Reflex
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Host
Jake Humphrey (non-broadcast pilot)
Co-hosts
Commentator: Ken Bruce
Broadcast
Objective Productions for BBC One, 11 January to 29 March 2014 (7 episodes in 1 series)
Synopsis
Putting the "B" into bang, putting the "go" into go-getter, Shane Richie hosts a show with the fastest reaction times in the world.
Two teams of three family members compete in five rounds that test speed and reactions. We'll see people falling through eight-foot balloons, diving through glass panels, and picking the one yellow can from a pyramid.
Shane Richie stands on set.Objective Productions have learned from many series of The Cube, and have managed to come up with a style that takes these very slight games and turns them into proper television spectacles. Reflex has a slow-motion style, with time slowed down and rewound to bring out the spectacle. It also has a commentary style, Ken Bruce straddling "wry" and "silly", and too often ending up on the silly side.
The second half is the same on every show: the winning family is determined by a button pushing quiz - players are to push when they see something on the screen when the time reaches 2pm, or they see a dog without sunglasses. The winning family nominates a member to stand on a podium and hit green balls and avoid red ones fired at them. And the anti-climactic ending when they decline to gamble against one final ball.
One can to win.Inventor
Adam Adler
Theme music
Nick Foster and Ken Bolam
Trivia
Public reaction to Reflex was unanimous: they turned it off. Viewing figures fell away from 3.5 million to barely a million, the show was regularly taken off for Six Nations rugby. The final episode went out in a very early Saturday evening slot - if one can call 3.45 in the afternoon "early evening".
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See also
Videos
The very first episode.
