1 vs. 100 (U.S. game show)

1 vs. 100
Genre Game show
Presented by Bob Saget (NBC)
Carrie Ann Inaba (GSN)
Narrated by Joe Cipriano (NBC)
Country of origin United States
Original language(s) English
No. of seasons 3 (2 on NBC, 1 on GSN)
No. of episodes NBC: 28
GSN: 40
Production
Executive producer(s) Scott St. John
Running time 41–43 minutes (2006–08)
20–22 minutes (2010–11)
Production company(s) Endemol USA
Release
Original network NBC (2006–08)
GSN (2010–11)
Picture format 480i (SDTV)
1080i (HDTV) (2010–11)
Original release NBC:
October 13, 2006 (2006-10-13) – February 22, 2008 (2008-02-22)
GSN:
November 15, 2010 (2010-11-15) – January 11, 2011 (2011-01-11)
External links
Website

1 vs. 100 is an American game show that was broadcast by NBC from 2006 to 2008 and revived on Game Show Network (GSN) with a new series, which ran from 2010 to 2011. The game features a single player (the "1") competing against 100 other contestants (known as "the Mob") in a trivia match. The 1 earns prize money depending on how many Mob members he or she has eliminated from the game, but loses all winnings with an incorrect answer at any point. The host of the original NBC version was Bob Saget, while Carrie Ann Inaba hosted the GSN revival.

Gameplay

The game is played with the main contestant acting as the "1" answering questions against 100 other people collectively known as the "Mob". To win the game outright, the contestant must be the last player standing, eliminating all 100 members of the Mob by answering general knowledge questions correctly.[1]

To begin the game, a multiple-choice question is revealed with three options: one correct and two incorrect. Once all of the Mob members have locked in their answers, the contestant is given the opportunity to answer the question. If the contestant is correct, all Mob members that answered incorrectly are eliminated from the game. The amount of money in the contestant's bank also increases by an amount dependent on the number of mob members eliminated in that question. If the contestant eliminates all 100 mob members, he or she claims a top prize of $1,000,000; if at any time the contestant is incorrect, the game ends and the contestant leaves with nothing. In this case, the remaining Mob members who answered the question correctly evenly split the losing contestant's winnings accumulated up to that point in the game.[1]

Helps

To assist the main contestant, assistance from the mob is offered in the form of "helps". Originally there were two helps, which could only be used in order.[2] Starting with the sixth episode, a third option was added, the three helps were given names, and contestants could choose any of the three at any point in the game.[3]

The first help was originally "Poll The Mob", where the contestant selects one of the three answers to get more information about. The number of Mob members who chose that answer is revealed, and the contestant chooses one of the revealed mob members to discuss his or her response.[2] "Ask The Mob" was originally the second help, in which two Mob members are randomly selected: one who answered correctly and one who answered incorrectly. Each explains his or her decision to the contestant, which in turn also eliminates the third choice from consideration.[2] A third help, "Trust The Mob", was added in the series' sixth episode. For this help, the contestant is automatically committed to the most popular answer the Mob gave.[4]

Additionally, after reaching a certain point in the game, contestants can be given a "Sneak Peek" which allows the contestant to see their next question (but not the three answers) before deciding whether or not to answer the next question. In season one, it was used when a player eliminated 90 or more members of the mob;[3] it eventually became available once a contestant used all his or her helps in season two.[5]

Payout structure

Originally, contestants were awarded a cumulative amount of money after each individual question for each Mob member eliminated; this amount increased with each question as the game went on. For example, a contestant who eliminated eight Mob members on his or her second question would be awarded $500 per member, adding up to $4,000 to add to his or her total.[2] The payout structure was tweaked slightly prior to the third episode of the season[6] and changed once again on the sixth episode in conjunction with introduction of the "Trust the Mob" help.[3][4]

Question Value
Episodes 1–2[2] Episodes 3–5[6] Episodes 6–20[4]
13+ $10,000
12 $10,000 $9,000
11 $9,000 $7,500 $8,000
10 $8,000 $6,000 $7,000
9 $7,000 $5,000 $6,000
8 $6,000 $4,000 $5,000
7 $5,000 $3,000 $4,000
6 $4,000 $2,000 $3,000
5 $3,000 $1,500 $2,000
4 $2,000 $1,000
3 $1,000 $500 $1,000
2 $500 $250
1 $100

In the second season, the payout structure was simplified to award contestants for every set of ten Mob members eliminated.[7] On the GSN version, the second NBC season's structure was used, though the amounts were significantly reduced. Towards the end of the series' run, the top prize was briefly raised to $100,000 before reverting to $50,000 for the final two episodes.

