PokerFace


PokerFace is a British game show broadcast on ITV, where one person is guaranteed to win £1 million. The show was created by Ant & Dec, who also host it. As implied by the title, PokerFace, is based on the bluffing aspect of poker games. The contestants do not necessarily need to get the questions right in order to win, and can bluff their way through the game and pressure their opponents into folding in order to win.
The show was originally going to be called The Con Test, but the name was changed just weeks before the show began. However, the Australian version is called The Con Test. Series 1 of the show was aired nightly for seven consecutive days, whilst series 2 saw the show moved to a Saturday prime-time slot, lasted for seven weeks.

Format

On each of the first six episodes within a series, six contestants compete for a prize of £50,000 and a place in the £1 million final seventh episode.
Each episode begins with "The Grilling," a segment recorded one day earlier, in which the contestants are brought together to introduce and talk about themselves. They may tell the truth or lie as they see fit, with on-screen prompts indicating honesty or deception for the home viewers' benefit, and clips of their reactions to one another's claims are interspersed throughout the segment. The contestants then enter the studio and sit in front of separate screens, each of which displays only that person's score.
The first round consists of eight multiple-choice questions with three answer options each. Contestants have three seconds to lock in their responses, starting after the question and choices have been read, and receive £500 per correct answer. On-screen prompts and a leaderboard are used to show the contestants' performance to the viewers, and at the end of the round, Ant & Dec ask each person how they think they did. As in the Grilling, contestants may tell the truth or bluff at their discretion. All six contestants then stand at a line of podiums, each of which holds a red button, and a 10-second countdown starts. The first contestant to push their button leaves the game or "folds" and keeps all of their winnings; however, if no one does so, the contestant with the lowest total is eliminated and forfeits their money. In the event of a tie for last place, the contestant who answered the round's questions in the slower total time is eliminated. In either case, the departing contestant is briefly interviewed and shown the leaderboard in private. This element would later be used on another game show, Awake, albeit with different rules.
Four more rounds are played in this fashion, each with five questions and a value that increases by £250 per round. After the fifth round, the last player still in the game has their winnings increased to £50,000.
The six winners return for the final, but must put their £50,000 prizes at risk. All question values are doubled. Any contestants who fold keep both their £50,000 and any money they have earned in the final, but eliminated last-place contestants forfeit all of their winnings. The last remaining player has their winnings increased to £1 million. During the final of the second series, the fifth-round countdown was extended to 15 seconds.
For contestants who did not win a game, the maximum potential winnings total was £26,500 in the preliminary episodes. For those who won a game but did not win the final, the maximum total was £53,000 in addition to the £50,000 already won in the preliminaries.

International versions

CountryNameHostTV stationDate airedRegular top prizeGrand final top prize
The Con TestAndrew G
Brigitte Duclos		Network Ten7 February 2007 – 11 April 2007A$50,000none
:pt:O Jogador |O JogadorAna Hickmann
Britto Junior		Rede Record23 October 2007 – 23 August 2008R$50,000none
王牌碟中谍
Wangpai die zhong die		Shen Tao
Hua Shao		ZJTV2012–2014CN¥26,500CN¥38,250 and
a free trip to Antarctica
or a car
El JugadorAndrea Serna
Claudia Bahamón		RCN2007CO$200,000,000none
:hu:Pókerarc|PókerArcIstván Vágó
Balázs Sebestyén		RTL Klub5 November 2007 – 21 December 20082,000,000 Ft
7,000,000 Ft		20,000,000 Ft
50,000,000 Ft
Sharman JoshiReal TV2 March 2009 – 8 March 2009noneRs. 10,000,000
:es:Doble cara|Doble CaraRodrigo MurrayAzteca Trece26 May 2007 – 7 July 2013MX$100,000none
:no:PokerFjes |PokerFjesØyvind Fjeldheim
Cathrine Riis Lilleaas		TV22007KR100,000KR1,000,000
Wielki PokerCezary Kosiński
Paweł Burczyk		TVP2200750,000 zł250,000 zł
:pt:Jogo Duplo |Jogo DuploJosé Carlos Malato
Ana Galvão		RTP125 August 2008 – 28 March 2010€10,000€50,000
Veľký hráčPeter Kočiš
Ján Dubnička		TV JOJ2007
none€45,000
:sv:Pokerfejs |PokerFejsGry Forssell
Adam Alsing		TV42007KR200,000KR1,000,000
Đấu tríNguyễn Tùng Chi
Lại Văn Sâm		VTV329 October 2007 – 5 September 200815,000,000₫30,000,000₫
60,000,000₫

PokerFace
Ant & DecITV1
TV3		10 July 2006 – 3 March 2007£50,000£1,000,000
PokerFaceAnt & DecABC2007
$1,000,000