Production on the new season, set for 13 episodes, will begin later this year. The BBC format, which originally launched in the U.
The game show sees contestants answer general knowledge questions to bank prize money across multiple rounds. In each episode, eight contestants enter the studio as total strangers but must work together to bank the maximum amount of prize money available in each round. Apart from being the host of the U. When The Weakest Link in the U. While continuing to present the TV documentary series Watchdog in the U.
With Anne Robinson. Anne was also a cohost on the British talk show Loose Women until That same year, she also started presenting The One Show and continued to do so for nine years. The current version also has no double round. In the final round, the two remaining players played a showdown for all the money in the bank.
Then the players took turns answering their questions. Each player received up to five questions three in the syndication version , and the player with the most correct answers won the game.
If there was a tie after everybody was asked all of their questions, the game shifted into a sudden-death playoff. The winner of the game got to keep all the money in the bank, while the loser and the other eliminated players from the game would leave with nothing. The contestants' progress was shown with their names, and their respective question numbers lit up when their turn came.
Every right answer was denoted by a check, every wrong answer was denoted by an X. Anne Robinson not only hosted the American version, but she also hosted the original British version. The original American pilot was shot on the British set with American contestants. This was the only version out of all international versions where the contestants applauded and cheered whenever the target was hit, and the host told them not to in some way. This was also the only show where applause occurred only at the end of each show.
In addition, this was one of two shows to have music playing throughout; Greed is the other. The Hong Kong version see International Versions originally had its host act like Robinson, but Hong Kong culture usually does not tolerate this. The show these days is feeling almost friendly. That can't be right, surely? The Weakest Link: Champion's League was born with slight changes to the format. First, bigger studio and more importantly a studio audience. Opinion is divided as to whether this is a good thing or not, it loses the claustrophobic atmosphere of the daily afternoon show but it does feel more like a Coliseum and as such the insults become that little bit more humiliating.
It is only television however, and on the other hand it gives both Anne and the contestants the opportunity to play up to the audience, which means they can play it more for laughs. The feeling is that the audience are laughing at least as much with the contestants as at them. Secondly, the first version was played with eight champions from the afternoon daily show. This was genius because theoretically the team should have done better this time because they'd already proven themselves but no, champions were liable to making lots of mistakes too, magnified by the harsh but fair tongue of Anne Robinson.
Thirdly, and this has been complained about by other channels because it's paid out from the licence fee, the prize money has been bumped up. It's hardly Millionaire but perversely, even though the prize money is the main "thing" of the show, it's also the least important thing about the show.
Oh, and the cards have been replaced with whizzy electronic pencils. But that's not all! In fact, the specials have outlived the "regular" primetime version, with all manner of celebrity editions being flung out at Saturday teatimes. The Beeb also showed some of Anne's epsiodes from the American version of the show, which was practically the same as the British version except that they had an American voiceover artist who sounded half-asleep and made us appreciate just how much Jon Briggs' contributions bring to the British show.
His role may involve little more than recycling the same dozen or so phrases again and again, but it's just not the same without him. One notable difference in the American version was how much more feisty the contestants generally were in their banter with Anne. Apparently, many swear-words in their responses, both to her and after being voted off, had to be edited out! There's a risk that the Beeb are now going to overdose on "nasty" shows which may pale in comparison to this original. In the meantime, though, the BBC can enjoy having their first big hit of the decade.
After daytime episodes, and more than prime-time and celebrity episodes, it was as much of a television fixture as Neighbours.
There was no great surprise when the BBC1 controller poached Link after her Australian soap opera vanished to Channel 5. The only raised eyebrows came when the entire children's schedule was shunted back by 20 minutes, rather than chop Link down to a half-hour game. In April it was announced that Anne Robinson was quitting the show to devote more time to writing, and the BBC had decided not to replace her, meaning the show finally came off air in the spring of Contestants getting very easy questions wrong, maybe it's because of the eyes of Anne Robinson that distracts their brains.
Who kept banking? Especially in the early rounds, lots of contrived analogies for the state of being the weakest link, such as "Whose village is missing its idiot?
To the winner: "That means, whoever , you are today's strongest link and you go away with x amount ", then, to the defeated finalist: " Whoever , you leave with nothing! At the end of the show : "Join us again on 'The Weakest Link' - goodbye! Three recent memorable examples relating to names were: "Is Charlton no longer athletic?
Or are things looking iffy for Aoife? The various insults Anne throws at the contestants are called "slams" by the production team. Composed by Paul Farrer, though credited in the earliest episodes to his publishing company, Inter Angel Music. In her autobiography Memoirs of an Unfit Mother , Anne Robinson provides extracts from the original fax she received offering her the role of host for The Weakest Link.
This was the original concept:. There was even a puppet version of Anne in the opening and closing sequences! The final was between Roland and Soo and Soo was the winner, with the prize money going to her nominated charity, the WWF to help her fellow pandas!
The puppets managed to throw plenty of insults at Anne, while she, at one point, zipped Zippy's mouth up in order to allow George to speak - and she even kissed Nev!
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