Talpa Studios’ The Quiz With Balls is bouncing its way to Spain

March 04, 2024 The fun, play-along gameshow The Quiz With Balls, where giant yellow balls catapult contestants into a swimming pool, is making its way to Spain via Atresmedia on Antena 3. After the Netherlands and the USA, Spain will be the third market for the hit format. This isn’t the first time Atresmedia has teamed up with Talpa Studios as they purchased the popular show, The Floor, last year. The production for The Quiz With Balls will take place in Talpa Studios’ hub location in the Netherlands in collaboration with Spanish producer Warner Bros. The eight episodes will be broadcast in 2024.

Carmen Ferreiro, Entertainment Programming Director of Atresmedia TV: “Atresmedia is committed to showing the best entertainment formats from around the world, and we’re always on the lookout for fresh, innovative formats that fit in with our television model. The Quiz With Balls meets all the characteristics we look for in a quiz show: it’s a fun and innovative program for all audiences.”

Sebastian van Barneveld, Talpa Studios’ Director Global Distribution: “Last summer, The Quiz With Balls premiered on SBS6 in the Netherlands, where it became an instant summer hit and was rewarded with an order for a four-episode winter special. The show’s second season will air on SBS6 later this year, and of course, we’re thrilled that the format is going international, travelling to the U.S. and now Spain.”

About The Quiz With Balls

This fun game show features five contestants standing on a high platform over a swimming pool, ten exciting quiz questions and six giant balls. In each episode, a team of five friends, family members or colleagues, competes for a cash prize by answering one quiz question after another. For each question, each team member chooses one of six answer options. The answer options are linked to the balls, which start to roll when all answers are given. If a player stands on a correct answer, the ball stops just in time. If not, the ball will mercilessly knock the player into the pool. Each question has as many correct answers as the number of players left on the platform. In the case of question one, that means five correct answers and one wrong answer. With each player falling into the pool, a wrong answer is added to the six answer options of the next question. For each team, the key is to stay as complete as possible for as long as possible since the tenth and final question is worth 25.000 euros.