The People Versus
| The People Versus | |
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| Created by | David Briggs Steven Knight Mike Whitehill |
| Presented by |
Kirsty Young (First series) Kaye Adams (Second series) |
| Composer(s) | Keith Strachan |
| Country of origin | United Kingdom |
| Original language(s) | English |
| No. of series | 2 |
| No. of episodes | 120 |
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| Running time | 30 minutes (inc. adverts) |
| Production company(s) | Celador |
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| Original network | ITV |
| Picture format | 16:9 |
| Original release | 15 August 2000 – 21 December 2001 |
The People Versus is a television game show which aired on ITV from 2000 to 2002 in the United Kingdom. Kirsty Young hosted the program for the primetime series and Kaye Adams hosted the program for the daytime series. Produced in one series, the second being considerably faster than the first, the central format was that the questions were sent in by the viewers.
For every question, the contestants got correct they won £5,000. The rules were: In each round the players were shown five questions from one of their specialist subjects. In Round One, each contestant had to attempt and answer correctly one of those five questions - "one of five to stay alive". In Round Two, on a different subject they had to answer two correctly to stay in, Round Three, three, Round Four, four and finally in Round Five, they had to answer all five. In each round, the player could, if they wanted, earn more cash by answering more questions than the quota required, again for £5,000 a piece. To help, each player was shown all five questions at the start. Each player was also given three 'flips'. If a player wanted to use a flip, they could substitute any of the five given questions for another one. Also, if they had the cash, they could elect to 'buy' answers to questions at £10,000 a time.
Finishing Round 5 meant the contestant would begin again at Round 1. There was no limit on the amount of money someone could win which theoretically meant someone could win more than a million pounds, the top prize of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?, although no contestant ever won anywhere near this amount of money.
If a person got their question wrong, they lost all money in that round and their seat in the game went to the person who set the question.
Studio contestants were asked general knowledge questions set by the public. The rounds were as follows:
The contestant had a four-minute time limit to finish the rounds. Running out of time meant they lost.
If the contestant was stuck on a question, he or she could pass, but if they cannot pass any more, they must use a 'Flip'. A contestant had three flips at their disposal. These substituted the question for an alternative one on their specialist subject.
Finishing Round 5 meant that the contestant would bank the £3,000 and have the chance to restart from Round 1 again with their Flips restored. As in the first series there is an unlimited amount of money to be won. The highest sum of money won on the daytime version was £13,000 by Indrani Hettiaratchi.
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