A nice promo on BBC1 shows a programme this saturday looking back at 15 years of the Lottery. With faces like Carol Smillie, Anthea Turner, Bruce Forsyth, Ant & Dec, Edna Everage, Mystic Meg and some of the people who have hosted the Lottery including old drawmaster John Willan.
Seems strange to be celebrating a programme which effectively ended at about 2002 when they just stuck with the gameshows. And the programme is only 25 minutes and hosted by Danny Wallace and Myleene Klass .
A nice promo on BBC1 shows a programme this saturday looking back at 15 years of the Lottery. With faces like Carol Smillie, Anthea Turner, Bruce Forsyth, Ant & Dec, Edna Everage, Mystic Meg and some of the people who have hosted the Lottery including old drawmaster John Willan.
Seems strange to be celebrating a programme which effectively ended at about 2002 when they just stuck with the gameshows. And the programme is only 25 minutes and hosted by Danny Wallace and Myleene Klass .
I wonder if it will be a true look back or a Camelot plc pleasing look back. Will we see the times the machine(s) failed or Fathers 4 Justice invaded the studio. My guess is probably not.
:-(
A former member
I would like to see the clip with uk lottery mystic meg and bob
Talking of heritage national lottery shows, I wonder if anyone here can remember what the National lottery show was that involved some prize/ punishment being meted out on the odd/ even number. I can't really remember the exact details, let alone the shows' name but have vivid recollections of a) a rubber band ball being set alight (not bounced as its owner had hoped) b) a ford Orion being run over by a tank and c) a garden shed being ceremoniously bulldozed then the ground force crew doing a two minute makeover of said demolished shed. if anyone had any links to video clips to relive my saturday nights of old I'd be most appreciative!!
Talking of heritage national lottery shows, I wonder if anyone here can remember what the National lottery show was that involved some prize/ punishment being meted out on the odd/ even number.
I thought the same, instead of celebrating 15 years of the National Lottery, it seems to be celebrating 10 years of 'National Lottery Live'
They are looking back at some of the presenters that have hosted the show such as Ant and Dec, Terry Wogan etc (i.e nobody from the current ..Draws era). No mention of Biggins, Scott Mills or OJ Borg?
Well they've 'celebrated' by showing their history for about 3 minutes. But they have a new studio with one button controlling all the machines. So now the presenter is miles away from the draw master so it looks like they have to shout over to them.
And there is now a new cheap looking Lotto machine which was a lot noisier despite them saying it was quieter, and the balls are barely readable especially the green 30-39 balls.
Also interesting to see that they mentioned Jetset and Winnng Lines as they're most popular gameshows.
Just highlighted how poorly produced the shows are today compared to the 15-minute "National Lottery Live" shows of the mid-nineties, which had none of this "are we ready to proceed?" nonsense!
Not one mention of the Monkhouse era of the Lottery, the era when it was worth watching... instead of being in a poxy studio with canned applause that sounds identical every week.
and Myleene Klass 
