Right...I'd like to know what Noel was on when he was thinking that up. Though surprisingly (
) nothing has been mentioned of the show since. Which was apparently going to be called
Beat the Monkey Guardian wrote:
Noel Edmonds is developing a quizshow format with the working title Beat the Monkey in which the master of ceremonies is a real monkey. Edmonds' idea is for a quizshow in which questions are asked but are chosen at random for contestants by a monkey picking up stones, filmed as pre-record.
Other ideas in development include Be Careful What You Wish For, in which people are set up by their friends to undertake tasks they have boasted about. "So for example and totally hypothetically, if they say they can sing better than Michael Ball, we will set them up and they will have Noel patting them on the shoulder saying that the person has been set up to sing at a Michael Ball concert," said Crystal executive Gideon Joseph. "It is about fulfilling dreams but with that distinctively Noel quality of a bit of sour as well as sweet."
Another idea is a Price is Right-style format called Bank It or Bin It, which Edmonds is piloting for Sky1 for transmission in the summer. The show, which is being made by the independent producer Monkey Kingdom, challenges contestants to guess how much different items – such as exotic brands of tea and coffee – are worth, and "bank them or bin them".
Beat the Monkey is one of five ideas being touted to broadcasters by Feel Good Television, a new TV formats joint venture between Edmonds' Bucket Management and Crystal Entertainment.
I'd like to know what those other two ideas where. I also presume then that none of these shows touted are ever going to make it to air. Is Noel still even involved in that joint venture?