By 96five Contributors Thursday 25 Feb 2021
By Sam Robinson
Walkley Award winner Marc Fennell is quickly becoming Australia’s busiest media guy.
Host of The Feed on SBS, radio program Download This Show, and the ABC podcast Stuff the British Stole, it’s surprising that he’s found any time to pick up a new role as quizmaster on the new season of Mastermind on SBS. If you’ve never heard of the show – which has been on air since 1972 in the UK – it’s a fairly classic quiz format.
As Marc said, the show was first created from an interesting point of inspiration.
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Mastermind starting
Famous for its challenging questions, intimidating setting and pervading air of tense expectation,
Mastermind places contenders in the iconic
Mastermind chair and gives them just two minutes to answer as many questions as possible on their chosen specialist subject.
This season’s specialist subjects range from famous personalities to sports events to topics in the categories of history, geography and the arts. In the initial weeks, contestants answer questions about subjects including Britney Spears (1998–2008), the 1956 Melbourne Olympics, The Matildas, International Female Leaders 2020, Australian Female Publicans, Bitcoin and
The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho.
It’s set to be tense, thrilling, at times humorous and, above all, entertaining.
Host of
Download This Show, and the ABC podcast
Stuff the British Stole, it’s surprising that he’s found any time to pick up a new role as quizmaster on the new season of
Mastermind on SBS. If you’ve never heard of the show – which has been on air since 1972 in the UK – it’s a fairly classic quiz format.
As Marc told Hope Breakfast, the show was first created from an interesting point of inspiration.
“If you’ve ever seen it, it’s a very serious show, and there’s a good reason for that. The guy who created it, he was interrogated by the Gestapo [during World War II],” Marc said.