Michael McIntyre’s The Wheel
WHAT IS IT? Michael McIntyre hosts a game show packed with huge stars, big laughs and a colossal spinning wheel. Three contestants hope to answer their way to a fortune, guided by seven celebrity experts. Can the famous faces help them to win life-changing cash? That all depends on the spin of The Wheel. The trick is that the celebrity guests are all strapped to a rotating wheel.
WHAT HAPPENS? Each episode features three contestants who find themselves on a wheel located directly beneath the main celebrity wheel. After one person is selected at random, they find themselves elevated to the centre of the celebrity wheel above and remain there until they get a question wrong. It is then up to the contestant to pick a topic, answering their question and building up the prize fund with the help of one of the seven celebrities located on the wheel. But with each celebrity specialising in a different topic area and the wheel being spun to select the helper at random, there’s every chance the contestant could be hindered rather than helped by landing on a celebrity with next to no knowledge of their chosen topic.
THE TWIST: But then comes one final twist, as the celebrities – who have been playing along throughout, secretly answering every question using their keypad – find themselves the subject of scrutiny. The contestant is then required to pick either the highest, middle or lowest ranking celebrity helper to answer one final question – with their selection affecting the final prize pot.
“I didn’t want to be a game show host, I just wanted to be me hosting a game show. I just thought, there hasn’t been any brand new formats for game shows, quiz shows – and they’re so well-loved and they always do so well. So, I thought, ‘I’m going to try and think of one’. And I did – well, I thought of two in the bath… It sort of came to me as like a human roulette wheel. I have to say, I’ve enjoyed the roaming around thing.
“I feel a bit like Noel Edmonds when I’m doing it.”
MICHAEL MCINTYRE SAYS: