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Gridlock is an Irish television game show, hosted by Derek Mooney, that premiered on RTÉ on September 14, 1998. Gridlock replaced the long-running series Blackboard Jungle, which was hosted by Ray D'Arcy. The show lasted only one season. There were two teams of two people, each team representing a secondary school. One player on each team would answer general knowledge questions, while the other would try to achieve "gridlock" on a puzzle diagram. Due to the complex nature of the puzzle, viewers, the studio audience, and sometimes even contestants, struggled to follow the show. As a result of this, ratings dwindled and Gridlock was canceled after just one series. Gridlock was once again the topic of the Irish nation in 2013. Former contestant and celebrity doctor, Niall Breen, made an appearance on rival quiz show, Countdown, on Channel 4 where he made the controversial claim that Gridlock should have been given at least one more season. Brendan Cole, who was appearing as a guest on the show, shared Breen's opinion. RTE released a statement denouncing Breen's comments as 'out of hand' and 'wholly inappropriate' and claimed any rumours about a new series of Gridlock were incorrect.
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I was thinking more of the season 3 episode of Doctor Who titled Gridlock where everyone lives in flying cars circling a giant expressway underground, while all the upper class people on the surface died years ago from a pandemic.
Reminds me of the Doctor Who episode Gridlock [1] set five billion years in the future. The entire planet is covered by a city called New New York with the remainder of humanity living in a perpetual traffic jam in the dystopian bottom half of the city. A mutated virus wiped out all the people living in the utopian top half of the city while sealing everyone left alive in the bottom half to constantly drive around with nowhere to go, with systems barely maintained by the Face of Bo.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gridlock_(Doctor_Who)
Sounds a lot like the Doctor Who episode "Gridlock" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gridlock_(Doctor_Who))!
There’s a Dr Who episode about a civilization trapped in an underground highway with a similar outcome.
Update: found it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gridlock_(Doctor_Who)
It's also similar to the Dr Who episode Gridlock, where future humans who live in their cars, and are constantly stuck in traffic outside major cities.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gridlock_(Doctor_Who)