The show never really recovered after Ingram cheated them, the knee jerk addition of the new rules after said debacle which weren't really needed, and also the overkill of the celebrity specials
A lot of potential winners were put off by the cost of phoning in to qualify. A lot of those who did were people who could afford to spend up to £60 on phoning and knew they'd never get near the million but were happy to quit at £8-16k.
It should have ended about ten years ago when most people lost interest. It was good in the early days, but once the million was won twice, people weren't so bothered.
They also got less bothered about it when ITV stopped showing it every night for two weeks every three months like an event and just flung it out three times a week for three months like any other game show.
It should have ended about ten years ago when most people lost interest. It was good in the early days, but once the million was won twice, people weren't so bothered.
Agreed. Millionaire was massive when it started, I loved it for the first couple of years, but it wasn't quite the same when Judith Keppel won the million pounds. And I never warmed to the new format in 2007. That said, I only missed a handful of episodes over the years, although it became increasingly cringeworthy in recent years, especially the Mothers' Day special a couple of years ago, when they were handing out flowers on a game show ffs!
Anyway, I still enjoyed it, and still play on my Playstation games of it from time to time. Goodbye, Millionaire, it won't be the same without you.
Agreed. Millionaire was massive when it started, I loved it for the first couple of years, but it wasn't quite the same when Judith Keppel won the million pounds. And I never warmed to the new format in 2007. That said, I only missed a handful of episodes over the years, although it became increasingly cringeworthy in recent years, especially the Mothers' Day special a couple of years ago, when they were handing out flowers on a game show ffs!
Anyway, I still enjoyed it, and still play on my Playstation games of it from time to time. Goodbye, Millionaire, it won't be the same without you.
When Millionaire started it was stripped over 10 nights, even displacing Coronation Street, it was recorded on the afternoon and broadcast in the evening, early on some programmes were only 30 minutes while others were an hour, it then settled in to routine of generally one hour shows usually once a week. I went to a recording of a Christmas special a few years ago, Chris had a great banter with the audience and the warm up man, but I was struct by how small the studio was. They also re-recorded bits, where they were unhappy with risque comments made, but the celeb (Cristopher Biggins) had to give the same answer.
They had to re-record quite a lot for the show I went to see (The first of the 2 'final' episodes).
They thought Adrian Chiles swore during a joke so recorded that again (He didn't, it was his brummy accent!) and for some reason they also had to re-record Adrian and Franks reaction to winning £50k a couple of times which was quite hard as it is difficult to 'fake' excitement the second time round!
Also you do not want to know how many times Chris had to redo the viewer competition spiel!
They also got less bothered about it when ITV stopped showing it every night for two weeks every three months like an event and just flung it out three times a week for three months like any other game show.
I stopped watching then too. I think that effectively killed the show, even the publicity around Slumdog Millionaire didn't seem to revive it.
There may be a better thread for this, but I couldn't see one.
I searched for Who wants to be a Millionaire? It came back as zero, so I tried Tarrant.
I watched a Classic WWTBAM today, and one of the initial "easy" questions was, Where did Adam and Eve originally live?
The contestant said that he 'wasn't a Bible person' and although the answer Garden of Eden was there, he asked the audience.
4% went for Garden of England.
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A lot of potential winners were put off by the cost of phoning in to qualify. A lot of those who did were people who could afford to spend up to £60 on phoning and knew they'd never get near the million but were happy to quit at £8-16k.
Dreadful. So will it be picked up by Challenge?
It was so long ago, nobody can remember.
When I see Judith Keppel's questions now... how easy were they
They also got less bothered about it when ITV stopped showing it every night for two weeks every three months like an event and just flung it out three times a week for three months like any other game show.
Agreed. Millionaire was massive when it started, I loved it for the first couple of years, but it wasn't quite the same when Judith Keppel won the million pounds. And I never warmed to the new format in 2007. That said, I only missed a handful of episodes over the years, although it became increasingly cringeworthy in recent years, especially the Mothers' Day special a couple of years ago, when they were handing out flowers on a game show ffs!
Anyway, I still enjoyed it, and still play on my Playstation games of it from time to time. Goodbye, Millionaire, it won't be the same without you.
When Millionaire started it was stripped over 10 nights, even displacing Coronation Street, it was recorded on the afternoon and broadcast in the evening, early on some programmes were only 30 minutes while others were an hour, it then settled in to routine of generally one hour shows usually once a week. I went to a recording of a Christmas special a few years ago, Chris had a great banter with the audience and the warm up man, but I was struct by how small the studio was. They also re-recorded bits, where they were unhappy with risque comments made, but the celeb (Cristopher Biggins) had to give the same answer.
They thought Adrian Chiles swore during a joke so recorded that again (He didn't, it was his brummy accent!) and for some reason they also had to re-record Adrian and Franks reaction to winning £50k a couple of times which was quite hard as it is difficult to 'fake' excitement the second time round!
Also you do not want to know how many times Chris had to redo the viewer competition spiel!
I stopped watching then too. I think that effectively killed the show, even the publicity around Slumdog Millionaire didn't seem to revive it.
I searched for Who wants to be a Millionaire? It came back as zero, so I tried Tarrant.
I watched a Classic WWTBAM today, and one of the initial "easy" questions was, Where did Adam and Eve originally live?
The contestant said that he 'wasn't a Bible person' and although the answer Garden of Eden was there, he asked the audience.
4% went for Garden of England.
The bloke didn't know who shot JR!
Nor would I have known!
I would have said, "Can I phone Westy 2?