Power of Wednesdays for Nine
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Nine had previously promised it for February, but it will finally run its new local gameshow Power of Ten in April.
There is no airdate or timeslot yet, but Nine advises it will be Wednesday nights. That’s good news for host Steve Jacobs given Nine’s troubled 7:30 Tuesday slots. Presumably the show will replace The Chopping Block.
The show offers $1m for being able to correctly predict how many people responded to polled questions, and seeing “whether contestants have their finger on the pulse of the nation.” Based on a US format, it is likened to Family Feud meets Millionaire.
Press Release:
What percentage of Australian men think they look good in Speedos?
What percentage of Australians would leave their partner if they gained 30 kilos?
What percentage of Australians said they have let a dog lick them on the mouth?
You’ll be gobsmacked by the answers as the Nine Network’s new million-dollar game show reveals some intriguing statistics about Aussies in Power of 10, which premieres next month on Wednesday nights.
Hosted by Steve Jacobs, Power of 10 is a high-stakes, high-tech game show that puts contestants through a brain-teasing test to see whether they’ve got their finger on the pulse of the nation.
The contestant who can most accurately predict how Australians will respond to a range of diverse and quirky poll questions could walk away with $1,000,000.
It takes just five questions to reach millionaire status as the prize money escalates in increments of a multiple of 10, starting with $100 then jumping to $1000, $10,000 and $100,000 before tempting contestants with a life-changing $1,000,000. As the prize money goes up so to do the stakes as contestants try to remain calm and collected in order to tap into the mindset of a nation.
Power of 10 reaches out to each state of Australia , with the Nine Network enlisting Newspoll Online, one of the leading public opinion polling companies, to survey thousands of people across the country.
Power of 10, which is recorded at the studios of Channel Nine Melbourne, was created Michael Davies of Embassy Row in New York. It is produced for the Nine Network by FremantleMedia.
4 Responses
Not another game show.
Steve is back doing the weather segment on the Today show. There’s your answer about how successfull the show might be.
Here’s one question I bet they didn’t ask….
What percentage of Australians think this show will last out the year?
You’ll be gobsmacked by the answer!
I’m surprised they’re airing this. I was at a taping in January and it looked like a steaming pile of shit. The set looked tacky, Steve Jacobs was wooden and hideously blokey and it all just had the air of something that would be buried at 5:30 on a Saturday afternoon in non-ratings period.