Irish comedian and all-round legend Dara Ó'Briain is set to front a new Channel 4 quiz show which will rival Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?
One And Six Zeroes will air later in the year and there's a tasty jackpot of £1,000,000 (€1,170,000) up for grabs.
The six-episode series will see teams of three players start with the full prize money in their grasp.
However, they will face seven general knowledge questions and will need to answer them all correctly, or else a zero will be knocked off the jackpot each time.
Each right answer locks in a digit of the One And Six Zeros.
But there is a lifeline. If the team doesn’t want to risk answering a particular question, they can swap it for a different one. However, swapping questions also comes at a cost to the team…
And not only that, after three questions, the team is reduced from three players to two. Then after five questions, just one player is left to tackle the final two questions alone.
A Channel 4 spokesperson said: "Original and compelling, One & Six Zeros is the new quiz where just seven questions separate three players from one million pounds."
Dara Ó Briain said: “I’m delighted to host this new quiz show for Channel 4 and Mighty Productions. It should be funny and tense and you, at home, will definitely think you could have done better than the contestants. Plus, I get to keep any of the money they don’t win! I think that’s the deal, I didn’t read the small print.”
Jo Street, Channel 4’s head of Daytime and Features, said: “Having one million pounds up for grabs in a quiz is thrilling and it also makes me feel a bit sick.
"One & Six Zeros is a really clever format which the audience will be able to play along with, and Dara is the perfect host to steer the contestants through the nerves, the laughs and the drama of potentially winning a life changing amount of cash.”
