The Kids Are All Right

What on earth were BBC1 programmers on when they came up with this idea?

Put simply, it's a ******* of Eggheads and Are You Smarter Than A Ten Year Old with some of Test The Nation chucked in for good measure. Except it treats the children in such a patronising way that I would be embarrassed to to be involved in the programme. The general knowledge questions are also just soooo stupidly simple, so much that Alice Tinker could answer them all without a hitch.

The audience is also scary. They seem to applaud everything, except what you're meant to. And John Barrowman is, while enthusiastic, a bit over the top. And we've been told that if the adults 'Beat the Kids' they will win £29,000 five times now.

Anyone else annoyed by this?

QUICK POST-WRITE EDIT: Did I just hear someone on the programme using a word beginning with "S" and rhyming with "binary bit"?

this show is a load of c**p.

I surprised the PC brigade are not complaining that Barrowman keeps calling the children 'kids'!

There not Goats you know!!

And John Barrowman was so Over the top and irritating.

Yeah. Did we expect him not to be? He's always a bit OTT.

That was somewhat obvious: but he should be presenting Whose Line Is It Anyway and not The Kids Are All Right .

Seemed to be an other complicated format as well, compared to Are You Smarter Then.

I don't know why you guys are complaining.. Human Tetris may be coming to BBC1 soon.

Honestly, if it's not Norton it's a bother.

seems rather insulting to the average ten-year-old to assume adults are smarter, age is know precursor to intelligence I've seen babies smarter than some adults and they still **** themselves

You're post proves your point, I guess!

Have you not seen Human Tetris though - brilliant, well, for five minutes on YouTube.


OT, but hopefully Vernon Kay's Beat the Star will do quite well and open up the doors for the return of more challenge/stunt based weekend formats, rather than just quiz after quiz after quiz.

Yes but judging from this clip http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=Ll2kajMH2u0 Human Tetris would work best in the 9pm Friday night on Channel 4 slot imo.

Who could present it? Danny Wallace?

Graham Norton, it's the law that he must present Saturday night light entertainment on BBC One.

Seriously though, it's a novelty for about a minute. More suited to a one-off game in Takeshi's Castle, not to build a series around. It makes Celebrity Wrestling look good.