3-2-1 nears its EXCITING DENOUEMENT, this week Tom Scott finds out exactly what he has won. In the meantime you can still help him with the three final objects bought out to the table.
Otherwise this week is a bit dull, save for finding out exactly how new US Millionaire is going to work, and Fort Boyard‘s grand final next Saturday on France 2. Oh, and The X Factor‘s back next Saturday.
Inevitably, this series of Uni Chal had to have at least one match where standards were perhaps not high.
Will Christ’s Cambridge and Liverpool do better this week?
Christ’s appeared last year, narrowly losing to Warwick in the opening match of that series before being thrashed by Alex Guttenplan’s Team; captain Charles Blackham passed on shortly afterwards. This is their fourth appearance in all in the Paxman Era.
Liverpool’s last appearance was three years ago, when they succeeded in throwing away a huge lead over Leeds, before comprehensively losing a dismal affair against Magdalen Oxford. Despite being a redbrick university, they haven’t been regular visitors in the PE, this coming appearance being only their sixth.
No surprise, Wipeout US has been picked up for next year..
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/content_display/television/news/e3i4a25a9f106904fc10233eb3861a0e42e
Well done it, although in truth I’ve not really watched it for weeks…
OK, new Millionaire rules. It’s not as good as old Millionaire but it can’t be much worse than what we had to endure last season with the completely useless Expert, no one using Double Dip, bad contestants, unbelievably tough material, everyone walking away on question 7 or 8 and about one person every week or two making it to $25,000, etc.
The game is played in two rounds. The first round each question is randomly given one of ten dollar values (between $100 and $25,000) and the categories are shuffled. You won’t know what you’re playing for until you answer. That first question could be for $100 or maybe $25K. Could be the easiest, or could be the hardest. If you’re right the value of the question is added to your bank. You can walk away at any time during the first 10 questions with half your bank.
You’re given three Lifelines. Ask the Audience survives. The other two are called “Jump the Question”. If you use Jump you bypass the question but you don’t get the dollar value for it, like an Escape from 1 VS 100.
If you survive the first 10 questions you are guaranteed $25,000 and you play “Classic Millionaire” with four questions, valued at $100K, $250K, $500K, and $1M. You can walk away with your bank (or whatever dollar value you are on), but if you miss you leave with $25,000.
Again, it’s not as good as old Millionaire but it sounds interesting (I’ll be doing a set visit Thursday) and it really can’t be any worse than last season. The show got too predictable and stale, and it’s hard to change that on a daytime TV budget. They reached a point of no return, and it was either this or switch to Hot Seat. I’m glad we switched to this.
The only weird thing is getting rid of the Hot Seat. I’m not sure what that accomplishes, but there we go.
I’ve started a new post for people to respond to this:
https://www.bothersbar.co.uk/?p=1844