Mastermind Game Show

Title:

The title of the game show is 'Mastermind' this word means someone of a great intellect, they are a genius, very intelligent. This tells me and the audience that the game show is all abbout intelligence, and that the people that go onto the show have to answer hard questions or have to know a lot so they can win.

Title Sequence:

At the beggining of the show, you see four people sat in chairs next to each other, the host describes each person to the audeince, tells them their age, job, name and then says which topic they are going to be tested on.

Next, the first person on the row of chairs has to sit in front of the host in the Mastermind chair. They are then asked 2 minutes of questions on the topic they have chosen. For each question they answer correctly they earn themselves a point. After every person has been asked questions for 2 minutes they find out the numbers of questions they got correct.

Then, each person goes up to the matermind chair again to get quized on general knowledge questions that are completely random for 2 and a half minutes. The amount of questions they get right are added onto the points from before. The person with the most amount of points at the end go into the semi final.

The people in the semi final get quized again and the person with the most amount of points wins the mastermind glass and the title of the years mastermind.

The Rules:

The rules of the show are that you cant cheat with any of teh questions, so you are not allowed to bring any answers along with you or write them somewhere to get them all correct. You are also not allowed any help from anyone, you have to answer all the questions by yourself.

The Host:

Mastermind is hosted by a man named John Humphrys, who is an award winning Welsh broadcaster. From 1981 to 1987 he was the presenter of Nine o'clock News. Since then he has been a presenter on BBC Radio 4 programme 'Today'. He has had a reputation of being a very forthright character who has done tough interviews. He is now 73 years of age and was born in Cardiff, Wales.

Guest:

The people that come on the show have all different backgrounds, they are of different ages, they have different jobs and different appearances. The people on the show are completely random, they apply for it and then get quized, they aren't poeple that know each other and they can come from anywhere in the world. However one thing that they all have in common is that they have a lot of intellignece on a certain topic, and this topic is what they get quized on along with general knowledge.

Audience:

The audience on the show are also very random, they can be family members and friends coming to watch the people being quized or they can be people who like watching quizes, anyone can go and watch the show and it doesn't matter what age you are.

My Opinion:

My opinion on the show isnt great, i find it boring to watch as it isn't very entertaining. However this doesn't mean i think it is a bad show that shouldnt be on TV. I think that it is good to test people on things they know a lot abput and on thins they dont really know becuase intelligence is an important thing. There are a lot of game shows on TV, but this one is slightly different becuase it has a semi final and the prize isn't money which i think is a good thing becuase it shows that the people who go on there are generally doing it because they find a topic interesting and have learned a lot about it, not becuase they want the money.