I watched this right from the start and I still don't understand the format. The only great thing about the show is that you cannot really change the format like other endemol shows (especialy DoND and Big Brother). So at least it cannot gt anymore complicated. I liked Gavin though!
Also would the people at Lottery HQ take note of the ball machine!
Why is everyone so confused about this game? Anyone'd think they'd taken your brain out and replaced it with a chip buttie or summat.
It's not in the slightest bit confusing. Yeah, I didn't quite get the idea on the first show, but by the end of the first show I watched the pieces clicked into place, and from the second onwards I was able to enjoy it.
I think it's a good show -- much better than the half-dozen other boring gameshows that have come out over the last year, and yeah it's cheap and tacky, but that's what daytime gameshows are all about
Anne Robinson has been toppled from her perch at the top of the teatime TV quiz ratings tree.
The red-headed queen of mean's Weakest Link on BBC2 has been beaten three times this week by comic Jasper Carrott and his new ITV1 quiz, Golden Balls.
On Thursday truth or bluff game Golden Balls beat Weakest Link by 52,000 viewers. Golden Balls was also ahead of the BBC2 quiz on Monday by 160,000 viewers and on Tuesday by 216,000.
The achievement is no mean feat as the last time ITV1 beat Weakest Link was in June 2006 when ITV1 was showing World Cup football games. And the only other time ITV1 has beaten Weakest Link within the last 18 months was on January 2 2006 when it repeated the film Grease against Robinson's quiz.
Overall, since it launched on June 18 on ITV1 Golden Balls has averaged 1.8 million viewers and 14.9% in the 5pm-6pm slot. The best rating episode so far was on June 25, which attracted 2.1 million viewers.
Yesterday Golden Balls also beat golf balls, attracting double the audience of BBC2's Scottish Open golf, which replaced Weakest Link.
The ITV1 quiz won in its best share performance ever with 17.9% share and 2 million viewers.
Golden Balls is made by Endemol, the same company behind Deal or no Deal. That has proved a hit for Channel 4, with another unlikely veteran presenting it, Noel Edmonds. Carrott made much of his fortune as a result of the popularity of the global hit quiz Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?. He was a shareholder in Complete Communications, the parent company of Millionaire producer, Celador