Mob members
eliminated		 Contestants' total
NBC (season two)[7] GSN (episodes 1–17)[8] GSN (episodes 18–33, 39–40)[9] GSN (episodes 34–38)[10]
100 $1,000,000 $50,000 $100,000
90–99 $500,000 $25,000 $50,000
80–89 $250,000 $10,000 $25,000
70–79 $100,000 $5,000 $10,000
60–69 $75,000 $2,500 $4,000 $8,000
50–59 $50,000 $2,000 $3,000 $6,000
40–49 $25,000 $1,500 $2,000 $4,000
30–39 $10,000 $1,000 $1,500 $2,000
20–29 $5,000 $750 $1,000
10–19 $1,000 $500
Fewer than 10 $0

Production

NBC

Bob Saget hosted the original NBC version.

The show first premiered on NBC as a five-episode series on October 13, 2006.[11] On October 20, 2006, it was reported that NBC ordered ten additional episodes of 1 vs. 100, citing the show's encouraging ratings performance.[12] The series returned to NBC's schedule with these new episodes on December 1, 2006.[4]

In May, NBC announced that 1 vs. 100 would return for its second season in Fall 2007 with an eight-episode run. The Singing Bee was originally scheduled to air after the initial run of 1 vs. 100, but its premiere was moved up to July to compete with Fox's new game show Don't Forget the Lyrics![13] In July, NBC announced some fall scheduling updates that included 1 vs. 100's season two premiere being temporarily delayed.[14]

In late 2007, NBC announced that 1 vs. 100 would return as a winter replacement sometime in January,[15] and the series debuted its second season on January 4, 2008,[16] with a new set and money ladder system of obtaining prize money.[7]

Special episodes

On December 1, 2006, the top prize was raised to $3,000,000 for the episode's first contestant;[4][17] it reverted to $1,000,000 for the next contestant.[17] The episode also featured several celebrities in the Mob, including game show hosts Wink Martindale and Bob Eubanks.[17]

A Christmas special aired on December 25, 2006, which featured Christmas-related questions and a Mob with members in character representing "The 12 Days of Christmas."[18] Later, a kids edition was played on the February 2, 2007, episode in which the Mob consisted of 100 children. The five remaining members who avoided elimination split $94,000, earning $18,800 each.[19]

Carrie Ann Inaba hosted the GSN revival.

In a special entitled "Last Man Standing", a Mob consisting largely of former top Mob members and game show champions, including Brad Rutter, Ken Jennings, Nancy Christy, Kevin Olmstead, and Annie Duke among others, competed only against each other; the winner earned a guaranteed $250,000. The rules were a modified in that there were no helps, no money for each question, and one person, in this case, Annie Duke, was randomly selected to act as the "1". Thus, this game was actually 1 vs. 99. Given the nature of this episode, Duke was not allowed to walk away from the game. Duke and Jennings were among two of the final five aiming for the prize. The question was "Who has been married the most times? – King Henry VIII, Larry King, or 'King of Pop', Michael Jackson." Duke, Jennings, and two of the other remaining contestants incorrectly guessed King Henry VIII. Ultimately, the winner was entertainment lawyer and former actor Larry Zerner, as he was the only one who answered Larry King.[20]

The season two premiere on January 4, 2008, was a "Battle of the Sexes" special, in which one woman played against a Mob of 100 men and vice versa. The woman, Katherine Kazorla, lost $50,000 to the mob, while the man, Jason Luna, became the show's first and only million dollar winner.[7][21]

GSN repeats and revival

Game Show Network (GSN) began airing reruns of the show on June 6, 2009.[22] With the ratings success of those shows in reruns,[23] GSN announced a casting call in August 2010, implying that the network would be producing new episodes.[24][25]

On October 13, 2010, GSN announced plans to premiere an original revival series, hosted by Dancing with the Stars judge Carrie Ann Inaba.[26] The initial order of 40 half-hour episodes began airing weekdays on November 15, 2010.[26] In the new version, Mob members participated via webcam, and top prize was $50,000. Contestants also only had two of the NBC version's helps available: "Poll the Mob" and "Trust the Mob".[26] In addition, contestants were only given the option to choose the money or the mob once they have reached at least $1,000 on the prize ladder, and the "Sneak Peek" could not be used until the contestant had reached at least $10,000.

