BBC One announces !mpossible Celebrities
I can’t wait to see the celebrities commence brainy battle as they try to avoid that !mpossible answer!
!mpossible Celebrities is coming to primetime BBC One, following three successful series of the !mpossible quiz show on daytime.
Hosted by Rick Edwards and produced by Mighty Productions for BBC One, !mpossible Celebrities will see 18 celebrity contestants begin their !mpossible journey and compete across six-episodes to give themselves a chance of winning £10,000 for a charity of their choice.
Kate Phillips, Controller of BBC Entertainment Commissioning, says: “Viewers will find it !mpossible not to love this show which has had great success under Dan McGolpin in BBC daytime. I can’t wait to see the celebrities commence brainy battle as they try to avoid that !mpossible answer!”
Lynn Sutcliffe, Mighty Productions Managing Director, says: “We are totally delighted to be bringing the excitement and humour of !mpossible to a primetime audience – and are very much looking forward to seeing a group of famous faces take up the !mpossible challenge.”
!mpossible Celebrities is the quiz with the third dimension: as well as right answers and wrong answers there are also !mpossible answers – they are not just wrong, they couldn’t possibly be right.
In each episode, the celebrities must avoid giving !mpossible answers as they battle it out across three rounds of !mpossible style multiple choice questions. Every right answer takes them a step closer to a shot at that jackpot – but a single !mpossible answer will knock them out for that episode.
!mpossible Celebrities will be executive produced by Lynn Sutcliffe and Hugh Rycroft for Mighty Productions, and Jo Street is the Commissioning Editor for the BBC. The series has been commissioned by Kate Phillips, Controller of BBC Entertainment and Charlotte Moore, Director of BBC Content, for BBC One.
!mpossible Celebrities will be recorded at the BBC’s Pacific Quay studios in Glasgow and will be produced from the new enlarged Mighty Productions Scotland base in Union St, Glasgow. It will start filming later this year and the celebrities will be announced in due course.
The series will be in production alongside other Mighty Productions !mpossible series four for BBC One Daytime, and the second series of Curious Creatures for BBC Two. (BBC)
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