Separation Anxiety (TV series)

Separation Anxiety
Genre	Game show
Presented by	Iliza Shlesinger Adam Ray
Country of origin	United States
Original language(s)	English
No. of seasons	1
No. of episodes	12
Production
Executive producer(s)	Craig Armstrong Rick Ringbakk Charles Wachter Chris Grants
Running time	42 minutes
Production company(s)	5×5 Media Electus
Release
Original network	TBS
Picture format	1080i (HDTV)
Original release	March 8, 2016 (2016-03-08) – present

Separation Anxiety is an American television game show hosted by Iliza Shlesinger. The series premiered on TBS on March 8, 2016.

Plot

It is staged as a game show within a game show. An unsuspecting couple is brought to a studio in Atlanta, where they think they're playing together on an Internet game show for a top prize of $2,500. Just before taping, the couple is told that the rules have changed, and that one half of the couple will play first, and the other will play later.

Game play

The player who is told they'll "play later" is taken to the real Separation Anxiety studio, where host Iliza Shlesinger explains the real game. The in-studio player will select the categories that their partner is playing in the fake Internet game. The real prizes are 100 times the dollar amounts shown in the fake game (so the first $10 question is really worth $1,000). The game uses an 8-question money tree, with a top real prize of $250,000.

During the game, the in-studio player gets several opportunities, called "Mind Melds", to earn bonus prizes for predicting what their partner did during hidden-camera segments shot after the players were separated but before the fake game taping began. Those prizes are kept, even if the team loses the main game.

There are four ways the game can end:

• The fake-game player can answer 8 questions correctly, winning what they believe to be $2,500, after which the door between the fake and real studios opens and they are informed they've won $250,000.
• The fake-game player can stop the game after any correct answer. The reveal then happens, and they're informed they've won 100 times the prize they kept in the fake game.
• The in-studio player can, at several times after the $250/$25,000 question is answered correctly, opt to end the game immediately and keep half of the real prize, at which point the reveal is immediately made to the fake player.
• The fake-game player answers one question incorrectly. They are told they've won nothing, but after the reveal of the real studio, the couple is given a $5,000 consolation prize.

Comedian Adam Ray hosts the fake game show, and usually does whatever comedic bits or unusual actions that Shlesinger directs him to do through his IFB earpiece.

Episodes

No.	Title	Original air date	U.S. viewers (millions)
1	"Troy & Erin"	March 8, 2016 (2016-03-08)	N/A
2	"Clancy & Adam"	March 15, 2016 (2016-03-15)	N/A
3	"Kelia & BJ"	March 22, 2016 (2016-03-22)	N/A
4	"Gregory & Corey"	March 29, 2016 (2016-03-29)	N/A
5	"Carolyn & Celina"	April 5, 2016 (2016-04-05)	N/A
6	"Pablo & Eva"	April 12, 2016 (2016-04-12)	N/A
7	"Britt & Jensen"	April 19, 2016 (2016-04-19)	N/A
8	"Trai & Kristen"	April 26, 2016 (2016-04-26)	N/A
9	"Derrick & Jhinezka"	May 3, 2016 (2016-05-03)	N/A
10	"Ashley & Maggie"	May 10, 2016 (2016-05-10)	N/A
11	"Jenna & Sebastian"	May 17, 2016 (2016-05-17)	N/A
12	"Matt & Samantha"	May 24, 2016 (2016-05-24)	N/A
13	"Jeff & Luke"	May 31, 2016 (2016-05-31)	N/A
14	"Marty & Lindsey"	June 7, 2016 (2016-06-07)	N/A

External links

• Separation Anxiety at IMDb