Downfall

2010-2010
1 season
ABC
Game Show, Reality

Players answer trivia questions on top of a skyscraper in a major metropolitan city for $1 million in cash and prizes.

2010-2010
1 season
ABC
Game Show, Reality

Players answer trivia questions on top of a skyscraper in a major metropolitan city for $1 million in cash and prizes.

Chris Jericho Wants You to Fall for Downfall

Acrophobes, beware! The new vertigo-inducing quiz show Downfall challenges players to answer questions before their potential prizes — and possibly even themselves — are sent crashing over the edge of an L.A. high-rise on a massive conveyor belt. Host Chris Jericho tells us about the high points of tonight's season premiere, airing at 9/8c on ABC...

Tue, Jun 29, 2010

Chris Jericho Wants You to Fall for Downfall

The Summer Dregs: Memphis Beat, Downfall

The good news about this year's bumper crop of new summer TV: There's plenty of it. (I spent much of the last few days wading through a mid-July burst of new crime-drama premieres.) The bad news: There's too much of it, and too little of it — at least from what I've seen so far — is any good. (I'm talking about the brand new stuff here, which keeps on coming whether we particularly want it to or not.) At this point, I'm beginning to pine for good old repeats.Tuesday night provided two particularly painful examples: TNT's dreary Memphis Beat crime drama and ABC's insipid Downfall game show.Memphis is particularly disappointing...

Wed, Jun 23, 2010

The Summer Dregs: Memphis Beat, Downfall

Tonight's TV Hot List: Tuesday, June 22, 2010

Hawthorne9/8c TNT Star and executive producer Jada Pinkett Smith's character-driven hospital drama opens its second season. This new nurse verse begins with a harsh reality: Richmond Trinity goes out of business completely, prompting several staff members to land employment at a decaying hospital set in a run-down neighborhood. There, series protagonist Christina Hawthorne promptly clashes with the nursing supervisor. And the change is a bitter pill to swallow for Tom as well: He must relinquish his administrative post.Read on for previews of Memphis Beat, Deadliest Catch, Primetime: Mind Games, Downfall, the World Cup and 30 for 30.

Tue, Jun 22, 2010

Tonight's TV Hot List: Tuesday, June 22, 2010