Play along at home, and feedback will be given live in studio.
Now this I like. Unfortunately I’ll be watching the first one on a 45 minute delay.
Edit:
Trapdoors visible, phew. Don’t look very big though.
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Saw a trailer with Davina in the studio last night – looked like a bit of a MIllionaire affair. No trapdoors as far as I could see, although I did only glimpse at it.
There have to be trapdoors. Surely there have to be trapdoors?
Of course, those playing at home can just look up the answers.
So really this is basically Duel except you put cash on the answers rather than chips.
Sold to me like that it could actually work – yet C4 have screwed it over by rushing it out in a completely inappropriate 10pm slot, and it seems if it’s a player a day the pacing will be tedious at best.
Nice to have a live game show for a change though. Indeed in the modern era of TV (since recording shows became common place) has their actually been any gameshow (rather than reality show or Wanted!) that’s been broadcast live, other than segments in live entertainment shows.
Going For Gold! (on Channel 5)
Likewise, Brainteaser. Oh, and Memory Bank.
Jet Set and Winning Lines… can’t remember whether Wright Around The World was (surely they wouldn’t let Ian Wright hold a live show together?).
Oh yeah, and The Vault of course. Oh, and The Big Call.
In fact, quite a few, now I start to think about it.
Although many of them were pre-records with live end-bits, obviously.
Memory of a sieve. So apart from call-and-lose daytime shows and Lottery shows, nothing then.
I guess with C4’s ban still in place this won’t have any live call-in element either. Now a ban like that is good if you’re C5 to stop things like Going for Gold being ruined, but I suspect this show might actually benefit from viewers at home being able to win something too considering the interactive angle they’re taking.
It’s being filmed at Three Mills Studios, the original home of Big Brother.
Wow, I’ll definitely have a go at this. I love shows you can play along with, like I used to enjoy the free play-along games on Challenge (TV Scrabble, Defectors, 15-to-1 and so on).
Even the playalong Fort Boyard was rather good, even though it had nothing to do with the show, really.
Hey everyone. Does anyone on here know what the average winnings given per episode of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire, Deal or No Deal and The Weakest Link is?
For DoND, the long-run mean win is about £16k, with the median win at £12-13k. Don’t know about Millionaire (although it’s a lot lower than it used to be) or Link (though I’d guess at a mean of £2,000-£2,500).
Prediction: The music for this show will annoy people to death. Or at least, it will me. Specifically, the lady holding an E-flat-ish note through the entire course of both commercials that gets louder the longer she holds it. The vibrato ain’t helpin’ her cause either.
This is basically a given.
Related, but not: While trying to dig up the Downfall application page again on BuzzerBlog, I ran across a comment of one person who apparently went for the casting call a few days ago (here: link). Snap judgements are fun to make, so I’ve come to the conclusion that they’ll either drop contestants’ possessions off the building as a penalty, or they’ll drop the contestants themselves. Fantastic.
Well they don’t need to have large trap doors- a million in £20 or £50 notes isn’t that large (I’m guessing they’ll be in bundles of 10,000 to 50,000 each)
I’m hoping that the DROP part of The Million Pound Drop will be a spectacle. As David says £1m isn’t that large, but given the drop is a unique point of the show, I’m hoping it’s done in a spectacular way.
If the holes in that desk are all there is, I somehow fear it won’t be. It could still be good, they just need to make the reveals interesting (ie, not opening one door at a time for every question, forcing a minute-long buildup to each one).
It’s not out of the question that there’s a giant fan just off stage that blows stronger and stronger as the contestant takes more and more time to answer.
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A friend of mine told me today about a British radio game show his wife made him listen to. Apparently, they would start a contestant off singing a song, and they had to continue singing the song flawlessly, even as the piano accompanist would make mistakes, switch keys, and start playing a completely different song. He couldn’t remember the name of it, and I can’t either, even though it sounds vaguely familiar. Does anyone know of this?
Sounds like I’m Sorry, I Haven’t A Clue.
Obviously my dream scenario for The Million Pound Drop is for it to be one contestant per show, and said contestant to blow the entire million on the first question, leaving 50 minutes of dead air.
LOL – it almost be worth sacrificing the prize just to put them in that situation.
And because I don’t want to ruin the election topic by going off-topic immediately, disapointing The Whole 19 Yards doesn’t have the variety of games to keep it fresh week in week out. It’s a good format, but for the last three weeks all the games have been things we’ve seen before.