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Anyone else bored with The Chase?
Glenn A
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I am speaking as an ex fan who watched this quiz for two years, but is now finding it boring and want to know if other people have gone off The Chase. I'm starting to find, like a lot of other afternoon game shows, it doesn't have a break any more, when there are no new shows, ITV throw out old repeats, Bradley Walsh's comments are becoming unfunny, the banter with the Chasers is predictable usually involving the Governess's weight, and some of the contestants are trying to become celebs by acting up. I'm not saying scrap the show, but maybe cut it down as overkill destroyed shows like The Weakest Link and Millionaire.
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What's wrong with the existing The Chase thread for this?
Not saying it is, am just saying it could have been used to give it a break!
I find it quite a bore these days - I prefer Dishy Ben and Tipping Point TBH!! That's more my type of entertainment - simple and fun! (but that's just me!)
I do that as it's easy to choose an episode. I know I could just randomly download a regular episode from during the week but waiting for the specials makes the choice for me.
I think The Chase needs a break, so does its big rival Pointless. It's not a bad show by anyone's standards, the questions can be tough, but now ITV are running it into the ground in the same way BBC One did with The Weakest Link.
Smaller bursts like 60 episodes a series (12 weeks) would benefit the viewers and the crew and allow more room for fresh blood for ITV.
More Chasers would be a bit of a compromise, at least - some new blood would liven things up in terms of the "banter" at least, even if the format wasn't much different.
Nobody is forcing you to watch every night.
You can guarantee if The Chase was taken off, by one minute in, there would be a thread here demanding that the new quiz was dire and that they should bring back The Chase. The ratings for Pointless, which is on much more often than The chase would then shoot up.
They could bring in a 5th chaser to freshen it up a bit though.
I consider myself quite an intelligent person but some of those questions you would have to be a brain of Britain to answer, or work in particular fields to have any knowledge of what they are even talking about!........
I know they cant win all the time but I wonder what the ratio is of winning and losing!..... it would be interesting to know!........
That's what I do with very repeated shows, watching every day would be too much but watching it every once in a while is enjoyable and because it's always there it's always possible to do that when you want to, the Weakest Link also got very repetitive after a few viewings.
Sorry, I hate to be a punctuation critic, but !........ after every sentence?
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If you watch The Chase every afternoon you may well get bored with it. I watch it sometimes and it remains fresh. Same with Pointless.
The format of the quiz itself is fine.
I don't even want new Chasers. I like the four we have and think that's more than enough.
I quite like Pointless but find the actual question format boring if that makes sense? I like the hosts and the banter but the questions take too long to answer and they often pause for dramatic effect, dragging it out even more. So I tend to get bored half way through and switch off.