Breakdown of Show

Synopsis
100 contestants get split into 4 teams of 25. Each team has their own colour and celebrity captain; Red, Blue, Green, Yellow. Each team will compete against one another in a series of challenges, involving obstacle, races, team vs. team death match. The entire competition is knockouts, so when a contestant fails, they are out. The last team with any remaining contestants win.

Presenter
For a presenter, I'd probably do a series of interviews for different presenters and voice actors. The idea is to get a very vocal individual with a deep voice (almost like a narrator that film trailers used to have).

Formats
One season will be cut into 4 sections; Trials, Quarter-finals, Semi-Finals and Finals.

The trials is the initiation section, where members of the public are put against trails to get into the quarter-finals. At the end of the trails, to determine which team each member is put into, they will be asked four questions that are taken from a system of a further 14 questions. Each question has four options, each option opting a team. Which ever option is most common will be forwarded as their future team.

The quarter-finals are a cataclysmic series of events. Due to the substantial amount of people, this is the section where most people will be eliminated. They will be tested in 4 different styled races, each person has a partner to help them; team work is needed. As the races proceed, lesser and lesser people will proceed.

The semi-finals is a medieval styled challenge. Each team has a base, and two sections to their team; an offence and defence. The captains (celebrities) will decide who goes in each section, and it will begin as a capture the flag for a certain amount of time. If the time runs out, and no flag has been captured, the time will expire and the competition becomes a sudden death. Each existing member has 1 life, if they are hit, they become eliminated. At the end, the succeeding team takes the top scoring members to the finals. Whilst the other team captains will have to choose 4 other members to take with them into the finals.

The Finals is the climax of the series, where each team will divide their team into sections based on physical and mental attributes, such as; Strength, Speed, Agility and Logical Intellect (problem solving, i.e. puzzles). Each member will be aided with their captain and will be put up against the opposite teams in challenges relevant to their attributes. The two top scoring team will go head to head for the trophy. This includes a climbing obstacle, the first team to get all their members to the top win.

Music
In terms of music, I would want something modern, catchy, exciting/adrenaline pumping and definitely atmospheric (though not to the stage of Hans Zimmer, but that could also be a possibility). Further to the point, there would need to be an array of songs to choose from. The song described above would be the main theme, but the rest need to be varied so that we have a song for every setting, emotional, action packed, dramatic, chilled, etc. This is so that we have constant music broadcasting live to audience and hopefully with a professional live sound editor, the production value should increase. The way I see it, the music can be as or even more important then the script.

Tone
Its an entertainment show that is based towards family for humour. Therefore it can't be bleak and depressing, nor can it be overly happy to the point it feels patronising. It's in the middle; meaning it has its lows and then it has its highs. That's what the audience want to see, that emotional engagement between the public and the celebrities and to see the team come together to win.

Set Design
It has to feel familiar but not to the point where its unoriginal and cliché. Each set builds up its design to feel more and more intriguing until it hits the final which would be the biggest, brightest, more complex and most exciting design of the crowd. But, don't take what I said too drastically, the first set still needs to be big and somewhat powerful too get the audience interested instantly. Each set will have a theme, and of course there will be several sets on each stage except the last stage which will be one big combination of each theme! On each stage, the themes will be based off speed, intellect, strength and agility.