Chris Tarrant's Great Pretender

Chris Tarrant's Great Pretender
Format	Game show
Starring	Chris Tarrant
Country of origin	United Kingdom
No. of series	1
No. of episodes	30
Production
Producer(s)	RDF
Running time	60mins (inc. adverts)
Broadcast
Original channel	ITV (ITV1/UTV/STV)
Picture format	16:9
Original run	5 November – 14 December 2007
Chronology
Related shows	PokerFace

Chris Tarrant's Great Pretender (originally The Great Pretender) was a British daytime game show airing on the ITV network, presented by Chris Tarrant. The show aired from 5 November to 14 December 2007. The shows is broadcast Mondays to Fridays, generally at 5:00-6:00pm on ITV across England, Scotland and Wales and 4:30-5:30pm in Northern Ireland.

Format

Chris Tarrant's Great Pretender is a bluffing game where one contestant will win the contents of the cash jackpot, before the show even finishes. However, the catch is holding on to the cash without fellow contestants snatching it. If the opponents correctly guess the winner at the end of the show, they steal the prize money from the winner sharing it amongst themselves, leaving the winner with nothing. The game concludes at the final round when the group must guess who they think is the Great Pretender. If the Great Pretender is incorrectly identified, or if the vote is split through indecisiveness among contestants, the actual Pretender will walk away with the entire cash jackpot.

Similar formats

The show's format is similar to that of Ant & Dec's PokerFace, where similarly contestants must bluff each other in order to walk away with the cash jackpot. The main differences between the shows are that in PokerFace, contestants need to bluff other contestants into thinking they're doing well (regardless of whether they're doing well or not), in order to stay in game and hopefully win the jackpot, whereas in The Great Pretender, contestants' only hope of success is to do the opposite, by bluffing fellow contestants into thinking they're doing poor in order to win the jackpot themselves.

External links

• Chris Tarrant's Great Pretender at UKgameshows.com