The Kids Are All Right (game show)

Last updated

The Kids Are All Right
The Kids Are All Right logo.JPG
Genre Game show
Presented by John Barrowman
Country of originUnited Kingdom
Original languageEnglish
No. of series1
No. of episodes8
Production
Production location BBC Pacific Quay
Running time40 minutes
Production companiesInitial and BBC Scotland
Original release
Network BBC One
Release12 April (2008-04-12) 
14 June 2008 (2008-06-14)

The Kids Are All Right is a British game show that aired on for BBC One from 12 April to 14 June 2008 and is hosted by John Barrowman. [1]

Contents

It shares some similarities with Are You Smarter than a 10 Year Old? , which airs on Sky One. It also shares similarities with Eggheads , in that it centres on ordinary people trying to beat a team of super-intelligent ones. The auditions were held in 2007 with the children asked to come to a studio with their parents; they were asked to answer questions about themselves, and had to answer a questionnaire.

Gameplay

In this game show, a team of four adults (friends, family members, colleagues, etc.) have to answer correctly to any questions and beat a team of seven kids named Super Kids to winning a jackpot prize during various rounds. [2]

In each episode, were played five rounds. [3]

In the first round, named Instant Showdown, the adult team starting with an initial price pot of £5,000 had to compete against the kids to defend their jackpot. Taking turns, each adult had to play a duel with a kid selected randomly by a roulette. For each round, three direct-answer questions were asked and to answer had to buzz where the first that scored two points won the head-to-head. At the end of this phase, if the adults won kept their jackpot intact, while for every duel won by the kids, £1,000 were subtracted from the prize pool.

The subsequent three rounds were variable and changed each week, including one involving two adults so that each of the four would participate in one round. In each of these rounds, the kids' age (the elder if were playing two adults) were converted in thousands of pounds should the adults won the games (£15,000 in the event of victory against a 15-year-old kid, for example). [4]

The games used in these three rounds were:

Finished the three rounds, the adult team for winning the currently accumulated jackpot, had to play the last game Beat the Kids where starting to the younger kid from the elder of the seven, the four adults had to answer a question choosing the category between two options on the buzzer. In each head-to-head, if the adult won against the kid, the Super Kid were eliminated and the adult played again against the next Super Kid in order of age, instead, if the kid won the duel against the adult, the latter were eliminated and can play again against the next adult.

At the end of the game, if the adults eliminated the kids' team, they won the jackpot, otherwise, they won nothing. [7]

International versions

CountryNameHostNetworkAir date
Flag of the Arab League.svg Arab world جيل التحدي
Jeel El Tahadi
Michel Sanan Dubai TV 2008
Flag of Chile.svg  Chile Estos Niños Son ImbatiblesEva Gómez Chilevisión 2008
Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg  China [8] The Kids Are All Right
鸡蛋碰石头
Qing Hong Xiamen Star 2 June 2013
Flag of Egypt.svg  Egypt جيل التحدي
Geel El Tahadi
Ashraf Abdel Baqi Al-Hayat TV2010
Flag of India.svg  India കുട്ടികളോടാണോ കളി?
Kuttikalodano Kali
Poornima Indrajith Mazhavil Manorama 11 August 2016 – 30 April 2017
Flag of Italy.svg  Italy [9] I Magnifici 7Pino Insegno Italia 1 2008
Flag of Poland.svg  Poland Dzieciaki górą!Tomasz Kammel (seasons 1–2)
Marzena Rogalska (seasons 3–4)
TVP2 12 September 2008 – 17 July 2010
Flag of Portugal.svg  Portugal Super MiúdosSílvia Alberto RTP 1 28 March 2010 – 1 July 2010
Flag of South Africa.svg  South Africa [10] The Kids Are All RightPaul Mnisi SABC1 23 May 2009 – 15 August 2009
Flag of Thailand.svg  Thailand The Kids Are All Right
เด็กอัจฉริยะท้าประลอง
Pipat Wittayapanyanon Channel 3 4 October 2015
Flag of Vietnam.svg  Vietnam Trẻ Em Luôn ĐúngQuang Minh (season 1)
Anh Vũ (season 2)
Khương Ngọc (season 3)
Đình Toàn (season 4)
VTV3, VTV6, VTV9, VTC517 September 2011 (season 1)
15 April 2013 (season 2)
30 May 2015 (season 3)
10 April 2017 (season 4)

Related Research Articles

<i>Russian Roulette</i> (game show) Game show

Russian Roulette is an American game show created and executive produced by Gunnar Wetterberg that ran for two seasons on Game Show Network from June 3, 2002, to June 13, 2003. The show was hosted by Mark L. Walberg and announced by Burton Richardson.

<i>Go</i> (game show) American TV series or program

Go is an American television game show created by Bob Stewart and aired on NBC from October 3, 1983, to January 20, 1984. The show featured two teams, each composed of four contestants and a celebrity. The teams had to construct questions one word at a time to convey a word or phrase to their teammates. The concept of Go was based on "Instant Reaction", an endgame played on two different iterations of another game show created by Bob Stewart, Chain Reaction - in 1980 on NBC and from 2006 to 2007 on GSN.

<i>Play the Percentages</i> American TV series or program

Play the Percentages is an American game show hosted by Geoff Edwards which aired in syndication from January 7 to September 12, 1980. Jay Stewart announced for the first six weeks, after which Bob Hilton became the permanent announcer.

<i>Game Ka Na Ba?</i> Philippine television game show

Game Ka Na Ba?, formerly Pilipinas Game Ka Na Ba is a Philippine game show created by ABS-CBN. The main goal of the game is to win 2 million pesos by answering trivia questions.

