We love it when press releases tell us everything we knew already.
However, ITV HAVE to put a new run of Celebrity Chase on up against it. It is only right and proper. COME ON!
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We love it when press releases tell us everything we knew already.
However, ITV HAVE to put a new run of Celebrity Chase on up against it. It is only right and proper. COME ON!
Random thought: Is WeDigTV still a thing? I can’t help but think Pointless would be a perfect show to add to their roster, especially with the choice-based rounds.
Regrettably I think it stopped being a Thing sometime ago. Pity.
Funnily enough, I tried wedigtv a day or two ago, and all it comes up with now is a username and password prompt.
I looked up the very thing yesterday.
How it ever made money and they got the rights to all those shows I don’t know.
Adverts (I can only remember seeing the same two for Strepsils and some Toilet cleaner), and from there probably they were hopeing for a subscription model for regular players to avoid watching the ads?
From memory, they were played during a natural break in the game (i.e before the start and between rounds).
The main problem was it was it took a monster connection speed to run it all – and this was before the faster/superfast broadband speeds of today.
I remember having to wait for around 4 mins for Countdown to load up and start – and when it did all it was just some small banter from Des Lynham, before the advert started up, and then another 3 min drum of the fingertips before I was in a position to play the game.
It was a nice idea. I remember being impressed with the list of gameshows available to play. I guess though, just surviving on Strepsil and Toilet Duck adverts for your revenue just wasn’t enough.
I wonder if the celeb versions could be turned into the wraparound for the Saturday Lottery Draws?
ThunderBall draw just before the head to head round..
Main Draw before the final..
Just a thought.
It’s an interesting thought, and one I had considered myself I think it would be weird though.
Would these eight shows have the same prize money as the daytime run?
As it would be very cheap for celebrities playing for a couple of thousand on Saturday night primetime. We saw on the celebrity series last year there were no rollover jackpot. Even The Weakest Link had five times the prize money compared to the daytime run.
The other concern I have is whether having Pointless for six days a week is stretching it for the major BBC channel. Many will know Celebrity Chase was aired outside the daytime run.
My understanding (from someone at least relatively “in the know”) is that yes, prize money will be the same as the civilian version. As ever I may have been misinformed.
Ok – I’ve been thinking about the 8 Saturday primetime celeb speshs this morning. With a slight variation to the usual regular equalibrilum to the world of Pointless, you can promote it to Saturday peak, without keeping it deeply entreched in it’s weekday teatime mode.
First. All shows have to be self-containded.
Second. Jackpot stays starting off at £1,000 but add £1,000 for every pointless answer added.
Third (strap yourself in for this – more of doing Endemols job for them..)
Format tweak for final round. As it’s self contained then the prizepot must be won. To do that, a way has be encouraged to add to the prizepot for thinking of 3 really low value answers – with doubling the prizepot entirely for a pointless answer.
£10 per point for each of the three answers and responces.
£1,000 in the pot at the start and 2 pointless answers have been found during the show, so at the start of the final round there is £3,000 being displayed behind ‘the Oz’.
So, category “Cheeses of the Orient”
Answer 1 – 10 left on the tower = 90 x £100 -£900 added
Answer 2 – 25 left on the tower = 75 x £100 -£750 added
Answer 3 – 1 left on the tower = 99 x £100 – £990 added
Meaning our Celebs would walk away with £5,640
(£3,000 starting pot + £2,640 final game).
Mmm, although I think the way the show is formatted now is makes it quite difficult to find Pointless answers during the course of a game.
Also the way they do it now they can pick and choose which eight are the Saturday ones and which ones they can just fling out on weekdays.
What was the current celeb show going rate? £2,500 + bonuses wasn’t it?
Yes, I know…
I was typing an e-mail out in another window in me interweb browser..
I’m out by a factor of 10 in my sums for the Pointless tweak. Before the maths police take me outside for a swift ‘basic addition’ battering – please use £10 instead of £100 in the example for the three answers in the final round.
That way it is now matherm..matha.. correct in the sums and totals.
18 episodes is actually going to require a lot of celebrities – 144 if they only get one chance like the other celebrity specials do.
Presumably 10 eps will be going out in a fortnight ovrr Christmas or something.
