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ABC announces new quiz Win the Week

Alex Lee & Craig Reucassel to test celebs & everyday Australians on the news of the week.

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ABC has announced a new half hour quiz show Win The Week, which will test news knowledge between pairs of celebrities and everyday Australians.

To be hosted by Alex Lee (The Checkout, The Feed) with regular team member Craig Reucassel (War on Waste, The Chaser), it will also test loyalty, and whether players will betray their teammates in order to win.

The original format by Scott Abbot and Craig Reucassel is designed as “a quiz show for all ages, from millennials to retirees, questions will cover politics to world events, sport, celebrity gossip or viral videos on social media – no topic is off limits so long as it was in the news in the last 7 days. Audiences at home can play along and will be entertained by the hilarious banter and exciting dynamics as team bonds are broken, new alliances are forged and one regular Aussie will ultimately ‘Win the Week’.”

Each episode will see three teams of two players go head-to-head over four rounds. Each team has an everyday Aussie as Team Captain and a celebrity who will both need to work together to win. But team loyalties will be put to the test at the end of each round with a dramatic “Stay or Betray” choice – one Team Captain must decide whether to stay with their celeb teammate or to betray them and swap to a different celeb from another team in order to Win the Week (and get a prize that will be disappointing even by ABC standards).

Alex Lee says: “For our Team Captains, Win The Week promises to be a great chance to show off their useless news knowledge. For our so-called celebrities, this show will force them to face their deepest, darkest fear: being replaced by another celebrity.”

Nick Hayden, ABC Head of Entertainment, says: “We’re thrilled to have Alex Lee back on ABC screens. Craig on the other hand, sleeps in the building, I think. One day he just wandered onto the Win The Week set so we left him there. Win The Week will be a fantastic addition to our Wednesday night lineup and our “whenever you feel like it” line up on iview.”

Win The Week will be filmed in Sydney and will air on Wednesday nights on ABC and ABC iview ,later this year.

Everyday Australians ready to Win The Week can apply [email protected] here.

Production credits: Produced by: Wrapsheet Pty Ltd. Wrapsheet Executive Producers: Scott Abbot and Craig Reucassel. ABC Executive Producer: Rachel Millar. Head of Entertainment: Nick Hayden.

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  1. Aw, who cares if it is like HYBPA? Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. I for one am looking forward to this show.
    Besides, SBS’ ‘RockWiz’ was 100% an exact replica of ABC’s 2JJJ (Sydney) 105.7Mhz show called ‘Rock Wiz’, just translated to TV.

  3. The concept seems to be definitely worth checking out. I’m fan of the consumer affairs program and production of The Checkout. Chasers can often be politically slanted in satire and there is a risk when dealing with news humour that it could be tinged with political agendas. I hope it won’t be that way as political slanting has ruined a few good shows a concepts. But I’m still hopeful that it’s good, and see good potential in this concept. It’s highly anticipated at this stage. It does have a sense of HYBPA? about it, but I’m also a big fan of HYBPA? too.

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