Take the Money and Run (TV series)
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Take the Money and Run was a reality
game show
that premiered on August 2, 2011 as part of the ABC network's
2011–12 primetime schedule. The series is unscripted and involves contestants trying to hide a briefcase filled with $100,000 from professional detectives and other investigators. The show takes place in various locales around the United States
. The series ended with its sixth and final episode on September 16, 2011.
The contestants are loaned an SUV and a cellular phone, and are given one hour to hide the case. At the end of the hour, the contestants are taken into custody and questioned by interrogators in an attempt to locate the case. The contestants are also isolated from each other for the duration of the 48 hours. The detectives are given the GPS recordings of the route that the contestants took in the SUV, telephone records of who they called, and all receipts. If the detectives can locate the case within 48 hours, they are awarded the $100,000. If not, the contestants win the prize.
ABC has released two video segments promoting the show.
The producers are Profiles Television and Jerry Bruckheimer Television. Horizon Alternative Television is the distributor in the United States. The executive producers are Jerry Bruckheimer
, Bertram van Munster
, Jonathan Littman, Elise Doganieri
and Philip Morrow
. Kristie Anne Reed and Mark Dziak are co-executive producers. The show was written by Philip Morrow
, Kieran Doherty
, and Matthew Worthy
of Wild Rover Productions
.
The show has not revealed yet whether a second season will appear.
The recurring cast includes the interrogators: Paul Bishop
and Mary Hanlon Stone. Bishop is a writer and LAPD detective
. He has published many books and written many episodes for television. He is currently the supervisor of a sex crimes unit. Stone is a deputy district attorney
with the office of the Los Angeles County District Attorney
.
scoring it a 56 out of 100.
game show
that premiered on August 2, 2011 as part of the ABC network's
2011–12 primetime schedule. The series is unscripted and involves contestants trying to hide a briefcase filled with $100,000 from professional detectives and other investigators. The show takes place in various locales around the United States
. The series ended with its sixth and final episode on September 16, 2011.
The contestants are loaned an SUV and a cellular phone, and are given one hour to hide the case. At the end of the hour, the contestants are taken into custody and questioned by interrogators in an attempt to locate the case. The contestants are also isolated from each other for the duration of the 48 hours. The detectives are given the GPS recordings of the route that the contestants took in the SUV, telephone records of who they called, and all receipts. If the detectives can locate the case within 48 hours, they are awarded the $100,000. If not, the contestants win the prize.
ABC has released two video segments promoting the show.
The producers are Profiles Television and Jerry Bruckheimer Television. Horizon Alternative Television is the distributor in the United States. The executive producers are Jerry Bruckheimer
, Bertram van Munster
, Jonathan Littman, Elise Doganieri
and Philip Morrow
. Kristie Anne Reed and Mark Dziak are co-executive producers. The show was written by Philip Morrow
, Kieran Doherty
, and Matthew Worthy
of Wild Rover Productions
.
The show has not revealed yet whether a second season will appear.
The recurring cast includes the interrogators: Paul Bishop
and Mary Hanlon Stone. Bishop is a writer and LAPD detective
. He has published many books and written many episodes for television. He is currently the supervisor of a sex crimes unit. Stone is a deputy district attorney
with the office of the Los Angeles County District Attorney
.
scoring it a 56 out of 100.
game show
that premiered on August 2, 2011 as part of the ABC network's
2011–12 primetime schedule. The series is unscripted and involves contestants trying to hide a briefcase filled with $100,000 from professional detectives and other investigators. The show takes place in various locales around the United States
. The series ended with its sixth and final episode on September 16, 2011.
The contestants are loaned an SUV and a cellular phone, and are given one hour to hide the case. At the end of the hour, the contestants are taken into custody and questioned by interrogators in an attempt to locate the case. The contestants are also isolated from each other for the duration of the 48 hours. The detectives are given the GPS recordings of the route that the contestants took in the SUV, telephone records of who they called, and all receipts. If the detectives can locate the case within 48 hours, they are awarded the $100,000. If not, the contestants win the prize.
ABC has released two video segments promoting the show.
