Genius Game
Synopsis
Eleven contestants compete in a series of games that are designed to test their high IQ and how to manipulate each other to win a cash prize.
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Inventor
Based on the Korean show The Genius.
Trivia
One of the contestants was Ken Cheng, who had previously co-hosted The Hangover Games.
Originally planned to air twice a week - up against Race Across the World on Wednesdays and Taskmaster on Thursdays. First week ratings were really low, with the premiere episode gaining 1.2 million viewers. A day later, the second episode didn't fare any better, scoring less than a million viewers in overnight viewing figures. Before the second week's shows aired, ITV had dropped the Thursday show and replaced it with repeated celebrity editions of Millionaire.
