And they said it wouldn’t make it past six months. Interesting to note the average cost per episode will be £50k, I wonder what it stands at currently?
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And they said it wouldn’t make it past six months. Interesting to note the average cost per episode will be £50k, I wonder what it stands at currently?
How much does it cost to make at the moment – £50,001 per episode?
It’s obvious the show is still valuable to Channel 4 and Endemol Uk. It still pulls in the viewers (not so much in the summer, but comes into its own when the lights go out after 4pm in winter) and when the conditions of fate find their way to Bristol, can and does still produce captivating television.
I would have thought though to save money rather than slogging to get 4 shows out per day, it would have been easier to cut the weekend show, and stick out a round-up of the week instead. Keeps Channel 4, the shows advertisers, and viewers who have missed any show in the week happy.
I rarely watch it these days because of work and that, but when I do I always find myself really enjoying it, and wondering why I don’t watch it more often.
Even in it’s heyday I rarely remembered it was on at the weekend – they could easily just show a “Game of the Week” instead.
High time C4 lifted it’s ridiculous blanket ban on phone comps though – Deal or No Deal was one show where I think it actually added something, rather than just being shoe horned in.
And considering the average winnings is around £17,000, they’re effectively making each episode for £33,000.
That’s true – but the other way to look at it is that they’re making four episodes, in one day, for £132,000. Over a five day week, that’s twenty episodes for a little over £600,000. One week’s wages and bills can’t come to THAT much, can they?
I’m the same with Brig. I hardly catch the show in the week anymore but try to see it when I can and still enjoy the show. The comission is good news as I might go back in the autumn to see another recording. Still pulls in the punters in the afternoon and continues to appear in Channel 4’s top 30 (some weeks top 20), unlike Iron Squid UK.
Well done to Noel, Glenn, Richard and all the team down there. I had the feeling the contract talks would take place over the summer as they will have the Christmas specials in the can come next week.
Not sure why they want to keep the weekend edition. Maybe they are pulling in decent figures for that slot against the other channels. They must know something we don’t I know In the Grid was four recordings a day but that was a 30 minute show but since I have the seen the show live, they can easily record four in a day. Might make Noel knackered for his age though.
One thing is for certain, if it will continue to be six days a week up to 2012 then it will be definite that the UK version will be the longest produced version of DoND in the world, overtaking the Aussies. I am referring to the number of episodes produced rather than when it started.
Great news – especially for those who live far enough from Bristol that a whole day’s filming is the best way to see the show.
Here, here! Great news! I have a trip planned for next thursday, and will probably go again when it returns in the autumn, it really is a great day out.
I’m going next Friday – had DOND not been renewed – I wanted to be there for the potential last episodes to be filmed.
Don’t be surprised if you see me there on Friday too, Simon. (I’m already booked in for Tuesday and Wednesday’s recordings next week, but the prospect of not seeing any more live games for months and months on end might force me to try and blag my way in on the Friday as well.)
They’ve done a few ‘four show days’ recently. It started with just the odd day here and there but last week culminated in them recording four shows on each of Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday. There were murmurs at the studios about this being “an experiment”; in the light of the recent announcement I’m presuming that they must have been trying it out to see whether they could keep up with such a heavy schedule as a long-term option. They’ve clearly decided that they can.
(This is pure speculation, but based on the fact that contestants will usually want to return home at weekends, I’d still expect them to stick to three shows on the Monday and the Friday, recording four on the other days. But don’t quote me on that.)
You are mega addicted, aren’t you?! Although I can’t say I blame you – if I lived as close to the studios as you, I would probably do the same!
It is addictive… proof:
http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/wEKOBjakPlOdbceURTPDYKqY1O_jX74Rl-XvfQxJGwQ?feat=directlink
And having sat with Mister Al at a taping back in October, he is a wealth of information!
R.
I am indeed a wealth of information, yes! Some people might even call me a genius!
(If that sounds a bit arrogant of me, then just wait until 19 November 2010…)
It’s easier to curb your addiction when it’s £100 a trip to the dream factory in trains and hotels.
So, 4 shows then – based on roughly 90 min taping (minus the protracting thinking and extended periods of blubbing which must grind some recordings down) You’d tape show 1 at 1.30 and the second around 3.30 – with three and four kicking off around 7 and 9?
Doubt it. Far more likely is that they’ll stick with the 9am starts and just finish whenever they finish. Last Thursday they’d got through all four shows by about 5.30pm, but there’s bound to be days when it might drag on later.
X Factor to return to Australia:
http://www.tvtonight.com.au/2010/05/seven-to-launch-the-x-factor.html
Not a bad judges line up to be honest – Kyle Sandilands, Natalie Imbruglia, Guy Sebastian and Ronan Keating. Host TBC.
New Wipeout promo now at ABC.com
http://abc.go.com/watch/clip/wipeout/SH010461870000?cid=showsitelinks_search
(the Sneak Peak, but I had to sit through the NBA one to see it!)
Looks absolutely superb! Double Cross and Medieval Wipeout look impossible!
Yes, it does all look involving and excellent. But as I said before, I hope the new obstacles are still basically doable.