A rather tired 90s gameshow (Big Break)

Member Name: Burning_Darkness

Product:	Big Break
Date:	30/10/09 (17 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: snooker aspect is quite interesting

Disadvantages: Davidson and the overall presentation feel very tired

Broadcast between 1991 and 2002, 'Big Break' was a snooker-themed gameshow hosted by Jim Davidson with minor snooker celebrity John Virgo helping out. Each contestant is assigned a professional snooker player at the beginning, and show contains a number of similar rounds in which contestants must answer questions, with their player then attempting to pot balls to win the contestants money and prizes when the contestants get a question right, with different balls being worth incrementally larger amounts of money and, in the timed final round, bigger and bigger prizes. And thats it basically, apart from John Virgo's Trickshot, in which Virgo sets up a different snooker trickshot for the losing contestant to perform each week.

With its corny catchprases and generally dated feel the show all feels very tired now, and Jim Davidson comes across as particularly irksome, although the snooker aspect of the game does at least give the show a certain uniqueness and will likely endear the it to fans of the game. Aside from this angle though there is very little to recommend, and it is next to impossible to imagine the BBC green-lighting a prime time gameshow with Jim Davidson as host today, given today's ultra-PC environment and the controversial nature of Davidson's stand-up material. A fairly formulaic gameshow (albeit with an interesting twist) boasting an irritating host, Big Break is one to consign to the tv-history bin.

Summary: A fairly formulaic show with an irritating host