There is no skill involved with this dumb shows like deal or no deal and the rest of your life>The whole premise is just based on luck. what happened to general knowledge,strategy,physical quizes like going for gold,fifteen to one and the krypton factor.???
2007-05-23 19:50:28 · 10 answers · asked by WWEChairman 7 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Television ➔ Comedy
It's all part of the general dumbing down of everything. University Challenge is the only intellectual quiz left. Mastermind has dumbed down considerably - witness the choices of some of the specialist subjects.
Eggheads isn't too bad. The questions can tax your general knowledge sometimes - but it's so slow-moving!
Fifteen To One was good, with a high standard of questions, but that's no longer on.
Millionaire would be better if more people got beyond £32,000, when the questions start getting quite tasty - sadly, very few do.
Some of the current, so-called quizzes wouldn't be out of place in a primary school.
2007-05-23 21:00:16 · answer #1 · answered by john g 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Quiz shows now seem to be for the celebrities only - and as most of them are doing it for charities, it makes the programme look good.
If a regular person wants to get on these shows, you need to be either completely nutty, or an egghead!
Bring back the old games when the prizes were more laughable, but at least it made fun viewing - everything now is about MONEY, and it spoils it.
2007-05-24 03:03:16 · answer #2 · answered by NannyF 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Nowadays, it's do something silly for money, do nothing at all for money, or there's the Weakest Link, which is more about Anne Robinson's school marm behaviour.
But the old quiz shows are now a nearly dead art. Apart from Uni Challenge and Mastermind, which aren't mainstream anymore.
2007-05-24 02:58:10 · answer #3 · answered by Happihawkeye 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sadly, in this country (the UK), people don't like to see a 'smart *rse'. TV has dumbed down so much, that it's now seen as cool to be thick! In many of the quizzes nowadays, you see contestants trying to give the false impression that they are just guessing the correct answers purely because they don't want to come across to the viewing public as 'know-it-alls'.
2007-05-24 02:56:14 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The simple answer to Your question is: We, the audience, became too smart to be entertained by the usual glib repartee and pseudo-intellectual questions that are put foreward as a "challenge" to Our mental abilities.
There are only just so many questions that can be asked before it becomes, not merely repetitive, but boring.
2007-05-24 02:57:06 · answer #5 · answered by Ashleigh 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There's still University Challenge and Mastermind (though current series has finished but will no doubt be on again in the Autumn). Other than that it's just Millionaire...if you can put up with Tarrant?!
2007-05-24 02:53:11 · answer #6 · answered by JJ 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Apparently you haven't watch Jeopardy on ABC, this is a quiz show, but the contestants five the question to the answer.
2007-05-24 08:23:44 · answer #7 · answered by trey98607 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The nearest thing there is these days is Egg Heads on BBC 2. But you are right, it's just too easy these days. Also, why does every programme/show you watch have a phone in now, it really irritates me!
2007-05-24 02:56:08 · answer #8 · answered by chelle0980 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I agree deal or no deal is dreadful. the peoples quiz the lottery one on a sat night is quite good though
2007-05-24 03:08:29 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
yea bring back blockbuster,s hay ill have a p bob .
2007-05-24 05:05:36 · answer #10 · answered by dream theatre 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