<i>Miljoenenjacht</i> Dutch television game show

Miljoenenjacht, officially Postcode Loterij Miljoenenjacht, is a Dutch game show, sponsored by the country's postcode lottery, where a contestant and at-home viewer could win up to €5,000,000 or as little as €0.01. The show is broadcast at various times, spanning across six episodes for each set. The program was originally shown by TROS on NPO 2, but moved to creator John de Mol's channel Tien in 2005. After the channel was discontinued after its sale to the RTL Group, the program moved to RTL 4. In 2019, the program moved to SBS6 due to the transfer of Linda de Mol from RTL to SBS.

Take It or Leave It is a British game show, developed by Dutch format company Intellygents, that aired on the digital channel Challenge. Challenge tends to air repeats of classic game shows that have been commissioned by other broadcasters, but it is considered rare that they produce original content. The show originally aired from 23 October 2006 to 18 July 2008 and was hosted by Richard Arnold.

My Kind of Music was a British game show that aired on ITV from 8 February 1998 to 29 March 2002 and is hosted by Michael Barrymore.

<i>The Vault</i> (game show) British TV series or programme

The Vault is a British game show based on the original Israeli version called HaKassefet Hebrew: הַכַּסֶפֶת) that aired on ITV from 11 May 2002 to 24 August 2004. It was first hosted by Davina McCall in 2002, then hosted by Melanie Sykes from 2003 to 2004 and finally hosted by Gabby Logan who stepped in for Sykes for the latter half of 2004 when Sykes went on maternity leave.

<i>Duel</i> (American game show) American TV series or program

Duel is an American game show hosted by Mike Greenberg that first aired from December 17 to December 23, 2007 on ABC. The show aired as a week-long six-episode tournament at 8:00 p.m. from Monday through Friday with the finale on Sunday.

Duel is an ITV game show based on a format by Francophone production company French TV, hosted by Nick Hancock, broadcast on Saturday evenings. It ran from 19 January to 5 April 2008.

<i>Pointless</i> British television quiz show

Pointless is a British television quiz show produced by Banijay subsidiary Remarkable Entertainment for the BBC hosted by Alexander Armstrong. In each episode, four teams of two contestants attempt to find correct but obscure answers to four rounds of general knowledge questions, with the winning team eligible to compete for the show's cash jackpot.

<i>The Bank Job</i> (game show) British TV series or programme

The Bank Job is a British television game show broadcast live on Channel 4, hosted by George Lamb. It was first broadcast on 2 January 2012 and ended on 17 March 2012.

Cleverdicks was a British television quiz show for Sky Atlantic, hosted by Ann Widdecombe. Running for 30 episodes, it was later repeated on Challenge. Four contestants competed in each episode for the right to call themselves "cleverdicks" and play for a roll-over cash jackpot. As explained by Widdecombe at the beginning of the first episode, a cleverdick is a person who is "irritatingly and ostentatiously knowledgeable or intelligent." The question material was therefore primarily academic in nature.

Spellbound is a British game show that aired on Sky One from 3 October 1994 to 30 August 1996. It was hosted by Paul Coia.

<i>Avanti un altro!</i> Italian game show

Avanti un altro! is an Italian game show hosted by Paolo Bonolis and Luca Laurenti. It premiered on 5 September 2011, hosted by Paolo Bonolis and Luca Laurenti. The international distribution name for the show is "Next One!" and it is owned and distributed by Endemol Shine Group.

Face the Clock is a game show that was broadcast on Channel 4 from 7 January to 22 February 2013, and was hosted by Rory Bremner. On each episode, six contestants compete to build up a cash prize and eliminate one another in a series of timed rounds until one is left to play for the money.

L'eredità is an Italian Rai 1 game show currently hosted by Marco Liorni. It premiered on 29 July 2002. From 29 July 2002 to 10 June 2006, it was hosted by Italian presenter Amadeus. He was succeeded by Carlo Conti, who hosted the show until 14 April 2014, when he was replaced by Fabrizio Frizzi. Frizzi hosted until 23 October 2017, when he became ill during the taping of the next show and was taken to the hospital. Carlo Conti substituted for Frizzi from 30 October 2017 to 15 December 2017, and he hosted the special episode in tandem with Fabrizio Frizzi when the latter returned to host the quiz. On 16 December 2017, Fabrizio Frizzi resumed hosting the show by himself until 25 March 2018. The next day, Frizzi died of a brain haemorrhage. Following a hiatus due to Frizzi's death, the game returned from 3 April 2018 until the end of the season with the host Carlo Conti. Flavio Insinna presented the show from 24 September 2018 until 2023.

<i>Greed</i> (British game show) British TV series or programme

Greed is a British television game show based on the American version of the same title. The series, which was very short-lived in the UK, offered a £1,000,000 top prize; it was hosted by Jerry Springer.

Two Tribes is a BBC game show that aired on BBC Two from 18 August 2014 to 31 August 2015, hosted by Richard Osman.

Kuttikalodano Kali? is an Indian Malayalam family-oriented kids game show which premiered on Mazhavil Manorama on 11 August 2016. The show is hosted by south-Indian film actress Poornima Indrajith

References

  1. "BBC Press Release".
  2. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b009zjb0
  3. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nrr7kORROig
  4. https://www.tvmaze.com/shows/14123/the-kids-are-all-right
  5. "'Kuttikalodano Kali' first episode to be aired tomorrow". english.manoramaonline.com.
  6. "Mazhavil Manorama to launch 'Kuttikalodano Kali' on August 11". exchange4media.com.
  7. http://www.ukgameshows.com/ukgs/The_Kids_Are_All_Right
  8. 鸡蛋碰石头.
  9. https://www.tvblog.it/post/mi-raccomando-i-magnifici-7-e-tutti-alla-lavagna-linvasione-dei-pupi-clonati
  10. "Shows Home | TVSA".