The Rich List
Network: FOX
Episodes: five, only one aired (half-hour), one season
Show date:
November 1, 2006
Performers include: Eamonn Holmes (host).
Series Description: A game show in which strangers are thrown together to form two teams who compete against each other by filling in missing answers on a lists of wide-ranging topics. Contestants bid against each other while predicting how many examples of a particular subject they’ll be able to list. If a team fails to list as many answers as they predicted, the other team wins the round. The winners of the best of three lists move on to play The Rich List, a game of list-making where increasing amounts of money are up for grabs; however, make a single mistake and they lose it all.
Series Finale
Episode two Teams of strangers compete for a chance to move on to play The Rich List. Lists used in this episode include: Tom Cruise movies, books or short stories by Stephen King, top 50 Broadway shows, America’s 50 most read daily newspapers and People Magazine’s Sexiest Man Alive (sudden death round). Rich List rounds: animated Disney films theatrically released (including Pixar) and Best Picture Oscar winners. Contestants Eric Morris and Amy Minderhart played against Ray Barnhart and Bill May. Barnhart and May won $175,000.
What happened next?
There’s been no news of any plans to revive the series.
Behind the Scenes
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| • | The series was cancelled after one episode because of very poor ratings. |
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| • | The first and only aired episode was actually the second produced. The network had planned to air the first episode at a later date. |
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