Studio Production Unit: 'The Gloves are off'

Title: ‘The Gloves are off’

‘A comedy sports gameshow in which representative of sports go head to head to compete to be the best sport. Contestants battle each other in a test of brains and brawn.’

Synopsis of idea:

Each episode there are two new sports going against each other. Each sport is represented by one contestant who is introduced at the beginning of the show with a VT, giving an insight into the contestant and the sport they play/perform.

Following the introductions we begin the games with the mental rounds. Three rounds in which the contestants are tested on thought based games. Games include ‘Be the Ref’, ‘Playground Insults’ and ‘Quick-fire Questions’. At the end of these rounds, we have the halftime ad break.

Following half-time we then go on to the physical rounds, in which the contestants are tested on their physical skills in games including ‘Eat and down’, the ‘Punch-o-meter’ and ‘The super manly bike challenge‘.

After these rounds are complete then the scores are tallied and the winning team is announced, then concluding the show.

The target audience is for classes C1, C2, D and E with the age range of audiences between 16 and 30 years old.

The channel that this show would be on would be ITV 2 on a Saturday night at 9pm.

The Style of the show is seen as below.

I imagine for the studio setup, a large ring in which each contestants sits at a corner, inspired from the ring walks of boxing. Along with this for the backdrop I would like iconic images representing different sports like a collage, including things like a goal posts, cricket bats, hockey sticks, etc. to represent the different sports.