EXTREMELY exciting news this evening, TV Zone reporting ITV have ordered 2×75 minute episodes of You Bet! to be hosted by Stephen Mulhern and Holly Willoughby to standard Twitter presenter choice ennui. But I mean look, revamp the classic theme and the “da-da-DA-duh-DA” clock music correctly and it’s a home run, surely. This isn’t new territory for Mulhern, he hosted off-brand You Bet! knock-off Go For It! on ITV almost a decade ago which was OK but nobody remembers.
A couple of interesting points to pick up from the article. Notably it’s just two episodes, so how they put this out will be interesting – the German show is one huge annual event TV show these days so it will be interesting to see if they go down that route – or even Xmas and New Year possibly?
Also interesting is that along with the classic (towards the end) format of the audience voting and celebs getting points for correctly predicting with the winning celeb winning money for charity and the losing celeb having to do a forfeit, they’re adopting the “Wettkonig” from latter day Wetten Dass?, where the audience votes for the most impressive bet at the end of the show and they’ll be going home with £10,000.
Anyway we’re quite looking forward to this. Intrigued to see where they film it, it’s going to need to be a studio that can have do a bit of scale I think.
Holy God…can we have an ITV game show that DOESN’T involve Stephen Mulhern?
There seems to be a flowchart…
Are Ant and Dec free? YES = they’re on,
NO – What about Stephen Mulhern? YES – he’s got the gig…
NO – Anybody got Joel Dommett’s number…?
That’s not fair. You’ve forgotten Bradley Walsh.
Ah, Bradders of course!!!
Recording in Reading next month: https://www.applausestore.com/book-you-bet
Brand new studio (seemingly built with at least one eye on “haha Hollywood UK production tax breaks go brrr”) with the largest stages being 43,600 sqft with a 50ft ceiling, so that would appear to meet the “big enough for this to be Done Properly” criterion.
For context, Maidstone Studio 1 is 12,000 sq ft and the George Lucas stages at Elstree (49ft tall) 15,770. Even the smaller stages at Shinfield top that, so… Yeah this is going to be chonky.