It's More Like The Boring Factor (The Krypton Factor)

Member Name: eyedo6789

Product:	The Krypton Factor
Date:	13/03/09 (63 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: A Cure For Insomniacs

Disadvantages: It's Oh So Dated

The Krypton Factor is a British television quiz type show that is currently being screened on the ITV network at 7 p.m. It is repeated I believe on ITV 2 a few days later.

This is the new version of the show, revived just this year and presented by the smooth Ben Shephard. The original programme was something of a national institution and was hosted from 1977 to 1995 by Northern Ireland's Gordon Burns.

Coincidentally Penny Smith, who now sometimes shares the sofa with Ben Shephard on GMTV, was briefly a co-presenter with Gordon Burns on the original show in 1995. Wow, television really is a small world, especially the 14 inch one!

The idea of The Krypton Factor is that it is more than just a quiz of questions. There are general knowledge questions posed but the show also tests other areas such as memory, observation, alpha numeric aptitude, puzzle solving and physical endurance/agility/ability; the latter being tested by the competitors tackling a military style army "assault course"

Most of the contestants seem to be between 25 and 40 years old and be systems support analysts from Milton Keynes, Marketing Executives from Hampshire or Lab Technicians from Chester-Le-Street, that kind of thing. So it appears to attract sort of upwardly mobile reasonably well career established people to it. This I'm guessing is because there is no prize money involved.

Points are scored in each of the rounds/tests and the player (of whom there are four) who achieves the highest total score wins and goes through to a later round which is competed in on a separate show.

The programme now feels very dated and is pretty boring really. It looks like it's a very cheap thing to make so maybe it will cling on for a while before being scrapped in my opinion.

Eventually after various shows 4 finalists compete for the grand prize. I am not sure what the prize will be in this new series but in the old days it was a glass or metal trophy and the chance to put "Krypton Factor Champion 1987" or whatever the year was on your CV.

Maybe I'll just put it on my CV anyway and claim that all video tapes of that year's programme were lost in a fire!

Summary: This Programme Is Dead In The Water In My Opinion