The Rich List
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The Rich List was a television game show on Fox, that premiered on November 1, 2006 at 9PM ET / PT and was cancelled two days later by FOX after dismal ratings. Produced by the British company 12 Yard, who also produced Weakest Link and Dog Eat Dog. It featured competitors making lists of things, such as ABBA songs or Steven Spielberg movies, with the winning team being the one that could name the most. British television presenter Eamonn Holmes was the host.
In the episode, Holmes stated, "Our top prize is so big...well, we don't have a top prize!"
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[edit] Main Game
Two teams of two players each competed. The teams were placed in separate soundproof isolation booths, with audio that could be turned on or off by the host, much like the Twenty One game show. He would announce the category for the list, such as "Tom Cruise Movies" or "Top 50 Broadway Shows of All Time," and the teams would take turns bidding on how many they think they could name.
The host would switch the audio on and off between booths as the bidding continued, then turn them both on when one team challenged the other to fulfill the bid. The challenged team would then need to come up with that many correct answers in a row in order to win the list. One mistake would award it to their opponents.
The first team to win two lists won the game and went on to the bonus round.
[edit] Tiebreaker
If each team won one list, a sudden death tiebreaker was played. The host would give the category, both booths are switched on, and the teams alternate their answers. In order to win the list and the game, one team would have to give a correct answer while their opponents missed.
[edit] Bonus Round
The winning team was given a new category by Holmes and had the chance to supply up to 15 right answers. Winnings increased after every third one as shown in the table below.
If a wrong answer was given at any time, the team would lose all accumulated money for that bonus round, but previous winnings were safe. After every third answer, they could choose to stop (keeping all money won so far) or go on. Regardless of the outcome, they would have returned to play against a new pair of opponents; only a loss in the main game could have eliminated the champions. [edit] Trivia
[edit] CancellationAfter only one episode receiveing poor ratings, the show was pulled from its timeslot, to be replaced by a special new episode of The O.C. the following week, which struggled the next night during its season premiere [1]. After the announcement, The Rich List's page on FOX.com's website was removed. The Rich List became the second U.S. program in the 2006 calendar year (after ABC's Emily's Reasons Why Not in January; Australia's The Master was axed in August), and the first of the 2006-07 television season, to be cancelled after just one episode, joining The Master and Jackie Gleason's ill-fated "You're in the Picture" as the only game shows that were cancelled after one episode. Despite the ratings, The Rich List has received positive reception among game show fans, but unlike Gleason, who used the next week to apologize for how bad the show was (and have a talk show fill out the remaining eleven weeks of the scheduled run), neither Holmes nor the producers gave an apology. [edit] See also[edit] External links |
