Kinetic Pixel designed and delivered a full interactive Virtual Audience system for the 2021 series of Ant & Dec’s Saturday Night Takeaway. As well as the incredible low latency mass video calling provided by Virtual Seat, Kinetic Pixel’s expertise and experience delivering first class technology for Light Entertainment led us to add full editorial moderation, live interaction and play along voting too.
Michael McIntyre hosts the hit gameshow featuring a giant spinning wheel and celebrity experts helping a contestant win a potentially massive prize fund. The wheel randomly selects a celebrity expert whose job it is to help the contestant answer multiple choice questions correctly to build up their winnings.
The international smash hit The Masked Singer, hosted by Joel Dommett comes to ITV in January 2020. 12 famous faces perform while their identity is hidden inside elaborate costumes. A celebrity panel and the studio audience have the job of deciding which performances deserve to go through to the next round and who loses and gets unmasked!
Each week four celebrities are challenged to a variety of trivia, general knowledge and word games. Each show finishes with a quick fire round deciding the daily winner, culminating with the week’s champion crowned on the Friday.
Kinetic Pixel’s team members have been involved with Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? in various roles since the format became a world-wide hit for Celador International at the turn of the century. We’re responsible for the game systems and graphics for the UK version of the show, and we’ve been a part of the on-going evolution of the format in the UK, USA and France.
BBC1’s popular quiz show hosted by Alexander Armstrong and Richard Osman. Contestants must plumb the depths of their general knowledge to find the most obscure answer they can think of, which gets dramatically revealed on the iconic “Pointless” column.
Only Connect, presented by Victoria Coren Mitchell, is one of the smartest quizzes on TV. Two teams fight it out in a series of three rounds of challenging questions where they need to find the connecting link between the clues, followed by a tense final head to head round on the buzzer.
Kinetic Pixel are a team of UK-based technology specialists who design and engineer Computer Systems and Real-time Graphics for Quiz and Light Entertainment formats.
Light Entertainment shows are powered by technology. We design and build the systems that create real-time graphics content for giant LED screens, trigger the lights and sounds, track the scores and clocks, and put tablets, keypads, buzzers and wearable technology into the hands of contestants and studio audiences around the world. We create the tools that lets your host look informed and focus on what they do best, the contestants have fun, the audience feel part of the show and for you to be entertained and wowed by the spectacle of modern TV.
We are the experts at making complicated problems look simple, and our clients come to us daily asking us to build cutting edge technology that nobody has attempted before. We’re a big part of many productions that make up to 5 shows in a single studio day. That’s only possible with an experienced and dedicated team, the best third-party software and of course our reliable home-grown technology platform that has no equal.
Our clients include some of the biggest production company in the business, such as Endemol Shine UK, ITV Studios, BBC Studios and Sony Pictures Television Europe. Our portfolio includes many of the UK’s most popular and long running quiz shows; Who Wants to be a Millionaire?, Pointless, Tenable, Countdown and Only Connect.
We regularly provide technology and consultancy for numerous run throughs, pilots and pitches, and are the first port-of-call during the development of their new formats for many UK production companies including Remarkable Television, Initial, Remedy Productions, Expectation Entertainment, RDF/Fizz, and GameFace.
If you’ve a quiz or entertainment format we can help with, we’d love to hear from you.