Lilly Singh hosts ‘Battle of the Generations’ recreation present that can enrage and excite Canada

Canada is getting a brand new recreation present, Battle of the Generations hosted by Scarborough, Ont., icon Lilly Singh, the place Child Boomer, Gen X, Millennial, and Gen Z gamers attempt to out good competing generations to win a $25,000 money prize.

“Each technology is getting schooled within the present,” Singh teased to Yahoo Canada in regards to the new trivia recreation present, premiering June 19 at 9:00 p.m. ET/PT on CTV, CTV.ca, and the CTV app. “Everybody’s considering their technology is the perfect and rapidly studying they [don’t know] as a lot.”

“You’ll be able to see their confidence. All of them are available in, particularly in Gen X, they will are available in powerful like we’re the perfect technology. After which they will get a query, you’ll be able to see of their eyes them being like, ‘I do not even know what this query means, the place does it even come from?’ After which you’ll be able to see Gen Z rolling their eyes at them. … You’ll be taught there isn’t any superior technology.”

‘I’ve to maintain a reasonably large poker face’

A part of what makes Battle of the Generations so fascinating is that it is truly enraging to listen to folks get a few of these questions unsuitable, however in one of the simplest ways. This is not a recreation present the place a lot of the viewers watching at residence will not know the solutions, it is extra about being conversant in music, motion pictures, celebrities, toys, and different widespread tradition objects and moments which are particular to a specific decade. It is extra of a circumstance the place you may be very assured about a solution, or you might have completely no clue what one thing is.

“I’ve to maintain a reasonably large poker face,” Singh mentioned. “It is free and it is enjoyable, so I would poke enjoyable at folks slightly bit, however I positively do not wish to give it away if I do know the reply.”

“That is the place my appearing is available in. I am like, ‘OK yeah, let’s have a look at what is the reply to this query,’ with an image that’s clearly Dennis Rodman and so they’re giving me LeBron James. … The concept that somebody would not know what LeBron James appears like, that is the place my greatest appearing efficiency comes up.”

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Battle of the Generations has contestants from throughout Canada. Within the first spherical of the sport every participant solutions questions on their very own technology and with each appropriate reply, $500 is put into The Vault. Then the primary two folks to reply a query about any technology appropriately safe their spots within the subsequent spherical. The opposite two enter the Battle Zone, a head-to-head battle the place just one particular person strikes ahead.

Within the subsequent spherical, the primary particular person to reply three trivia questions appropriately strikes on, whereas the opposite two head into one other Battle Zone competitors. The final particular person after the Remaining Face-off takes on The Vault for his or her likelihood to win as much as $25,000.

“It has been fascinating and it is truly been a education for me as a result of I feel all of us have our biases,” Singh mentioned. “Once we go into the present, all of us have these concepts, and I positively assume it debunks loads of stereotypes.”

“There’s loads of Gen Z contestants that had been so savvy when it got here to ‘60s popular culture or like old style tech, after which there have been loads of Boomers who knew web slang. So it was simply actually a combined bag by way of folks’s talents.”

‘My objective is all the time to create content material that I feel probably the most quantity of individuals can get pleasure from’

For Singh, she shared that she grew up watching recreation exhibits together with her household, which made her notably enthusiastic about internet hosting Battle of the Generations, but it surely additionally actually connects to loads of her comedy, joking about household dynamics and generational variations.

“Lots of my comedy in my profession has been intergenerational comedy and trauma, and I’ve poked enjoyable of my dad and mom and I’ve made enjoyable of the household dynamics. So this felt so on model for me,” Singh mentioned. “However I simply love the concept of a format the place households may actually come collectively and watch one thing collectively, as a result of I really feel like that glue is sort of being misplaced with loads of content material as of late, and I like the concept of being a part of one thing that may convey that again.”

Singh just isn’t solely the host of Battle of the Generations, however she additionally serves as an government producer, with the present produced by Bell Media Studios, in affiliation with GroupM Movement Leisure and Singh’s Unicorn Island Productions.

“I prefer to be the kind of inventive that’s within the room, having a dialog, shaping one thing, and that is why I like the present as a result of the entire people who work on the present had been tremendous collaborative,” Singh mentioned. “When it got here to the format, or what the stage appears like, or how we should always phrase questions, or what sort of questions we should always have, I bought to place my enter into all of it.”

“My objective is all the time to create content material that I feel probably the most quantity of individuals can get pleasure from and watch. I do really feel like traditionally, content material has been geared in the direction of sure sorts of folks. Even in late-night I felt like that, however I all the time attempt to make a present the place I am like, … may my dad and mom watch the present and luxuriate in it?”

In actual fact, Singh’s dad and mom went to a taping of Battle of the Generations and so they bought so into the sport that they instructed her they had been shocked about a few of the solutions contestants bought unsuitable.

“They had been actually taking part in alongside as effectively, which is basically cool as a result of they do not all the time get to say that they relate to every little thing they watch,” she mentioned.

In fact, one other spotlight for Singh is that she’s capable of be a part of a trivia recreation present based mostly in Canada, that includes Canadians from all throughout the nation. As Singh describes herself, she’s “a very obsessed and proud Canadian.”

“Any alternative I can have to come back again and create content material right here I am actually treasured about, as a result of I consider within the expertise right here a lot,” Singh mentioned.

“I consider in simply the magic of Canadians. Just like the contestants which are on this present, I might argue you’ll not discover contestants like this anyplace else on the earth. They’re simply so particular and so candy. However then their sweetness turns into competitiveness on this actually distinctive approach.”

So may Singh herself reduce it on Battle of the Generations? She’s not so certain.

“Truthfully, I haven’t got the center to,” Singh mentioned.

“The contestants should take slightly little bit of a take a look at to get on the present to show they know some stuff. I really feel like subsequent season I’ll take that take a look at to see if I might even get on the present, as a result of I am undecided. There’s like a 50 per cent likelihood. I am actually savvy with sure classes and others, I do know nothing.”