| 1 vs 100 is a
new National Lottery game show that will be
presented on The BBC by popular Big Brother's
Little Brother presenter Dermot O'Leary. The
show will be broadcast on Saturday nights, starting
later this month.
1 vs 100 is a show created by Endemol (which
coincidentally also created Big Brother) and
it has already been a massive hit in countries
such as Holland, the USA and Hong Kong. The
exact format of the UK version have not yet
been revealed, but we can make an educated guess
about what to expect by looking at how 1 vs
100 tends to work overseas.
1 vs 100 takes one contestant and sets them
up against 100 other players. The contestant
is asked to choose an easy or difficult question
and then has to answer it, as do the 100 players.
If the contestant gets the answer right, the
players who got it wrong are eliminated from
the game and an amount of prize money is calculated
according to the number of correct players and
added to the contestant's prize pot.
If the contestant gets an answer wrong, they
are out of the game. However, they can choose
to pay a proportion of money in their prize
pot to buy the right answer. The proportion
is hefty, starting at around 25%, so using this
option is not something anyone will want to
rush into.
Different countries have other rules concerning
"doublers" (which allow the contestant
to double the amount they win if none of the
other players get it right) and the amount of
prize money at stake for each question. We will
have to wait and see how the UK format handles
these, if at all, but what we can assume is
that the aim of the game - for the single contestant
to beat the 100 players - will remain the same.
With the Dermot O'Leary at the helm and the
National Lottery in the background, we think
that 1 vs 100 is a dead cert to pull in the
Saturday night viewers to BBC One this Autumn.
7 September 2006
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