Release Date:
01/21/2000
Air Date:
Weeknights, 7 P.M. ET
TV Network:
Game Show Network
Game show hosts are such two-faced SOBs. Youre all winners, as far as Im concerned, theyll lie through their capped teeth. Meanwhile, you know theyre thinking the same thing as you: That idiot with the lowest score deserves public humiliation.
The Inquizitor isnt having any of that happy-talk malarkey either. On the Game Show Networks Inquizition, this malevolent, faceless quizmaster banishes losing players with a curt, Please leave now. And thats when hes feeling sunny. Throughout three brutal rounds of Jeopardy-style trivia questions, the Inquizitor mocks and berates contestants. Taped in a dim, abandoned airplane hangar, Inquizition doesnt look like any other game show on the air. And it doesnt play like one eitherviewers can compete at home by calling the shows hotline number, squaring off against other high-scoring audience members for cash and prizes.
In a TV grid crammed with copies of copies of good game shows, Inquizition has managed to offer something unique. Whether the premise holds up might depend on how nice a person you are. Us, well be tuning in regularly from now on.
The Inquizitor isnt having any of that happy-talk malarkey either. On the Game Show Networks Inquizition, this malevolent, faceless quizmaster banishes losing players with a curt, Please leave now. And thats when hes feeling sunny. Throughout three brutal rounds of Jeopardy-style trivia questions, the Inquizitor mocks and berates contestants. Taped in a dim, abandoned airplane hangar, Inquizition doesnt look like any other game show on the air. And it doesnt play like one eitherviewers can compete at home by calling the shows hotline number, squaring off against other high-scoring audience members for cash and prizes.
In a TV grid crammed with copies of copies of good game shows, Inquizition has managed to offer something unique. Whether the premise holds up might depend on how nice a person you are. Us, well be tuning in regularly from now on.