You Deserve It

Chris Harrison hosts Basic steps new gameshow You Deserve It. Created by Kinetic Content. Executive producers, Chris Coelen, Dick p Rijk, Matilda Zoltowski, Shaun Krask supervisory producers, John Quinn, Aaron Solomon director, Ron p Moraes mind author, SolomonWith: Chris Harrison, Brooke BurnsCredit ABC with perseverance, otherwise always originality, in the resolve for feel-good reality TV, despite middling entertainers like "Secret Uniform." A producer of this show, Chris Coelen, is area of the team behind "You Deserve It," a hodgepodge of other gameshows that culminates using the cash being handed to a desperate (company, deserving) individual, a la "Full for any Day." The cash-raising procedure is kind of a Frankenshow -- sewn together from old used parts -- but just like-gooder holiday filler goes, ABC could do worse. "The Bachelor's" Chris Harrison is really as much cheerleader as host within this context, as each episode opens by presenting an individual, who are able to certainly make use of a substantial chunk of money, being privately famous by their buddies and relatives. Among individuals non-profit souls will have your money can buy, that the naive beneficiary will be provided -- Surprise! Publisher's Reference giveaway-style -- by the end. The overall game is essentially a modest twist on Twenty Questions, with every brief clue subtracting in the beginning total by luck-of-the-draw batches, a la "Deal or No Deal." The greater clues -- and they are especially cryptic, blunting the play-along element -- the greater the prize drops in each round, having a final puzzle that begins at $250,000. Despite dumb gamers, it's an excellent prescription for substantial handbags. And because of the waterworks that flow within the previewed episodes, if ABC does not possess a tissue sponsor tie-in, it's missing a genuine chance. The premiere includes a friend playing for any widowed mother of two, while another hour includes a daughter competing on her mother, that has done many good works in South Central L.A. If there's one truly off-putting note, it is a hyper-caffeinated Brooke Burns, who reaches deliver what's promising towards the naturally overcome recipient. Although there's been much speculation about whether audiences will gravitate toward beneficial material like a balm for that moribund economy, since ABC obtained with "Extreme Transformation: Home Edition," there is scant evidence to buttress such notions apart from CBS' "Undercover Boss." Nonetheless, ABC appears devoted to keep yanking in the heartstrings, eventually wishing to experience a contented tune. According to its merits "You Deserve It" most likely is not the show to get it done, but a kickstart behind "DwtsInch must provide the series a fighting chance -- a minimum of to come back like a utility player. If that's the case, it might mark a rest in the perception that not good-deed-doing show goes unpunished.camera, Don Mann production designer: John Ivo Gilles lead editor, Ryan Ely music, Vanacore Music, Nathan DeVore casting, Paul Gordon. 60 MIN. Contact John Lowry at john.lowry@variety.com