The producers are Profiles Television and Jerry Bruckheimer Television. Horizon Alternative Television is the distributor in the United States. The executive producers are Jerry Bruckheimer
, Bertram van Munster
, Jonathan Littman, Elise Doganieri
and Philip Morrow
. Kristie Anne Reed and Mark Dziak are co-executive producers. The show was written by Philip Morrow
, Kieran Doherty
, and Matthew Worthy
of Wild Rover Productions
.
The show has not revealed yet whether a second season will appear.
The recurring cast includes the interrogators: Paul Bishop
and Mary Hanlon Stone. Bishop is a writer and LAPD detective
. He has published many books and written many episodes for television. He is currently the supervisor of a sex crimes unit. Stone is a deputy district attorney
with the office of the Los Angeles County District Attorney
.
scoring it a 56 out of 100.
Reality television
Reality television is a genre of television programming that presents purportedly unscripted dramatic or humorous situations, documents actual events, and usually features ordinary people instead of professional actors, sometimes in a contest or other situation where a prize is awarded...
game show
Game show
A game show is a type of radio or television program in which members of the public, television personalities or celebrities, sometimes as part of a team, play a game which involves answering questions or solving puzzles usually for money and/or prizes...
that premiered on August 2, 2011 as part of the ABC network's
American Broadcasting Company
The American Broadcasting Company is an American commercial broadcasting television network. Created in 1943 from the former NBC Blue radio network, ABC is owned by The Walt Disney Company and is part of Disney-ABC Television Group. Its first broadcast on television was in 1948...
2011–12 primetime schedule. The series is unscripted and involves contestants trying to hide a briefcase filled with $100,000 from professional detectives and other investigators. The show takes place in various locales around the United States
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
. The series ended with its sixth and final episode on September 16, 2011.
The contestants are loaned an SUV and a cellular phone, and are given one hour to hide the case. At the end of the hour, the contestants are taken into custody and questioned by interrogators in an attempt to locate the case. The contestants are also isolated from each other for the duration of the 48 hours. The detectives are given the GPS recordings of the route that the contestants took in the SUV, telephone records of who they called, and all receipts. If the detectives can locate the case within 48 hours, they are awarded the $100,000. If not, the contestants win the prize.
ABC has released two video segments promoting the show.
The producers are Profiles Television and Jerry Bruckheimer Television. Horizon Alternative Television is the distributor in the United States. The executive producers are Jerry Bruckheimer
Jerry Bruckheimer
Jerome Leon "Jerry" Bruckheimer is an American film and television producer. He has achieved great success in the genres of action, drama, and science fiction. His best known television series are CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, CSI: Miami, CSI: NY, Eleventh Hour, Without a Trace, Cold Case, The...
, Bertram van Munster
Bertram Van Munster
Bertram van Munster is the co-creator and executive producer of The Amazing Race. He is also the creator of Profiles from the Front Line and was the Executive Producer on Oprah's Big Give and Take the Money and Run ....
, Jonathan Littman, Elise Doganieri
Elise Doganieri
Elise Doganieri is the Co-Creator and Co-Executive Producer of the CBS reality show The Amazing Race. Doganieri's other credits include serving as show producer of ABC's "Profiles From the Front Line" as well as producer and story editor on the pilot for Paramount's "Wild Things."The Amazing Race...
and Philip Morrow
Philip Morrow
Philip Morrow is a Northern Irish television producer. In 1999, he founded Wild Rover Productions, a television production company best known for producing the hidden-camera show Just for Laughs along with various entertainment, comedy, and pop-factual TV programmes...
. Kristie Anne Reed and Mark Dziak are co-executive producers. The show was written by Philip Morrow
Philip Morrow
Philip Morrow is a Northern Irish television producer. In 1999, he founded Wild Rover Productions, a television production company best known for producing the hidden-camera show Just for Laughs along with various entertainment, comedy, and pop-factual TV programmes...
, Kieran Doherty
Kieran Doherty (writer)
Kieran Doherty is an Irish writer and TV format creator based in Belfast, Northern Ireland. He co-created the international TV entertainment formats Secret Fortune and Take the Money and Run as part of a creative partnership with Matthew Worthy, while working for UK independent production company...
