Two Tribes

Two Tribes - BBC

Fronted by Pointless' Richard Osman, Two Tribes the latest BBC daytime quiz show that began airing this week. I remember the contestant call going out for this a few months ago, and may indeed have linked to it on the blog, but the basic premise is that two teams compete against other over rounds of questions. The team differs in each round depending on whether they have answered Yes or No to some pre-show questions about themselves. The whole Yes/No element is really nothing but a side story to give the quiz a structure so perhaps, if you're a bit dubious about watching Two Tribes, ignore that factor.

The main quiz is very very fast paced with rounds of 60 seconds of quick fire questions. Each player faces individual questions in turn, if they fail to answer it passes to the next person and if every team member fails to answer it, their run ends. The team with the most questions correctly answered in 60 seconds, or when they universally fail to answer one, wins the round.

The loosing team face it out on the buzzer with one person eliminated per round. The final see's two players compete head to head. Each is given 60 seconds to protect with every correct answer passing play to the other person. Whoever runs out of time first loses with the prize for the winner being £1000 to spend on something specific (thus far travel, theatre tickets etc have been some of of the prizes)

Positives

- Apart from the odd bits of chat, it is fast paced with plenty of questions fired at the players

- Richard Osman makes a rather good host alone

- A nice range of questions, particularity towards the latter stages

- It is 30 minutes long and hence doesn't feel dragged out

Negatives

- A tad too easy and some may find the earlier rounds a little dull because of this

- Cut out the chat about the Yes/No questions and add another round in. 4 vs 3 at the start seems a little unfair in the format


All in all thought the BBC have done a good job with Two Tribes. A large proportion of the quizzes thrown at us lately across the mainstream channels have been dull (The 21st Question), overly long (The 21st Question) and very unenjoyable (The 21st Question).

Two Tribes is definitely something I will be sticking with courtesy of the iplayer and will be looking out for Series 2 applications!

What are your thoughts?