I think in the current climate the producers of Pointless would have found it very difficult to increase the prize money, when it wouldn’t really add anything to the show.
On another point, I’ve just found Series 2 of Wanted on youtube.
http://www.youtube.com/user/steveh31#g/c/CB6CBB6587553654
Am I late to the party here?
According to That Facey Book Thing, The Bank Job will be coming back in February. Let’s hope they iron out a few things.
Yep was about to say.
Also blimey, that was quick.
Second series will be 10 episodes, no word if it will be stripped. No idea if it will work differently, although I suppose it will have to.
Guessing it will either be
Two stripped weeks or it will do what MPD and run it every Fri/Sat for five weeks from 17th Feb.
The online application form informs me that “The last day to submit an application form to be considered for the second series of The Bank Job will be 09:00 on 12th March 2012.” – so if they do the same as last time, and let people some time into the show apply, that means that it will run until at least mid-March.
Great spot. Friday and Saturday for a five-week strip looks certain to me from that.
For those desperately interested (which is, none of you probably, but one never knows), Applausestore is booking Bank Job tickets for Friday 17th and Saturday 18th of Feb
http://www.applausestore.com/applausestore-book-show.php?id=1425&bid=1
Fridays and Saturdays good as confirmed. The time listed for January’s dates was 8pm, for a 10pm show start, so given the 7pm time given here, maybe we could expect it to show an hour earlier?
9pm would sound about right, although The Drop has been showing as early as 8:15pm on Saturdays of late.
Wonder if it’s going to be a 90 minute running time each time.
The first show will run for 60 minutes.
If it’s stripped, hopefully it’ll lose the PD endgame, become seperate eps and the winner simply takes what they’ve won that day home with them.
Hopefully. I mean, that screws up the potential for £100k+ wins, but anything to avoid seeing THAT BLOODY FINAL AGAIN.
Also I really hope there’s a solo player endgame like we’ve discussed in here, but I doubt they’ll do that, so…yeah.
Confirmed on Twitter as well.
Seeing as Million Pound Drop responded bloody well to social media feedback, and this is by the same people, you’d hope to see a vastly improved second series.
It’ll definitely work differently with ten episodes, you’d have two four-way finals if you did it as two weekly tournaments, and it wouldn’t shock me if that’s exactly what they’ve done, removing the Prisoner’s Dilemma variant now that they know full well that by far and away the optimal strategy for every finalist is to lose.
That was quick. Makes me wonder if Channel 4/Endemol are still looking at the stats on how many are still playing the ‘not quite the same as the tv show’ on-line game, and see the need to rush it back on screen.
I’m still thinking the Trash/Cash show stopper will still be in there somewhere. 2 weeks. Highest cash winner week 1 plays highest cash winner in week 2 for the right to look annoyed with each other as the credits run, as technically the worst players in the final show hoover up the cash.
One thing that the computer game version was a lot better than the TV version was the sound mix, beds and SFX. In many ways, the online games – both before and during the show – were better than the live TV product.
And they axed to give us this? was a great format from the get-go, and was 90% right on its opening night. A spectacularly shonky opening week for has made it tarnished goods, and it’ll take a Herculean effort to repair it.
If – as looks likely – they are going to run it on Friday and Saturday, what odds a Friday winner, a Saturday winner, and some method of splitting their jackpots, with a prospect of awarding zero pounds? It’s more immediate than building a series over some weeks.
I think Friday/Saturday is likely, presumably taking over the Drop slot when this run ends, I can’t remember if it’s 5 or 6 weeks. 6 weeks would definitely rule out daily stripping unless they change the timeslot.
If they are going to have the same MPD timeslot then I suspect they’ll do the same as the final. Invite five people and play until two people are left but this time don’t offer the losers anything.
As Iain stated. It’s going to take a Herculean effort to repair it. Bringing back a new series after six weeks is too soon and given the audience. Yes, the viewing figures did rise throughout the week but it wasn’t by much and given what the ratings achieved for the Friday/Saturday show. It finished last place in the timeslot against the other major channels. While not a single episode got into the networks top 30 shows for that week. Where Million Pound Drop can easily get into the top 30 shows.
Did they just leave George locked in the vault after the last series? 😀
One thing I did like about the first series is the same London bus frequently shooting past the ‘top secret vault’ during many of the break bumpers!