Dave orders Vice gameshow

UKTV channel Dave has commissioned its first show from Vice Studios, a gameshow fronted by award-winning comic John Robins.

John Robins

Beat the Internet with John Robins (20×30’) pits members of the public against each other in a quest to predict how search engines will respond to a series of questions.

It was commissioned for UKTV by senior commissioning editor Iain Coyle and ordered by Richard Watsham, director of commissioning, and Steve North, genre general manager, comedy and entertainment.

The show is executive produced for Vice Studios by Yonni Usiskin, with Keith Cotton as series editor, and was devised by Dan Louw.

All3Media is on board as the global rights holder for Beat the Internet with John Robins and will be launching the format and finished programme to international buyers later this year.

Luke Hales, channel director at Dave, said: “This is one of those concepts that immediately jumped out at us as fresh, exciting and with great potential to excite Dave viewers. We’re also all huge fans of John and are delighted to welcome him to the channel.”