grodscorp@grods.comTemptation deflation
 | Posted by Bridgit Gread on Tuesday 3 June 2008, 5:20 am Categories: Television Tags: Tags: ChannelNine, quiz, Temptation |
Last night I skipped off work early to audition for Temptation, that showy half-hour TV quiz with Lavinia Nixon and the guy with the big teeth. My observations are hereafter recorded for posterity:
There is very little in the way of parking around the Nein studios… I had to tuck the truckster away in the seedy backstreets of Richmond (and when I returned there was an empty Wild Turkey and cola can on my bonnet… erggh). Probably about 80-90 people attended, most of them men, and we all did a sifting quiz so we could dispense with the slightly less-informed (i.e. Herald Sun readers).
Said quiz was pretty tough, lots of history and literature questions luckily so I did pretty well. I did not know George Michael’s follow-up album to Faith, nor did I know who Gnarles Barkley were. I am quite happy not knowing such things. But I did know the stuff that counts, like African countries, Wordsworth, Prometheus, the United Nations and Bob Hawke. My score was 36/50; the pass mark was 27. It was the kind of quiz I would expect Grods regulars to sail through. Except perhaps John Surname.
Approximately 30 of the audience progressed to the next stage and the next couple of hours was taken up with each of us doing the self-monologue thing. Lots of life stories, travel yarns and amateur stand-up routines. Expected this to result in nipple-crippling boredom but they were quite an interesting group. Except for the tax accountants and the lawyers, but that’s a given. Highlight for me was the young chap who worked for Telstra, resplendent in 80s denim, bottle-thick glasses, a pink t-shirt and tight black cardigan barely reaching down to his navel. He looked like an even nerdier version of Bill Gates, though I suspect he may have been overplaying the geek thing to get on the show.
The whole thing ended on a flat note when the woman running the gig informed us that they weren’t actually filming any Temptation episodes at the moment but, if they need us, we’ll get a call. WHAT?!!?! A good four hours out of my evening auditioning for a show that isn’t even being shot?? What a waste. Luckily there’s a good pub nearby in Swan Street.
