The Kids Are All Right is a South African television game show produced by Endemol and based on the British format of the same name in which adult teams attempt to defeat a team of seven super-bright children in a series of questions to win a shared cash prize, which can be as high as R50,000.
The series premiered on SABC1 on Saturday 23 May 2009, at 18h30. There are 13 hour-long episodes in the first season, with a second season of 13 episodes planned.
Repeats
Fridays: 12h00
Synopsis
Hosted by Paul Mnisi (better known as RudeBoy Paul), the game show features seven super intelligent kids drawn from across South Africa. Aged between nine and fifteen, these smart and sassy kids are determined to see the adults go home with nothing.
They are master spellers, maths geniuses, the young all-rounder who knows every fact about our continent, as well as a young hip hop maestro who also happens to know the theory of relativity backwards.
All great characters, an incredibly strong team - they’re seven of South Africa’s finest. They are competitive and confident in their own abilities. They’ve each got different areas of expertise. And they’re set to become the ‘Gladiators’ in this show.
In each episode four adult friends come on to the show hoping to defeat the kids to win a shared cash prize, which can be as high as R50,000.
Contestants have to take on the kids in order of ascending age. It starts off relatively easily – with the nine year old – but gets tougher and tougher as you head towards the teens.
Leading up to the end game, across five rounds, the contestants have an opportunity to bank some serious cash. First up is ‘Instant Show Down’, an introductory round with a simple premise – fastest to the buzzer and the adults retain R5,000. Lose a question to one of the Super kids, and R1,000 is deducted from their total.
For the following four rounds, the adults play for the kid’s ages in cash. Therefore should an adult outwit the 15-year-old “Professor”, they could add R15,000 to their total.
However the adults do in the game rounds, however, the money’s not theirs until they beat all South Africa’s smartest seven kids, in turn. It’s a simple head to head question on the buzzer. If one of the kids beats an adult, the next adult must step up to take on that kid. It gets tougher and tougher as the kids get older.
Will the adults beat all the kids and claim the cash prize? Or will the kids prove to be too much for them in their quest to retain their pride?
They're cocky, they're competitive and they're cooler than you'll ever be - The Kids Are All Right.