The Rich List (Australian game show)

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The Rich List
The Rich List Australia Logo.png
Genre Game show
Created by 12 Yard
Presented by Andrew O'Keefe
Country of originAustralia
Original languageEnglish
No. of seasons3
No. of episodes40
Production
Production location HSV-7 in South Melbourne, Victoria
Running time60 minutes
(Including commercials)
Original release
Network Seven Network
Release29 January 2007 (2007-01-29) 
14 January 2009 (2009-01-14)

The Rich List is an Australian game show which is based on the format initially created for transmission in the United Kingdom created by 12 Yard called Who Dares Wins (not to be confused with the stunt and dare show of the same name). The game consists of two teams who name as many items relating to a topic as they can while competing against each other for a no-limit cash prize. For its first season, it was shown on Monday nights at 7:30 pm on the Seven Network [1] but moved to Saturday nights in the same timeslot for the second season, [2] before being put on hiatus and returning to its original season-one timeslot.

Contents

The show premiered in its regular Monday timeslot on 29 January 2007 at 7:30 pm [3] and continued with a special episode on 30 January to give people a chance to watch the show who opted to watch Steve Irwin's last documentary Ocean's Deadliest which went up against The Rich List on Monday the 29th on the rival station, the Nine Network. [3] The show is recorded at the Melbourne Central City Studios. This version follows the basic rules of other versions of the show.

The program is hosted by the Deal or No Deal host Andrew O'Keefe. The pilot episode was taped on 18 October 2006. The show began taping episodes for air on 11 December 2006.

The first series of The Rich List ended on 25 June 2007, after a season of steady consistent ratings of 1.1 to 1.3 million viewers. A second series began airing 24 May 2008, [4] although just 721,000 viewers tuned into the season premiere episode, placing the Seven Network fourth out of five in its timeslot. After the second episode rated 715,000 viewers, [5] the Seven Network initially pulled The Rich List from the schedule, but it returned from hiatus a few months later on 3 November 2008. The Rich List has been put back on hiatus from 14 January 2009; no new episodes have been produced since then.

The voice-over introducing the show is Marcus Irvine, notable for being the voice of past game show The Weakest Link .

Gameplay

The Gameplay is similar to the format used in the United States (although, despite the fact that an entire series was filmed with Eamonn Holmes as host, it has never been aired). It consists of two rounds. A best of three no money amount lists followed by "The Rich List" where a team can win $250,000 for completing each list with 15 answers. There is no limit to how many "Rich Lists" a team can partially or fully complete and therefore, teams are capable of winning an unlimited amount of money. [6]

Best of three lists

Two teams of two players, [7] one of which are the champions from the previous episode and the other are a new pair of challengers, are presented to the audience. The two teams, who have not met before the show, are placed in separate soundproof isolation booths, [7] with audio that is turned on or off by the host. He announces the category for the list, such as "Wimbledon Men's Singles champions" or "Squares from a Monopoly board" then asks the challengers to place a bid on the number of items they must name to win the list. The host switches the audio on and off between the booths as the bidding continues. Note that if players do not feel they can bid higher than their opponents' bid, they can choose to bluff their bids (as the opponent side cannot hear the team's conversations) in an attempt to pressure the opponents to raise their bid further. The host turns both audios on when one team has challenged the other to fulfill the bid.

The challenged team must list in a row as many items as their bid in order to win the list. If the team makes one mistake along the way, the list is awarded to their opponents.

The first team to win two lists has won the best of three and goes on to play "The Rich List".

Tiebreaker

If each team wins one list apiece, a sudden death tiebreaker is played. The host gives the category, both booths are switched on, and the teams alternate their answers. In order to win the list and the best of three, one team must give an incorrect answer while the other team gives a correct answer. In case if both teams fail to name an item on the same turn, both teams get another chance to name another item. Should that fail, another tiebreaker list will be used to break the tie.

The Rich List

The winning team moves on to play "The Rich List" where Andrew gives the team a new category and the chance to supply up to 15 correct answers. Winnings increase after every third correct answer is given, according to the following table.

Right AnswersWinnings
3$10,000
6$25,000
9$75,000
12$150,000
15$250,000

If a wrong answer is given at any time, the team loses all accumulated money they won from that "Rich List", but all winnings from previous "Rich Lists" that the team may have completed are safe. After every third answer, they can choose to stop playing, winning all the money accumulated from the current "Rich List" or play on, until the team lists all fifteen answers, therefore winning $250,000. Regardless of the outcome, the team then returns to the isolated soundproof booths to play the game again against a new pair of opponents. Only a loss when playing "The Best of three lists" can eliminate teams from the show.

Errors

Many lists in the show are known to have mistakes or inaccurate information in them. The list about countries adopting the euro contained a country called "Holland", which is in fact a region of the Netherlands. There have also been other mistakes in lists such as "Island Nations" where the list included nations that share the land territory of the island with other nation-states, and "Top 20 countries with the most land area". A list of nation's common names beginning with B listed Bermuda, which is a British Overseas Territory, and Britain, which is the name of the island on which the United Kingdom, except Ireland, is situated. A list of countries beginning with A also accepted America, as it "is the way most Australians would say it", despite the country in question actually being called the United States of America. The term 'country' was replaced with Sovereign States to avoid such confusion or partial duplication.

