![]() He calls himself Britain's 17th best quizzer, and he carries himself with all the pomp and majesty of a medieval king who's fully aware that he knows quite a lot more about several things than most people. He's a quiz veteran, with appearances on The National Lottery People's Quiz, Only Connect and Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? twice. A swaggering giant of a man, Labbett is part Anne Robinson, part Banker and part Graham Linehan in a Mr Creosote outfit. It also happens to be nowhere near perfect – it's too cheap looking and Walsh seems bored senseless most of the time – which sort of puts the skids on my experiment.īut The Chase does have something exceptional going for it – a Chaser named Mark Labbett. Hosted by Bradley Walsh, it's a nasty and complicated general knowledge show that pits contestants against a quiz expert called a Chaser, who lets them choose how much money they want to win. It's ITV1's The Chase (5pm, daily), and it's a shameless amalgamation of most of its contemporaries. Except – hang on a minute – that gameshow already exists. ![]() He'll do.Īnd there we have it, the perfect afternoon gameshow. Bradley Walsh? He briefly hosted Wheel Of Fortune. A former comedian like Duel's Nick Hancock or Jasper Carrott from Golden Balls? Possibly, but let's find someone with a little bit more gameshow experience. So let's make our show several times more confusing than it needs to be. Rules: Remember that a contemporary daytime gameshow wouldn't be a contemporary daytime quiz show unless it came with a set of rules so monumentally impenetrable that, like Golden Balls, each episode tends to comprise one part game to about 36 parts painstaking explanation. Who wants to watch a gameshow where people are genial and treat each other with respect? This isn't the 1950s, for crying out loud. At least as nasty as The Weakest Link, obviously. The bargaining aspect – letting the contestants effectively choose their own prize – is very clever, so let's steal that as well. That said, Deal Or No Deal shouldn't be a complete write-off. An unbeatable foe like the Eggheads panel? Perfect. A faceless banker on the end of a telephone line? That's just creepy. Anything else – anything that could encourage Noel Edmonds to pop up and start droning on about universal energy like some sort of badly-dressed Jesus figure – is strictly no-go.īut where's the challenge? Who are the contestants up against? Each other? Maybe a decade ago. It works for The Weakest Link, it works for Eggheads and it'll work for us. Format: We'll stick to basic general knowledge questions.
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