The Boss: Everything you need to know about the Susan Calman fronted show

Can contestants handle the responsibilities that being a manager entails?
The Boss: Susan Calman on the BBC show
BBC/ Vishal Sharma
Amy Harris3 May 2017

Are you one of those people who think you could do a better job than your boss?

Many employees think they would be a good manager but what makes you an accomplished leader in the workplace? Is it charisma, intelligence, ruthlessness or communication or staff motivation? Or is it a mixture of all these things?

The new quiz show on BBC One puts that question to the test and sees if contestants can handle the responsibilities that being a manager entails.

In The Boss, hosted by Susan Calman, one contestant becomes The Boss and must decide which of the other players is best suited to answer a mixture of general knowledge and brainteaser puzzles by identifying their strengths and weaknesses.

The right decisions will ultimately decide how much money can be won at the end of the show and The Boss has to stay in power to win the cash.

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At the end of every round contestants can choose to challenge him or her, in a cut-throat head-to-head battle like those seen in offices around the capital on a daily basis, and one player is eliminated.

At the end of the show only The Boss and the one surviving player can decide to share the cash or make one final challenge to win it all, leaving the loser to go home empty handed.

“It has a completely different flavour to any other quiz show on television just now with people from all around the country playing the game in very different ways,” says Scottish stand-up comedian Calman. “It is tense, engaging and fun.

“A good quiz show is a delicate balance between the difficulty of the questions and the format of the show itself. An overcomplicated show is never as enjoyable as one where you can play along at home.

“To me, it’s very much about the playability, where a viewer can think ‘Would I have answered the question the same?’ or ‘Would I have made the same strategic decisions?’. I hope that The Boss will have the audience playing along at home every time.”

The Boss airs weekdays on BBC One at 2:15pm.

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