: In my old blog, this would have been cut for only appealing to a few of my friends
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daweaver suggested a couple of weeks ago that PokerFace could work well for ITV if they 'strip out the references to poker, run it in the troubled 5.30 slot for a month and build up to a big prime-time final'.
That made me think of how this could be done. Actually, it involves running it for six weeks prior to the final:
* On each of Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, four new contestants would play. Each would start with £1,000. There would be eight questions in the first round, each worth £250; five in the second, each worth £500; five in the third (which is the head-to-head in the four-player variant), each worth £750. The winner would win £10,000 in stake money for the next round. Maximum values in each round are £2,000, £2,500 and £3,750; total maximum win is £9,250 (c.f. £26,000 for the heats in the original run). I would tentatively estimate £1,500, £2,500 and £4,000 as typical values for which players might fold in each round, but this will vary. Anyway, each episode would give away a minimum of £10,000 and realistically a maximum of £20,000, enough to shame its direct timeslot rival but broadly comparable with the current afternoon game show colossus, and without the need to insure against the non-existent chance of giving away £1.5m every week.
* On Friday, the winners of the weekday shows of that week would meet again, starting with their £10,000 stake. The show would work the same way but with doubled values per question; winners would secure £50,000 in stake money for the final.
* Repeat for six weeks, final six meet in the final which works identically to the final of the first run except the value per question will be redoubled with maybe more valuable questions near the end: £2k/£3k/£5k/£7.5k/£10k per question might work.
Two questions: has anything other than Masterchef Goes Large previously used a format of four heats leading into a Friday semi-final, with the winners of these progressing into the final stage? And what would be used at 5pm to accompany it? I'm tempted to say another game show, perhaps a US import that isn't The Price Is Right But The Timeslot Is Wrong: Press Your Luck would attract a young audience flicking after Deal, while I still insist a proper version of Jeopardy! here is long overdue.
daweaver suggested a couple of weeks ago that PokerFace could work well for ITV if they 'strip out the references to poker, run it in the troubled 5.30 slot for a month and build up to a big prime-time final'.That made me think of how this could be done. Actually, it involves running it for six weeks prior to the final:
* On each of Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, four new contestants would play. Each would start with £1,000. There would be eight questions in the first round, each worth £250; five in the second, each worth £500; five in the third (which is the head-to-head in the four-player variant), each worth £750. The winner would win £10,000 in stake money for the next round. Maximum values in each round are £2,000, £2,500 and £3,750; total maximum win is £9,250 (c.f. £26,000 for the heats in the original run). I would tentatively estimate £1,500, £2,500 and £4,000 as typical values for which players might fold in each round, but this will vary. Anyway, each episode would give away a minimum of £10,000 and realistically a maximum of £20,000, enough to shame its direct timeslot rival but broadly comparable with the current afternoon game show colossus, and without the need to insure against the non-existent chance of giving away £1.5m every week.
* On Friday, the winners of the weekday shows of that week would meet again, starting with their £10,000 stake. The show would work the same way but with doubled values per question; winners would secure £50,000 in stake money for the final.
* Repeat for six weeks, final six meet in the final which works identically to the final of the first run except the value per question will be redoubled with maybe more valuable questions near the end: £2k/£3k/£5k/£7.5k/£10k per question might work.
Two questions: has anything other than Masterchef Goes Large previously used a format of four heats leading into a Friday semi-final, with the winners of these progressing into the final stage? And what would be used at 5pm to accompany it? I'm tempted to say another game show, perhaps a US import that isn't The Price Is Right But The Timeslot Is Wrong: Press Your Luck would attract a young audience flicking after Deal, while I still insist a proper version of Jeopardy! here is long overdue.