Premiering on Wednesday, March 22 at 9:30PM ET/PT and set to air regularly in the highly coveted post-American Idol results show time period, Unan1mous will feature nine strangers locked in a "bunker" (Fox isn't revealing exactly what that means yet) and competing to win a $1.5 million cash prize.Wow, the show's title uses a "1" instead of an "i." I'm already hooked...Fox is so good at creating new trends. The show actually sounds like it could be interesting, or incredibly lame. But if you know the kinds of people that go on these types of shows, I'm guessing it won't be over until the money clock is down to $5 and everyone's ripping their hair out and screaming at each other. I wonder if it's in the show's rules that you can't agree to split it. Or someone could pull a "Johnny Fairplay" and agree to split it and then keep it all anyways. I also wonder how the eliminations wil work if the contestants aren't voting. Do the viewers vote? Definitely a creative idea, but this is gonna be all in the execution. I'll probably watch the first few episodes of unan1mous on fox.
However unlike other "cut off from the outside world" hidden camera reality shows like CBS' long-running Big Brother, the nine contestants competing on Unan1mous won't be voting each other out of the bunker. Instead, all of Unan1mous' contestants will remain trapped stuck inside the bunker until they come to a unanimous decision (thus the show's title) about which one of the contestants should receive the show's grand prize, after which the show will end.
The first twist will be a "money clock." Shortly after entering the bunker, the contestants will face their first vote regarding who should win the money. If the vote is not unanimous, then the "money clock" will activate and the $1.5 million prize will begin losing potentially thousands of dollars of value every hour until the next vote occurs. In short, the longer it takes the contestants to decide on a winner, the less money the person will win.
The second twist will involve a traditional reality TV staple -- eliminating contestants. Like tradition reality elimination shows, Unan1mous will "eliminate" one contestant each week. However, unlike typical reality TV eliminations, Unan1mous' eliminated contestants will continue to live in the bunker and vote for who should win the show's grand prize, with their "elimination" simply making them ineligible to win the show's prize.
Unan1mous' voting will be largely no holds barred, with the contestants -- which will include a minister, an atheist, a ladies' man and a feminist -- free to tell whether personal details, secrets, or lies that they think will help convince their fellow contestants that they deserve the money.
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Posted by: dave on Feb 16th, 2006 | 2:31pm
It will probably have to go down to at least the final 3, maybe final 2 before it is uninamous. I wonder if it gets down to the final 2, and the 7 jury members are uninamous, does the loser have to agree? Will they have to vote him out? And the will he still have to agree, because it needs to be uninamous?
I especially don't like the 1 in the title, mainly because it makes it too cheesy, but also because i couldn't find it for a minute on google news. I had to search fox and bunker.