Game Show Idea One, the gameyest of meats

"Schools Reunited"

-A game show-

This is a 360 degree immersion studio centred game show. Hailing the finest elements of Talk shows, variety programming and home audience interactions; leading to a strict format that can fracture off into multiple avenues of entertainment.

This is a show about reuniting a school year for their 20 year reunion, no easy task in and of its self what with the various avenues life can take people in 15 years. But apart from ‘natural tectonic movement’ there will be three separate teams/schools trying to do the same task; competing for the same prize of a fully paid reunion on a cruise ship.

Staring with three (single) contestants who’ll have their own subsequent presenter (each presenter roots for a team) each person hunting down there school companions and remaining teaching staff.

 

There are three contestants and subsequent teams from different schools in a localised area (London, Manchester ETC) all coming up to their 15 year anniversary from leaving ,said, school.

Over a period of two weeks (could be shorter) they must amass as many of their school year, including teachers. The person with the most people gets the 15 year reunion paid for in a grand manner (cruse ETC). The losers just get there reunion paid for whatever the original costs were.

Initially it is a scavenger hunt for the contestants in finding there fellow students. Like a ‘Challenge Aneka’/ ‘Treasure Hunt’ styled OB program; popping into high-powered meetings to flying to Australia  and surprising old school chums to invite them back to the studio or to get the next clue to others they may not have found yet

As more and more students are amassed from each school the show turns from (original first few days) scavenger hunt to studio variety show where contestants (once found they are contestants/team members) tell their teams presenter of childhood anecdotes and hyjinx gotten up to at the school.

mini competitions are setup in studio where the audience (studio and home) can vote for the most ‘romantic couples’ extolling how they got together; ‘Battle of the school bands’; with each school having a band to ‘battle’. All the while the original contestants are out souring more and more classmates/schoolmates (these are VT sections where we see what they are up to, maybe live or what was filmed yesterday)

 

Interactivity:-

Web-site is setup for information on the schools/contestants/ higher learning options. Sections of the site are setup for that days voting; the competitions that occur on the show EG ‘Most romantic couple’ to ‘Final year art project’ ETC.

An option for home audiences to place one’s own (30 sec max) story about your own school days is an option for the site. Available for streaming off of site by audience and at least 2 - 3 to be played on show where comments are made about that weeks topic (secondary school dating/food/favoured teachers etc).

Phoning in to vote for competition winners and different competitors, EG Battle of the bands, romantic couple ETC

 

Possible Sponsorships:- 

-Facebook, Fiends Reunited ETC

-The social networking sites as to gain that re introduction to your pears again feel that the show wants to acquire

-Cruise liners to help pay for the grand prize and promote the holidays this demographic would now be choosing

 

Specifics:-

 -Three presenters

-6*40min Eps, weekend and three afternoons a week

-Terrestrial channel preferable or digital off-shoot EG. ITV2

 

                                                                   

 

As always, any suggestions to strengthen this concept would be greatly appreciated, this is only a skeleton of an idea and needs YOUR FEEDBACK to give it flesh.

 

I would like to thank Amanda Saunders for helping me decide on 'Game Show' as my topic for this post. Next post is either A.art instalation or B. Documentary

 

 

 

 

 

 

Same Old New Mould

Same old new mould

A series of fake documentaries, each episode follows people whose past life has interfered with their current one now.

Ep 1. ‘Past Life Bad Touch’ TALKSHOW

Mike (16) and Jane (48) are both past lifers and in a relationship with a difference. In Mikes past life he was Jan’s retired next-door neighbour who molested her when she was a child. Today, Jan was a teacher at Mike’s secondary school, till an unknown attraction brought them together and finally to reveal their unconventional pasts and possible futures.

 

Ep 2. ‘Past Life, same as this life’

Jerry works in a Shoe repairs kiosk but in a past life he was a cobbler in 18 century London. Coming to terms with this revelation Jerry searches out the differences and similarities between his life then and today “Yeah, turns out cobblers didn’t do key cuttings; probably why I’m so bad at it and I have to get Sam to do the Cubbs.” (Turns out it’s the same but with more modern parlance). He is so dull but has letters of enthusiasm about his past life (town history/the person he married/ETC).

 

Ep 3. ‘Past Life, same threat’

Brenda finds out in a past life that she was ‘Brin Williams’, who was a leader of an anti monarchy terrorist cell in the 1600; who failed in their plans to assassinate the King at his wedding.

Whilst Brenda finds out more of this interesting past, especially from her perspective of being a man in a past life, she is being followed and monitored by MI5, who detain her at the airport as person of ‘interest’ in the lead up to the new royal wedding.  

Ep 4 ‘Past Life, powers’

Charlotte was a psychic in a past life. Today, without powers, she gives talks to budding young psychics in setting up their own psychic businesses, controlling their powers and not abusing the trust Mother Earth has given them. In her conferences she tells stories of revealing the past lives of upper class Victorian men and women at séances, chuckling at the memories of their faces when the Victorian men and women found out they were famous figures of the 1700s.

She is also touring and signing her new book “My past, and how it can help you to see a future for viewing other people’s pasts”

 

Ep 5 ‘Past Life, What past life?’ (Told like a history doc)

Henry is the most hated man in his small town. A year ago the community centre hired a psychic to read peoples auras and tell them who they were in a past life. After a private session Henry tells everyone he was the reincarnated soul of the towns’ beloved founder. Weeks later he is elected the town mayor and he systematically abuses his power for his family and the many mistresses he uses. One year to the day, the psychic returns to do a follow-up session, shocked to see what has happened she sets the town people straight; who then throw Henry out of town forcing him to live in a caravan by the town limits (where he is interviewed).

Henry reveals, at the end, that the psychic couldn’t see a past life in him, so he lied and made one up to save grace in the community who all seemed to have one.

(Whilst being interviewed the towns’ people occasionally hint that they also didn’t have a past life that the psychic could see OR it was so inane they denied it)