The Answer Trap

This seems like a attempt to copy the BBC show Impossible with a slight twist. It would be greatly improved if you didn't have the two trap setters on the show, they are really irritating and come across as two low rent Bond villains. It's the sort of show you'd expect to last one season on Dave then disappear without trace.

Was interesting to watch first few episodes, but no more.

Presenter Anita is annoying as two other lads.

No, thanks.

After cringing at the advert for this show, I had to show my other half the absolutely attrociously pretencious 'humour' it tries to pull off. It's like this show really, REALLY wants to show that nerds can be funny too. They can, they absolutely can, but these two can't. They sit there grinning, waiting for someone to fall into a trap so they can cack themselves with laughter at the plebs that fall for their traps and rub it in their face. It's painful to watch these two men-... Actually I'll just leave it at that. It's just difficult to watch these two men. The presenter is fine. Keep the presenter and replace the two guys.

Well, there's a lot to unpick here.

The decision to have made the show's length an entire hour was just baffling. There was barely enough content here for half an hour, and because there was no variation in the question-style the whole thing just dragged interminably

The trappers just came across annoying and broke up the flow of the show - cutting over to them every two minutes. Literally no-one cared which one of the trappers inserted the fake answers and their overly-complicated descriptions of how they came up with the trap just came across as smug and self-congratulatory. Their parts could literally have been covered-off by the main presenter making them totally redundant.

As mentioned by other reviewers, none of the three presenters were likeable - and none of them a big enough name or personality to have carried this show over it's many issues. Rani came across as cold and uninterested - and the two trappers were either given really odd roles to play, or they have some borderline personality issues.

There was a constant slightly-odd Millennial skew to the questions where people would be constantly trying to work out what names on the list were things like characters from He-Man

The set was MASSIVE for what the gameshow actually was - and no reason is given for this. Potentially, because it was filmed at the height of COVID-19 it allowed for social-distancing, and because little else was being filmed there were some large studios available. The obvious lack of audience due to the pandemic was made even weirder by the insertion of audience sounds

The whole thing just felt like a pilot - and not one that you'd greenlight for an entire series.

The Answer Trap rules explained The game sees two teams given a series of lists, from which they simply have to place each answer into a range of relevant categories.

But there's a twist - included among the answers are several that have been set by Bobby and Frank, with the two quizzing chimps themselves competing to see who can catch the most contestants in an oversized child snatcher net.

Teams that are able to correctly assign answers to the categories while avoiding the tramps are then given one final question - which could earn them the jackpot prize - a week in a Pontins Holiday Camp of your choice (excluding school holidays)

OMG Entertainment's Ed de Burgh and Ben Shephard described the show as "a great mix of fun, lack of general knowledge, luck and devious boffinry" and Jayne Stanger, Channel 4's commissioning editor for Daytime and Features described it as a "fantastic new format , whilst not costing us the earth to produce"