A brand new prime-time quiz show is coming to Saturday night television on ITV this weekend, as comedian Lee Mack presents The 1% Club.
Produced by Magnum Media, this show will invite people of any age or background to join in as unlike most quiz-based game shows, you do not need extensive general knowledge or special interest - you just need some common sense!
In The 1% Club, 100 contestants begin every show - but to make it to the end and win the top prize of up to £100,000, contestants must correctly answer a question only 1 per cent of the country would get right.
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Each time contestants flunk their answers the prize money swells.
As the questions get harder and the contestants numbers dwindle, host Lee does his best to break the tension as the contestants battle to make it to the end of the show and a shot at the prize pot.
Speaking on the show, Lee said: "What I really liked about it was the people making it were a company I’ve worked with before and I know they don’t dumb down. It starts like most quizzes do, gentle and a little bit easy, but the fact it then goes on to asking a question only 1% of the population knows is great.
"Quizzes like Millionaire, which is a brilliant quiz show, are great, starting off fairly easy and yet towards the end most of us haven’t got a clue what the answers are… which is handy otherwise they’d have to give a million pounds out each show.”
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Lee also enjoys the format of the audience and contestants, as the hosts stand-up background stands him in good stead to be a formidable quizmaster.
Lee continued: "What was interesting is the people on the show were both contestants and the audience and given my stand-up background, even though I haven’t done it for 7 years, that ability to work with the audience and joke with them, never goes away.
"But this is slightly different, comedy can be difficult at the best of times, never mind when someone is thinking about a difficult logic question. It’s about trying to get the balance right, £100k is a life-changing amount of money so I did make sure there were no jokes towards the end.”
Lee also pointed out a future moment in the show that had him rolling with laughter, adding: " One of the funniest moments we had during filming was a chap who was desperate for us to get going as he was dying for the loo and kept asking us to do it quicker!
"I also found it a lot more tense than I thought I would, the decision to go for the big prize or not… the tension in the studio was electric and as you’ve spent all evening getting to know them, you really want them to do well - £100k is an awful lot of money to win and it’s heart breaking if it doesn’t happen.”
You can tune into the first episode of The 1% Club on Saturday, April 9 at 8:30pm on ITV.
