Silence Is Golden | Preview (U&Dave)

Silence is Golden, presented by Dermot O’Leary, is the show where a studio audience is given £250,000 but there’s a green room of entertainers headed up by Katherine Ryan, Seann Walsh and Fatiha El-Ghorri attempting to bring the prize pot down.

Every single noise any audience member makes loses them all money. Each episode begins with the studio audience getting £250,000 to share between them. All they need to do to keep it...is not make a sound.

With every audience member mic'ed up, all hell breaks loose as a green room of 30 acts, led by three returning comedian captains, headed up by Katherine Ryan, wage war on the audience, with every sound forced out of them bringing the total prize money down. It's entertainers vs audience - they're not on the same side. If the entertainers get the prize pot to zero, they get to give money to charity.

In the first episode, this week efforts to bring the money down include a kidnapped dog, hundreds of fake spiders, a man who puts his hand in a bear trap, knife throwers, a naked lady, a very naughty santa, a very scary clown and the brilliant stand-up comedians Reuben Kaye, Laura Smyth and Emmanuel Sonubi.

Dermot O’Leary says: "I’m so looking forward to Silence is Golden. When a show like this falls into your lap, you can’t quite believe your luck. Looking forward to having lots of fun with the audience, our comedians and assorted cast of regulars, all trying to make the audience laugh, gasp and giggle."

Silence Is Golden launches Monday 5th May on U&Dave.