Fifteen to one (amount of viewers per episode that is!) (Fifteen to One)

Member Name: bruffyboy

Product:	Fifteen to One
Date:	04/06/09 (18 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: questions

Disadvantages: the people

Fifteen to One - this show takes me right back to being a teenager and coming home from school, having a go at flexing my brain with William G. Stewart.

The 30 minute show saw 15 brainboxes taking part in a general knowledge game-show. As they got questions wrong, they lost lives, and when they lost 3 lives they were out. The last man (or woman) standing was the winner.

To me, this show is everything TV shouldn't be about. I would look at it on three levels:

1) The questions - in terms of questions, this was a good show. There were a wide range of topics and issues covered, and the questions were a good difficulty level. What I mean by this is I could answer about half of them haha, so they weren't too hard but they also weren't easy.

2) The competitors - the people taking part were just normal people, but they weren't given the opportunity to really express themselves or allow us to get to know them like in, say Deal or No Deal. Because of this, we have no connection or empathy with and for them, so it doesn't interest us in who wins, which is a bit rubbish.

3) The host: William G. Stewart was the closest thing to cardboard you could get with a pulse. Completely lacking in personality, the guy was just dull, and did nothing to make the show interesting. This ruined it for me, and made the whole thing a drag. I mean, even Roy Walker was cracking a few funnies on Catchphrase, so why did they pick the comatose William G. Stewart for this? Even his name is depressing!

All in all, a show that shows us how far these quiz programmes have come. The questions were great, but where was the personality?

Summary: don't bother