Thanks to the brilliant Brits at Bother’s Bar for this bit of information today.  I enjoyed FOX’s The Rich List when it was on for that one hour episode.  It got gobbled up by a total lack of faith from FOX, but deservedly so.  I think making it an hour long million dollar game show was a terrible idea.  It’s basically made to be a half hour decent budget show.  At the bottom of the post is a video of the Australian version so you can watch it and see why.  What amuses me is that it’s been a relative success in basically every other country it’s been on except here.  UK’s version is called Who Dares Wins and it’s a lottery show for them.

We might be getting a second chance.  On a ticketing website, it states a US version of Who Dares Wins will be taping on the British set.  It’ll have a top prize of $50,000 and have basically the same rules.  two teams of two wager against each other on how many items in a list of a specific category they can name.  If they are challenged and meet their wager, they get a list, but if they fail, the other team gets the list.  Whichever team wins two lists first plays the end game, where you have to name fifteen items in a list without messing up, for the top prize.

I’m going to do a bit of my guessing and wager this is going to GSN.  And sadly I have nothing to go by but the taping structure and just plain guessing.  Nine tape dates are set.  Enough time is sandwiched between each taping to get four or five episodes done.  GSN stereotypically orders 40 episodes of a show (at least recently).   I can see GSN ordering forty episodes, and just making them self contained, toughening up the end game, and making it a fifty grand top prize show.

Again, I have no idea who picked it up or what the deal is.  I’m just guessing about GSN.  We do know, though, that a US Rich List/Who Dares Wins show is being taped in three weeks on the British set for a fifty grand top prize and following the same basic format as the former FOX show.