Monterosa Launches “The Bank Job” Interactive Game
Channel 4 is launching their newest multiplatform television show The Bank Job today. If you can’t be in the studio to try to pull off the ultimate bank heist, you can still play along. Monterosa, the same company who created an award-winning interactive live online game for The Bank Job‘s sister show The Million Pound Drop, has created a new live interactive game for the George Lamb hosted quiz.
Click here to visit the show’s site and play along. Home players will play along with the contestants as they answer questions and get as much money as they can before the doors of the vault slam shut. The results of the online game can be fed into the studio instantly and used for comparisons. You see it on The Million Pound Drop often when host Davina McCall discusses which demographics did the best or worst on certain questions. The Bank Job‘s interactive two-screen game lets home players compete not only against the contestants in studio but also their friends to see who can take the most money from the vault’s safety deposit boxes.
Simon Brickle, Monterosa’s MD says “We are proud and excited to be working with Endemol and Channel 4 again on The Bank Job – we love the format and are confident it will be a hit, and the play-along game complements it and takes the live 2-Screen experience to a new level”.
We’ll have more on The Bank Job later tonight. Click here to visit the show’s website and play along with the game live.
Innnteresting. The front page says that the online game will see players “tackle the same questions (the contestants will) face in the final round.”
So in other words, there might be an opening round of some description, rather than each heat being a four-player version of the head-to-head game. If it is, that implies bigger prizes than I thought. We’ll see tonight.
It does make an awful lot of sense though, because four players each with two minutes on the clock (as had been hinted) would equate to needing probably 100 deposit boxes for the game, and a very thinly spread £200k.
Endemol is behind this? Surprising. I’ll bet it premieres on NBC later this year. ^_^
If they do, they better not “Americanize” it. I have a question, why DO they “Americanize” these shows, and is this really necessary?
They Americanize it because American audiences (in general) prefer different things than other audiences. For example, most of them actually like the drama, et. al. While I don’t, most Americans do. So, for that reason, it is necessary because…if they don’t…the typical American won’t watch…which is a shame.
Is there any way to end this B-S “Americanizing”?
I’d like to say yes. But, I’m not in the biz. From what I know, they go by what the masses want. Unfortunately, I think the American masses want that stuff. Oh for the days of 70′s and 80′s gameshows.
The game’s interesting, but if I want to play along, I have to wake up at 5am. (It’s playable around the world, right?)
Having seen the first two episodes, I have to say I really like this show. The rounds are well thought out, and we’ll find out on Saturday if the finals is just as good as their qualifying games. Tuesday’s game had quite a few nail-biter moments, definitely worth checking out.