since hearing about it<\/a> (it sounds like Quizzlestick, the prizes feel a bit cheap, crucially it’s going to be much slower paced than necessary).<\/p>\n

I think it might do OK this evening on ABC as new hyped shows invite a watch (although it is up against the Survivor: World’s Apart<\/strong> live final on CBS, a show that’s proven tremendously resiliant over 30 seasons, and there’s the added bonus of the results of a live vote to determine which previous contestants will play the next All-Star losers season), the killer is that being slow paced, if someone gets to question 60-70+ and then loses, is the average viewer bothered enough to sit through another two or three episodes to get up to a point where it’s going to be in any way tense (and even then a graphic that suggests ’60\/500′ looks like too much effort to expend for not enough reward)? I predict not, and I would expect a large drop off when the first contestant eventually gets knocked out. It’s very difficult to do endurance as a quiz show in a way that keeps viewers.<\/p>\n

Here’s the Buzzerblog review.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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