or, if they didn't want to give away so much money on the way to the quarter mill, they could revert back to the £1K to £2K to £4k to £8K to £16K to
£32k to £64K to £125K to £250K
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What do you think? Could it be a daytime quiz winner? or is it all just pointless?
* They could consider reducing these further to £25K to £50K to £100K to £250K like they had in America for a while.
or, if they didn't want to give away so much money on the way to the quarter mill, they could revert back to the £1K to £2K to £4k to £8K to £16K to
£32k to £64K to £125K to £250K
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What do you think? Could it be a daytime quiz winner? or is it all just pointless?
* They could consider reducing these further to £25K to £50K to £100K to £250K like they had in America for a while.
They don't need to reduce the prize money, they just need to cast 'bubbly' people.
Although I don't think you could have the show with the current title without the chance of winning a million.
I think the best hope for Millionaire is Live specials stripped across the week.
Problem is Jon, daytime can't seem to afford £1million. Think of every game show in America that works here, Weakest Link, Don't Forget The Lyrics, Are You Smarter than..., even Deal or No Deal, the top prize is a million dollars because they can afford it. Over here it's usually around the £250k mark which is why if they were to consider moving it to an afternoon game show, they would have to trim the money tree a good bit in order to make it financially viable to run every single week day.
Incidentally going back to that game the other night, what would have happened to that lady if she hadn't walked away before the klaxon. Would she have been forced to walk away?
Problem is Jon, daytime can't seem to afford £1million. Think of every game show in America that works here, Weakest Link, Don't Forget The Lyrics, Are You Smarter than..., even Deal or No Deal, the top prize is a million dollars because they can afford it. Over here it's usually around the £250k mark which is why if they were to consider moving it to an afternoon game show, they would have to trim the money tree a good bit in order to make it financially viable to run every single week day.?
It loses it's main feature if it becomes "Who Wants To Be A Quarter Of The Way To Being A Millionaire?".
If you make the questions harder, and choose less knowledgeable contestants, you can make it more financially viable. They could save up the prize money, and bring on a quiz genius one day to win the £1,000,000.
If you make the questions harder, and choose less knowledgeable contestants, you can make it more financially viable. They could save up the prize money, and bring on a quiz genius one day to win the £1,000,000.
It should also be pointed out that, rarely do contestants get $250,000 on the daytime US millionaire and the last time the top prize was won was done so at the programmes choosing.
I don't think a daytime version is the best idea! Daytime doesn't have the same dark tense feeling as nighttime, plus most peple would be at work so wouldn't be able to watch it, including me!
Definitely needs to be nighttime with the ideas as I suggested earlier.
Problem is Jon, daytime can't seem to afford £1million. Think of every game show in America that works here, Weakest Link, Don't Forget The Lyrics, Are You Smarter than..., even Deal or No Deal, the top prize is a million dollars because they can afford it. Over here it's usually around the £250k mark which is why if they were to consider moving it to an afternoon game show, they would have to trim the money tree a good bit in order to make it financially viable to run every single week day.
Incidentally going back to that game the other night, what would have happened to that lady if she hadn't walked away before the klaxon. Would she have been forced to walk away?
The Hot Seat format used in Australia is designed for daytime - the $1m jackpot is there, but nearly impossible, and the money tree soon drops below that. Only the $1,000 is the safety net, with six contestants playing. Contestants play one game but one by one - with the only lifeline being a pass, at which point the contestant leaves the chair and goes to the back of the queue. The contestant in the hot seat in the 15th question has the opportunity to win the top prize - but the prize drops a level everytime a question is incorrectly answered (and a contestant eliminated). If they get the final question wrong the player gets either $1,000 or nothing dependent on whether the 5th question milestone is reached.
Chris Tarrent billed one of the celebrities appearing on Who Wants to be a Millionaire? School's Out as being "one of the UK's best known farmers" this evening, obviously strongly implying that [The ghost of] Ted Moult would be appearing on the programme. As it turns out it was some guy from Emmerdale who happens to play a farmer on television. Very disappointing and misleading from this stale programme.
I'm sure putting it on directly after the The Celebrity Chase will only help show up Who Wants to be a Millionaire as the boring format that it is too. I suppose they had to show it at some point though, it is obviously made to be broadcast in the school summer holidays so they only really had this week left unless they left it for a whole year before showing it.
I don't think ITV needs to make WWTBAM a daytime show, all the daytime quizzes seem to do perfectly well already. This may have happened years ago after they lost Paul O'Grady.