Richard Bacon & Dermot O’Leary Join Forces For ‘Silence Is Golden’ Game Show

Richard Bacon’s Yes Yes Media has landed its debut commission, a game show hosted by Dermot O’Leary in which the audience must remain silent to keep £250,000.
Silence is Golden has been greenlit by British channel group UKTV and will air on the U&Dave channel next year.
At the start of each episode, the network gives the huge prize to the studio audience and all they need to do to keep it is remain silent. With every audience member mic’ed up, all hell breaks loose as a green room of 30 acts, led by three returning comedian captains, headed up by Katherine Ryan, wage war on the audience, with every sound forced out of them bringing the total prize money down.
The series is one of UKTV’s splashiest for some time, with former X Factor host O’Leary a major coup for the network, and it is This...
Silence is Golden has been greenlit by British channel group UKTV and will air on the U&Dave channel next year.
At the start of each episode, the network gives the huge prize to the studio audience and all they need to do to keep it is remain silent. With every audience member mic’ed up, all hell breaks loose as a green room of 30 acts, led by three returning comedian captains, headed up by Katherine Ryan, wage war on the audience, with every sound forced out of them bringing the total prize money down.
The series is one of UKTV’s splashiest for some time, with former X Factor host O’Leary a major coup for the network, and it is This...
- 7/3/2024
- by Max Goldbart
- Deadline Film + TV
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