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