, and Matthew Worthy
Matthew Worthy
Matthew Worthy is a British television Producer. He co-created the entertainment formats Secret Fortune and Take The Money and Run as part of a creative partnership with Kieran Doherty, while working for UK independent production company Wild Rover Productions.- Career :Worthy began his career at...
of Wild Rover Productions
Wild Rover Productions
Wild Rover Productions is a television production company located in Belfast, Northern Ireland. It was started by Philip Morrow in 1999 and has since become one of the UK's most successful regionally based entertainment companies....
.
The show has not revealed yet whether a second season will appear.
The recurring cast includes the interrogators: Paul Bishop
Paul Bishop
Paul Bishop is an author and a detective in the Los Angeles Police Department with the current rank of Detective III. He is also a writer with numerous published novels and produced episodes of episodic television and feature film scripts...
and Mary Hanlon Stone. Bishop is a writer and LAPD detective
Detective
A detective is an investigator, either a member of a police agency or a private person. The latter may be known as private investigators or "private eyes"...
. He has published many books and written many episodes for television. He is currently the supervisor of a sex crimes unit. Stone is a deputy district attorney
District attorney
In many jurisdictions in the United States, a District Attorney is an elected or appointed government official who represents the government in the prosecution of criminal offenses. The district attorney is the highest officeholder in the jurisdiction's legal department and supervises a staff of...
with the office of the Los Angeles County District Attorney
Los Angeles County District Attorney
The District Attorney of Los Angeles County prosecutes felony and misdemeanor crimes that occur within the jurisdiction of Los Angeles County, California....
.
Episodes
| No. | Title | Original air date |
|---|---|---|
Reception
The show has received mixed reviews from critics, with MetacriticMetacritic
Metacritic.com is a website that collates reviews of music albums, games, movies, TV shows and DVDs. For each product, a numerical score from each review is obtained and the total is averaged. An excerpt of each review is provided along with a hyperlink to the source. Three colour codes of Green,...
scoring it a 56 out of 100.
External links
Take the Money and Run was a realityReality television
Reality television is a genre of television programming that presents purportedly unscripted dramatic or humorous situations, documents actual events, and usually features ordinary people instead of professional actors, sometimes in a contest or other situation where a prize is awarded...
game show
Game show
A game show is a type of radio or television program in which members of the public, television personalities or celebrities, sometimes as part of a team, play a game which involves answering questions or solving puzzles usually for money and/or prizes...
that premiered on August 2, 2011 as part of the ABC network's
American Broadcasting Company
The American Broadcasting Company is an American commercial broadcasting television network. Created in 1943 from the former NBC Blue radio network, ABC is owned by The Walt Disney Company and is part of Disney-ABC Television Group. Its first broadcast on television was in 1948...
2011–12 primetime schedule. The series is unscripted and involves contestants trying to hide a briefcase filled with $100,000 from professional detectives and other investigators. The show takes place in various locales around the United States
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
. The series ended with its sixth and final episode on September 16, 2011.
The contestants are loaned an SUV and a cellular phone, and are given one hour to hide the case. At the end of the hour, the contestants are taken into custody and questioned by interrogators in an attempt to locate the case. The contestants are also isolated from each other for the duration of the 48 hours. The detectives are given the GPS recordings of the route that the contestants took in the SUV, telephone records of who they called, and all receipts. If the detectives can locate the case within 48 hours, they are awarded the $100,000. If not, the contestants win the prize.
ABC has released two video segments promoting the show.
The producers are Profiles Television and Jerry Bruckheimer Television. Horizon Alternative Television is the distributor in the United States. The executive producers are Jerry Bruckheimer
Jerry Bruckheimer
Jerome Leon "Jerry" Bruckheimer is an American film and television producer. He has achieved great success in the genres of action, drama, and science fiction. His best known television series are CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, CSI: Miami, CSI: NY, Eleventh Hour, Without a Trace, Cold Case, The...
, Bertram van Munster
Bertram Van Munster
Bertram van Munster is the co-creator and executive producer of The Amazing Race. He is also the creator of Profiles from the Front Line and was the Executive Producer on Oprah's Big Give and Take the Money and Run ....
