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The first episode was aired straight after that year's Grand National coverage - which made no real sense as the rest of the run was limited to the 5pm weekday slot. Suspect they though it would benefit from some audience inheritance from the coverage.
There was an audience for this, and it was all real - I was in it for two recordings. It was recorded in TC8 three weeks before TVC closed down. The screen the contestants looked at was a rear projection screen which blocked the middle section of audience seating, so all in all when full, there was around 100 -120 in attendence. My shows, proably around 60 as it was a midweek daytime morning recording.
Five Minutes To A Fortune also had an EPIC theme tune! (Although weirdly from what I remember no audience or even canned audience)...Channel 4 killed it by deciding to chuck it out at 5pm head to head with the usual suspects which was never going to work
The first episode was aired straight after that year's Grand National coverage - which made no real sense as the rest of the run was limited to the 5pm weekday slot. Suspect they though it would benefit from some audience inheritance from the coverage.
There was an audience for this, and it was all real - I was in it for two recordings. It was recorded in TC8 three weeks before TVC closed down. The screen the contestants looked at was a rear projection screen which blocked the middle section of audience seating, so all in all when full, there was around 100 -120 in attendence. My shows, proably around 60 as it was a midweek daytime morning recording.