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Noel Edmonds develops TV quizshow starring a monkey
Beat the Monkey among five formats being touted to broadcasters by Feel Good Television
Noel Edmonds is developing a quizshow that will feature a monkey. Photograph: Stewart Kendall/Sportsphoto Ltd.
Noel Edmonds is developing a quizshow format with the working title Beat the Monkey in which the master of ceremonies is a real monkey.
In an echo of fictional TV character Alan Partridge's idea for a programme called Monkey Tennis, Edmonds' idea is for a quizshow in which questions are asked but are chosen at random for contestants by a monkey picking up stones, filmed as pre-record.
Beat the Monkey is one of five ideas being touted to broadcasters by Feel Good Television, a new TV formats joint venture between Edmonds' Bucket Management and Crystal Entertainment – an entertainment and management company run by the former chief operating office of Simon Fuller's 19 Entertainment, Charles Garland.
Other ideas in development include Be Careful What You Wish For, in which people are set up by their friends to undertake tasks they have boasted about.
"So for example and totally hypothetically, if they say they can sing better than Michael Ball, we will set them up and they will have Noel patting them on the shoulder saying that the person has been set up to sing at a Michael Ball concert," said Crystal executive Gideon Joseph. "It is about fulfilling dreams but with that distinctively Noel quality of a bit of sour as well as sweet."
Another idea is a Price is Right-style format called Bank It or Bin It, which Edmonds is piloting for Sky1 for transmission in the summer. The show, which is being made by the independent producer Monkey Kingdom, challenges contestants to guess how much different items – such as exotic brands of tea and coffee – are worth, and "bank them or bin them".
Feel Good Television aims to be a new kind of television outfit developing ideas and retaining intellectual property rights, but getting other companies to make the shows.
Garland said: "We want to create a new model rights creation business developing Noel's ideas. That is where the real value is."
Noel Edmonds develops TV quizshow starring a monkey | Media | guardian.co.uk
Beat the Monkey among five formats being touted to broadcasters by Feel Good Television
Noel Edmonds is developing a quizshow that will feature a monkey. Photograph: Stewart Kendall/Sportsphoto Ltd.Noel Edmonds is developing a quizshow format with the working title Beat the Monkey in which the master of ceremonies is a real monkey.
In an echo of fictional TV character Alan Partridge's idea for a programme called Monkey Tennis, Edmonds' idea is for a quizshow in which questions are asked but are chosen at random for contestants by a monkey picking up stones, filmed as pre-record.
Beat the Monkey is one of five ideas being touted to broadcasters by Feel Good Television, a new TV formats joint venture between Edmonds' Bucket Management and Crystal Entertainment – an entertainment and management company run by the former chief operating office of Simon Fuller's 19 Entertainment, Charles Garland.
Other ideas in development include Be Careful What You Wish For, in which people are set up by their friends to undertake tasks they have boasted about.
"So for example and totally hypothetically, if they say they can sing better than Michael Ball, we will set them up and they will have Noel patting them on the shoulder saying that the person has been set up to sing at a Michael Ball concert," said Crystal executive Gideon Joseph. "It is about fulfilling dreams but with that distinctively Noel quality of a bit of sour as well as sweet."
Another idea is a Price is Right-style format called Bank It or Bin It, which Edmonds is piloting for Sky1 for transmission in the summer. The show, which is being made by the independent producer Monkey Kingdom, challenges contestants to guess how much different items – such as exotic brands of tea and coffee – are worth, and "bank them or bin them".
Feel Good Television aims to be a new kind of television outfit developing ideas and retaining intellectual property rights, but getting other companies to make the shows.
Garland said: "We want to create a new model rights creation business developing Noel's ideas. That is where the real value is."
Noel Edmonds develops TV quizshow starring a monkey | Media | guardian.co.uk
