Channel 4’s new Friday night quiz breaks the mould in many ways, and Winkleman is a revelation – a constant subversive delight. No gameshow has entertained me quite so much
By rights, the new Channel 4 gameshow One Question should be terrible. It’s one of those slightly generic big money quiz shows that comes saddled with a maddeningly compromised premise. “Answer one question right and win £100,000!” it screams up top, as if that was all there could possibly be to it.
If only. In reality, contestants are asked a question, and then given 20 possible answers, and they have to whittle them down in a manner that drastically reduces their chances of winning the full amount. There are Who Wants to be a Millionaire?-style lifelines. There are Deal or No Deal-style offers. It is, on paper, a generic sludge of older and better ideas.
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