Actually, this looks rather exciting:
Le retour de “Que le meilleur gagne” le 12 juin… by puremedias
If you don’t know, QLMG (May the best man win, basically) was the very popular French version of Everybody’s Equal (aka Whittle). And now its back with original host Nagui! It runs weeknightly from this coming Tuesday (for whatever reason) and offers a €20,000 top prize.
And if you don’t remember Everybody’s Equal, it’s Massively Multiplayer Who Wants to Be A Millionaire except you get the multiple choice questions first to determine a winner (one wrong, you’re gone) who wins one half of a cash prize and it finishes with a fastest finger first question which all the losers play as well and if the winner doesn’t win then the money is split between all the losers who got the question right. It was fun.
You could do this daily on ITV1 easily. £10,000 a day, £5k for the winner and £5k for the bonus (no real need to have extra money for mkaing the last ten as everyone would have several chances at taking a share at the end anyway), shoot five eps a day and have the same audience/players for each ep across the week to add a minor getting to know the audience element, done and dusted in no time.
If a coach load don’t turn up, turn it into an increasingly funny running gag across the week.
It could be amazing.
Commission x 65 + one kids’ celebs’ special, Que Le Meilleur Gunge.
Worth linking to the title sequence for Everybody’s Equal and old Que Le Meilleur Gagne – both very, very good, but I can’t work out which one is trying to imitate the other, as there’s nothing to suggest that the clips come from the first series of either version.
I’d put money on them copying us, pretty sure Everybody’s Equal had the same title sequence throughout its run and out version was the original so…
France v England is Monday in that general time frame, so I suspect they didn’t want to premiere against it…
Mmm, good thinking.
Bonus game has quite changed for this new version : after being told what will be the theme of the final question, the winner can choose to order 4,5 or 6 elements in order for a shot at either 5,000/10,000 or 20,000 € , split for any audience member who got it right (if any) in case of a wrong answer.
Oh, and if you are reading this and willing to make an international version of QLMG : be smart and and forget about CASTING THE AUDIENCE . Seriously, it’s a 200-player game, not DonD.
/went to the casting and got rejected.
Sorry to hear that Setsunael! I still can’t believe that they do massive amounts of casting for Le Juste Prix as well. I remember trying to get a spot for Le Juste Euro in late 2001… which didn’t happen for me (and then it just went down the tubes).
For the general Bar population who knows French shows – any suggestions on what shows to go see taped in Paris? Right now I believe Un Famille en Or and Questions pour un Champion are the only options I know of (which isn’t too bad!).
Nothing seems to be taping in England however in late July/early August… some kind of sporting event going on I’m told.
Oh, and Que Le Meilleur Gunge! = Rose D’or, obviously.
Ryan 🙂
You could easily assist to TLMVPSP or Slam tapings at the VCF Studios in La Plaine Saint-Denis (near the Stade de France) ; Motus, Mot de Passe or les 12 Coups de Midi since they’re airing all year long.
Also, there’s a 1 vs 100 remake currenly taping for summer airings on TF1 – but i’m not sure they’ll be seeking audience for that one.
OK, just watched the first ep.
Not sure the change to not having a four to follow but having lengthier chats between questions is a good one, it hurts the pacing rather. It already feels just the wrong side of a bit too long.
New announcer guy is a bit irritating – I know it works on Le Juste Prix, I’m not convinced it adds anything here.
The set is a bit too big and a bit charmless for its own good, and fhey should have kept the round two set up for the whole show I think – having Nagui stand directly in front of the screen is weird, and everyone remembers the seats and high screen from the original anyway, it’s a good focal point up there that doesn’t have the same effect when on the ground.
Questions involving dancers!
I still think the show has something to offer but I think they’ve stretched themselves a bit to make it more ‘event’ than it really needs to and as such has lost a little I think.