New ITV daytime gameshows

ITV are bringing 2 new Endemol gameshows to daytime apparently as confirmed by this article. The second sounds a blatant Deal or No Deal rip off ;

The UK's ITV is getting its own version of gameshow Set for Life from Deal or No Deal creator Dick de Rijk, after the format also received a green light from US network ABC.

Endemol-owned Initial has been commissioned to produce ITV's version, called For the Rest of Your Life (40 x 60'), which is scheduled for spring 2007. Commissioned by ITV's controller of daytime Liam Keelan and destined for a daytime slot, it will be presented by Watchdog and Radio 5 Live presenter Nicky Campbell.

The format gives couples the chance to win a pay cheque every month of every year for the rest of their lives. Created by Dutch gameshow guru de Rijk, the show is also destined for ABC in mid-season but for a primetime slot. Endemol USA is producing.

Keelan has also given the go-ahead to a second Initial gameshow, Golden Balls (40 x 60'), billed as a game of "luck, intuition and barefaced bluff." One hundred golden balls concealing different cash amounts are up for grabs. Players must try to find and hang on to the balls containing life-changing amounts of money. But they also need to avoid the dreaded 'killer balls,' which can turn tens of thousands into pennies within seconds. It is also scheduled for a spring transmission.

Keelan said: "Both these shows will be fresh and exciting additions to the afternoon schedule, which is performing very well this year."
Executive producers are Tony Blakeson and Andy Rowe.

http://www.c21media.net/news/detail.asp?area=4&article=34345

Is 'Golden Balls' not just Deal or No Deal with balls not boxes?

This is the format of "For the Rest of Your Life" :

Hosted by Nicky Campbell (Watchdog, Radio Five Live), For the Rest of Your Life is a game that leaves the general knowledge aside – there are no questions and therefore no answers. All each couple needs are nerves of steel. The first half of the game sees the players attempt to build up a substantial monthly sum. In the second half, they start playing for time... just how long can the couple win their pay cheque for?

Always sceptical of competitions that offer you money for the rest of your life - you'd be constantly watching your back!

Re: Golden Balls - sounds a bit like Five/Endemol's awful show The Grid too!

can there just Bring back "Stirke it lucky"!

no

why not, everyone likes it.. it be alot better than pick a bucnh Daivd beckham balls

Is it possible for you to contribute to a thread without turning it into a bring back Strike It Lucky appeal ?

You've done that one to death.

Yes...

ITV are not usling Original Ideas that what causing the problem! if it was an original idea then may it has a chance like Pokerface...

but there nicking an idea from Channel4 in a slot that only get 3million at best

ITV will problay flag this on at peak time...

Nice to see some quiz shows commisioned however it would be nice to see them in peak time (e.g. 7pm!)

I saw the pilots for both of these, I can safely say they're probably going to bomb.

I auditioned for Show Me the Money, which was originally mooted as one of the two pilots (with For the Rest of Your Life).

It was, erm, dreadful. I hope Golden Balls is better.