Saturdays, 7:40pm (ep 1)
BBC1
Shane Richie gives couples the chance to win their dream prizes in this new National Lottery game show. How similar or otherwise it will be to Gift Wrapped I don’t know. Shows based around non-cash prizes seem to be quite a hard sell to viewers these days. We like Richie as a host though.
Are production companies obligated to gave lottery gameshows lottery branding, despite having no real ties to the lottery? It strikes me that printing it up on the screen like that makes it a bit harder to edit out to sell to Challenge TV in the future.
I think this show was piloted well before gift wrapped.
Saw pilot in Glasgow over a year ago, not sure why it’s taken so long to reach tv.
It is very different show to gift wrapped, IMO this is better.
Taking a little while to get going, although having your partner read the questions is a neat dynamic.
Be interesting when they have a pair of Geordies on the show…
Yes, it’s surely going to be a show where having a strong regional accent is going to count against your chances of making it on.
Much, much better than Gift Wrapped in nearly every facet. Still really like Mr. Richie as a host, even if there’s not really a whole lot for him to do in this format past explaining the rules.
The most stand-out parts of the show for me were the set and music. The soundtrack was really, really nice, and miles ahead of anything we’ve had to put up with in the Colonies recently. The set was very French and looked far less cheap than a lot of the BBC’s other recent lotto quizzes.
The format wasn’t anything special, but it had some nice ideas and worked well on screen. I was particularly pleased by the Instant Win conceit, it’s a nice way to guarantee that couples will get the prizes they want the most since they’ll bet their favorite prizes on their best categories. It took a while to get going, but once we got into the quiz it moved fast enough, and I never found myself falling asleep like the final quiz round of the Break the Safe has done.
I’ll definitely be watching next week, and I’d quite like to see it in the Lotto slot rotation from now on.
It looks nice, and the game is OK, but doesn’t it seem a little cheap? IITWI and Break the Safe could give away 30-40K in cash on a good night, I don’t think the prizes available were close to that (though the Instant Win rule sorta mitigates it, as it almost guarantees the team will walk away with something, whereas the other two there’s a chance nothing could be won)…
I thought that was actually pretty neat mechanically, and the prospect of playing it six times over 40 minutes or so didn’t drag as much as I was expecting. The jury is out on whether stopping to celebrate each prize being won in the end game is good or annoying in a game defined by the clock and I much preferred it when hitting the button started the game rather than led to a fairly tedious countdown.
It looks like it takes 25 seconds to reach the red edge from the centre, and getting a right answer seems to earn you 7-8 seconds in your favour (at least in the early stage, it feels a bit less generous later on so either I’ve got my initial maths wrong or there’s some complex formulae involved here, probably the former).
Not a show I’ll be staying in for, but a pleasant enough show all the same.
The questions felt ever so slightly too simple for a Saturday night lotto show, even I got a lot right and I’m usually rubbish!
Although the instant wins were a nice idea, it would be hard unless you had a complete disaster to get at least half way (3 prizes) up the board during the final – How is it decided in which order the ‘mini’ prizes are ordered on the final board out of interest?
When Shane stopped the clock for the first time during the final I thought it was going to be ‘you can take that prize or keep going but if you run out of time you lose the lot’ sort of idea. Quite surprised there wasn’t some gamble mechanic to get the ‘star’ prize too.
I’m actually pretty glad of that fact. Some shows and games simply do not require a gamble element, and I think this is one.
I rather liked this. It avoided many of the problems that The Other Show had. Prizes were good, there were different outcomes, it made sense logically and for once it didn’t all hinge on a gamble question in the final.
Personally, I found the set a bit stark for a cuddly show like this but at least it’s a bit different to your spotlights ‘n flats affairs of other shows.
Not sure what the floor is adding that a simple bar graphic across the bottom can’t do, but at least the split screen real estate had been thought through.
The pacing is a bit off, though – 7 minutes before you get any questions and long gaps between the rounds. I can see this being a show people watch on fast forward on Sky+.
