According to Metro, The Million Pound Drop – Live!/Recorded! has finally been given the axe.
We had a hate/love affair with the show really – it really was a bit rubbish at first, hailing from an era when Endemol would confidently put out highly hyped but slightly rubbish shows as de rigeur with its slow pace and abominable question writing, but turned it around to become a show I highly enjoyed tweeting along to, and even though I still think playing along officially with the app is more like work than leisure, it was I think the first show to have an app that was worth the money. Although they still missed a trick in not calling it The Million Pound Drapp.
I expect there’s a chance it may come back in the future – it’s been off and on in a few countries in its short five year history. There are also suggestions The Jump might be for the jump as well, poor Davina!
Could have sworn it was confirmed dropped ages ago…
Speaking of successful interactive quizzes, we’ll be giving The Hit List another bash this Thursday – this time with extra video-from-home shenanigans.
If you’re willing to be one of our interactive players and ESPECIALLY if you live outside the UK, then you could be one of our featured players on the show. You will need: a decent broadband connection (4Mb minimum), an active Twitter account and a Skype account with webcam. If this sounds of interest, look out for further details here tomorrow afternoon.
As before, everyone can play along on Twitter (without the need for Skype). And unlike previous shows, this one will be run in the evening so hopefully a few more of you will be able to take part.
This is just an early heads up for the golden people of the Bar. An official trailer of how to join in will go up on @tomscott tomorrow at 4pm, and if I remember it’ll be put here too.
P.S. A final question for the game show hive mind – is it true to say that Hit List is the first global interactive quiz where the players affect the result? Have there been other global interactive quizzes?
Not to my knowledge – televised anyway.
Here’s the deets:
Will it be uploaded to youtube afterwards? Unfortunately I have a visitor this week who’se not interested in this at all. But I’d really like to see the improved format!
No surprise – it lost it’s unique selling point when it went pre-recorded and actually IMO lost something when it went from nightly over a week or two to airing twice a week.
It also became rather dull when everyone just seemed to make it to the end with £25-£50k in play.
Glad I got to go and see one of the Live editions err…Live!
They ended up just chucking everything at it, starting with the pointless Box 23 gimmick at the end. Then we had tag teams, celebrities with civilians, themed editions every week and god knows what else!
Surprised they announced this before Deal Or No Deal though which they really need to do soon as even Edmonds seems a bit p’d off that everybody seems to be in the dark at the minute.
The BBC should bring back Test The Nation. It would probably do rather well in the age of Facebook / Twitter / Snapchat / God knows what else…