Over a Million viewers watching Channel 4′s ‘The Bank Job’

Published on Wednesday 4th January 2012 at 4:20pm
Filed under: Channel 4, The Bank Job,

Channel 4′s new gameshow The Bank Job was watched by 1.2 million viewers on Monday evening when Darragh Morgan won a place in Saturday’s grand final and added £92,000 to the final prize fund.

The show, presented by George Lamb, saw an increase to 1.3 million viewers, a 6.1% share, on Tuesday evening when Oonagh became the second grand finalist, adding a further £85,000 to Saturday’s final.

The Bank Job is a week-long TV event giving contestants the chance to pull off the ultimate heist and walk away with a life changing sum of money.

Across six nights, four contestants are taken to a real bank in London and enter a bank vault filled with hundreds of thousands of pounds of cash. They play a high jeopardy, competitive game of knowledge, judgement and luck. By the end of the night one victor will be leaving with a briefcase full of money – the other three will be going home empty-handed.

On the final night, Saturday 7th January – 8:30pm, the winners from the previous five shows will return with the money they’ve won, pooling it together to compete against each other in a suspenseful, winner-takes-all final. It’s the ultimate showdown with a huge twist that could see one player walk out of the bank with the entire prize fund, which currently stands at £177,000.

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It was a good fun show with reasonable quick fire questions. It just had a painful wait to “open the box”. The final however was disgusting. The two “winners” were presented with an impossible choice. Anyone familiar with Game Theory and especially the Prisoners Dilemma would recognise it as such. They both made the correct logical, mathematical decision (according to game theory decision making) and both lost. OK, so entertaining television but IMHO disgusting treatment of the so called winners.
Steve Carter, Shrewsbury.
Rich Thompson

I feel the two (so called) winners paid the ultimate price for their greed and it serves them both right.
Pete

Game theory it was! i am only now discovering game theory but identified the prisoners dilemma without realising. it’s like this: If you think for one moment that the other person will trash you, you are faced with losing regardless of your choice. the “dominant strategy” was to trash, but in reality anyone choosing to run the “dominant strategy” by trashing the other person relies on your reasoning influencing the other persons actions which doesn’t often occur. The true dominant strategy is for both to play the “dominated” strategy and split the cash, but therein lies the prisoners dilemma whereby if you believe the other person will run the “dominated” strategy and hand over the cash, why then would you not choose to run the “dominating strategy” and take the lot? its a paradoxical thing. made worse by adding the other players to the mix. confronting you with a lose-lose-win scenario. You’re probably at better odds of taking something home being on the outside of the cage. It was indeed very entertaining however and i agree with Rich Thompson below about their greedyness. well deserved.

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