Well, last Saturday was a blinder, ahem. Will they finally give away some money on Magic Numbers? Does anyone find it a bit odd that the BBC enjoy spoiling 101 Ways to Leave a Gameshow by posting clips on Youtube of people leaving not from the week just gone but from the upcoming episode?
All this and less inevitably discussed here.
Hey, another non-pool exit on 101LAGS.
I’ve been watching some Tokyo Friend Park eps recently and thinking how well it’d work well as a Saturday night show over here.
If you don’t know what it is, Brig did a feature on it a year or two ago (but I can’t find it on the new site, unless I’m being dumb). Each week a team of celebrities play five games in a ‘theme park’ to try and win a gold token from each. At they end they can swap each token for 100,000 Yen, or for a dart to throw at the prize wheel – full of prizes they’ve requested.
There’s an ep here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qkt0_eDPa4c
Anyway! Does anyone agree that it’d work well over here? I guess the rules would have to be reworked a bit, as celebrities winning prizes for themselves would most likely cause outrage (… on Digital Spy). So, say, every token won is worth £5,000 for charity. Then, the prizes won at the end are given out to random members of the audience, or, most likely, people who have rung up a £1.50 a minute phone number.
If only ITV would buy in a proven successful format, as opposed to constantly coming up with their own shows in the hope of making money selling them around the world, only for them to turn out as flops most of the time.
‘Celebrities’ + games + prizes for viewers + most likely Ant and Dec hosting = hit for ITV. Surely? Maybe.
Ooh is it not here? I’ll put it up on Monday.
Millionaire is flaunting its clock in new ads. Clock looks quite fugly – Phone-a-friend clock over the logo background with loads of circular red-yellow-green round bits round the edge. And appears to inexplicably tilt left and right on some sort of video wall in the middle of the background, which is where lifelines are shown too.
I agree with that Daniel, i was watching it when i was in Japan last year and it was by far the most entertaining thing i found on TV.
Im shocked Challenge have not picked it up as i think it could do well with a voiceover.
Magic Numbers managed to give away £70k!
The ending was quite funny actually with Paddy McGuiness and Louis Spence within the same vicinity as Stephen Mulhern who seemed a bit stunned himself 😀
I noticed! I basically skip right to the end when I’m watching a recording now.
When I said earlier that something like Magic Numbers would be a massive eater of ideas, I didn’t realise it was going to be basically the same ideas each week…