Two new game shows from Endemol (from the inventor of DoND, in fact), are coming to ITV1: For The Rest Of Your Life and Show Me What You've Got. Bother's Bar has reported on them and one, at least, looks good. I've tried to make the descriptions there more concise, and have probably failed.

The weaker of the two is For The Rest Of Your Life, despite it being a bit like a couples version of DoND. After each picking an envelope from a choice of three to determine their starting stake (though uselessly the envelope values are apparently £90, £100 and £110!), one member of the couple picks from 14 tiles on the floor while the other walks to those tiles and opens a lid on a big plunger-type thing. Ten of the fourteen reveal a white ball, the other four reveal a red ball. Revealing a white increases your total by your starting stake, a red reduces your total by that much. Once you get to £600, the player picking the tiles may choose to quit, but if you hit a red you must play on, and if you hit all four reds (or fall below zero, which is unlikely to happen) you leave with nothing. Whatever you finish with is your monthly total; round two determines how long you will get that for.

For this round, two extra tiles appear, and there are still only four red balls (so twelve white ones now). The balls are obviously reshuffled, and they had the sense to use the balls-inna-bag method. The person who was picking the tiles before will now walk the board, but will still pick the tiles. Their partner will be locked away, unable to see or hear the studio but able to see the state of the game (and, apparently, the odds - fabulous). For this round a white ball sends you one step up the Life Ladder, and a red sends you one step down:



Fantastically, both choose independently whether to stop or go (except they are still committed to pressing on if they hit a red); the decision of whoever quits first is final, but obviously neither know what the other has decided. Hit all four reds, and you leave with nothing. And it's hosted by Bradley Walsh, make of that what you will.

I'm not too enthused by this. Show Me What You've Got, though, sounds fantastic, though maybe a bit too evil; it's already been launched in Italy as Tutto X Tutto, the first episode aired on Monday.

Round 1 is the evil bit. The player has ten Perspex cubes, half showing - and the other half showing +, and on the stage are twelve sums of money on scrolls in front of monitors (two showing zero, the other ten showing multiples of £250 up to £2,500); it's a two-level stage, with a male model on one level and a female model on the other. Players decide whether to use a + or a -, then pick a number corresponding to each scroll, and the model on the appropriate stage picks up the scroll, is then asked the titular question 'show me what you've got', and reveals the sum to be added or subtracted as appropriate. If the player has zero or less at the end, they leave with nothing; if they have a positive total, that's their starting stake for round two.

And this is the bit that's, if anything, too nice. The twelve scrolls now show numbers (2x1, 3x2, 3x3, 3x4, 1x5) and the perspex cubes show * and /. Yes, it's time to multiply the prize money, with an ITV-bankrupting £8.16m theoretically on offer. The player is asked half of a question, picks A, B or C to reveal one of three endings, and then has to answer the question. There are no multiple choices, but you can change the ending once, and the questions are apparently too easy. Before the answer is revealed the player selects a scroll to reveal a number 1-5. If the answer is right, the money is multiplied by that number; if wrong, it is divided. Repeat until either five right answers or five wrong answers have been given; player leaves with whatever's left at that point.

Oh, and for some reason Dale Winton's hosting this. Amazing. Did anyone imagine Dale hosting the UK's biggest-money game show ever?

I auditioned for The Rest of your life

How did that go? Did you get to see anything of the final show?

No we played the game though, they only wanted one couple for the pilot which was filmed with bradley walsh at the weekend, we are on the list if its commissioned though

Was it good to play Suez???

Can you see it being comissoned??

Yes it was great fun I can see it being as big as dond, they are confident it will be commissioned as it has been taken up in america and in lots of other countrys

Ive got my fingers crossed it gets commisoned and you get on it.

aww thanks Tom i'll let ya know if i do