The premise? "Do you have a roommate or sibling that you live with? Wake them up in the middle of the night to compete in games for cash prizes! If they succeed, they win the money, and if they fail, you get to keep it for yourself."
The call asks for contestants aged 18-25. So it sounds like an MTV-ish effort with twenty-somethings waking up their snoozing housemates for goofball games. To me, it also sounds sort of like GSN's late, unlamented Hidden Agenda.
In that previous home invasion project, spouses would try to get their unsuspecting better halves to perform silly human tricks. For every success, the spouse earned money. At the end of the show, host Debi Gutierrez would let the unsuspecting better half in on the gag.
I really didn't think Hidden Agenda was all that bad, which made me a minority of one. GSN's audience reacted to the show with fear, loathing and near-unanimous revulsion. Hidden Agenda lasted maybe three days on the network (slight exaggeration). You can sample the premiere episode on YouTube and decide on its merits, or lack thereof.
One more note: this post is the blog's 387th and last of 2011. Happy new year, everybody!
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