Country of origin United Kingdom No. of series 2 Production company(s) Thames Presented by Sean Fletcher Genre Game show Number of series 2 | Original language(s) English No. of episodes 30 First episode date 17 August 2015 Number of episodes 30 Language English | |
 | ||
Running time 60 minutes (inc. adverts) Similar Game show, Freeze Out, Bang on the Money, Tipping Point, Good Morning Britain | ||
Rebound is a British game show that has aired on ITV since 17 August 2015 and is presented by Sean Fletcher.
Contents
Background
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.
Fast Cash
The first round involves the players trying to boost their bank balance. They are each asked three questions, each with four answers. Fletcher takes ten seconds to ask a question, and the contestants have ten seconds to enter their answer during which Fletcher reads the answers. Each question is worth £1,000, and decreases by £100 per second.
Head to Head
In this round, the players play against each other. The person with the most money picks the first opponent - in the event of a tie, whichever player made the most money from the first question picks and in the case that no-one remaining has anything left, whoever was quickest to lock in their incorrect answers picks - and the first category, out of two related options. Each player is handed three lives, and is asked alternating questions; wrong answers or answers not given in time lose lives. The answers will only be registered on the system when the rebound bar is in that contestant's half. When one life is lost, a new category is selected by the winning contestant. This process repeats itself until one player loses all three lives, at which point all their money goes to the winning player. This process repeats itself twice, in total happening three times.
Second Fast Cash
When there are three players left, the first round repeats itself with five questions. At the end of the round, all remaining players' totals are combined to make the jackpot for the final round.
Stop the Bar
In the fourth round, the three remaining players compete against each other. They try to keep their bars from reaching them; the player who's made the most amount of money from the second Fast Cash round has the entire length of the slider (which at full length is twenty seven seconds), while the player in second place has the entire length minus three seconds, and the player in third place has the entire length minus six seconds. They each lock in answers to the same triple-choice question; the time it takes each contestant to lock in their answer is deducted from their slider. Incorrect answers move their slider by three seconds. Two contestants are eliminated here.
Beat the Bar
The final round involves the winning player playing for whatever jackpot has been amounted by that player. The player picks a category, and has to get five correct answers in that category. There are six categories in total, and no category can be picked more than once. The player has to get from one end of the slider to the other, fifteen correct answers in total, before the Rebound bar can get from the target end to the player's starting end and back.
Critical reception
Carrick Gazette commended Fletcher's hosting abilities and described it as "an enjoyable enough watch, but too much of the chat with the contestants was about why they gave the answers they did".