 CBBC 1 just now
Trapped
New show on CBBC on Fridays.
It's hosted by an orc-ed up Simon Greenall off of I'm Alan Partridge as The Caretaker (comic relief, essentially explaining what's going on for the people at home), Eve Karpf as The Voice (who you only ever see the lips of) and Olly Pike as Wiley Sneak (who "does" the demonstrations).
In it, six kids - "the unfortunates" - are taken to some sort of witch's tower for no discernable reason. They're winched up to the top of the tower in a cage. Each one wears a "whisper clip", a slightly ridiculous looking shell thing in their ears. This is so that The Voice can communicate with them.
Ah The Voice. The Voice seems to own the tower and for her own reasons she likes to trap people inside forever and ever.
The kids begin in floor six, the aim is to escape down the bottom. Unfortunately, one person will get "trapped" on each floor. On each floor there is a task which they must work together to succeed at. Unfortunately one of them is selected to be The Mol... er the saboteur. The Voice instructs them and gives advice via their whisper clip.
If the team succeed in their task then the saboteur is the one to be trapped. If the team fail then they must individually vote as to who they thought the saboteur was. The kid with the most votes is the one to be trapped. Voting is not evidently secret, so clever saboteurs can try and influence the vote with their reasoning.
Tasks are physical and mental (well duh), In the first episode they were "Black Widow" - suck up all the white spiders eggs (ping pong balls) using the "vaccuumators" but avoid sucking up the yellow black widows, as that will dump more eggs into the room, "Feed Me a Lie" - a true or false quiz with some large talking plants which was rather ruined by the lies being really obvious, quite an interesting psychological game involving putting your hand through holes in a wall and not being "bitten" by a "snake" - obviously the saboteur is told where the "snake" is hiding at all times, "Wicked Wardrobes" where the contestants must turn on lights then hide inside a wardrobe, then the saboteur gets out and turns some of them off again and then had three seconds to get back in their wardrobe before the gramophone starts up again alerting everyone else to come out (slightly ruined (?) by the idea that you can just turn some off in the dying few seconds of the game so the team can't win, The Voice instructs as such, which suggests it's not quite as clever a game as it looks. But there's good potential for blaming someone else if you're clever with the positioning of the lights) and finally the Fight for Freedom, which is a rather anti-climactic quiz based on everything that has gone before (there's no saboteur for that one).
Like most CBBC gameshows these days, the presentation is really excellent. They've aimed somewhere between Harry Potter and the Brothers Grimm in feel. Less overtly horror based than Terror Towers all those years ago. The Caretaker's "Watch Tank" is a neat bit of computer graphicary.
So why can't they put the same effort into shows for adults, eh?
its awesome
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