, Jonathan Littman, Elise Doganieri
Elise Doganieri
Elise Doganieri is the Co-Creator and Co-Executive Producer of the CBS reality show The Amazing Race. Doganieri's other credits include serving as show producer of ABC's "Profiles From the Front Line" as well as producer and story editor on the pilot for Paramount's "Wild Things."The Amazing Race...
and Philip Morrow
Philip Morrow
Philip Morrow is a Northern Irish television producer. In 1999, he founded Wild Rover Productions, a television production company best known for producing the hidden-camera show Just for Laughs along with various entertainment, comedy, and pop-factual TV programmes...
. Kristie Anne Reed and Mark Dziak are co-executive producers. The show was written by Philip Morrow
Philip Morrow
Philip Morrow is a Northern Irish television producer. In 1999, he founded Wild Rover Productions, a television production company best known for producing the hidden-camera show Just for Laughs along with various entertainment, comedy, and pop-factual TV programmes...
, Kieran Doherty
Kieran Doherty (writer)
Kieran Doherty is an Irish writer and TV format creator based in Belfast, Northern Ireland. He co-created the international TV entertainment formats Secret Fortune and Take the Money and Run as part of a creative partnership with Matthew Worthy, while working for UK independent production company...
, and Matthew Worthy
Matthew Worthy
Matthew Worthy is a British television Producer. He co-created the entertainment formats Secret Fortune and Take The Money and Run as part of a creative partnership with Kieran Doherty, while working for UK independent production company Wild Rover Productions.- Career :Worthy began his career at...
of Wild Rover Productions
Wild Rover Productions
Wild Rover Productions is a television production company located in Belfast, Northern Ireland. It was started by Philip Morrow in 1999 and has since become one of the UK's most successful regionally based entertainment companies....
.
The show has not revealed yet whether a second season will appear.
The recurring cast includes the interrogators: Paul Bishop
Paul Bishop
Paul Bishop is an author and a detective in the Los Angeles Police Department with the current rank of Detective III. He is also a writer with numerous published novels and produced episodes of episodic television and feature film scripts...
and Mary Hanlon Stone. Bishop is a writer and LAPD detective
Detective
A detective is an investigator, either a member of a police agency or a private person. The latter may be known as private investigators or "private eyes"...
. He has published many books and written many episodes for television. He is currently the supervisor of a sex crimes unit. Stone is a deputy district attorney
District attorney
In many jurisdictions in the United States, a District Attorney is an elected or appointed government official who represents the government in the prosecution of criminal offenses. The district attorney is the highest officeholder in the jurisdiction's legal department and supervises a staff of...
with the office of the Los Angeles County District Attorney
Los Angeles County District Attorney
The District Attorney of Los Angeles County prosecutes felony and misdemeanor crimes that occur within the jurisdiction of Los Angeles County, California....
.
Episodes
| No. | Title | Original air date |
|---|---|---|
Reception
The show has received mixed reviews from critics, with MetacriticMetacritic
Metacritic.com is a website that collates reviews of music albums, games, movies, TV shows and DVDs. For each product, a numerical score from each review is obtained and the total is averaged. An excerpt of each review is provided along with a hyperlink to the source. Three colour codes of Green,...
scoring it a 56 out of 100.
External links
Take the Money and Run was a realityReality television
Reality television is a genre of television programming that presents purportedly unscripted dramatic or humorous situations, documents actual events, and usually features ordinary people instead of professional actors, sometimes in a contest or other situation where a prize is awarded...
game show
Game show
A game show is a type of radio or television program in which members of the public, television personalities or celebrities, sometimes as part of a team, play a game which involves answering questions or solving puzzles usually for money and/or prizes...
that premiered on August 2, 2011 as part of the ABC network's
American Broadcasting Company
The American Broadcasting Company is an American commercial broadcasting television network. Created in 1943 from the former NBC Blue radio network, ABC is owned by The Walt Disney Company and is part of Disney-ABC Television Group. Its first broadcast on television was in 1948...
2011–12 primetime schedule. The series is unscripted and involves contestants trying to hide a briefcase filled with $100,000 from professional detectives and other investigators. The show takes place in various locales around the United States
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
. The series ended with its sixth and final episode on September 16, 2011.
