UK Weekend Replay: Who Dares Wins
Another Weekend Replay for you this weekend. This time we’re featuring the UK quiz, Who Dares Wins. The title is more common around the world under the original title The Rich List or the GSN show, The Money List. For those who don’t know. Who Dares Wins features two pairs of strangers who try to outbid each other by completing lists from countries in Asia to Matt Damon films. Unlike other quiz and game shows. Who Dares Wins has no limit on the number of times a pair can become champion. Therefore the sky is the limit with their winnings.
The UK version returned last Saturday for their fourth series. The clip we have for you is from tonight’s (Saturday) show where the current champions, Adam and Dawn have just won their fourth consecutive game (each show has two full games) and face their fifth pair of challengers. They have already secured Ł80,000 between them. The clip below features the full game, with the best of three lists to determine the winner and the actual money list.
not to be confused for the Australian version of Fear Factor
I love this show, but they really need to get some additional music. Using that one single sting(?) every few seconds gets a bit tiring partway through.
Why can’t the guy say something other than “COME ON” every single time?
i don’t know if you come from the US or the UK but nearly every UK game show has got someone shouting COME ON all the time.
It sucks that we Americans can no longer play this kind of game. I hate that GSN put it on Saturday Nights. O G-D why did GSN have to do this? Why?
Just a naive American question…. a lot of these shows are called “The National Lottery” …. so, do all (or many) “Game Shows” be considered part of the state run “Lottery”. Not that we don’t have that on the state level in the U.S. (Illinois had a “game show” for a few years, California, etc), but, all of those shows were totally “chance” based, there was no “skill” based games involved (because it is supposed to just be “luck”)… whereas there are “trivia” shows under “The National Lottery”.
Just guessing this is another thing that seems odd to americans, like having to have a “TV License”.
The National Lottery does a roughly hour long show on Saturday nights on BBC One during the 7pm slot. It incorporates both a game show of some sort and the draws for the main lotteries (though I believe they are down to two on Saturdays now: Lotto and Thunderball). They don’t stick with one concept throughout the year- they rotate them in and out in roughly 10 week spurts. Sometimes due to programming needs, they just do a five minute show with the draws and nothing else.
Right now, there’s only three shows in the rotation: In It to Win It, Who Dares Wins, and Secret Fortune. Any game show outside of those three have nothing to do with the National Lottery in the UK. So, the answer is no, not many are actually lottery linked.
If you go through the history of National Lottery shows, you’ll find a few that made the jump to America. 1 vs 100 was a National Lottery show (though it originated from a Dutch lottery I believe), Winning Lines was a show first launched by the National Lottery (and then short lived on CBS), and of course, the show mentioned in this post has come and gone as The Rich List.
One important thing to add is that – in all modern cases – the cash doled out on the National Lottery quiz shows come from the BBC coffers and not the lottery itself, so they are no better off than if it were a straight-up quiz show. (In fact, money flows the opposite way – the BBC pays Camelot, the lottery operator, for the rights to broadcast the draws.) Essentially, TNL in the title is just a way of saying “the lottery results will be announced during this programme”.
There was one instance where the winners’ cash came from the game itsellf but, as in your case, it had to be the case that the player had no direct skilful influence on how the game went. It didn’t make for a happy marriage:
http://ukgameshows.com/ukgs/The_National_Lottery_Big_Ticket
If I’m not mistaken, the game show itself isn’t part of the lottery, the lottery simply cuts in at parts of the show.
Yeah, I got that from the previous respondents.
Thanks for the info… obviously, that isn’t very clear from just the name of the show. Sounds like it more amounts to the National Lottery “sponsoring” the game show more than anything (ie….. if here “Powerball” decided to sponsor Wheel of Fortune and it was being called “Powerball Wheel of Fortune”… doesn’t mean WOF is “part” of the lottery).