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Millsy in the Mint

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Rob Mills is one of four presenters Nine has announced for its new late night quiz show, The Mint.

He will be joined by Cherie Hausler, Natalie Garonzi and Nathanial Buzolic.

Based on a UK format, the programme is produced in-house by Nine following the end of Fremantle Media’s Quizmania. A Nine spokesperson denied it was a cost-cutting measure, and described it as a “freshening up of the genre.”

The show will air from Monday to Thursday with the exception of Thursdays from July 30.

Press Release:

The residents are moving into The Mint Mansion in readiness for Nine’s new late-night interactive game show, The Mint.

The housemates include Rob Mills, Cherie Hausler, Natalie Garonzi and Nathanial Buzolic, who will call the Mint Mansion home from July 30.

The Mint is an energetic viewer interactive program that will test callers with quizzes and puzzles for the opportunity to win big cash prizes.

In the premiere, all the hosts will be featured as they settle in as housemates of the Mint Mansion .

Housemate Rob Mills is looking forward to the late nights, claiming that as a musician that’s when he’s he is in his finest form.

“I couldn’t think of better housemates to work with and we’re looking forward to having a lot of fun in the Mint Mansion together. Being live television one never knows what’s going to happen so it’s all very exciting,” said Mills.

Set in The Mint Mansion, The Mint is unlike any other quiz show on television, as two hosts play a variety of games and brainteasers, taking calls from viewers throughout the night.

Viewers phone in to play games for nightly cash rewards. Some active players will get the chance to crack a code which will unlock The Mint Vault that appreciates in cash value each Saturday night.

Once viewers crack the code, they go into the vault to share in the monthly cash jackpot.

Produced in-house at Channel Nine’s Richmond studios, The Mint will screen 17 hours a week, five nights a week from midnight, live and unscripted.

The interactive game show will be backed by the experience of supervising producer Jodi Boylan, who is in charge of the Australian edition after working on The Mint and other quiz television shows in the UK .

“The Mint promises to bring night owls a new range of interactive games and a whole new world of winning, as every viewer has the chance to be a contestant,” Boylan said.

Viewers will be prompted to call a special number for a chance to play live while The Mint is on air. Callers are randomly selected by computer to play. When the phone answers, the caller will be talking to one of the hosts live on air. All calls from landlines will cost a flat fee of 55 cents.

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  1. DO NOT waste your money on The Mint

    As the name of the show indicates..it creates massive profits for the owners.

    Every time you call it costs you 55c …..there in NO GUARANTEE your call will be selected to move on….if you do move on (1 in 10,000 chance)there is no guarantee you will be put through to the studio.

    The selection process is a RIP-OFF. After all it is LOTTERY and not a competition.

    Don’t get sucked in.

    I suggest the have 1 line open to take a call and the rest are simply dropped. Say goodbye to your money.

    DO NOT RING

    If you do get through the answer is not what any logical person might consider. They never tell you how the answer was derived aand they make up the rules as they go along so that there is never a “formula” for the quiz.

    DO NOT RING

    There should be a law against The MINT

  2. These shows are a rip off don’t call.

    The answers are never clear cut, it all comes down to you guessing the answer, not being able to logically work out the one and only correct answer. Here’s one from the other night. Prove me wrong and tell me how they came to this answer.

    The question is:

    Add the numbers

    27
    seventeen
    231
    sixty five

    The Answer given at the end because no one guessed it was = 522

    Please prove to me how this is the correct answer.

  3. Gee I wish that there were laws against these kinds of shows. I knew the answer to last nights question but gave up after spending $10 as a first timer just to get on the line. $10 made on my stupidity, multiply that by thousands of late night views and there is a whole lot of money being made by these rip off merchants. The prize should be $50,000 with what they are making. What a scam! Whatever you do, do not call the number on the screen.

  4. Totally agree with Neon Kitten. These shows really suck big time. Really fake presenters, big-time money making scam. It’s recycled plastic, but STILL bad for the environment.

  5. Craig, that might be because Nine in Adelaide is owned by a different company. A company which, unlike PBL, is happy to offer a real EPG on their digital channel.

    Good to see SBS almost beating Nine with Top Gear last night, by the way. One day the commercial networks might wake up to the fact that they exist to serve their viewers first, and shareholders second – because without viewers, there IS no money for the shareholders. What then? 24 hours of The Mint per day just to pay the licence fee?

  8. “a whole new world of winning, as every viewer has the chance to be a contestant”???

    In other words, another money-making scam, not a “quiz show”. Note that the above quote should more accurately say “every viewer can PAY for the very slim chance of being a contestant in a stacked game.”

    I had hoped Nine’s new majority shareholders might keep trash like this off the network now that the three-network scam-show craze has died off, but no, late night viewers get this inflicted on us now.

    Ah well, thankfully the US season is already gearing up for us poor abused late-night-viewers-turned-“pirates”.

  9. Indeed….. TV Week has an earlier print deadline than this PR that arrived today.

    I’m sure if you read the schedule in TV Week it has Pirate Master screening Thursday too, but it ain’t gonna happen.

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