My Kind of Music
| My Kind of Music | |
|---|---|
| Genre | Music Game show |
| Presented by | Michael Barrymore |
| Country of origin | United Kingdom |
| Original language(s) | English |
| No. of series | 5 |
| No. of episodes | 49 (7 unaired) |
| Production | |
| Running time | 60 minutes (inc. adverts) |
| Production company(s) | LWT |
| Distributor | ITV Studios |
| Release | |
| Original network | ITV |
| Picture format |
4:3 (1998–2001) 16:9 (2002) |
| Original release | 8 February 1998 – 29 March 2002 |
| Chronology | |
| Related shows | My Kind of People |
My Kind of Music was a music game show that aired on ITV from 8 February 1998 to 29 March 2002 and was hosted by Michael Barrymore.
The show's main theme, "My Kind of People", where presenter Michael Barrymore sang some of the lyrics when appearing at the very start, was based on the same song by Robert Palmer released in 1991.
Three teams of two people would test their musical knowledge against their chosen opponents and rivals, where the surviving team could go on to win £13,000 in the jackpot; later it was increased to £16,000 by the fourth series. Danny Foster made an appearance on the show, before he was chosen as one of the five members of the short-lived reality TV-formed group Hear'Say.
The first round saw the contestants deal with ordinary everyday people on a film, discussing clues to songs/artists, which they had to guess; if they did, they won the money. These were chosen by the contestants, where nine musical clefs would be shown on the screen. The earlier the contestant got the answer right, the more money was won- i.e. the maximum was won if the team in question got it right on the first clue.
The second round, saw the contestants deal with another film of Michael Barrymore's tour of "My Kind of People", with the audience having the chance to sing no matter how bad. Questions were based on the particular footage of the presentation of the songs. Sometimes, this would be replaced with a game called "Pop Props", in which Michael Barrymore would in reference to an earlier ITV game show titled Catchphrase, show to the teams various objects relating to a performer and the teams had to buzz if they knew it. For example, an inflatable man with a radio as his head was Radiohead, a king-sized eraser was Erasure while a rubber belly on Michael's chest while pretending it was echoing, was Echobelly. On some occasions, this was replaced with "Sing the Song", in which, the teams playing together stood apart from each other facing towards. One team member could see the screen the other couldn't due to having their back turned. The screen shown a musical act and the person seeing the screen had to sing one of their songs, while the other person had to guess who the artist was. Once it was guessed correctly, the roles were swapped round and this continued for a minute with one point given for each correct answer. The team members had to run across quickly when changing positions, so they would get as many right answers as possible in the minute.
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