LONDON (Brand Republic) - BBC quiz show The Weakest Link, which last night launched on US TV screens, has been snubbed by US critics because it is too complicated for Americans to understand.
Anne Robinson鈥檚 accent is said be hard to understand and some questions are badly phrased, critics claim.
NBC, which bought the rights to screen the show in the US, admitted it had dumbed down some of the questions because it feared that US contestants would be less likely to step forward to be humiliated than their UK counterparts.
The TV network also raised the price money from $30,000 (£20,000) to $1m (£695,555).
NBC is poaching the former contestants from rival network CBS鈥檚 reality game show Survivor to appear on a Weakest Link special in a bid attract viewers.
The episode, to be screened in May, sees Survivor winner Richard Hatch as the first to be voted out as the weakest link by his fellow Survivor contestants.