George Lamb to Host Channel 4′s “The Bank Job”
Radio and television presenter George Lamb has been named the host of Channel 4′s upcoming multiplatform live game show The Bank Job, which has been getting a pretty good reception thus far. The show is aimed to debut the first week of January 2012. You can click here to play the online game which is how you get on TV. George was the former host of Big Brother’s Little Brother and appeared on Channel 4′s other live game show The Million Pound Drop, winning £50,000 for charity.
Host George Lamb said: “I’m super happy to be back at Channel 4, working on such an exciting and ground-breaking live show. If you cross an edge-of-your-seat game show with Ocean’s Eleven and add a twist of real-time viewing then you’ve got The Bank Job.”
The show places contestants against each other in a game of knowledge, strategy, and luck as they attempt to leave a bank vault with the most cash. Across five nights only one will leave the vault each night, and each comes back on the sixth day for a chance to win the total combined prize pool. People can play along live much like the show’s sister program The Million Pound Drop.
I am hooked on playing The Bank Job on the Channel 4 website. It is the perfect combination of luck, strategy, and trivia. I hope they have an American version of the show soon.
I read the name as “Dave Lamb” (voice-over man on Come Dine With Me) and got very excited. Ah well, this guy’ll do, too.
I can confirm some details as I’ve just been phoned by endemol for contestant research. Filming will take place in London, 2nd-7th of January with Saturday being the live final. 4 contestants each weekday night and the winner of each brings there prize fund through to the final where one contestant walks away with all the money. Very similar format to the online game although initially contestants given 2mins to answer and pick from the vault and when two contestants eliminated then there is the opportunity to steal money from your opponent.
Endemol is behind this show? Well… … …
Endemol knows how to make good game shows, but they tend to drag them out over the course of a full hour. If Endemol is producing it, you can be assured it’s coming to America within the next year.
Presuming they’ll all be live if that’s the taping week.
So basically a full-on multiplayer version now, as was inevitable given that there was a five-player final (though personally I’d have had three short head-to-head games as the heats and then the five-player final would have felt like a different and bigger deal – “now, you’re all against each other”).
I presume that with four players given 120 seconds on the clock, there’s going to be much more than a 5×5 matrix in the vault, and hence a much thinner distribution of the cash – there’s over five times as much time between the contestants as there is online, so I reckon it might be a 10×10 grid, numbered 1-100 (or 0-99?). I’d reckon on 20 empty boxes, with some becoming steals once it’s down to two players; hence £200,000 between 80 boxes. That’s a mere £2,500 average per box.
(As to why that’d be necessary – if it takes five seconds per question on average, and the conversion rate for right answers is around 60%, each contestant will get a potential 15 questions right in their two minutes. And though some will do worse and/or leave with time to spare, some will do even better, and the vault has to be big enough to handle that.)
Am I the only one to think Lamb looks like Hans Gruber?
I don’t know who that is.
I mean, I don’t know who Hans is. We all know by now that Endemol is known for Big Brother, Deal Or No Deal and 1 Vs. 100 but this should also be a good one.
Hans Gruber was Alan RIckman’s character in the original Die Hard. Add a beard, and I agree.
hi
love the quiz show just wondering where it takes place please
many thanks
and happy new year
sonia x