Rodger Corser - The Floor: It Was A Bon Jovi Song Wasn’t It?

Rodger Corser is back on our screens tonight with a brand new game show which has taken the world by storm. It’s called The Floor and he told CLairsy & Lisa how it works.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Tonight seven point thirty on Channel nine, The Floor premierees,
you'd have to have been living under a rock to
have not seen the ads and have wondered what the
heck is going on here? So to find out exactly
what is going on here, Roger course, the host is
joining us.

Speaker 2 (00:16):
Good morning, Good morning. Are you saying you're sick of
my faith already? No, no, I'm not.

Speaker 1 (00:19):
I could never get sick of your face.

Speaker 2 (00:22):
But there has been a few complain about the network
backing this show. What true?

Speaker 1 (00:27):
My question is what the heck is going on?

Speaker 2 (00:30):
Well, look, it's trivia. When you boil it down. We
all have a bit of pub trivia. We all have
been down the pub and how to be that. Look,
I think the day it's a one on one battle.
The winner stays around, the loser goes home. And then
we start with eighty one and everyone's got their own
square and their own category of expertise, and you go

(00:51):
head to head in the category, and if you win,
you take the loser square. Loser goes home, and you
start to accumulate territory on the floor. So you start
at one block and the end of going two, we
went three and four at the end of every night,
whoever's got the most bit of territory wins ten grand
and then ultimately in the end, you know, someone will
take over all the squares in the floor and they

(01:11):
will be given two hundred powerful.

Speaker 3 (01:13):
So you want a bit of real estate on the floor?
Odd number eighty one, Roger, what's going on there?

Speaker 2 (01:18):
Nine by nine?

Speaker 1 (01:20):
Cool?

Speaker 3 (01:20):
It was easy.

Speaker 1 (01:22):
So this started in the Netherlands only two years ago
and it's just got gangbusters around the world, picked up
in fifteen different countries. As you say, it's just it's
our love of trivia. It's a game we can play
along with.

Speaker 2 (01:36):
Yeah, and look, we all like, you know, reality shows
are big. We get to know, you know, big personalities
on reality show and we've sort of got that element
as well, because i mean when we walk in eighty one,
contestants go to the eighty one squares, but the winner
walks in, you know, the winner walks in. You know,
we don't know who that person is yet. But as
we go along, we get to see these people come
back up to battle in another trivia duel and we

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get to know them more. We get to talk to
them where they're from. So you start to get your favorites,
and by episode three or four you get to know
these people and if your favorites, you'll be barracking for them.
So it's a bit different to your normal game show
where someone may hang around for one or two episodes,
and that's kind of it. You know, we've got nine
episodes and by the last episode where we have our

(02:19):
sort of final sort of eight or nine contestants, you
know these people very well and we've all got our
fingers crossed for one of our favorites to win.

Speaker 3 (02:28):
Roger, do you find some people are very very confident,
very cocky before they get in front of the cameras
and under the lights, and then they get there three.

Speaker 2 (02:34):
Well, I think we've all seen it. It's totally different
when you're in a TV studio or studio to be
able to bring it. I mean, one of the you
could be very knowledgeable at your category. But the thing
about our game is if you don't know something, because
it's all image base, and if you don't know something
passed really quickly and then get the next image because

(02:55):
it's a ticking clock that goes down to zero. Now,
if you m a r trying to be perfected and
get everything right, you might make fifteen seconds you see
where the smart players go. Don't know that passed back
and they're quite good at the game. So there's a
lot of strategy because it's when to know when to
hold them, no, when to fold them, and when to
go back to the floor so you can keep playing
or if you're on high flaw see.

Speaker 3 (03:19):
You fun fact.

Speaker 1 (03:20):
Robb Loow hosts the US version, so you're in some
pretty fun company there.

Speaker 2 (03:25):
Yeah, it goes really well over in the States. There.
We've got some similar producers to work on our show
to his show, and they're currently shooting the fifth season.
So in two years they've gone quickly. They premiered directly
after the Super Bowl.

Speaker 3 (03:41):
Their later season, Oh wow, robs on that one took.

Speaker 2 (03:47):
Yeah, it's it's going really well in all the different
sort of territories of the world. So we're hoping for
similar success here. Fingers crossed.

Speaker 3 (03:54):
Mate, can never question your work if it because you
said to me many years ago that you were working
on the docks between acting gigs. Now that is dedication
to looking after the family.

Speaker 2 (04:02):
Do you mean doctor dr dosing down on the docks.

Speaker 3 (04:06):
What you're loading? You're loading sea containers or something. What were
you doing?

Speaker 2 (04:08):
Yeah, well it was a bon jovie song, wasn't it was?

Speaker 3 (04:11):
Yeah, Roger got his start on the Dogs.

Speaker 1 (04:14):
We've got film studios opening here, new ones next year,
so hopefully there's going to be stacks more working opportunities
and we might get you over here to make something.

Speaker 2 (04:24):
So oh, I would love it would be awesome.

Speaker 3 (04:26):
That'd be great to see you.

Speaker 2 (04:28):
I'm happy to go and work on the docks over there.
We'll get you there for in the meantime.

Speaker 1 (04:33):
The floor premiere is at seven thirty tonight on Channel
nine and nine. Now, Roger, we'll see you tonight.

Speaker 3 (04:38):
It was good to catch up mate.

Speaker 2 (04:40):
Thanks guys,