The Chase (Großbritannien)

Vorlage:Infobox television The Chase is a British game show broadcast on ITV and hosted by Bradley Walsh in which contestants play against an opponent who plays for the bank, known as "The Chaser". The Chasers are Shaun Wallace, Mark Labbett, Anne Hegerty and Paul Sinha. Labbett and Wallace have both been Chasers since series 1, while Hegerty joined in series 2 and Sinha joined in series 4. Only celebrity editions of The Chase are filmed in front of an audience, while regular editions are filmed without one.

Format

A team of four contestants attempt to amass as much money as possible for a team kitty by answering quick-fire questions in a 60-second round. Each correct answer earns the contestant £1,000. The money earned will go towards the team kitty, but there is one person standing in their way: a quiz genius known as The Chaser. The Chaser's job is to catch each contestant and make sure the players are not able to put the money into the kitty which the team must collectively play for in "The Final Chase".

Cash-builder round

Each player is given one minute to answer as many questions as possible with each correct answer worth £1,000. After the minute is up, the player's money is placed three steps down on a seven-step money board (eight steps in the first two series). The player may remain at this step and play for the money they have won, but if they so wish, they can be placed one step lower down the board for a smaller award, or one step further up the board for a greater award, with each award's value being set by The Chaser. The lower award can occasionally be a negative amount of money.

If the player elects to play for the greater reward, The Chaser is two steps behind them and the player must answer six questions correctly to reach home. If the player elects to remain where they are, The Chaser is three steps behind them and the player must answer five questions correctly to reach home. However, if the player elects to play for the smaller reward, The Chaser is four steps behind them and the player must answer four questions correctly to reach home.

Once the player nominates their starting position, they must answer questions correctly in order to reach the bottom of the board (known as "getting home") and bank their money. Both the player and The Chaser are given the same multiple-choice question with three possible answers, then must secretly press one of the three buttons on their keypad to lock in their answer. When one person locks in their answer, the other is given five seconds to lock in their answer, otherwise, they are locked out and are treated as having given a wrong answer. If the player and/or The Chaser is correct, they move one step down the board, but if wrong or if one fails to lock in before or within five seconds after their opponent, they must remain where they are. The Chaser's job is to catch up to the player and eliminate them from the game by capitalising on the mistakes the player makes before they can reach the bottom of the board. If this happens, the player is out of the game and the cash disappears, but if the player reaches home, their money is put into the team's prize pot which will be contested for in the final round. This is repeated for all four players.

The players who successfully outrun The Chaser proceed to The Final Chase. If all four players are caught by The Chaser, then their prize fund is set to £4,000 (£20,000 in celebrity episodes) and the team must nominate one player to proceed to The Final Chase.

On the 12 September 2012 episode, something happened which had never happened before: after all of the first three players had been caught, the last remaining player, Laura, did not build up any cash and was therefore virtually forced to go for the higher offer, as it would have been impossible for her to take the lower offer (it would have had to be minus, but there was no money in the kitty so it could not happen) and there was no point in her sticking with zero. Laura took the higher offer of £50,000 and was caught by Anne five steps from home.

The Final Chase

In the final round, the remaining players answer as many questions as possible in two minutes to amass as many spaces as possible. To start, they are given one space per remaining member of the team. To answer a question, the player must press their own buzzer and only he or she can answer it. In the event there's only one player in the Final Chase, that player is not required to press the buzzer. After the two minutes are up, The Chaser is brought in and is told how many spaces the players collected. The Chaser is given a further two minutes of quick-fire questions to attempt to catch the team. If The Chaser gets any question wrong or can't answer it, the clock is stopped and the question is thrown over to the players. If they get the answer correct, The Chaser is pushed back one step and the clock is resumed. From series three onwards, if the players answer a Chaser's question correctly whilst the Chaser is on zero steps, an extra step is added to the players' total. If The Chaser succeeds in catching the team, the team loses the prize pot and leave empty-handed, but if the team is not caught by The Chaser before the clock reaches zero, the prize pot is split equally between the remaining team players.

On the celebrity episodes, if the team are caught during the Final Chase, a consolation prize of £1,000 is awarded to each of the remaining celebrities (those who succeeded in their individual chases or, if everybody was caught in their individual chases, the entire team).

The Chasers

• Mark Labbett (2009–present)—runner-up on The People's Quiz, runner-up on Brain of Britain, represented Wales from 2005–2007 at the European quiz championships. Nicknamed "The Beast", "Beastie Boy" and "The Man Mountain".

