Yeah I agree about Millionaire and the Weakest Link. Both shows are well past their sell-by dates. I loved watching both when they started but I gave up on them pretty much about 5 years ago. I can see Deal or No Deal's figures going down at some point in the near future.
PokerFace is quite good. Nice having a fresh idea for a change.
Technically it has, because the £250,000 has now been won, so the big draw has now gone. Not much else to watch for, unless the Banker appears, which seems quite doubtful.
Well they could up the amount to £500.000 more often - which is probably what they'll end up doing.
Everything seems to want to imitate it; the music, lights, set...
But worse of all is the grinding slowness of it all! It's so boring! So many shows have the "is it this, is it that" element with one question taking about 5 minutes to answer.
The "quick fire" quizzes and game shows of the past were so much better, Bob's Full House for example, (ok a bit cheesy) allowed Bob to really build up to the end with questions coming thick and fast - none of this dilly-dallying and pondering and fake tension building with music and lights on sometimes depressingly easy questions.
I'm not even going to read the rest of the thread, that was just spot on Pootle! I hate this kind of game show, always have.
I vaguely remember a gameshow in the early 1990s (I think) with Chris Tarrant called "
Lose A Million
". I think it only ever had one series.
My memories are sketchy, but here's what I think I remember...
The title sequence was preceeded by what sounded like Honor Blackman's voiceover, introducing the three contestants (e.g. "John Smith, a civil servant from Bristol" etc), which would always end with: "Tonight, these three people are here to... Lose A Million!"
Title sequence was (computer(?))-animated, and featured a luxury cruise ferry. The studio set was also like a cruise-liner, I think. Contestants started off with an imaginary £1million, which they had to lose during the course of the the game. This being pre-WWTBAM era, the most a contestant could actually leave with was several thousand £s, nowhere near £1million. I don't recall whether there were also non-cash prizes.
I seem to remember that one round within the show was like the Two Ronnies' "Mastermind" sketch (i.e. answering the previous question, to comic effect).
Although I don't remember it very clearly, I remember liking it - manily because of the "previous question"-style game! Any format that I really like only ever seems to have about one series.
I'd love to see that back!
Does anyone else remember it? Or did I imagine the whole thing?
I vaguely remember a gameshow in the early 1990s (I think) with Chris Tarrant called "
Lose A Million
". I think it only ever had one series.
My memories are sketchy, but here's what I think I remember...
The title sequence was preceeded by what sounded like Honor Blackman's voiceover, introducing the three contestants (e.g. "John Smith, a civil servant from Bristol" etc), which would always end with: "Tonight, these three people are here to... Lose A Million!"
Title sequence was (computer(?))-animated, and featured a luxury cruise ferry. The studio set was also like a cruise-liner, I think. Contestants started off with an imaginary £1million, which they had to lose during the course of the the game. This being pre-WWTBAM era, the most a contestant could actually leave with was several thousand £s, nowhere near £1million. I don't recall whether there were also non-cash prizes.
I seem to remember that one round within the show was like the Two Ronnies' "Mastermind" sketch (i.e. answering the previous question, to comic effect).
Although I don't remember it very clearly, I remember liking it - manily because of the "previous question"-style game! Any format that I really like only ever seems to have about one series.
I'd love to see that back!
Does anyone else remember it? Or did I imagine the whole thing?
Cheers for that. I also was rather fond of Channel 5's "
Whittle
", which itself was almost exactly the same as ITV's "
Everybody's Equal
" (another Chris Tarrant one! ), some years earlier...
), some years earlier...