The season finale of GSN's 1 vs. 100 aired on January 11, 2011. Inaba later announced that she would not be returning,[27] and the series was eventually canceled.[28]

Reception

The series quickly became a ratings success for NBC, with the debut episode earning 12,800,000 viewers and a 4.2/13 rating/share among adults 18–49.[12] Despite the high ratings, criticism emerged asserting that the questions tended to be far less difficult than those seen on other quiz shows. Slate's Troy Patterson noted: "Indeed, the only problem with 1 vs. 100 is its determined idiocy....The quality of the quiz is of no importance to the new breed of quiz shows....All that matters is the show of emotion—the contestant's joyful squeals, worried quivers, and relieved slumps."[29] Brian Lowry of Variety added: "Endemol and NBC have managed the seemingly impossible — combining on a quiz/trivia show nearly as mentally undemanding as their no-skill-required hit Deal or No Deal....the questions are so simple that amassing thousands isn't much harder than guessing which case to open.[30]

Ray Richmond argued that while the series' format is "not a terrible game", it was easier than it was promoted to be: "While the idea of having one contestant take on 100 people in a game of trivia skill sounds on paper like a hugely challenging undertaking, in truth it probably is 100 times less challenging than Who Wants to Be a Millionaire because 1) the questions tend to be far less brainy, and 2) the competition ain’t all it is cracked up to be."[31] Ed Bark, a former television critic at The Dallas Morning News, gave the series a "C-minus" grade, calling it "another NBC big-money game show that really should be titled Dumb or Super-Dumb. How else to gauge the candle power required to answer the show's opening question: 'The 2003 movie Seabiscuit featured what kind of animal?'"[32] The New York Times's Alessandra Stanley opined, "the point of 1 vs 100 is different: knowledge is beside the point."[1]

Merchandise

The success of the series inspired several home versions to be released. These included media home versions in the form of an interactive DVD game,[33][34] a mobile app,[35] a version for the Nintendo DS,[36] and an interactive version for Xbox Live.[37] Other home versions were a board game released by Pressman Toy Corporation,[38] a card game published by Cardinal,[39] and a 100-piece puzzle that formed a home version of the game once assembled.[40]

References

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  9. ↑ 1 vs. 100. Season 1. Episode 18. December 8, 2010. GSN.
  10. ↑ 1 vs. 100. Season 1. Episode 34–38. January 3–7, 2011. GSN.
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  12. 1 2 "1 vs. 100 Rewarded With Additional Episodes". Reality TV Magazine. Archived from the original on October 21, 2006. Retrieved November 3, 2006.
  13. ↑ "Karaoke Wars: NBC Rushes Singing Bee". Zap2it. June 21, 2007. Archived from the original on June 26, 2007. Retrieved July 4, 2007.
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  16. ↑ "Breaking News – NBC Announces Exciting Line-Up of Reality Series Premieres in January as New American Gladiators Debuts Along with Brand New Season of The Biggest Loser and Return of Popular Game Show 1 vs 100". The Futon Critic (Press release). Futon Media. November 30, 2007. Retrieved February 29, 2012.
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  19. ↑ 1 vs. 100. Season 1. Episode 14. February 2, 2007. NBC.
  20. ↑ 1 vs. 100. Season 1. Episode 15. February 9, 2007. NBC.
  21. ↑ "Mr. Trivia". San Diego Magazine. February 28, 2008. Retrieved September 23, 2017.
  22. ↑ GSN Corporate (May 12, 2009). "Popular Game Shows Deal Or No Deal and 1 vs. 100 to Debut on Gsn, June 1 and June 6". The Futon Critic (Press release). Futon Media. Retrieved September 24, 2017.
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  26. 1 2 3 "GSN to Premiere All-New Version of Popular Game Show 1 vs. 100, Produced by Endemol USA and Hosted by Carrie Ann Inaba, Premieres Monday, November 15" (Press release). GSN Corporate. October 13, 2010. Archived from the original on November 5, 2010.
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  39. ↑ "1 vs. 100 Card Game (2006)". BoardGameGeek. Retrieved September 29, 2017.
  40. ↑ "1 vs. 100: The Puzzle Game (2007)". BoardGameGeek. Retrieved September 29, 2017.
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