Personality Squares comes back to TV2

Press, 29 August 1977, Page 15

Personality Squares comes back to TV2

South Pacific Television brings back the quiz game, “Personality Squares,” tonight. Derek Payne will be the host. The basis of the programme is a fun game of bluff, based on noughts and crosses in which nine assorted entertainers, using their reserves of guile, attempt to mislead contestants. The shrewd contestant, who is not taken in by verbal smokescreens, red herrings and other diversionary tact-

i ics, thereby scoring a winning line, wins the game and a prize. The game operates on a ’ knock-out basis, so one contestant can walk off with several prizes. But the person j who wins the most games 1 over the 17-week series gets 1 a 10-day holiday for two in ; Los Angeles. ’ Derek Payne, as host, is 1 assisted by Nikki FowlerJones who, as a dancer, has , appeared in numerous teleI vision shows, including “Top > of the World.” Five members of the

Personalities team are resident. By the end of their 17week stint on the show they should have got the business of bluffing down to a fine art. Max Cryer and Andy Shaw. South Pacific Television’s afternoon programme hosts, are joined by Robin Stewart, “Opportunity Knocks" frontman, Jenni Anderson, dancer, and Joe Dewey, coinic and actor. The team will be joined in the second programme by Annie Whittle Who took a prominent role in the satirical show, “A Week of It.”