The Night of the Innocents

The Night of the Innocents (Spanish: La noche de los inocentes, Swedish: Natten av de Oskyldiga) is a pan-European Christmas event broadcast by Admiral Television across Europe. The show is based on the Spanish format Gala Inocente, Inocente, in turn based on the earlier Telemadrid format Inocente, Inocente. First premiered in Sweden, The Night of the Innocents is a month-long tournament organised over the course of December 2021 in various game shows. The winners of each tournament will play other members of the group in a festival at the Skokloster Castle, Sweden, on 24 December, also backed up by song performances.

The show has been called "what happens if you cross the Eurovision Song Contest with It's a Knockout".

Format
The show features teams from across Europe representing various countries and regions part of the Admiral network in Belgium, Brittany, Cornwall, Denmark, England, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Iceland, Ireland, Latvia, The Netherlands, Northern Ireland, Norway, Occitania, Russia, Scotland, Sweden and Wales. The local broadcasters formed teams to take part in a range of game show formats adapted into tournaments. Throughout the months of November and December 2021, the groups, having been drawn in September, played each other at each game show.

Game shows

 * 1 vs. 100
 * Ciao, Darwin!
 * Deal or No Deal
 * Goosey Goosey Gander
 * The Legacy
 * Next One, Please!
 * Show Me What You've Got
 * Twenty-One
 * Wanted
 * The Weakest Link
 * Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?

Each tournament was played in one of the countries in the group, except for the Wanted tournament, which was played across Sweden. Questions are broadcast in the language of each country it is being broadcast in, with the live stream available in English commentary. The qualifiers are only broadcast in the countries participating, however all matches are available over the Admiral catch-up service available in all Admiral countries and on the Admiral International YouTube channel. Questions are given on monitors in the participant's language, on the host's monitor and audience's screens in English, and on TVs in the nations' language. All countries will be asked to send commentators to the event to commentate in that country's language. All game show finals will take place on the night of 24 December.