Ratings

The show's premiere on 29 January placed fourth in daily ratings and second in its timeslot Ocean's Deadliest on Nine Network, which aired at the same time as The Rich List, attracted about 250,000 more. However, the show performed better in the next episode. Despite attracting less viewers than 1 vs. 100 in the first few weeks, the show attracted 40,000 more viewers on 5 March.

The show is usually in the top 20 most watched programs each week according to ratings measuring company OzTAM.

Today Tonight aired a feature article on the Rich List and interviewed two contestants, Bec and a guy who named at least 15 British Prime Ministers. They won $250,000 but couldn't get the money until the episode was actually shown.

List of episodes

Season 1 (2007)

No.
overall
No. in
season
Original air dateAustralian viewers
1129 January 2007 (2007-01-29)1,410,000

Lists:

2230 January 2007 (2007-01-30)1,560,000

Lists:

335 February 2007 (2007-02-05)1,400,000

Lists:

4412 February 2007 (2007-02-12)1,170,000

Lists:

5519 February 2007 (2007-02-19)1,160,000

Lists:

6626 February 2007 (2007-02-26)1,190,000

Lists:

775 March 2007 (2007-03-05)1,270,000

Lists:

8812 March 2007 (2007-03-12)1,230,000

Lists:

9919 March 2007 (2007-03-19)1,160,000

Lists:

101026 March 2007 (2007-03-26)1,380,000

Lists:

11112 April 2007 (2007-04-02)1,340,000

Lists:

121216 April 2007 (2007-04-16)1,350,000

Lists:

Countries which drive on the left hand side The Rich List

131316 April 2007 (2007-04-16)1,350,000

Lists:

141430 April 2007 (2007-04-30)1,220,000

Lists:

  • Top 50 most popular girls' names in Australia of 2006
  • Stevie Wonder singles reaching the Top 10 in the UK and the US
  • Countries part of the European Union The Rich List
  • Theatrically released Julia Roberts movies
  • U.S. states with a saltwater coastline
  • Top 30 top earning Australian entertainers of 2006 The Rich List
15157 May 2007 (2007-05-07)1,270,000

Lists:

161614 May 2007 (2007-05-14)1,240,000

Lists:

171721 May 2007 (2007-05-21)1,290,000

Lists:

181828 May 2007 (2007-05-28)1,300,000

Lists:

19194 June 2007 (2007-06-04)1,280,000

Lists:

202011 June 2007 (2007-06-11)1,270,000

Lists:

212118 June 2007 (2007-06-18)1,290,000

Lists:

  • Songs from the Soundtrack of The Boy From Oz
  • Towns and suburbs in Australia starting with "Port"
  • Countries that have Spanish as an official language The Rich List
  • Theatrically released Russell Crowe movies
  • Roald Dahl books
  • Nut varieties grown commercially in Australia Sudden Death
  • The 30 most trusted professions in Australia The Rich List
222225 June 2007 (2007-06-25)1,260,000

Lists:

  1. This list was not broadcast due to the list ending up in a tie
  2. This list was not broadcast due to Andrew O'Keefe claiming he had accidentally mentioned one of the characters on the list which was later submitted by Paula and Michael

Season 2 (2008–2009)

No.
overall
No. in
season
Original air dateAustralian viewers
23124 May 2008 (2008-05-24)729,000

Lists:

24231 May 2008 (2008-05-31)715,000
2533 November 2008 (2008-11-03)966,000

Lists:

26410 November 2008 (2008-11-10)926,000
27517 November 2008 (2008-11-17)1,016,000
28624 November 2008 (2008-11-24)1,210,000
2971 December 2008 (2008-12-01)1,075,000
3088 December 2008 (2008-12-08)1,094,000
31915 December 2008 (2008-12-15)993,000
321022 December 2008 (2008-12-22)988,000

Lists:

  • Performers who were in the original Band Aid group
  • Credited actors and actresses from the TV series Fast Forward
  • Top 20 countries from which citizens immigrate to Australia The Rich List
  • Names of the Little Miss characters created by children's author Roger Hargreaves
  • Films in which Clint Eastwood has been credited as an actor
  • Australians who have won more than one gold medal at a Summer Olympic Games The Rich List
331129 December 2008 (2008-12-29)896,000

Lists:

34124 January 2009 (2009-01-04)896,000

Lists:

35135 January 2009 (2009-01-05)1,004,000

Lists:

361411 January 2009 (2009-01-11)727,000
371512 January 2009 (2009-01-12)1,111,000
381618 January 2009 (2009-01-18)951,000

Lists:

  • People who have appeared on the TV show "It Takes Two"
  • 30 Most Marketable Australian Sports Men and Women
  • Names of Santa Claus's reindeer in the Poem "T'was the night before Christmas" Sudden Death
  • States of the United States of America whose names end in a consonant Rich List
  • Cate Blanchett movies
  • Wine making regions of Australia
  • Countries on the World Health Organization list of Worlds 30 Fattest Countries Rich List
  1. This list was not broadcast due to the list ending up in a tie

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