What is "weakest link"

n. The part of a system that is most likely to fail or cause problems.

The American game show Weakest Link was an adaptation of a British series of the same name that made its debut on American television in 2001.

The series made its debut on NBC on April 16, 2001 and aired once a week for sixty minutes as part of the network's prime time schedule. The network cancelled Weakest Link in 2002 and its final episode aired on July 14, 2002 with ten episodes left unaired. These were eventually shown on PAX and GSN years later.

While the primetime series was still being produced, NBC began developing a daily thirty-minute edition for local stations. This series launched in syndication on January 7, 2002 and aired for a season and a half with the last new episode airing on May 20, 2003.

一筆OUT消 ( Jyutping: Jat1 Bat1 OUT Siu1) was the Hong Kong edition of the UK show The Weakest Link, presented by Hong Kong actress Carol Cheng in the Cantonese language.

一筆OUT消 was licensed and started quickly by TVB to air on TVB Jade, after rival ATV took most of the ratings with the Cantonese language version of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?. The top prize was HK$3,000,000. It premiered on August 20, 2001.

The Chinese title of the show is a word play of Chinese idiom 一筆勾銷 ( Jyutping: Jat1 Bat1 Ngau1 Siu1), which means "written off".

As per the licensing agreement, hostess Carol Cheng initially had to act just like Anne Robinson, complete with the same "cold" style of voice and facial expressions. Since Chinese culture typically does not value this kind of attitude toward people, TVB received many complaints about the show. Bowing to public pressure, the broadcaster changed the style of the show, softening Carol Cheng's "character," after five episodes of being "mean". As a result, the show became more acceptable to the viewers and the ratings went up, and eventually beat Millionaire (albeit occasionally) in ratings. Since TVB ordered only 108 daily weekday shows, the series finale aired on January 18, 2002.

The game play was identical to that of the U.S. nighttime show, with the first round lasting 2:30 and each succeeding round lasting 10 seconds less than the preceding round, until Round 7, which lasts for 90 seconds for double the stakes or a possible $750,000. The final round is a 5-question shootout in which the player who answers more questions correctly wins all the money, with a Sudden Death playing in the event of a tie. Unlike the British version, the first round started with the person whose first character （Surname） in their Chinese name is first alphabetically.

The money chain for each round is as follows:

• $375,000
• $225,000
• $150,000
• $75,000
• $30,000
• $15,000
• $7,000
• $3,000

Weakest Link is a television game show which first appeared in the UK on BBC 2 on 14 Aug 2000 and ended on 31 March 2012 when its host Anne Robinson ended her contract. The original British version of the show is still aired around the world on BBC Entertainment.

Weakest Link is an edutainment video game developed by Traveller's Tales, published by Activision and distributed by BBC Multimedia for PlayStation, Microsoft Windows and PlayStation 2.