Going down

NBC has posted some video from and about Who's Still Standing, due next Monday. Ben Bailey talks up the quizzer, which is based on an Israeli format, and even mentions his experience on Cash Cab.

His cabbie-quizmaster gig has taught Ben more trivia than he knows what to do with. But he admits that real trivia mavens could probably still take him down. Which is literally where the losers go in Ben's new show. Down the hatch, and the hatches look suspiciously like the trap doors on my old GSN fave, Russian Roulette. The NBC show has added footprints to the trap doors, just to be different.

The show starts by pitting a "hero" against ten other contestants. Miss one question, and you go through the floor. If the hero plummets to his game show demise, the show runs the remaining contestants through a speed round. The NBC site has an interview with a contestant on the show, who doesn't tell us what she won, if anything. Gotta maintain some suspense, after all.

In one of the videos Ben does say that the show hasn't yet given out the top prize of a million bucks. But he's confident that somebody will take home the big money sooner or later. I'll be watching, if only as a homage to that terrific little show from the Bob Boden days at GSN.