Don't be fooled by Red and Black's roulette format ? the Karaoke Sauron makes his own luck
We end with news of the Karaoke Sauron, as Simon Cowell announces his new gameshow Red or Black, in which contestants try to win �1m by choosing red or black on a roulette wheel. "This show is not about talent or skill," explains Simon. "It is just down to luck. This has never been done before."
Hasn't it, etc. Red or Black does, however, represent the purest expression yet of the Cowell formula ? a show that appears to depend on the vagaries of chance, but in which the probability of Simon winning is actually one.
Yet does paring things back to brute luck represent the ultimate iteration of Simon's TV philosophy? No. Not even close.
In a few years, we will have dispensed with the roulette wheel. Thereafter, we will have dispensed with the Russian roulette equipment that formed the basis for the show's horrifyingly addictive fifth series. By 2018, the entire nation ? and probably the world ? will be sitting in slack-jawed thrall before a format in which Simon merely informs a contestant whether or not they may live. (Calls to congratulate him will cost �1.50 from a BT landline, but calls from other networks and mobiles will be considerably more.)
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