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Power of Ten for Nine

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The Nine Network has announced yet another game show it will develop, Power of Ten (slightly unfortunate title, guys?).

The show has recently launched to good ratings in the US where it is hosted by Drew Carey.

Essentially the show has contestants predict the outcome of pop culture and general knowledge questions which have been polled amongst Americans. Yep, another variation on the premise of Family Feud aka The Rich List aka Power of Ten.

In the US the show’s top prize is $10M, but so far it has given away $1M.

Nine is promising to make a local version of the show, with a yet-to-be-announced host. It follows Nine’s fanfare on The Singing Bee and Who Wants to be a Millionaire returning. Meanwhile, there is still no word on the previously announced game show, Show Me The Money which Nine announced at the end of 2006 as part of its 07 slate. It was a show which folded in the US.

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  1. Power of 10 was the show whose pilot and early taping sessions were the onus for Drew Carey to host the kingpin of US gamers, “The Price Is Right,” for its 36th season of the current revival, which debuted in 1972.

  2. Surprise Surprise Gotcha is a spin off of the Gotcha calls done by Matt Tiley on Fox FM. It also has some elements of Candid Camera/Surprise Surprise.

    Matt Tiley is hosting the show which bodes well for Nine given this last show failed so badly on Seven – remember that one with all the Austereo people doing a rip off of the Panel.

  3. I’m a big fan of game shows and it seems like nine is onto another winner with this one. Both the power of 10 and the singing bee look like fun entertaining shows. Looks like nine is building a base to take back the ratings mantle next year.

  5. I downloaded an episode of the US “Singing Bee” to find out what Nine had bought aftre they announced the local version. And believe me, it is one of the absolute WORST television shows I have seen in living memory. It’s embarrasingly bad. Which doesn’t bode well for Nine’s version.

    ’60s “go go girl” dancers. Audience members so excitable you’d think they just missed out on audience tickets for the Benny Hinn Experience. A house band that not only is completely talentless musically, but can’t even get the words right themselves. And a logo of a happy-happy bee following the lyrics, which immediately brought to mind “Mr Do-Bee” from Romper Room. Yes, folks, that’s the intelligence level this show is at – about kindergarten level.

    So do I dare go preview “The Power Of Ten,” seeing as the concept sounds tired and lame, that Drew Carey is useless at hosting “game” shows, and that US television seems to have regressed to its childhood? Well, no, no I don’t 🙂

    However, what is it with Nine and all this excitement about “fun” (read: LAME) shows? Did I *really* see an ad last night for a new one called “Surprise Surprise Gotcha”?

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