PokerFace

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This article is about the game show. For information relating to the poker term, see Bluff (poker).

PokerFace

Format	Quiz show
Run time	60 minutes including breaks
Creator(s)	Ant & Dec
Starring	Ant & Dec
Channel	ITV1
Production company	talkbackTHAMES
Air dates	2006 – 2007?
No. of series	2?

PokerFace is an ITV1 game show, where one person is guaranteed to win £1,000,000. The show was created and hosted by Ant & Dec.

PokerFace, as implied by the title, is based on the bluffing aspect of poker games. The contestants don't necessarily need to get the questions right in order to win, and can bluff their way through the game and pressure their opponents into folding in order to win.

The show was originally going to be called The Con.Test, but the name was changed just weeks before the show began.

1 Format
2 Winners
3 Final Winner
4 International Expansion
5 External links

[edit] Format

On each show, 6 contestants compete for a prize of £50,000 and a place in Sunday's £1,000,000 final.

The show opens with "The Grilling". This is where the 6 contestants are introduced, and tell the other contestants about themselves. The viewers can see whether a person is telling the truth or not by the 'TRUE' and 'BLUFF' prompts on the screen. After all 6 contestants have been introduced and grilled, the game begins. Each contestant sits in front of a screen, and only they can see their score.

In Round 1, there are 8 multiple choice questions worth £500 each. After the answer to each question is revealed, viewers at home can see which contestants got it right or wrong by a series of ticks and crosses appearing on the pictures of each contestant. At the end of each round, viewers at home see the leaderboard, and more importantly, who's in last place. Ant & Dec then ask the contestants in turn how they think they did in that round.

After the round has finished, the face-off begins. The contestants stand in front of red buttons that rise from the floor, and a 10 second countdown starts. There are 2 possible outcomes:

A contestant folds by pressing the button. They lose their place in the game, but take home with them their winnings.
Nobody folds. The player with the least money will be removed from the game and they leave with nothing.

In either case, the losing contestant is briefly interviewed and asked to justify their decision. The contestant is then shown a leaderboard which reveals how the other contestants are doing.

There are 5 rounds in total. In each subsequent round, there are just 5 questions, but the prize money increases by £250 each round.

During the final, the £50,000 won in the weekly heats was used as stake money, and the amount on offer per question was doubled.

[edit] Winners

Monday 10 July - Sarah
Tuesday 11 July - Kim
Wednesday 12 July - Julian
Thursday 13 July - Geoff
Friday 14 July - Amy
Saturday 15 July - Bill

As of October 2006 the show has been re-commissioned by ITV for a second series to run at the beginning of 2007

[edit] Final Winner

Sunday 16 July - Sarah Lang - £1 million

Sarah is possibly Britain's biggest game show winner in total, having also won £32,000 on a National Lottery game show within the previous year. She has also appeared on The Weakest Link and Wipeout.[1]

Runner-up - Julian Sperring-Toy (£0 - did not fold so lost £75,500)

[edit] International Expansion

The format for Pokerface has been sold to Crackerjack Productions in Australia, where it will screen on the Ten Network in early 2006.

The Australian version will be called "The Con.Test." Whilst the show essentally remains the same, there will be no $1 million dollar playoff, with winners of each show recieving $50,000. Casting has recently completed in Melbourne & Sydney, with filming to done in Sydney.

Triple M Radio host Fifi Box has been reported as a possible host for the Australian version.

A Swedish version of the show is scheduled to run on TV4.^[1]