Rebound (game show)
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| Genre | Game show |
| Presented by | Sean Fletcher |
| Country of origin | United Kingdom |
| Original language(s) | English |
| No. of series | 2 |
| No. of episodes | 30 |
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| Running time | 60 minutes (inc. adverts) |
| Production company(s) | Thames |
| Distributor | FremantleMedia |
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| Original network | ITV |
| Picture format | 16:9 |
| Original release | 17 August 2015 – present |
Rebound is a British game show that has aired on ITV since 17 August 2015 and is presented by Sean Fletcher.
Rebound began life as one of two summer replacements for The Chase, the other being Freeze Out, both of which were commissioned for 10 episodes. It is fronted by Sean Fletcher, who once described the show as "his dream job" and confessed to putting in sixteen-hour days in order to fulfill the commitments of it and Good Morning Britain. It was inspired by the bleep test and first aired on 17 August 2015 on ITV. On 12 May 2016, ITV announced that they have recommissioned the show for a second series with 20 episodes (double the number of episodes of the previous series).
Six contestants compete in each episode to accumulate money and eliminate each other by answering questions. The timing device used in the game is the Rebound Bar, a stripe of light that moves from one end of the stage to the other.
All six contestants stand at one end of the stage. The host reads a question as the bar moves away from them to the opposite end, and he gives four answer options once it starts coming back toward them. Contestants may only lock in their answers during the return trip, and the value of the question decreases steadily to zero. A correct answer credits the contestant with the value at the moment they locked it in.
In Series 1, three questions were played for a maximum of £1,000 each, and the contestants had 10 seconds to answer. For Series 2, five questions were played at £500 each, with an 8-second time limit.
The contestants face each other in three one-on-one matchups. For each matchup, the highest scorer who has not yet played chooses an opponent and one of two categories. The two stand at opposite ends of the stage, and the bar starts to approach one of them from the halfway point as the host reads a question. A correct answer reverses its direction and increases its speed; however, the contestant in control may answer only after the bar has crossed into their half of the stage. Each contestant is given three lives. If the bar reaches a contestant, they lose one life and the opponent chooses the next category. Losing all three lives eliminates a contestant and forfeits all their money to the opponent.
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