Paying Attention to TEN’s new quiz
It's a low key premiere for TEN's new quiz show from Working Dog.
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It’s a low key premiere for TEN’s new quiz show Have You Been Paying Attention? from Working Dog this Sunday.
The show will screen for 4 weeks in ratings survey and 4 weeks of summer non-ratings at 7pm. That will put it up against Dancing with the Stars and Australia’s Got Talent this weekend.
But TEN appears to be creating an air of mystery, keeping the details of the new show under wraps with limited promos, no previews, photos or interviews. That makes it even more Chris Lilley than Chris Lilley. We’ll just have to tune in to see if the fuss is worth it.
Here is the only information that’s been released:
Have You Been Paying Attention? is a topical comedy-quiz show featuring five guests competing to see who can remember the most about events of the week.
A fast-paced, funny look at international affairs, politics, sport and entertainment news, we test just how well our contestants have been paying attention.
Hosted by Tom Gleisner and starring some of the most attentive minds in the country, Have You Been Paying Attention? is Australian TV’s least-rich quiz show.
7pm Sunday on TEN.
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8 Responses
Sounds like a good bit of light hearted fun to start/end the week (depends on how you look at it). Sounds a bit like a news version of Spicks and Specks. Format has been done to death but that doesn’t mean it’s a dud. Hopefully its well done, Working Dog generally do things well!!
Have not seen a promo for this yet at all. Certainly not pushing it like the batchelor
Nice idea TEN, launch a new show with little to no promotion, just what the network needs to lift its ratings.
If this is full of the same wash rinse and repeat guests we see on TENs other shows, I don’t think I will bother.
the ads for this was driving me up the wall! I was wondering if anyone actually saw them or it was just my imagination. good to finally have this mystery solved
Although the format is hardly original, this particular version looks to be spun out of the Santo, Sam and Ed podcast that was running earlier in the year.
At the end of each episode, Tom Gleisner would come on with a quiz about the news of the week. Although points were awarded for correct answers, answers generally aimed for laughs, often with running gags… Whenever he was on the show, Rob Sitch would ruin it to a certain extent by answering questions correctly.
If Working Dog have the autonomy to pick their own guests, and go for some people outside of the current Network Ten stable, this could have potential. Any sign of Meshel Laurie and it is a dead duck.
One other interesting point is that this is the first Working Dog production back on Ten since they took Thank God You’re Here to Seven. They’ve now done recent work with everyone but Nine – Santo, Sam and Ed…
Hope this works out
Don’t we already have Dirty Laundry Live?
The Panel and this week live ….. weren’t thay shows stacked with (channel Ten) comedians talking about the news? ……and as a result of this concept This week live is defunct and The panel just gets woeful ratings?