Alright, so this is one of those stories I find quite interesting but will probably bore the average punter to tears – ITV are suing Mediaset for £13m for airing their local Spanish version of Objective’s (now an ITV company) The Alphabet Game (we of course know it as Pasaparabla) for the last five years. Of course when it was on the BBC it wasn’t offering multi-million Euro prizes:
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If ITV wants to look up further, they’d sue Mediaset for airing the Italian version as well (Passaparola, hosted by Gerry Scotti).
from what I see here, exactly zero of the rounds of The Alphabet Game were played on Passaparola.
Yes it is interesting, they’re apparently the same format and yet almost completely different. Unless there’s a different Alphabet Game by the same company no-one’s said anything about.
First ep. of the new A Prendre ou A Laisser popped up on Youtube : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AgMDGbiL6i8
Thanks to James Wallace for pointing this out, Greg Scott’s Cash Letters pilot:
http://youtu.be/6O9PrDhq8h8
Quite a clever idea (albeit one that’s ignored the last twenty years), first round outstays its welcome, quite like the endgame, no idea who would buy it.
And it’s been hoiked off YouTube, so apparently non-broadcast means just that.
I don’t remember rating the show at the time, but now I’m middle-aged, that was unexpectedly really funny!