UK
Surprised that no one has mentioned the very succesful revival of Crystal Maze that was Fort Boyard! Hated this at first but really grew into it. The challenges were harder, audience participation was better (trying to work out the clues) and the fact it was filmed in summer gave it a nice escapist feel in the depths of winter. Makes the whole Crystal Maze look very staid in comparison. Oh and the lycra!!!!
IT
That is because the Crystal Maze was a temporary reformatting of Fort Boyard. This is because the Fort wasn't ready to be filmed in for the British version. There eventually was a British version, two infact.
BR
The second one is probably best not mentioned, or The Desert Forges. God, that was awful.
I do worry though as much as I loved The Crystal Maze back in the nineties and when it's been repeated more recently, and as much as I personally would love a revival, would the show really still work today?
I do worry though as much as I loved The Crystal Maze back in the nineties and when it's been repeated more recently, and as much as I personally would love a revival, would the show really still work today?
RE
A very big "It Depends". Very certainly, it COULD work - it would not be a guaranteed failure, as some revivals are. However, you would need the right host (neither a ROB clone, nor someone [almost] entirely [but not quite] unlike him), a hefty investment in both the set in general and the individual game design in particular, and a good timeslot for it.
Brekkie posted:
I do worry though as much as I loved The Crystal Maze back in the nineties and when it's been repeated more recently, and as much as I personally would love a revival, would the show really still work today?
A very big "It Depends". Very certainly, it COULD work - it would not be a guaranteed failure, as some revivals are. However, you would need the right host (neither a ROB clone, nor someone [almost] entirely [but not quite] unlike him), a hefty investment in both the set in general and the individual game design in particular, and a good timeslot for it.
PT
I reckon a Derren Brown/Objective TV style twist to the show could work but what he'd have in mind (excuse pun) for it, I don't know.
I'm thinking Derren Brown's Crystal Maze, Friday's, 9pm, Channel 4.
I'm thinking Derren Brown's Crystal Maze, Friday's, 9pm, Channel 4.
CH
Oh dear
Think of the sort of contestants they'd pick if the programme was on at that time though. Binge drinking twenty-somethings, I should imagine.
nok32uk posted:
I reckon a Derren Brown/Objective TV style twist to the show could work but what he'd have in mind (excuse pun) for it, I don't know.
I'm thinking Derren Brown's Crystal Maze, Friday's, 9pm, Channel 4.
I'm thinking Derren Brown's Crystal Maze, Friday's, 9pm, Channel 4.
Oh dear
Think of the sort of contestants they'd pick if the programme was on at that time though. Binge drinking twenty-somethings, I should imagine.
BR
Ooh, did you know something we didn't?
http://www.broadcastnow.co.uk/news/2008/06/objective_plans_crystal_mazestyle_show_for_c4.html
Doesn't really sound like a successor to me, but interesting none the less. I'm sure C4 have had a few shows in the last decade billed as the successor to The Crystal Maze, most of which didn't make series 2.
nok32uk posted:
I reckon a Derren Brown/Objective TV style twist to the show could work but what he'd have in mind (excuse pun) for it, I don't know.
I'm thinking Derren Brown's Crystal Maze, Friday's, 9pm, Channel 4.
I'm thinking Derren Brown's Crystal Maze, Friday's, 9pm, Channel 4.
Ooh, did you know something we didn't?
http://www.broadcastnow.co.uk/news/2008/06/objective_plans_crystal_mazestyle_show_for_c4.html
Quote:
Objective plans Crystal Maze-style show for C4
* Published: 11 June 2008 16:48
* Author: Robin Parker
Objective Productions is to build a four-metre square Perspex cube as the setting for a gameshow being eyed as a Crystal Maze successor for Channel 4.
The indie has been handed a six-figure sum to make a non-broadcast pilot of The Cube. In the show, contestants will be asked to perform high-pressure physical challenges within the minimalist cube.
A studio audience will surround the box from above in an enclosed set designed to create a gladiatorial atmosphere.
Justin Lee Collins is to front the pilot, which will feature seemingly straightforward tasks that put a modern spin on classic games such as coconut shies or pin the tail on the donkey. One will feature just a button and a clock, with the player required to stop the clock dead on ten seconds.
Each contestant will be given nine "lives" to complete up to seven tasks before making way for the next player.
Filming takes place at Fountain Studios at the end of this month. The show will have a filmic look and will undergo extensive post-production including CGI elements added within the cube. It will feature the time-slice filming technique used in The Matrix, in which action is frozen then spun round to show an alternative view before resuming.
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* Published: 11 June 2008 16:48
* Author: Robin Parker
Objective Productions is to build a four-metre square Perspex cube as the setting for a gameshow being eyed as a Crystal Maze successor for Channel 4.
The indie has been handed a six-figure sum to make a non-broadcast pilot of The Cube. In the show, contestants will be asked to perform high-pressure physical challenges within the minimalist cube.
A studio audience will surround the box from above in an enclosed set designed to create a gladiatorial atmosphere.
Justin Lee Collins is to front the pilot, which will feature seemingly straightforward tasks that put a modern spin on classic games such as coconut shies or pin the tail on the donkey. One will feature just a button and a clock, with the player required to stop the clock dead on ten seconds.
Each contestant will be given nine "lives" to complete up to seven tasks before making way for the next player.
Filming takes place at Fountain Studios at the end of this month. The show will have a filmic look and will undergo extensive post-production including CGI elements added within the cube. It will feature the time-slice filming technique used in The Matrix, in which action is frozen then spun round to show an alternative view before resuming.
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Doesn't really sound like a successor to me, but interesting none the less. I'm sure C4 have had a few shows in the last decade billed as the successor to The Crystal Maze, most of which didn't make series 2.
:-(
A former member
why not just make more CM? nothing else seems to work.
There could give it a upto date twist/
There could give it a upto date twist/
HC
The Cube sounds a nice idea - but it sounds like a bigger budget reworking of '19 Keys' Objective produced for Channel Five.
That was set in a perspex cube, and recorded at Fountain Television.
Some concepts from the development team brainstorm session never die....
(BTW I know it's a pilot and this edition won't see the light of day, but I really don't like the sound that most of The Cube's possible 'wow' factor will be done in the post production edit suite with CGI and film effects being added.
The 'wow' factor should come from the format and the players in the studio in Wembley - not from a on-line editor sitting in a air conditioned box in Soho.)
That was set in a perspex cube, and recorded at Fountain Television.
Some concepts from the development team brainstorm session never die....
(BTW I know it's a pilot and this edition won't see the light of day, but I really don't like the sound that most of The Cube's possible 'wow' factor will be done in the post production edit suite with CGI and film effects being added.
The 'wow' factor should come from the format and the players in the studio in Wembley - not from a on-line editor sitting in a air conditioned box in Soho.)