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New relationship testing quiz with the usually awesome Tim Vine. Went to a recording, thought it was a bit meh although also thought the end game was quite fun, but you never know how it will all come across in the edit do you?
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I’m looking forward to hearing my voice over everyone else’s in the catchphrase dropping of the two episodes I saw. 😉
Is it me or does this have a very 1950’s title?
I was thinking more 1970s sitcom.
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They’re not airing in order, I saw recording 1 and these weren’t the contestants for it.
I’m not sure Tim Vine doing Whittle-esque lampshading of the budget works five minutes after a catchphrase talking up that it’s THOUSANDS OF POUNDS!
And that must be why this is airing first, people laughing at “questions requiring answers”. They didn’t in recording 1.
I’m somewhere in the audience for this one (the front row no less).
So far so good, lighthearted and a bit cheesey. Though without Tim Vine presenting I would have no doubt turned off by now.
I do think this was more fun to watch live than watch on the telly for some reason, but it’s definitely silly fun.
If Tipping Point can get good ratings then this certainly can.
Well obviously I like it and hope it rates, although not only putting it up against new episodes of Pointless, but giving those new episodes a “free ride” for a week (so quiz fans have had time to realize they’re not repeat) might not help.
They obviously held it back until after the Olympics but they could have started it last week.
Main thought so far: is this the best we can do? :/
As cliched as a double-money final round is, this show could do with round three being fewer questions for £2,000 each. As it stands, round three is both painfully slow and has the potential to be irrelevant if one and only one team does a lot better on the second round than anyone did in this one.
I think most people seem agreed Round Three is the weak point.
Night one notes (and be aware that I came in half-way through round two, and watched earlier on +1)
* Round three is s-l-o-w. Even if Tim didn’t repeat the first clue, it would be swifter.
* Could this work a bit better in the Saturday / Sunday teatime slot?
* The contender was very generous to Willenhall.
* Probably need to watch this from minute 1. Review in Sunday’s Week.
So,
The 2nd round is a re-working of Who Dares Wins..
The 3rd round is a re-working of the first round of Cleverdicks.. (only this is roughly 10 times easier and 10 times slower)
Exactly what is the time over money lost ratio in the final round for a wrong answer? It looked like £100 per 0.5 seconds, in which case fair enough, although I would have increased the money drop for each incorrect answer afterwards.
Didn’t like seeing the LED wall in close-up behind the contestants – but I suppose it did make a change from the usual 12Yard back projection blue and white swerlies backdrop.
And I would have had a widescreen tv monitor on the front of the parents podium displaying the money score won so far, rather than a sad graphic looking lost at the bottom of the screen.
I hope BBC Studios only charged the production for the floor space of TC3 it actually used! If not – 12Yard have been done there. Still, if this was on BBC One it would have been forced to record it in Manchester or Glasgow, so nice to see the old trooper in Wood Lane still getting bits of work…
But I’m rambling..
Summary – It’s alright. Nothing ground breaking but at the end of the day it is keeping the 5pm slot warm until Mr Walsh and his team of bigheads return next month.
6/10.
It’s £250 a second, effectively.
I couldn’t tell how much of TC3 was actually empty space behind the set, but there was only enough room behind the audience for the usual cameras and so on. This was my first taping at TVC though. (And it was pointed out that Pointless is recorded there so two shows filmed in the same building were airing simultaneously – is Pointless TC3 too?)
£100 every 0.4 seconds. I like the idea of accelerating the drop with subsequent wrong answers. INCREDIBLE JEOPARDY.
First series of Pointless (the BBC Two years) was recorded in TC6 – which is slightly smaller than TC3.
Later series have been recorded in TC1. The largest studio the BBC have in London.
And to rub it in: the scoring aspect in round 1 isn’t original either: press if you know or the others reap your rewards.
12Yard seems to have their routines and plots depleted and starts recycling them. I might hope they recover.
Although I can’t quite remember the last time that was used recently.
And the whole “buzz in on behalf of someone else” that is the main “thing” with this show hasn’t been done since Waiting Game, yes? That was a genuine forgotten classic of the genre. We won’t be saying that about DBTI, but I fancy it to sneak into the Hall of Fame in the next UKGS poll. It does more right than wrong, the endgame is perfect for a modern “happy” show – it feels tense, there is jeopardy, but almost nobody is likely to “blow the inheritance” in its entirety – and it’s another vehicle for Tim Vine. It’ll definitely do as summer filler, and if ITV want to use Tipping Point for that then this could be a good teatime show as Weaver suggested.
(I remember at the tapings thinking that as this was 10 x 60′ I’d expect it to be doing a Chase/Fuse and being trialled for two weeks at 5pm, then Brig suggested it could be Sunday teatime and I thought he’d be right, and it turned out I was right first time.)
I really really liked it. It was slow, but it had Tim Vine so that kinda made up for any shortcomings it could have had. It’s one of the few shows lately that I’ve watched the first episode and didn’t have a nagging feeling that something crucial was missing.
But Tim’s the only reason you/me/anyone would watch – the one-liners and fairly decent banter with the contestants was the show’s saving grace.
