There’s a really interesting chat on the Discord right now (thanks to @setsunael) about how Les 12 Coups de Midi, France’s premiere lunchtime quiz, has irked the internet with the idea that the current champion is getting easier questions in elimination duels than his competitors, because long running-champions encourage long-time viewers. Here is an article on the matter, and here is a fun Twitter thread looking at it, draw your own conclusions.
But he bought up something else interesting I had no idea about – the Spanish show Boom! which you may remember for a team called Los Lobos winning over €6.5m after a two year winning streak, a combination of daily prizes and a €4.1m “bote” (jackpot) win which had been accumulating for more than two years previously, was axed last week by Antena 3 after a timeslot move.
Setsunael explains:
Los Lobos aren’t happy. There was also €4m currently in the bote. The show ran for eight years.
Is Spain the only place where Boom was successful? Think I recall it being one of those Israeli shows that gets hype then flops everywhere.
I think it did well in Italy as well, but otherwise yes.
I have a bit of news that I just found out about on a Facebook group I’m in. Apparently ITV are looking to bring back Deal Or No Deal with Stephen Mulhern at the helm. Details are closely guarded at the moment, so make of this what you will. A link to the Daily Mail article about it: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-11366411/Deal-No-Deal-lined-RETURN-Stephen-Mulhern-set-replace-Noel-Edmonds-host.html