![]() Or asking the best quizzer over a certain period to ask someone else to do the washing up. This hasn't stopped Endemol from attempting to create conflict by, for example, tempting people to take a prize (worth about £150!) in return for making someone else sit out of quizzing for five minutes. After all, nobody is really against each other as usually they can all take questions at the same time. On the whole, if you put random people together or a few days at a time (and it tends to be only a few days at a time) they will usually attempt to get on with each other. It's a quiality show (but not, you understand, a quality show. So as I've decided, it's a bit weak as a quiz. By answering some questions they could get rid of fake passes (tossed to the ground with the tremendous acting power that only Barry from Eastenders could do and us mere mortals could only dream of.) if the challenger loses than the weakest QM gets to go back for the day, if the Challenger wins then it's 'Thanks! Now bugger off" to the loser. One will make the machine turn an exciting shade of green, the other four an embarassing shade of red. They'd get to play the weakest link in the exciting Pod Pass Finale. The seven "winners" came back in the afternoon show where they'd be whittled down to one. ![]() If they both got it right or wrong, the Quizmates would have to decide which of the two went through. If one got it right they'd be through to the afternoon final. The challenger would be whittled down from 14 people who had already been whittled down during the morning's audition process (to get an audition you had to text "FAME" to a certain telephone number. Each day, through a special quizzing session or a sudden death quiz contest on the 5:15 live show, the worst performing "Quizmate" (although it would have been much better if they were called "Pod Bods", obviously) would be wheedled out and they would have to face a challenger who wants their place in the pod ( The place to be, let's not forget). Occasionally (usually when someone's nipped off to the lav) a bonus question worth up to £100 would be thrown up. During normal quizzing, each question is worth a whopping one pound. Or alternatively it's a good idea done very badly.īasically, three people in a specially made "Quiz Pod" answer questions day in, day out at arate of about one every thirty seconds. ![]() If this is the best format ever, why does it insist on picking potential contestants that are either a) chavs or b) young beautiful media types, neither of which are likely to watch the show at any rate? If this is the best format ever, why is (or rather was) one of the elimination rounds "whoever makes the last mistake loses!" If this was the best format ever, why did you gradually drop the prizemoney as the series progressed? If this was the best format ever, why were your internet and text message games ridiculously expensive for the potential prize (of a tenner)?Ĭlearly then we're encountering some sort of paradox. This said however, if this is the best format ever, why have they given the hosting job of the main show (Eastenders' actor Shaun Williamson) to the most inept autocue reader known to man? He's an actor for goodness sake, make him learn some lines. So if this is the best format ever, how come it's not actually a 24 hour quiz because they get to sleep for six hours every night? If this is the best format ever, how come 98% of the 75,000+ questions commissioned for the series were pitched at Millionaire's £300 level? If this is the best format ever, how come when a more difficult question comes up the "correct" answer isn't even the correct answer? Oh hang on though, this clearly is the best format ever because the red and yellow colours of the title sequence reverse after 5PM and, you know, Matt Brown who hosts the live Happy Hour show is alright. Surely this was going to be the best format ever? The best get to come back the next day and do it all over again. Whatsmore, the idea was that whilst you were answering questions in a house you were always earning cash but there were people outside fighting to get in. I think there's mileage in enduroquizzing, where winning would be as much to do with willpower and physical ability as it would with knowing things. When I first got wind of a format that was going to involve people being quizzed 24 hours a day I got quite excited. It's a quiz! It's a reality show! It's a quiz AND a reality show! It's 24 Hour Quiz!
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