Who Wants to be a Millionaire?

Ive been watching the indian show on star plus and after question 5 players get a flip (as seen in UK live epsiode in exchange for lifeline).
I think they need to offer £2 Milliion or a £ 1 Million daytime version with a diferent presenter maybe Bradley Walsh but they could axe fasted finger with the other 9 contetants qualifing by answering questions thoughooht they could make questions two levals harder.

Perhaps if someone gets a question wrong one of the other 9 contestants could get the chance to take their place in the hotseat and start where they left off.

Well getting Bradley Walsh to host would be the only way to get me watching it again

ITV getting even more stupid in the scheduling of this.


Returns Saturday - and then ditched the next week due to the final of Dancing on Ice.


Surely it have been better to hold off for a couple of weeks!

They would have nothing to show tommorow night then.

WWTBAM is only filler now, it has no defined series structure anymore, just fits in around other shows. Hence these latest editions were recorded pre-Christmas.

Surely a random filler like "It Shouldn't Happen to a Quiz channel" could have filled the gap!


Dancing on Ice and Harry Hill are on about half an hour earlier than usual anyhow, so if they'd kicked the schedule off with an editon of You've Been Framed they'd be no problem.

A bit like when Family Fortunes (Les Dennis) and Catchphrase (Roy Walker) was on the air on the Saturday schedule some time ago. Slotting them in whenever.

Exactly, and I doubt most people will notice its on one week and off the next.

Makes you wonder whether dropping it in favour of Pokerface was quite a late decision.


As I've always said Millionaire isn't must watch TV anymore, but it's still pretty decent "watch this if there is nothing else on" viewing - hence why a move to Spring/Summer could give it a boost - but it needs a fixed place in the schedules, not just acting as a "filler".


It does seem now with Grease is the Word and Britain's Got Talent set to hit our screens in the next few months ITV1 are trying to make their Saturday schedule a year-round affair - and not just give up in the summer.

Gameshow Marathon also due back this year - minus Ant and Dec unfortunately, who I think are committed to at least one more series of Takeaway, though they're hosting Britain's Got Talent too.

Looks as if that WAS the case.

If I had to guess, I'd say tonight's edition was recorded sometime last autumn.

If you watch the cheque shots frame by frame, they all start with a thumb (we could assume it's Chris's, but not be too sure) completely covering the date, indicating either that they didn't have a transmission date at the time of recording, or (more likely) an edit in of the section in the last day or two; then when the thumb comes off the cheque and the contestant takes it, there's an out-of-focus fuzz where the date ought to be.

There had also been a late edit to remove any reference to any telephone number starting "09", or any text number that involved any charged reply texts.

Very insightful Nick

How would they edit in a new shot of a thumb covering the date, incorporating the studio background though? It'd be a bit of a waste hiring out the studio just for that little purpose, or do you mean they recorded a few spare shots last series just in case this happened?