NBC orders "Perfect 10"

[byrd62]

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/conten...e931a4a3f188483

[clemon79]

Okay, most people don't like DOING household chores. Why would they want to watch OTHER PEOPLE do them?

[Neumms]

Does anyone remember a (mercifully) unrelated box game called "Perfect 10"? You set a board upright between two players or teams ("Battleship" style") and each has ten multiple-choice questions to answer. A team tries all of their ten, then the other tells them how many answers are right. They alternate turns until one has all ten. It's a simple yet surprisingly challenging game, and a good premise for a TV game, albeit not for NBC.

[clemon79]

[quote name=\'Neumms\' post=\'227140\' date=\'Sep 29 2009, 09:18 AM\']and a good premise for a TV game, albeit not for NBC.[/quote]
I'm not sure how you'd do that on TV and not have there be tons of downtime while contestants deliberated over their next set of guesses.

(You could cross it with Go and use a one-team-sets-the-time-for-the-others-to-beat paradigm, but it's still a pretty silent game.)

[gamed121683]

[quote name=\'Neumms\' post=\'227140\' date=\'Sep 29 2009, 12:18 PM\']Does anyone remember a (mercifully) unrelated box game called "Perfect 10"? You set a board upright between two players or teams ("Battleship" style") and each has ten multiple-choice questions to answer. A team tries all of their ten, then the other tells them how many answers are right. They alternate turns until one has all ten. It's a simple yet surprisingly challenging game, and a good premise for a TV game, albeit not for NBC.[/quote]

I've never heard of this game, but it sounds like a Q&A version of "Mastermind".

[clemon79]

[quote name=\'gamed121683\' post=\'227147\' date=\'Sep 29 2009, 11:36 AM\']but it sounds like a Q&A version of "Mastermind".[/quote]
Exactly so. Or the Wipeout endgame with more questions and more options.

[tvmitch]

Oh, NBC.

Two words: The Cube. Just leave it be.

[tpirfan28]

As much as this makes me go "wtf"...I would love for this to make some sort of imprint on the television landscape here so someone else can pick up The Cube proper.  Let this one be fun, leave the serious business to another network.

[Neumms]

[quote name=\'clemon79\' post=\'227143\' date=\'Sep 29 2009, 12:26 PM\'][quote name=\'Neumms\' post=\'227140\' date=\'Sep 29 2009, 09:18 AM\']and a good premise for a TV game, albeit not for NBC.[/quote]
I'm not sure how you'd do that on TV and not have there be tons of downtime while contestants deliberated over their next set of guesses.

(You could cross it with Go and use a one-team-sets-the-time-for-the-others-to-beat paradigm, but it's still a pretty silent game.)
[/quote]

I hadn't thought it out that far. I imagine it as a cerebral version of TPIR's Race Game and One Away. As you point out, too cerebral if it's one player, and there would need to be a clock.

But it could be one team plays their whole board, then the other plays theirs. Whichever team wins then plays prisoner's dilemma with the money! (Just kidding.)

[alfonzos]

I wonder how well the show will perform during "sweeps."

[TLEberle]

[quote name=\'Neumms\' post=\'227140\' date=\'Sep 29 2009, 09:18 AM\']Does anyone remember a (mercifully) unrelated box game called "Perfect 10"? You set a board upright between two players or teams ("Battleship" style") and each has ten multiple-choice questions to answer. A team tries all of their ten, then the other tells them how many answers are right. They alternate turns until one has all ten. It's a simple yet surprisingly challenging game, and a good premise for a TV game, albeit not for NBC.[/quote]You forgot the part where one team has to give the answerers one of the correct answers. Then it is up to the answering team to figure out if they had that correct or not, and adjust their gameplay accordingly. (This also means that ten guesses is the longest a round can be.)

[TimK2003]

[quote name=\'alfonzos\' post=\'227164\' date=\'Sep 29 2009, 06:37 PM\']I wonder how well the show will perform during "sweeps."[/quote]

Not sure, but I'm willing that one of the other networks will be mopping the floor with them in whatever time slot they wind up in.

[colonial]

Pushing this up to note that NBC has apparently tapped Food Network personality Guy Fieri to host "Perfect 10"...

http://www.thewrap.com/ind-column/nbc-find...game-show-11896

Interesting choice to say the least.  Fieri definitely has the personality and flair to host a game (which he did, somewhat, with Food Network's Ultimate Recipe Showdown), but he also has the ability to take over shows and turn them into personal ego-fests.

JD

[clemon79]

[quote name=\'colonial\' post=\'232492\' date=\'Dec 17 2009, 06:18 AM\']but he also has the ability to take over shows and turn them into personal ego-fests.[/quote]
+1. I like Diners, Drive-Ins, and Dives, but the snug pretention that kicks in when he tastes something is Bobby Flay-esque.

[Sodboy13]

[quote name=\'clemon79\' post=\'232512\' date=\'Dec 17 2009, 12:42 PM\'][quote name=\'colonial\' post=\'232492\' date=\'Dec 17 2009, 06:18 AM\']but he also has the ability to take over shows and turn them into personal ego-fests.[/quote]
+1. I like Diners, Drive-Ins, and Dives, but the snug pretention that kicks in when he tastes something is Bobby Flay-esque.
[/quote]
And another.  I often feel like I watch that show in spite of Fieri, who has a tendency to make the proceedings into Diners, Drive-Ins, and Douchebag.