Top 10 of 2011: Number 6
Good Monday morning, everyone. We hope you had a nice holiday weekend. We’re back after an extended vacation and we’re continuing the countdown of what you voted the top 10 moments of 2011. We’ve got a double shot for you today. We’ll show you what you voted as the 6th and 5th biggest moment of 2011. We’ll start with six. It’s from a show that you’ll be hearing a lot of over the next few days: ABC’s Million Dollar Mind Game.
The sixth most memorable moment of 2011, as voted by you, is the “Pub Quiz Team Wins $600,000 on Million Dollar Mind Game.” From day one of the announcement that ABC piloted and then picked up the Russian format, we knew winning would be a challenge. There has never been a game show that has tested your ability to think and reason as a group. It’s generally just trivia. A few got far but no one won as much as the pub quiz team, which featured Jeopardy! mega-champion Brad Rutter. They breezed through several rounds but you could definitely see the tension and pressure mounting as the money kept growing to the $600,000 they ultimately won. Take a look and remember the moment.
For a show that ABC shoved to the side it gave us more memories that are going to be hard to forget than many shows in the past few years. I think it’s why we remember the show so fondly and hope that we can see something like it, if not this exact show, back soon. It’s different and that’s good. For some reason, over the past few years, intelligent games have vanished. To have something challenge you like this, both in studio and at home where it was a blast to play along with a group of others, is a welcome change from the more luck based shows we’re used to. This required you to know more than what the mascot of Frosted Flakes is, and it got contestants who are up to the challenge. We’ll have more on the show soon.
Best win of the series!!!! I hope that this show will be picked up by another network. It’s intelligent, witty and cunning, something we need in game shows nowadays.
The sad part, is they are giving (from the promos) another show at You Deserve It, and I don;t think ABC will renew this one…….because I think, the general audience don’t like to think on game shows, except for Jeopardy and Smillionaire. I hope I am wrong, I loved this game. But was surprised that they quit, with all 3 helps and 3 misses, they had FOUR chances at the million.
Hey Alan, we found out that if a team played for $1 Million, they forfeited all of their “Incorrect Answers”. Essentially, you would only have 2 shots at the $1 Million prize – one question, then a 2nd replacement question if you used the “Switch the Question” help.
So essentially they only had 2 chances to win it. A bit of a gyp on ABC’s part. They should’ve had a rule where if you played for the $1 Million but lost, the whole group still got $48,000 or something as a consolation prize.
Also, I too saw the promos for a 2nd Season of You Deserve It.
Alex, can you confirm whether or not these promos are real?
If they are, ABC is stupider than we thought, trying to renew a game show which has constantly lost viewers every single week of its 6-week run, over a game show which is generating massive discussion even though it was pushed to a Sunday afternoon time slot.
Insert bad joke about network execs not knowing their ABCs here.
I would say they didn’t know their 123s as well.
I think the reason why “You Deserve It!” is being given more of a chance is because it’s just more emotional. Its main selling point has nothing to do with the game, which drags on far too long, but over the fact that they’re giving a huge sum of money to someone in need. That was what Deal or No Deal became for most of its run–a get rick quick fantasy with sexy models.
This proves why Vernon Kay is such an amazing host. The way he shouts “YOU JUST WON 600 THOUSAND DOLLARS!” so enthusiastically demonstrates why I view him in the upper echelon of game show hosts.