Entirely pedestrian format carried by its host – did ITV only commission it on the basis they knew they couldn’t go for their usual ‘able but charisma-less’ presenters to front it?
I have a suspicion that this is 12 Yard Productions’ best endgame; it may have the customary five questions, but it gains simply because it isn’t all-or-nothing. (Nominations for better endgames of theirs that I might have forgotten are welcome. Was Friends Like These one of theirs? The endgame there was passably interesting, but not as good as this.)
Can’t think of anyone I’d prefer to see hosting this instead of Tim Vine, but I still have the feeling that this is a half-hour show in an hour slot. And yet, still, pretty good for ITV!
The endgame is nothing that Avanti isn’t already doing. And I don’t like it that the title only really refers to the last 2 minutes of the show.
I don’t think that’s quite true, I quite like the sudden change of pacing you don’t get with Avanti! (which I will do a feature on when I get hold of a copy)!, although I think they could do more with it.
And even the title is techincally flawed based on the first two shows.
Yesterday we had the money going towards a wedding for next year.
Today it was going to get them through university.
Not, techincally then an ‘inheritance’ then is it?!
Like the £6 grand isn’t going to be put away for a set period of time in some off-shore bank account and given back to them say in 2032.
If they were going to do that then they may as well brought back ‘For The Rest Of Your Life’…
..Oh, on second thoughts.
“Was Friends Like These one of theirs?”
Well, it was one of David Young’s, anyway… 😉
Yes, Friends Like These was developed by David when he was in-house at the BBC, so some 12 Yard crossover in terms of personnel, but not strictly speaking a 12 Yard format.
It’s not the worst thing I’ve ever seen, but it’s too long, too slow, and the questions are too easy.
The endgame’s good, I like that format.
Round 3: why isn’t it £3k if guessed on the 1st clue, £2k on the 2nd, and £1k on the 3rd? Also, there should be an on-screen counter or timer for that round so we know how many questions there are left before the winner of the show is decided, to add tension.
Agree on the whole 3k-2k-1k thing, but I think a counter would probably take out more tension for the viewer than it would add. If a team gets just a few thousand ahead, when there’s only 4 questions left or so then the winner’s basically been decided.
It’s not a bad show. It’s like a mix between Topranko and the penultimate round of The Other Half, and Tim Vine is a wonderful host – his best game-show role since the underrated Whittle.
The bad – the catchphrases are rather clunky – particularly the one involving the title of the show. As has been observed elsewhere, they tend to work better when they come about naturally rather than forced. At least it looks like one natural catchphrase will evolve from the show: ‘remember: it’s not what you know, it’s what THEY know.’
Also, another very minor comment, but the noise made whenever a correct guess is made in the Semi-final sounds more like an incorrect answer noise than a correct one. A minor niggle perhaps, but one that bothers me.
Oh wow, just 980,000 for the first episode on Monday I’m informed. That’s less than half of what Tipping Point was getting.
It was up slightly to 1.1m excluding +1 yesterday (Monday was 0.9m excluding +1, so I guess yesterday’s might reach 1.2m).
So yeah, a bit disappointing, but worth noting that Dinner Date’s ratings in the same slot last week ranged between 0.9m and 1.4m, and also worth pointing out that Tipping Point had somewhat more favorable scheduling.
I think it needs to pick up to 1.5m or so for ITV to even consider a renewal. Considering The Chase gets 2.5-3m for new episodes and Tipping Point was getting 2m even then it would be below average, so really it needs to improve fast as it only has a short run. They could definitely do with a third gameshow in that slot (I guess they’re planning to bring Tipping Point back as that did well) as The Chase shouldn’t be too overexposed, but they might return to the drawing board if this one doesn’t pick up.
On another note, Celebrity Chase got 3.5m (18%) on Sunday, which is more than Red or Black got in a similar slot the day before. Given how hot it was and the slot it had, that seems OK and it’ll probably pick up a bit over the run.
18% is definitely a good share – I agree with Brig that it’s viewers that count but combined with share you get a feel for its relative performance in light of other factors. Like weather, which affects the total audience. Expect more primetime Chase, especially if Millionaire fades further.
Tipping Point will be coming back (entirely undeservedly IMHO but there we go), and DBTI won’t be. A generic quiz with few things wrong and two big things right (Tim Vine and the endgame) deserved better than this.
Oh wow, the consolation prize is an “I Blew My Inheritance!” piggy bank.
Nice.
That’s impressive.
Frankly, so is losing that endgame – most people are going to go into it with ~£16k, so you’d have to not get five questions right in a minute with the clock only starting after your first wrong answer.
Decent enough – far better than Tipping Point at least and nice to have a light hearted game show for a change. Love the set too.
Absolutely agree about Round 3 – far too long and should be 3k-2k-1k. I’d half it and add an extra round earlier on before anyone is eliminated, as for me it’s the early stages where Tim Vine can crack the jokes which are the selling point of this.
I guess one good thing about ITV being a producer and looking for that hit new format is they are willing to take their bankers like The Chase off for a few hits to try new things.