Wednesday 16 March 2011

Return of the Gameshow blog - What gameshow would you go on?

I'm sure everybody's thought about going on a tv gameshow, it's just one of those things that wed love to experience, the adrenaline, the excitement, the potential. Of course, we never picture ourselves losing, only winning. Although, we quite often see people come crashing down, defeated on tv gameshows, but we don't really pay too much attention to it, our focus is placed on the winner.

We've seen a lot of great gameshows pass us by - Bullseye, Catchphrase, Supermarket Sweep, Playour cards right, blankety blank and so many more.
Once great shows like Who Wants to be a Millionaire and Family Fortunes are now just a shadow of thier original self.
Now we're left with pretty poor excuses for gameshows, and as i expressed in my previous gameshow blog(click here to read it) the gameshows we have now are normally crawling with celebrities trying to continue thier grasp on fame.

However, we have seen a slow progression into more physical gameshows such as The Cube and Total Wipeout(if you can call that a gameshow?). But are they as good as 'It's a Knockout' or 'The Generation Game'? I personally don't think they are.

Anyway, back onto the topic of this blog. I was just wondering what gameshow would be the best gameshow to go on. I mean obviously we all have preferences, some of us would prefer a more question based show, whilst others would like a more physical challenge. But pushing all that aside, if physicality and intelligence werent big factors, what would be the best gameshow to go on if you wanted the best chance of walking away with a decent prize?

Immediatly something like Who wants to be a Millionaire jumps to mind, you just have to answer a few questions then you can safely walk away with a decent amount of money, although, if you on a role, it's hard to just take the money, you just want to keep going and going and maybe even take some risks.
The harder shows are clearly things like Eggheads where you're competing with very intelligent people for (usually) quite a small amount of money which you would have to split between a group of you.

I guess it's hard to decide really, i'd assume we'd each base our choice on what we think our strengths are. I know that my dad is very good at catchphrase, and if that gameshow was still running, i would bet a lot of money on my dad winning.
We all know what we're good at, and what we can suceed in. I wouldn't like to go on a gameshow like Goldenballs or Deal or No Deal where it's mainly about luck, and where you have to rely on other contestants for you to suceed.
I'd prefer to win or lose based on my own decisions and ability. I suppose it's the taking part that counts, but when it comes to television glory and great prizes, is that really true?

Note- While writing this blog i've been talking to people ont twitter and gradual started thinking about all my favourite 90's shows. Gosh how i miss the 90's! Nostalgia..... =/

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