Series Premiere:
The Floor
A trivia battle in which 81 contestants stand on 81 squares on a massive game show floor, competing for a whopping grand prize.
Matt Roush says...
Hand it to Rob Lowe. Not everyone could keep a straight face when announcing, “Let’s activate the randomizer.” That’s the device that picks one of 81 contestants standing on tiles on a giant 9X9 LED floor that more resembles a human game board. Whoever’s chosen gets to pick someone from an adjoining square to go head-to-head in a timed trivia faceoff—sometimes visual, sometimes text—themed to a specific area of expertise (e.g., tools, dogs, songs about places). The winner of each round inherits the loser’s space on the board, and whoever occupies the most territory at the end of each episode wins $20,000. The grand prize ($250,000) awaits the last player standing when the season ends. The music and lighting echoes Who Wants to Be a Millionaire, but as usual, this doesn’t come close to that show’s suspenseful appeal.
