Underplayed Gems

Ejector Seat (2014)

Ejector Seat poster
Genre
game show
Country
United Kingdom
Length
1 season, 30 episodes
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The catalogue in 3D

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How it feels

Six contestants answer questions while their chairs move along tracks. Wrong answers make them slide toward a danger zone where they can be ejected from the game. The player who stays in the longest wins money.

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What happens

Ejector Seat is a British game show, presented by former Children's BBC presenter Andi Peters, that aired on ITV from 28 April to 6 June 2014 as a temporary spring replacement for Tipping Point. Six contestants compete for a chance to win up to £10,000 cash on each episode. They sit in armchairs mounted on parallel tracks that stretch the length of the stage. The farthest one-fourth of each track is lit up red as a "danger zone." If a contestant moves all the way through their danger zone to the end of the track, they are eliminated from the game and "ejected" by being tipped backward out of their chair amid a burst of light and dry ice smoke. In an interview with the Gloucestershire Echo, Peters stated that it was not answering the questions that was difficult; it was answering them whilst on the move that contestants struggled with. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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