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May 25, 2012

NBC wants another game show with many people

by Bob Sassone, posted Apr 30th 2006 11:21PM

So it looks like 26 stunning models holding briefcases just isn't enough people on the stage for NBC.

The network -- who seems to have a hit with Deal Or No Deal, even though it seems to be on every day -- is bringing another game show from across the pond to the U.S. 1 vs. 100 is a hit in several other countries already. This show has one contestant sitting down in front of 100 people who ask him trivia questions. The longer he goes on and eliminates some of the 100, his money increases. He'll also, of course, be able to quit and take the money at any point (hmmm...sounds like DOND).

The prize if he makes it all the way? $3 million dollars, the biggest prize on a regular U.S. game show. But, wow, how long does one game take? Answering questions from 100 people?

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JimB

The show is not as tedious as the impression you've gotten. They show it here in Sweden--one of the game shows that seems to have come here before the US instead of the other way around. (Here, however, they are all tied into the national lottery system.)

In any case, the premise is one contestant versus an audience of 100. The host--not the audience members--asks a question, which everyone answers. If the single contestant gets the answer correct, the pot grows by a factor relating to the number of audience members who got it wrong. And only those audience members who got the question right continue to play. So it's not as if you are sitting through a procession of 100 individual contestants. A particularly hard question can take out a good chunk of the pool of competitors and the entire thing can come down to a dozen questions and can even come down to a one-on-one situation in the end.

(But I cannot for the life of me remember what, if anything, audience members get if they triumph over the contestant.)

May 01 2006 at 5:46 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply

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