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amosc100
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?


Hold-up gammeshows mentioned are not all American originated:-
The Weakest Link - British (BBC Productions)
Deal or No Deal - Dutch (Endemol)
JO
Jon

Hold-up gammeshows mentioned are not all American originated:-
The Weakest Link - British (BBC Productions)
Deal or No Deal - Dutch (Endemol)

I think he knows that. Wasn't what he said though, neither does it take away from his point.
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A former member
But when ITV moved FF, Catchphrase, Wheel to Daytime, there did Cut back the prizes found to £2000. YET Daytime Dond and WL can give away load more that!
JO
Jon
But when ITV moved FF, Catchphrase, Wheel to Daytime, there did Cut back the prizes found to £2000. YET Daytime Dond and WL can give away load more that!

The Weakest Link didn't give away that much.
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A former member
Jon posted:
But when ITV moved FF, Catchphrase, Wheel to Daytime, there did Cut back the prizes found to £2000. YET Daytime Dond and WL can give away load more that!

The Weakest Link didn't give away that much.


You can still win £10'000 on the WL which is still loads more than £2000 Wink
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gottago
Jon posted:
But when ITV moved FF, Catchphrase, Wheel to Daytime, there did Cut back the prizes found to £2000. YET Daytime Dond and WL can give away load more that!

The Weakest Link didn't give away that much.


You can still win £10'000 on the WL which is still loads more than £2000 Wink


The prize fund barely ever reached anywhere near as high as that and the production team knew that it never would.

75 days later

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AxG
The Ask the Audience scoreboard displayed 0% across the answers resulting in the audience holding up cards with either A, B, C or D on them.
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A former member
Let's go manual... apparently only the second time ever.

http://tig.gy/?m=WMTBAM-MANUAL-1.jpg
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knack
Let's go manual... apparently only the second time ever.


The first time being another live episode in the summer.
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james
Well that was an exciting end to the show. 5 questions answered in around a minute and a half! Wish that was always the speed of the show - much better without the chat. Laughing
JJ
Juicy Joe Founding member
james posted:
Well that was an exciting end to the show. 5 questions answered in around a minute and a half! Wish that was always the speed of the show - much better without the chat. Laughing


The US version with Meredith Vierra is much quicker/faster pace than our version and always seems to flow better than ours - "Question 1, correct, now onto Question 2, correct now number 3" rather than the pauses we have in ours.
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JAS84
AxG posted:
The Ask the Audience scoreboard displayed 0% across the answers resulting in the audience holding up cards with either A, B, C or D on them.
It happened again!?! Haven't they learned their lesson from last time?

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