Chris Jericho's new show premiered on Tuesday night in the States on abc. I saw the trailer for the show on YouTube and thought the concept seemed pretty cool (that voice was annoying as hell though). Basically, the show is based at the edge of a building. The contestant has to answer question's to win prizes. The prizes are put on an escalator and the longer the contestant take's to answer, the prize will be slowly going over the edge and falling to the floor.
Obviously we don't have abc here in Ireland so I decided to "get" the show and put it on my iPod. On first impressions, the show was pretty cool. It's set in LA on, what they claim be a 100ft skyscraper (realistically it's about 10ft). Jericho really is excellent as a host for this show. He's pretty funny and very light-hearted on it. The rules were given out and they are: the conveyor belt holds replicas of all the cash and prizes that the contestants stand to win. The game consists of up to seven timed rounds during which players attempt to answer category-based trivia questions as they watch their potential winnings move along the belt. Each contestant must correctly answer the questions as quickly as possible before the cash and prizes fall off the building. The first five rounds hold three prizes each. The first prize is located one-quarter of the way down the belt, the second is at the halfway mark, the third is three-quarters of the way down and the cash, ranging from $5,000 to $1,000,000 depending on the current level, is at the end.
Contestants can answer a question as many times as they wish; contestants stay on a question until it is answered correctly or he/she chooses to pass it and go to a new question in the category. Every time a question is passed, the belt gets faster. If the cash prize falls before a contestant completes a round, the player loses and the game is over. After each round, players can choose to keep what they have won or continue to the next round. The final round, worth one million dollars, features the contestant sitting on the belt with the money and having to correctly answer all the questions before falling off the edge.
If a contestant feels he/she cannot answer their remaining questions before all prizes fall, they may hit the "panic button" at the podium. Use of the button ends the current round and allows the contestant to replay the level with a new category from the list. The button may be used twice: once to allow the contestant to "surrender a personal possession" and once to get help from a friend or family member. When a contestant chooses to surrender a possession, an item of great importance to him/her is placed before the cash on the belt and, in order to salvage the item, the contestant must complete the round before the item falls. When help from a companion is desired, the partner is strapped into the safety harness and placed in front of the cash on the belt. The contestant's companion can help by shouting answers but all final answers must come from the contestant. If the companion falls, he/she can no longer be of use but the round continues until the cash falls.
Anyway, the show was pretty good. There was some very funny moments - A question of fast food came up and you had to guess where ___ was sold. The contestant said something Italian was sold in KFC, prompting Jericho to ask "When's the last time you last saw something Italian in Kentucky?" Another moment was when the 1st contestent revealed she used to work in Hooters.
Overall, it's a great show and is worth checking out. In fact, here is the 1st episode:
Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5
It apparantly got nearly 6 million viewers, which is pretty good, and I'm looking forward to next week's edition already.
D2D out
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