Silence Is Golden: Trailer, certificate and where to watch
Rollicking game show where the audience is very much involved, hosted by Dermot O'Leary
Year: 2025
Certificate: 12
Dermot O'Leary hosts a game show where an audience of 50 start off with £250k to share between them. That's more money than the programme makers can actually afford to give away (this is Dave after all, not Netflix), so if they want the money the audience has to stay completely silent. If any of them makes a peep, they lose £5k for a small noise and £10k for a big one.
It's a tall order even without the dirty tricks rolled out to entertain, embarrass or shock the audience. These come from a cast of comedy and cabaret acts - Katherine Ryan and Seann Walsh among them - who comment on proceedings behind the scenes. Mean ploys are used throughout to make the audience turn against each other, and scary frights are unleashed designed to make them jump. Overall, the result is rather chaotic, but enormously good fun. (Six episodes)
