Identity: Season 1

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NBC | Season Premiere Date: July 5, 2010

Starring: Penn Jillette, Joe Cipriano

Summary: NBC's latest "Deal or No Deal"-style, slow-moving primetime game show (which gets a trial run this week) asks contestants to guess the professions of various people standing in front of them for a chance to win up to $500,000. It's not as hard as it sounds.

Genre(s): Reality, Game Show

Season 1 Episodes

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S1:E12. Episode 112
Air Date: April 27, 2007
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S1:E11. Episode 111
Air Date: April 20, 2007
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S1:E10. Episode 110
Air Date: April 13, 2007

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Paul Katz

Penn Jillette can't pull off the illusion that he's as likable as Howie Mandel. [22 Dec 2006, p.75]

Alessandra Stanley

“Identity” is to game shows what a gastric bypass is to dieting: a choice that defies convention and social niceties. Read full review

Ellen Gray

Considering how hard people on shows like "Survivor" and "The Amazing Race" work for their prizes, there's something almost unseemly about giving people prizes for not much more than showing up. Read full review

Troy Patterson

A degraded update of What's My Line? Read full review

Verne Gay

Problem is, the show is more comfortable with cliché than subtlety. Read full review

Jonathan Storm

Now, you may be saying, "There he goes again, that elitist toad." But believe me, even Paris Hilton, Britney Spears and Bill O'Reilly would think this show was stupid. Read full review

Tom Shales

One's first impression of "Identity" is likely to be that it is a miserably tedious mess, a reaction that probably will grow stronger the further one slogs into the Big Muddy that is the show. Read full review

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TomG

Jan 7, 2007

People it's a game show, and it's way better than Deal or No Deal, aside from the hosts. This is much more challenging to the dwindling pea brains of TV game show viewers.