Format

Two new shows were announced this week, and they happen to share the same title: The Snake (but it's not just a coincidence).
The first is a game show commissioned by Channel 4 for its You Tube Channel 4.0. Created by Strong Watch Studios, it combines a competitive quiz with strategic gameplay, as some players can only win by getting the answers wrong (sabotaging and deceiving the team).
Each episode sees six creators begin the game with a collective prize pot of £5,000. Together they must navigate their way through a series of multiple-choice questions in order to keep as much of the prize money as possible. What the group doesn't immediately realise is that two of the creators are secret 'snakes' - saboteurs whose aim is to manipulate, influence and mislead the group into submitting the wrong answers.
Any money lost from the pot as a result of a wrong answer can be won by the Snakes instead. As the quiz progresses, the 'investigators' work to identify and eliminate the snakes. If both Snakes are caught, the prize money is split between the honest players and the investigators, leaving the Snakes with nothing.
Yes, it's yet another format with the usual traitor/saboteur mechanism, which is now very (too) overused: even the game show version has already been seen.
Axel Fiacco