Brief description from UKgameshows.com:


The contestant has to answer each of the 10 questions correctly in order to qualify for the final question, which is worth the £25k jackpot. Therefore, they're highly motivated to deal during the game -- even giving away much of their winnings so far -- in order to advance to the next question.

The contestant gets a £50 pot to start, and then each question is worth an additional:
Q1: £75, Q2: £125, Q3: £250, Q4: £500, Q5: £1000
Q6: £1200, Q7: £1400, Q8: £1600, Q9: £1800, Q10: £2000
Q11: £25000 (total)

The questions are open-ended, not multiple-choice. They usually aren't trivial but aren't all that difficult; here are some examples:
Q2: What was the name of Queen Victoria's husband?
Q7: Which fellow tennis player did Andre Agassi marry in 2001?
Q8: Which long-running musical is based on a novel by Victor Hugo published in 1862?
Q10: Who was the leader of the Free French during World War II?

If the contestant reaches Q11, they cannot buy an answer from the traders; they have to answer on their own. In today's episode, the contestant quit with her £4500 rather than risk it all on the final question. We are given the question even though the contestant didn't go for it:
Q11: On which planet is Olympus Mons, the largest known volcano in the solar system? (The contestant knew the answer.)

It's unclear what happens when a contestant fails before all 10 questions ... will there ever be a carryover, or will all games be self-contained? (Or, heaven forbid, will the game be stretched out to fill the whole hour?)

Plus:
-- The most fun happens when a trader very convincingly bluffs the contestant (there's a 30-second time limit to the negotiation, so it moves quickly) and gets the cash even though they don't know the answer. We didn't see what happens if they can't agree in 30 seconds.

Minus:
-- Apparently only 11 questions per 45-minute (hour minus commercials) show. But the negotiations are more the star of the show than the actual questions. It might get repetitive after several days, though, since the negotiations all seem to take the same general form: start vastly apart, slowly move together but get nowhere, and then reach a surprise agreement in the final seconds.
-- With 60 traders, only a maximum of one in three can get air time (two per question x 10 questions). It's unclear on how many shows the traders get to appear.
-- They do the "we'll reveal the right answer after the break" crap.

Appointment viewing?
Scarcely, although I might put it on in the background whilst having my tea and crumpets.

Available on TheBox for those so inclined.

That's sounds similar to a show I devised called "Buy a Clue."

I think The Vault beat everyone to it by quite some time.

Once the trader got paid regardless of the correctness of the answer that was traded, I was done. I watched all the way to see what the climax would be, but I didn't care anymore. Vault was interesting because brokers only got paid for being right. And there was also an interesting way to carry that out, as opposed to listening to that woman repeat "Three-fifty...three-fifty...three-fifty."

I haven't seen it yet (although I have set the box to record today's episode), but I have seen clips of the Keith Chegwin fronted pilot where it felt like The Vault But Without The Dignity, or indeed life changing jackpot.

After watching episode 2, we learn that there are carryover contestants when needed. No sense in spoiling the rest of it for the four viewers who actually stuck with the show till today.

Saw it today, quite enjoyed it actually. I noticed there's quite an interesting thing where if you successfully bluff an answer, you're also apparently kicked off the show but if you sell the correct answer you can go back to earn more later.

Ah, that makes an unusual amount of sense and explains why I thought I saw two different "Number 41"s on the same show.

I found episode 2 more entertaining, but I also admittedly watched giant bunches of it on fast-forward. An hour (or even 45 minutes) of this every day just seems like too much ... particularly with the lack of variation in musical cues.

Only in the sense that only an abject moron would pick that person to deal with again after having seen then screw someone else, so get them out of there and give someone else a shot to win money.

(Also, seems to me that only a second abject moron would pull that stunt on a player in the first place, if they knew that being successful in doing so would cut off the potential for future winnings.)

OTOH, you've got to beat 59-1 odds (sort of) to get onto the floor in the first place. If you're only there for five episodes (say), any return is better than no return at all.

Alas, looks like only the first two episodes are going to show up in torrentland, unless I'm missing an alternate source.

Isn't that more than enough? ;-)