DERMOT O'LEARY AND SAM QUEK TEAM-UP FOR CHANNEL 5 GAMESHOW PILOT
- TV Zone
- 9 hours ago
- 2 min read
Dermot O'Leary and Sam Quek are to team-up for a new Channel 5 gameshow pilot, according to reports from The Sun newspaper.

The show, which comes from the producers of Gladiators and Michael McIntyre's The Wheel, is to be themed around American Football (NFL). O'Leary most recently presented primetime gameshow Silence Is Golden, from the mind of Richard Bacon, for UKTV.
A source told The Sun: "Before he became so comfy on the This Morning sofa, Dermot was the life and soul of primetime, shiny floor programming so is the perfect fit for a show like this... The show is at pilot stage but Dermot and Sam have really good chemistry so everyone is excited about taking this to a full series at some point."
Silence is Golden is the show where a studio audience is given £250,000 but there’s a green room of entertainers headed up by Katherine Ryan, Seann Walsh and Fatiha El-Ghorri attempting to bring the prize pot down.
Every single noise any audience member makes loses them all money. Each episode begins with the studio audience getting £250,000 to share between them. All they need to do to keep it...is not make a sound.
With every audience member mic'ed up, all hell breaks loose as a green room of 30 acts, led by three returning comedian captains, headed up by Katherine Ryan, wage war on the audience, with every sound forced out of them bringing the total prize money down. It's entertainers vs audience - they're not on the same side. If the entertainers get the prize pot to zero, they get to give money to charity.
Silence Is Golden is available on U.