Pulse limit: every heartbeat counts
| Television broadcast | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Pulse limit: every heartbeat counts |
| Country of production | Germany |
| year | 2003 |
| Broadcasting cycle |
Tuesdays 20:15 |
| genre | Game show |
| Moderation | Peer Kusmagk |
| First broadcast | April 22, 2003 on VOX |
Pulse limit: Every heartbeat counts was a one-hour quiz show from the German private broadcaster VOX from 2003.
Game flow
Each candidate had to answer a maximum of seven questions, each with four possible answers, and could not get nervous. During the game he was connected to a heart rate monitor. If his heartbeat exceeded a frequency determined beforehand based on his resting heart rate, he was not allowed to answer and lost the money he had earned up until then - a certain amount was deducted from his gaming account for every second above the heart rate limit. The limit has been reduced further and further, which often makes the candidate more and more excited. If the account dropped to 0 without him being able to answer a question asked, the money was lost. A joker was available to the candidate, which gave the heart a 20-second break, and there were two bonus rounds in each game, in which the candidate could earn 100 euros for each correct answer or get a heartbeat credited for his pulse limit.
- Profit levels
The candidate was guaranteed 200 euros at the start of the game. Then it went on in steps of 300 - 500 - 1,000 - 2,000 - 3,000 - 6,000 and finally 10,000 euros. Once in the game, the candidate was able to secure the money he had fought for up to then.
background
The show first aired on April 22, 2003. It subsequently aired eight times on Tuesdays from 8:15 pm. As of June 10, 2003, VOX no longer continued the quiz show due to poor audience ratings. Pulse limit was moderated by Peer Kusmagk . The show was modeled on the British-American show The Chair , hosted by ex tennis star John McEnroe . The Chair 's format has been adapted in the corresponding languages by 18 different countries around the world. In France, where the format appeared as Zone Rouge, it was broadcast from January 2003 to April 2005, longer than in any other country. In Austria, The Chair was the title of the format and was broadcast on ATV (Austria) from June 2003. Like the German version, Puls Limit , the Austrian The Chair was also produced in what was then the CBC television studio in Cologne.
Puls limit was the first prime-time show that the TV broadcaster VOX produced itself. After the end due to the bad ratings, it took five years for VOX to launch a game show again with the adaptation of Power of 10 with Dirk Bach as the presenter, which, however, also flopped. Under the title Die! Heart! Blow! Show! a similar format will be broadcast on Pro7 from July 13, 2020.
literature
- Michael Reufsteck , Stefan Niggemeier : The television lexicon . All over 7000 programs from Ally McBeal to the ZDF hit parade. Goldmann Verlag , Munich 2005, ISBN 3-442-30124-6 , p. 954 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Thomas Lückerath: New VOX quiz show: "puls_limit". DWDL.de, March 13, 2003, accessed on May 16, 2016 .
- ↑ Thorsten Dörting: Quizmaster Dirk Bach: Belly makes millionaires. Spiegel Online, March 12, 2008, accessed May 16, 2016 .