Chris Evans is being lined up to host Channel Four’s Extreme The Games Famous and Fearless next year. that’s the first thing he’s done on the channel for ooh, years.
Also! Fox have put up a trailer for the upcoming Million Dollar Money Drop. With 50 instead of 40 bundles and teeny-tiny drops, expect 40% more faff than the UK version.
Trailer for MDMD now online:
http://www.fox.com/milliondollarmoneydrop/
It’s had a preview screening and the test group loved the show.
but the test group is not the entire USA. We shall see come next month if the US folk love it or not. Not many game shows in primetime over there these days can get the viewer to switch on.
And wonder why they had to reshoot several episodes?
And you thought our drops were small…
We just couldn’t be happy with anything Channel 4 did apparently. I apologize. That set looks identical to Deal or No Deal. Amazing.
Wouldn’t be shocked if some of the set was actually recycled from the old DOND set…
Woooooooooow!
Just seen the announcement that our very own version is returning this Christmas. Should we begin taking bets now on the number of question errors…?
Yes, back over 4 nights. The questions on MPD are good, stop complaining about them!
Except when they’re overly ambiguous, obviously.
Sorry, Joe, no offence intended. However, all of them do seem to involve ages or chronology which sometimes makes for fairly repetitive viewing. That plus the few mistakes which sadly can’t be overlooked in a show which has so much riding on them because of the stakes involved and the fact that it’s live.
All that said, though, I’ll still be watching!
Come on Joe, you’re talking complete bollocks now.
If TMPD is going out live on Christmas Eve around 9/10pm (which I hope, as I find myself in this year and looking for something to give my eyes to do around that time) I really hope for Endemol’s sake there isn’t a question along the lines of….
Where is it Christmas Day right now?
A – Moscow
B – Berlin
C – Dublin
One Question – so many ambigious holes. It would keep this site fired up all the way to Boxing Day evening..
What exactly is wrong with a question like that? The answer would be Moscow. What’s so ambiguous about that??
No disrespect Joe – but if that’s your way of thinking, then I guess you’d say that Dubai was the answer to that sunset question and there was nothing ambiguous about it… 😉
Please can you explain what is so ambiguous about that Christmas Day question? Seems like a very straightforward question to me. :s
Well… This is from Wikipedia so take with a pinch of salt, but…
Russia celebrates Christmas on January 7th – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_holidays_in_Russia#New_Year_holidays_and_Christmas – So, if you asked that question prior to 11pm GMT on the 24th of December, the correct answer to that question would be ‘none of these.’
(I think – The official Irish Christmas day celebrations might start on new years eve, and I think Germany officially celebrates Christmas over two days, but the 25th and 26th…)
Wondering what David’s big problem and what Matt thinks are the ambiguities, though…
Giz,
You’ve spotted the trap – because the Russian Orthodox Church is still one of the few users of the Julian calendar, they are 13 days behind everyone else.
I can see a big problem with that question, but probably not the one you’re thinking of…
When I wrote that throwaway question last night, I expected mild debate – I didn’t expect it to take on ‘one of these questions will be used on the actual show itself’.
My logic in giving a question with technically 3 incorrect answers was (and thinking it’s tx was xmas eve and before 11pm GMT)
a – Russia is mainly Russian Orthodox religion, which doesnt celebrate Christmas on December 25th.
b – Berlin does, but it would’nt have passed midnight, so therefore still Christmas Eve.
c – Dublin – same time as London.
So, DavidB – that’s the amature question setters thinking – what’s the word from the highly more qualified, that i’ve totally missed!
Whilst on – Talking of Christmas. Anyone know when the lottery draws are going to be this year? From memory, the last time Christmas Day fell on a Saturday – they were moved to Christmas Eve (wrapped around a awful Dale Winton hosted ‘entertainment’ show).
Also, be interesting if Camelot can the Friday Thunderball draw out of the way that week.
Well, based on what he said in response to my explanation to Joe, that was his reasoning as well. But I’m sure he’ll be able to clarify that if there’s something we’ve both missed.
(Also, really? I thought the reason why it wasn’t b) or c) were too obvious to contain the ambiguity you meant)
Sorry Giz, you are right. Ambigious was probably the wrong work to use.
The perils of watching something else in another window, whilst trying to type a salient point (and hoping to get a cheap laugh in the process)
The questions on MPD are good, stop complaining about them!
Only if none of them are ambiguous or error strewn in any way… 😉
I reckon an average of 0.5 per night (so 2 errors if it’s 4 nights).
In Accumulate news, we’re in rehearsal tonight for the upcoming series.
Good luck with that! Any new changes for series 6?
Not really – why mess with perfection?!
We’ve considered various changes for R2, but decided not to change the round.
Surprising that a US version of a gameshow has a smaller jackpot than the UK versin. $1m is about £625,000
It happens with many different shows. Who Wants to Be A Millionaire was a $1 million over there, which is less than £1m over here.
The name of the show is “Million Dollar Money Drop”. Would be a bit silly to have $1.5 million as the top prize with that title 😉
Yeah that’s never happened before *cough* Millionaire *cough*.
Have to say – love the four blue backlit money drop tubes on the American set. Much better than the split level perspex see-saw arrangement we have on ours..
I was just about to say that, I really like the tubes. The money-flying-straight-down-the-tube shot was kinda neat.
I’d bet there would be question like.
According to http://www.noradsanta.org/ where is Santa right now?
I haven’t got a problem with the question writing but the writers must have one valid and not more than one.
I cannot see anybody working on the show live over Christmas and New Year. Therefore I’m guessing the four live shows will be shown Monday 20th-Thursday 23rd.
I’m afraid I am with Travis P. above.
These days, prime time game shows are primarily stopgaps. If some show founders in the ratings, bring on a game show–it’s relatively cheap, and usually makes money even if its ratings are not all that high!
For example, NBC here is running some special episodes of “Minute To Win It” (which is seen in some quarters as the poor man’s version of “The Cube”) over the Holiday season, when ratings are down. The same network is plugging “MTWI” into its regular schedule in January.
And ABC is hoping that the audience will be just as willing to watch “Winter Wipeout” as it is to watch it when the days are long and the nights are shortest.
Thanks to YT, I’ve watched a longer sample of “Million Pound Drop” than is available on Another Website. There are a lot of unanswered questions here, and they are not posed by a quizmaster.
The idea of a game show where the prize drops as steeply as this one may not appeal to American viewers. Usually, when a contestant goes on a game show, he or she is trying to win something–cash, or prizes, or crystals, or whatever. Here, the idea is less to win than it is not to lose. That may not play well here–we’ll have to see.
Here’s hoping that the pacing is acceptible, without going into “101 Ways. . . ” territory. We’ll all know more when we see it.
this just in…
“101 Ways…” pilot announced in Italy on RAI2
probably around January