NBCUIVERSAL SETTERS brings game show ‘Don’t Ask Me’ to Mongolia
NBCUIVERSAL SHORTS Takes its interactive game show “Don’t Ask Me” to Mongolia through a new partnership with local broadcaster Central TV.
The format created by the blackboard is broadcast as “don’t ask me, ask the Mongolians” in a weekly Primetime slot from 28 September. Central TV will produce 13 -hour episodes of the format, which are highly dependent on real -time public participation.
The game stops participant against each other while trying to guess how the viewing public will respond to voting questions. Success depends on the accurate predicting of the opinion of the majority instead of giving correct answers, where the scoring is directly connected to response rates of viewers.
“Don’t Ask Me” is a brilliant example of interactive entertainment with which the audience can form the show as it happens. No two episodes are the same, “said Linfield NG, VP of Format Sales and Production at NBCuniversal formats. “We are pleased to work with Central TV to bring this format to Mongolia and to make the series a real celebration of Mongolian opinions and humor.”
The format provides viewers an unprecedented control over programming elements, of influencing the participant’s challenges in which current events and social issues are involved in determining elimination results and performance selections.
Central TV head Exec Ankhbayar Ganbold sees the acquisition as a turning point for Mongolian broadcasts. “This show is a game changer for Mongolian television. It is not only entertainment-it is a national conversation, a place where laughter, debate and real voices collide,” Ganbold said. “At Central TV we are proud to bring a size that gives the power back to viewers and proves that television can be daring in Mongolia, innovative and really by its people for his people.”
Central TV has established itself as an important player in the broadcast landscape of Mongolia, except to the three largest terrestrial networks in the country. The company has successfully adjusted countless international properties, including recent versions of “The Masked Singer” and “That’s My Jam”, while original content such as Breakout -dating series “Love by the Sea 24/7” is also produced.
