The Cube

This article is about the television show "The Cube". For the colloquially known work of art, see Alamo . For the dart player see René Eidams .

Television series
German title	The Cube - Defeat the Cube
Original title	The Cube
Country of production	England
year	2011
Production company	White balance
length	120 minutes
Episodes	2 in 1 season
genre	Game show
idea	Adam Adler
Moderation	Nazan Eckes
First broadcast	April 29, 2011 on RTL

The Cube is a game show from Great Britain in which candidates can win money by solving supposedly easier tasks. In Germany, the first edition was broadcast on April 29, 2011 under the name The Cube - Besiege the Würfel , which was moderated by Nazan Eckes . A second edition was broadcast on June 10, 2011 at 8.15 p.m., one hour earlier. The show was discontinued after the second broadcast due to a lack of audience ratings.

Show concept

In seven games the candidate can win money (in the German edition 250,000 euros, in England 250,000 pounds ). Above all, he has to show speed and skill. The individual games seem simple at first, but then turn out to be very tricky. All games take place in a cube with an edge length of four meters.

Each player has nine "lives". Each time he fails in a game he loses one of these lives. As soon as he loses his last life, his previously earned profit is gone.

There are two ways to facilitate the game each time: Each candidate can ask for a game to be made easier (for example, by spending more time solving the tasks). In addition, each candidate can do a trial run at a game once. If he does not succeed in the game, there are no consequences. But if he does it, he won't win anything.

The game ends as soon as a candidate has no life left, decides to quit after a game or when he has cracked the jackpot of 250,000 euros.

The seven games have these profit levels:

Game number	Profit	reached
eliminated	-	2
1	€ 1,000	-
2	€ 2,000	-
3	€ 10,000	3
4th	€ 20,000	1
5	€ 50,000	1
6th	€ 100,000	-
7th	€ 250,000	-

particularities

In contrast to the supposed simplicity of the games is the futuristic look of the show. Almost 100 cameras are used to shoot at the same time so that fragments can be seen later in the show in slow motion or with a bullet-time effect. Because of this complex production, RTL had the show produced in the original studios in London .

The cube is spoken by Klaus-Dieter Klebsch in Germany . He explains the games to the candidates and makes further comments with a sarcastic undertone (e.g. when using jokers).

Audience ratings

episode	date	Total audience	Viewers 14 to 49 years	Total market share	Market share 14 to 49 years
01	Apr 29, 2011	3.22 million	1.75 million	11.8%	16.5%
02	June 10, 2011	2.56 million	1.30 million	9.8%	14.3%

history

The original format, called The Cube , has been running successfully in the UK since August 2009. Here the show is hosted by Phillip Schofield .

International versions

country	Surname	Moderator	Channel	Prize money	First broadcast
Great Britain	The Cube	Phillip Schofield	ITV	£ 250,000	August 22, 2009
Portugal	O Cubo	Jorge Gabriel	RTP	€ 30,000	April 2010
Russia	Куб	Dmitri Charatyan	Perwy canal	RUB 3,000,000	March 30th - November 30th 2013
Saudi Arabia	المكعب Al-Moukaab	Faisal Al Issa	Saudi TV 1	250,000 SR	March 24th - July 8th 2010
United States	The Cube	Neil Patrick Harris	CBS		2010 pilot
Ukraine	Куб	Maxim Chmerkovsky	STB	250,000 UAH	Fall 2011

Web links

• RTL brings »The Cube« to Germany at DWDL.de
• Criticism of the first broadcast atquotemeter.de
• Criticism of the second broadcast atquotemeter.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Jürgen Kirsch: Nazan Eckes: 'The Cube' is about strong emotions'. Quotemeter.de, April 28, 2011, accessed May 3, 2011 . 
2. ↑ Manuel Weis: Second "The Cube" episode an hour earlier. Oddsmeter.de, May 9, 2011, accessed on May 11, 2011 . 
3. ↑ TV weekend: RTL experiences a crash with "The Cube", Joko and Klaas start properly . June 11, 2011. Retrieved November 11, 2014.