• Shaun Wallace (2009–present)—winner of Mastermind, Finalist on Are You an Egghead?, appeared on The Waiting Game. Nicknamed "The Dark Destroyer", "The Barrister" and "The Legal Eagle".

• Anne Hegerty (2010–present)—semi-finalist on Are You an Egghead?, holds the rank of Master in the UK quiz rankings. Nicknamed "The Governess" and "Frosty Knickers".

• Paul Sinha (2011–present)—ranked 20th in the National quiz rankings (as of 2 July 2011). Nicknamed "The Sinnerman" and "The Smiling Assassin".

Episode results

Series 1
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Celebrity series 1
Episode	Chaser	Celebrities	Celebrities surviving/amount banked	Final Chase result

Celebrity series 2
Episode	Chaser	Celebrities	Celebrities surviving/amount banked	Final Chase result

Chaser records

Regular series

Chaser	Shows	Wins	Losses	Win percentage	Highest score	Highest winning score	Lowest losing score	Amount lost	Amount lost per episode loss
Anne	73	58	15	Vorlage:Round%	26	26	14	£439,400	£Vorlage:Round
Paul	45	35	10	Vorlage:Round%	27	24	14	£211,000	£Vorlage:Round
Mark	82	61	21	Vorlage:Round%	27	26	13	£341,000	£Vorlage:Round
Shaun	72	47	25	Vorlage:Round%	24	23	8	£515,900	£Vorlage:Round

Celebrity series

Chaser	Wins	Losses	Highest score	Highest winning score	Lowest losing score
Anne	3	1	19	19	13
Mark	2	2	17	17	11
Paul	1	1	17	10	17
Shaun	0	2	15	N/A	11

Contestant records

Category	Record
Highest offer	£100,000 (Tim Vine, Denise Welch, Jimmy Carr)
Highest amount won (per contestant)	£25,000
Highest amount won in non-celebrity episode (per contestant)	£25,000 (two contestants shared £50,000)
Highest amount won in the Final Chase by one person alone	£10,000
Highest amount won in the cash-builder	£14,000
Biggest winning total	£100,000 (four contestants, celebrity edition)
Biggest non-celebrity winning total	£50,400 (four contestants)
Smallest winning total	£4,000
Biggest losing total	£70,000
Highest winning score	28
Lowest winning score	14
Highest score in The Final Chase	28
Lowest score in The Final Chase	8
Highest score in The Final Chase by one person alone	23
Lowest score in The Final Chase by four people	16
Highest amount banked	£100,000
Lowest amount banked	-£9,000
Highest amount banked by one person	£67,000 (Phil Tufnell)
Biggest winning margin	13 (contestants scored 22, Chaser scored 9)
Quickest defeat	Caught with 1:27 remaining
Weakest contestant	Keith Newbery – all questions wrong; nothing banked (also missed both his questions in The Chase; Anne got them both right and eliminated him).

Transmissions

Regular series

Series	Start date	End date	Episodes
1	29 June 2009	10 July 2009	10
2	24 May 2010	19 July 2010	40
3	3 January 2011	25 February 2011	40
4	5 September 2011	28 October 2011	40
5	3 January 2012	3 July 2012	99
6	3 September 2012

Celebrity series

Series	Start date	End date	Episodes
1	29 October 2011	10 December 2011	6
2	19 August 2012	7 October 2012	6
3	December 2012		1

Rivalry with Pointless

In its 5:00pm timeslot, The Chase competes with another game show, Pointless, on BBC One. The two shows usually get similar ratings, with The Chase often just edging it.

International versions

In May 2012, the U.S. TV network Fox ordered two pilots to be recorded in London for consideration in its line-up. Walsh was the host for both pilots, while Labbett was The Chaser for one, and Jeopardy! champion Brad Rutter was The Chaser for the other. So far, Fox has made no announcement of the status of the pilots or the show.

"Gefragt — gejagt" is the German version of The Chase. Only six episodes have been aired on NDR channel (8 July - 12 August 2012). Unlike other versions, however, there was only one Chaser.

At the beginning of the October 2012, the Russian version of The Chase began airing. Alexander Gurevich, the host of Sto k odnomu (the Russian version of Family Feud) since 1995, hosts the show on Russia 1. The real date of airing the show is now unknown.

Board game

A board game of the show was released in September 2012, available for £19.99.

External links

• Vorlage:Itv.com.
• Vorlage:Ukgameshow.

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