And I agree with the comment above that the format and standard of the questions is quite low, and as such longevity might be an issue. How many questions of that level of difficulty could you ask the average player about Books, say?
4m for this last night.
So, I’ve eventually caught up via I-player..
(when, by the way did that start? I know in the past I’ve tried to find Knowlesys list makers without any luck. So wondering if with Princess Productions taking over from Endemol looking after the televising of the dropping of the balls that was introduced then)
..and it’s not too bad. I suppose it makes a change from winning a theoritical wad of cash – and it does appear that the contestants will win something each week.
Music and set are a bit, mehh. The LED screen at the back is doing a lot of heavy lifting work providing relief for the eyes – and nice to see the 12 Yard pressure pad, getting some peak-time exposure.
Shane appears to be presenting it, because Reflex isn’t getting a second series – so have a lottery quiz show instead. At least Alan Dedicote is doing the voice-over, rather than Ken Bruce!
The only flaw – which I’m guessing Stuart has covered off – is if the green bar is covering half of the ‘correct’ side of the dividing line, and there are say 5-7 seconds left – is there anything to stop a deliberate mis-pronuciation of the next question, stumble and drain the time remaining that way?
I’m not sure I follow, you’re not penalized by having the bar jump when you get a question wrong, it will just keep draining regardless.
Ok Brig – I’ll lead – you follow.. :o)
It’s something that ‘may’ need to be covered off if the 2nd series commission drops by Victory Television later this year.
Say you are asking the questions. Due to Chaser style correct answering the green block is covering over half the ‘green zone’ of the led stage.
You have, say around 7 seconds left.
A quick skim of the next question on the card, may lead you think you partner may not get this.
So if you ask it and the time it takes to get a “er,,ummm pass” plus gabble the first part of the next question – that brings the green zone closer to the red line and risk loosing the prize.
My point is – in that senario (or is there any in build mechanic) to stop the question asker to either a) just stand there and let the clock run it’s course knowing it can’t go into the red zone or b) start to ask it but stall, stumble, and restart asking the question to run the time remaining down that way?
Last ‘un from me this year on here, so a merry 2015 to all in the bar from me.
You’ve not understood the format, to be frank. There is no penalty for getting it wrong. The bar moves to the right all the time. It jumps to the left on a correct answer. If you have enough green left that you can let time expire and stay in the green, it doesn’t matter if you ask the question, mumble, or do a striptease for the remaining time.
Do we know if the clock is superimposed on the screen or can the contestants glance across at it?
I timed a round at around 70 seconds.
Suspect it might be a bit easier to grasp if it was done vertically where it looks like it’s draining, a bit like in the final, although you’d lose the graphical effect when the reset is played. Or just rather than effectively a line from the centre, it was a full block from the right, if you see what I mean.
Did 5.1m and 24% on Saturday, so appears to be working.
I hope this gets a second series as I’ve grown to like it quite a lot now.
Especially with the female last night belting out the questions potentially faster than Bradley on The Chase!
Her “God, that’s an easy question – you MUST know that!” looks were pretty funny too.
I like this show and think the timing of its launch kinda did for it in the Poll. 5= was a bit harsh; I put it 2nd.
Nice to see someone playing for the star prize of a car on prime time gameshow. Must be a while since that happened.
Bump…
Apparently, TF1 will start airing Win Your Wish List (Gagnez Votre Souhaits (?)) this very Summer.
It will go out every weekday at 19:00 CET, trying to nix Don’t Forget The Lyrics on France 2.
Watched the record of the second series tonight, they have improved the set from what I can see, and the contestants on the shows I saw (2 shows back to back) were brilliant. I say both were better than series 1 shows I watched.
Also interesting how fast the records were, 2 shows done in under 3 hours easily with pick ups… The in it to win it I watched took more than that for one series.
Interesting to see if they feel as good on air. But think they have made the show better, IMO.
Great stuff, not many moving parts really so can well see it being a speedy record. Thanks Brian!