Thanks to Alex Davis for pointing this out, a promo for the new season of US Millionaire (Facebook link) has come out and, well, it certainly looks as though it’s going to be different. The US producers have the interesting problem of trying to keep the show interesting whilst not giving mega-money away on a daily basis. Will the changes entertain or alienate the viewers? And how much can you modify Millionaire before it stops being Millionaire and becomes something else?
In other news, Tom has made his first 3-2-1 rejection. What has he rejected, and what’s the new prize that’s been bought to the table to replace it? Find out what gets rejected next… tomorrow!
Someone thinks it’s Christmas in August- they’ve put up Xmas eps of Blankety Blank, Telly Addicts (with AntDec), and NOel’s House Party…
Here’s the link to the first part of TA:
That was the first of the new-style Telly Addicts that got one season before it was axed.
Found out the rules. I can’t publicly say yet. It’s not so much Trading Up as much as it is Dutch 1 VS 100. It’s radically different, and if it I can be cryptic, because of the 14 question money chain, 71.4% of the show is completely new and unlike anything else.
The thing is it’s not as good as classic Millionaire at all. However, I’m not sure if it’s as rough as the last year was, when everyone left at question 7 or 8 and the lifelines were useless.
71.4? Why not 71.3 or 71.5?
Because 10/14 = .714.
Having very little remembrance of how the Dutch 1vC went, I’m guessing here… Was the Dutch version the one where the question was worth X people knocked out times some other odd question value multiplier? Perhaps every question was put to a previous group of people and the values are assigned by how many got them right/wrong?
Sort of, €50k divided by the amount of the 100 left in the game, multiplied by the amount of people knocked out. OR basically, a percentage of €50k based on the percentage of people knocked out.
My guess: the players don’t know what the value of each of the first ten questions is until after either (a) they’ve moved on from it and can’t take that sum of money any more or (b) they’ve decided to take money in preference to answering a question. Now in theory one way to play the game is just to answer one question and then take a sum of money which could be $100 or $25k, but (a) the early questions will still be very easy and (b) it’ll still always be tempting to try to answer ten questions which will give you a shot at $100k. Additionally if you discover that you’ve passed some of the big sums, DoND-style, you may well think that whatever sum of money you’ve got is likely not to be good and thus it is worth taking more chances with the questions to try to win big money.
That video’s unavailable.
So it isn’t.
BAsically, imagine the top four levels of the money tree remaining static, but the bottom ten values flipping around in the airport departure lounge stylee.
See I am curious to find out what that means for save havens/lock-in points. My initial thought was that you would have to get through the first ten to get the guaranteed $25K, but then I wondered what you would tumble down to if you missed a question. Maybe you only fall down one notch?
Plus, will we see people bail after Q3 if it’s worth $25K?
Furthermore, I’d really like to know how they determine each player’s road to Q10. (Ie. off stage ball drawing ala UK Deal?)
OT: Related to your twitter feed Brig, am I to blame for that? The Krispy Kremes that is?
Oh no! I bought a box on a shopping trip last Xmas, and I haver occasional hankerings for them. I had had some before your Countdown trip!
321 update will be late this evening, but the next one won’t be until Sunday.
The Daily Record letters page features an advert for In It To Win It. They are looking for an audience on the 6,7.8 and 10,11,12 of September. You have to be 16 or over and be comfortable with the high possibility of losing the will to live.
The recording dates in September are actually for the next two series, rather than one. I wonder if the BBC want to get a series out before Christmas to pair with SCD?