500 Questions

[clemon79]

Jeopardy in 9 hours has 1098 "answers" or "clues"

*And* gives away more money, I think.

[Joe Mello]

Jeopardy in 9 hours has 1098 "answers" or "clues"

*And* gives away more money, I think.

I think you're right. 500Q averaged about $25,000 per hour iirc.  If you include consolation money, Jeopardy beats that handily.

On a per match basis, though, I think they're comparable.  (Also per episode since it was 9 matches over 9 "episodes")

[clemon79]

On a per match basis, though, I think they're comparable.  (Also per episode since it was 9 matches over 9 "episodes")

...and both of those are completely moronic comparisons.

[Kevin Prather]

Jeopardy in 9 hours has 1098 "answers" or "clues"

*And* gives away more money, I think.

$225,000 for the series, so Joe's $25,000/hour is spot on. That's an average of $12,500 per half hour, whereas Jeopardy's winner usually comes in somewhere between $15-25,000. Plus every match is guaranteed a payout.

Bottom line, give me Jeopardy over 500Q any day.

[Neumms]

Jeopardy in 9 hours has 1098 "answers" or "clues"

And theirs are cleverly, frequently amusingly written.

The biggest question...how did this make the air? If ABC is willing to try a hard quiz, why one with a stale look, unexciting stakes, dull play and a nonsensical title premise?

[BrandonFG]

The biggest question...how did this make the air? If ABC is willing to try a hard quiz, why one with a stale look, unexciting stakes, dull play and a nonsensical title premise?

Worse shows have made it to air. It's summer programming, and the powers that be decided that the chrome and big money hides the show's flaws. As such, beta testing seems to be an afterthought.

/Like 90% of the other prime time shows that have premiered over the last decade

[parliboy]

The biggest question...how did this make the air? If ABC is willing to try a hard quiz, why one with a stale look, unexciting stakes, dull play and a nonsensical title premise?

It's summer programming, and the powers that be decided that the chrome and big money hides the show's flaws.

Yes, but since it didn't have big money, the original question stands.

[WarioBarker]

And it didn't have big money because it didn't have much of a prize budget.

If you're gonna have geniuses (their term) as contestants, you don't get to complain if somebody's winning "too much money" and ruins your "I expected a really high contestant turnover because more turnover = less money" mentality.

[BrandonFG]

The biggest question...how did this make the air? If ABC is willing to try a hard quiz, why one with a stale look, unexciting stakes, dull play and a nonsensical title premise?

It's summer programming, and the powers that be decided that the chrome and big money hides the show's flaws.

Yes, but since it didn't have big money, the original question stands.

Okay, it's not big money by modern quiz show standards, but my point still stands. The producers played up the "tough trivia" and smart contestants, and hoped it would lead to larger paydays. With that and the flawed rules, they pretty much failed.

[Matt Ottinger]

Okay, it's not big money by modern quiz show standards, but my point still stands. The producers played up the "tough trivia" and smart contestants, and hoped it would lead to larger paydays. With that and the flawed rules, they pretty much failed.

And the network takeaway won't be, "There needed to be a better game."  The network takeaway will be "Straight trivia games don't work."  And Sony will continue to laugh all the way to the bank.

[Joe Mello]

The producers played up the "tough trivia" and smart contestants, and hoped it would lead to larger paydays.

I'm getting the impression that the paydays were already too large.