Saturday 8 June at 7.30pm on ABC Family and ABC iview.
Gold-Logie-winning comedian Tom Gleeson is bringing an all-new series of his hit show Hard Quiz to the kids! On Hard Quiz Kids, everything you know and love about Hard Quiz will be let loose on a younger generation. With his trademark grumpiness and wicked humour, Tom will interrogate ordinary, but brainy contestants – the only difference is, they’re all aged between 10 and 13. Auditions for this series of Hard Quiz Kids have closed.
Production Credit: A Thinkative TV production. Producers: Kevin Whyte, Charlie Pickering, Tom Gleeson. Co-Executive Producer: John Tabbagh. Executive Producer: Chris Walker. ABC Executive Producers: Mark Sutton (Entertainment) and Mary-Ellen Mullane (Children’s).
Gold-Logie-winning comedian Tom Gleeson is bringing an all-new series of his hit show Hard Quiz to the kids!
On Hard Quiz Kids, everything you know and love about Hard Quiz is let loose on a younger generation. With his trademark grumpiness and wicked humour, Tom interrogates ordinary, but brainy contestants – the only difference is, they’re all aged between 10 and 13.
Sure of his superiority, Tom knows what it’s like to be the smartest person in the room, even when he’s not. With questions almost as hard as the host, Tom works his charges to find out how much they REALLY know. But don’t let the deadpan delivery fool you: this is a show with heart, where cleverness and eccentricity are celebrated. While executing his duties as a serious quiz master, Tom’s cheeky banter lets him get away with almost anything. His rare ability to grill a subject while they laugh at themselves is razor sharp, having been developed by working live comedy audiences for more than twenty years, and throughout eight hugely successful seasons of the original Hard Quiz.
Hard Quiz Kids tests our smartest children, and as with the regular show, the questions range from the specific topics of each child to general knowledge, discovering the strengths and exploiting the weaknesses of our pint-sized contestants. And as always, the play-along factor is high, because what’s the point of being a well-informed ABC viewer if you can’t yell the answers at the TV in front of the people you love, right?
Production credit: A Thinkative TV production. Producers: Kevin Whyte, Charlie Pickering, Tom Gleeson. Co-Executive Producer: John Tabbagh. Executive Producer: Chris Walker. ABC Executive Producers: Mark Sutton (Entertainment) and Mary-Ellen Mullane (Children’s).
Who will win the Big Brass Mug when Tom Gleeson unveils four more kids and their wildly wonderful expert subjects? Toby, who’s into Hamilton the musical, takes on Greta, who believes she knows everything there is to know about the Leadbeater’s possum, Thomas, who’s ready to tell-all about Caterpillar earthmovers, and Emma, who’s studied up on Seinfeld.
Considering how many repeats they show on the ABC, it’s a shame it didn’t have it’s first run on the main channel.
The ABC really need to explain what and where ABC Family will be. At least put Channel 22 at the end of their promos for a while, so people understand the change. Same with ABC Entertains. It just sounds like a slogan rather than a channel name. They need to make it clear it’s going to be Channel 23.
The kids are running rampant over the Hard Quiz set! Eager young competitors take on Tom Gleeson with their expert topics of birds of prey, Greek Mythology, Minecraft, and the wives of King Henry VIII.
Tom Gleeson is hanging on to the Big Brass Mug until one young expert can prove they deserve it. Olivia is onto a winner with soccer legend Sam Kerr, Paris is convinced he knows all there is to know about babushka dolls, Leela is a fan of 80s Aussie rock bands, and Xavier is all over The Lego Batman Movie.
It’s time for more Hard Quiz Kids! Tom Gleeson is ready to take down four young contestants foolish enough to try and get their hands on the Big Brass Mug. We have Max with his expert subject, capital cities; Ayesha with Hello Kitty; Rav, who’s desperate to prove he knows something about aviation disasters; and Connor, who’s been to see The Wizard of Oz.
