BBC One 2015

Quadruple rollover then. Rollovers happen too often nowadays. And adding the extra numbers will only be making that problem worse.

The National Lottery clearly don't see it as a problem, hence why they removed the rollover limit, and purposely made a rollover more likely. More rollovers means better jackpots, and a jackpot that looks more favourable in comparison to EuroMillions.

I'm pretty sure there is a rollover limit - a figure of around £90m rings a bell, but it's presumably it's that high because Camelot think we'll never get to it.

That would over four months then, the way things are going.

Back to BBC pres, Im surprised there is no BBC one poppy sting.

Not sure how tasteful a Poppy sting would be. Have they done one in the past?

Could see it as a tasteful menu background for trailing Festival of Remembrance and Cenotaph, and any service being shown on the 11th - but not as an ident or stingy-interstitial.

Probably as tasteful as the sparkly poppies and the annual "who can wear the biggest poppy" competition that some people seem to take part in.

The National Lottery Commission came up with the wheeze that the limit would be set at £50m. But once a draw has been capped at £50m, next time around the limit will be £55m. And once that cap has been applied, next time around it will be £60m. And after that, the Commission will review it again... hard to imagine what the next step might be.

I never said ident, It just an idea ie a poppy where the O is, thats all,
Mind there WW1 slides were very well done bar the front issues people highlighted.

Looks like I was right after all.

They've been using that all week around rememberance related programming

Then they're hypocrites. They like to proclaim that they've made X number of millionaires. But more rollovers means less millionaires, since either nobody wins, or only a few people win several million. They need to admit they made a mistake - when they doubled the price, a lot of people stopped playing - and instead of increasing the prize pot due to more money raised per ticket sale, it had the opposite effect, the prize pot slumped, to the point that on at least one occasion, 4 numbers won you less than three! Something that the newest batch of changes has done nothing to prevent happening again. Camelot don't know what they're doing.

Except, of course, they also introduced the millionaire raffle, which guarantees a 'millionaire' every draw. Along with that, Camelot plan frequent 'special' draws where the number of millionaire raffle prizes will be increased - eg 25 winners of a million in the first week of the new draw - funded by creaming off some of the jackpot each time it rolls over. Overall, contrary to your assertion, this increases the number of millionaires they make through the lotto game.

In a standard week, odds of winning a million have shortened from 1 in 14 million to 1 in 10 million (but much less likely to win over a million). The odds of winning any prize have also shortened, from 1 in 54 to 1 in 9.3 (but less likely to win a cash prize).

Whether that's a good strategy to tackle declining ticket sales, though... I've no idea.