The Great Pretender (game show)
| The Great Pretender | |
|---|---|
| Genre | Game show |
| Presented by | Chris Tarrant |
| Country of origin | United Kingdom |
| Original language(s) | English |
| No. of series | 1 |
| No. of episodes | 30 |
| Production | |
| Running time | 60 minutes (inc. adverts) |
| Production company(s) | RDF Television |
| Distributor | Zodiak Media |
| Release | |
| Original network | ITV |
| Picture format | 16:9 |
| Original release | 5 November – 14 December 2007 |
The Great Pretender is a British game show that aired on ITV from 5 November to 14 December 2007 and is hosted by Chris Tarrant.
Format
The show is a bluffing game where one contestant will win the contents of the cash jackpot, before the show even finishes. However, the catch is holding on to the cash without fellow contestants snatching it. If the opponents correctly guess the winner at the end of the show, they steal the prize money from the winner sharing it amongst themselves, leaving the winner with nothing. The game concludes at the final round when the group must guess who they think is the Great Pretender. If the Great Pretender is incorrectly identified, or if the vote is split through indecisiveness among contestants, the actual Pretender will walk away with the entire cash jackpot.
Similar formats
The show's format is similar to that of Ant & Dec's PokerFace, where similarly contestants must bluff each other in order to walk away with the cash jackpot. The main differences between the shows are that in PokerFace, contestants need to bluff other contestants into thinking they're doing well (regardless of whether they're doing well or not), in order to stay in game and hopefully win the jackpot, whereas in The Great Pretender, contestants' only hope of success is to do the opposite, by bluffing fellow contestants into thinking they're doing poor in order to win the jackpot themselves.