The contestants are loaned an SUV and a cellular phone, and are given one hour to hide the case. At the end of the hour, the contestants are taken into custody and questioned by interrogators in an attempt to locate the case. The contestants are also isolated from each other for the duration of the 48 hours. The detectives are given the GPS recordings of the route that the contestants took in the SUV, telephone records of who they called, and all receipts. If the detectives can locate the case within 48 hours, they are awarded the $100,000. If not, the contestants win the prize.
ABC has released two video segments promoting the show.
The producers are Profiles Television and Jerry Bruckheimer Television. Horizon Alternative Television is the distributor in the United States. The executive producers are Jerry Bruckheimer
Jerry Bruckheimer
Jerome Leon "Jerry" Bruckheimer is an American film and television producer. He has achieved great success in the genres of action, drama, and science fiction. His best known television series are CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, CSI: Miami, CSI: NY, Eleventh Hour, Without a Trace, Cold Case, The...
, Bertram van Munster
Bertram Van Munster
Bertram van Munster is the co-creator and executive producer of The Amazing Race. He is also the creator of Profiles from the Front Line and was the Executive Producer on Oprah's Big Give and Take the Money and Run ....
, Jonathan Littman, Elise Doganieri
Elise Doganieri
Elise Doganieri is the Co-Creator and Co-Executive Producer of the CBS reality show The Amazing Race. Doganieri's other credits include serving as show producer of ABC's "Profiles From the Front Line" as well as producer and story editor on the pilot for Paramount's "Wild Things."The Amazing Race...
and Philip Morrow
Philip Morrow
Philip Morrow is a Northern Irish television producer. In 1999, he founded Wild Rover Productions, a television production company best known for producing the hidden-camera show Just for Laughs along with various entertainment, comedy, and pop-factual TV programmes...
. Kristie Anne Reed and Mark Dziak are co-executive producers. The show was written by Philip Morrow
Philip Morrow
Philip Morrow is a Northern Irish television producer. In 1999, he founded Wild Rover Productions, a television production company best known for producing the hidden-camera show Just for Laughs along with various entertainment, comedy, and pop-factual TV programmes...
, Kieran Doherty
Kieran Doherty (writer)
Kieran Doherty is an Irish writer and TV format creator based in Belfast, Northern Ireland. He co-created the international TV entertainment formats Secret Fortune and Take the Money and Run as part of a creative partnership with Matthew Worthy, while working for UK independent production company...
, and Matthew Worthy
Matthew Worthy
Matthew Worthy is a British television Producer. He co-created the entertainment formats Secret Fortune and Take The Money and Run as part of a creative partnership with Kieran Doherty, while working for UK independent production company Wild Rover Productions.- Career :Worthy began his career at...
of Wild Rover Productions
Wild Rover Productions
Wild Rover Productions is a television production company located in Belfast, Northern Ireland. It was started by Philip Morrow in 1999 and has since become one of the UK's most successful regionally based entertainment companies....
.
The show has not revealed yet whether a second season will appear.
The recurring cast includes the interrogators: Paul Bishop
Paul Bishop
Paul Bishop is an author and a detective in the Los Angeles Police Department with the current rank of Detective III. He is also a writer with numerous published novels and produced episodes of episodic television and feature film scripts...
and Mary Hanlon Stone. Bishop is a writer and LAPD detective
Detective
A detective is an investigator, either a member of a police agency or a private person. The latter may be known as private investigators or "private eyes"...
. He has published many books and written many episodes for television. He is currently the supervisor of a sex crimes unit. Stone is a deputy district attorney
District attorney
In many jurisdictions in the United States, a District Attorney is an elected or appointed government official who represents the government in the prosecution of criminal offenses. The district attorney is the highest officeholder in the jurisdiction's legal department and supervises a staff of...
with the office of the Los Angeles County District Attorney
Los Angeles County District Attorney
The District Attorney of Los Angeles County prosecutes felony and misdemeanor crimes that occur within the jurisdiction of Los Angeles County, California....
.
Episodes
| No. | Title | Original air date |
|---|---|---|
Reception
The show has received mixed reviews from critics, with MetacriticMetacritic
Metacritic.com is a website that collates reviews of music albums, games, movies, TV shows and DVDs. For each product, a numerical score from each review is obtained and the total is averaged. An excerpt of each review is provided along with a hyperlink to the source. Three colour codes of Green,...
scoring it a 56 out of 100.
External links