12Apr2007
Sky One in England Picks Up “Fifth Grader”
Yet another US import to England: Sky One has picked up Are You Smarter Than a Fifth Grader. The show will be given 70 episodes: 50 daytime and 20 primetime. Reveille International will do this version which will be filmed in HD. Richard Woolfe, director or programming at Sky One, said: “What’s not to love about 10-year-olds gaining the intellectual high ground over nervous adults, fearing humiliation in front of a live studio audience? It’s the perfect, twisted quiz show for Sky One. No one has managed to outsmart the 5th Graders yet in the US … will it be a different story when the show comes to the UK?” Man, a huge gush of Donny Osmond and Fifth Grader has hit England. I truly feel sorry for all you fine Brits.
‘It’s the perfect, twisted quiz show for Sky One.’
I will give them this much. They don’t have enough of a prize budget to ruin it. The last game show they did was for £10k. All their money goes on buying a ton of US drama – Lost, 24, Dresden Files, Battlestar Galactica, Cold Case – and their original programming is 90% reality tripe.
This will be good for one thing, though. First UK game show in HD. I just wish it were something watchable.
The US version on FOX will have a contestant get a chance to look at the $1 million question on April 19.
What’s not to love about 10-year-olds gaining the intellectual high ground over nervous adults, fearing humiliation in front of a live studio audience?
Mmm, do we have to answer that?
And as Sky start looking for child actors…
…as we don’t use the grade system per se (students start in Year 1 at age 5 and progress through each year – without any concept of holding students back or pushing them forward, as in the US – until compulsory education ends in Year 11), the show is apparently going to be called Are You Smarter Than A 10 Year Old?
The US show is still going?
“The US show is still going?”
Unfortunately
I wonder if this will be rigged like the US version.
Hmmm….. Does the trade deficit include game shows? lol