Seeing as Eileen has already posted in here, I thought I would as well.
I'm Dan, who's been on every show so far. It's a massive shame the ratings haven't been great because (and of course i'm biased) it was such a fun show! Paddy especially was awesome. Lets hope it picks up!
Looking at the CH4 ratings these days you have to wonder how much companies are actually paying for the advertising spots. Must be peanuts, relatively speaking, compared to the old days of Channel 4.
Looking at the CH4 ratings these days you have to wonder how much companies are actually paying for the advertising spots. Must be peanuts, relatively speaking, compared to the old days of Channel 4.
It will be one in a million who will win the 25,000 ! Almost impossible ,I would be no good at guessing, I'm always wrong
I watched a random repeat of this last week and thought it was relatively good. Much better than The Million Pound Drop and not deserving of the absolute ratings turkey it seems to have become. I'm not a big fan of Paddy's banter focused presenting style but it didn't bother me too much.
I agree the answers to the questions can be a bit suspect. The one I saw suggested men check themselves in mirrors something silly like 80+ times a day. Even most women wouldn't come close to that, I imagine?!
It's not listed in any guides I've checked. There was a provisional schedule that had it on at 1PM next week, but it's not there anymore, so perhaps it's been put on hiatus or just dropped completely. It was rating very badly.
id had enough!!13 hours a day locked in studio/different hotel room every night/couldnt face going home saturday unpacking and packing more outfits to go back on sunday!!up at 7am back to hotel 10p.m.if i thought there was a chance of "big money" i may have carried on but its not gonna happen!
id had enough!!13 hours a day locked in studio/different hotel room every night/couldnt face going home saturday unpacking and packing more outfits to go back on sunday!!up at 7am back to hotel 10p.m.if i thought there was a chance of "big money" i may have carried on but its not gonna happen!
Yeah, I wouldn't expect to see this back. They must really have given up on it if they're not even going to try and burn off the celebrity ones. Shocker!
Must be the same with deal or no deal, they must have to wait ages for their turns
DOND is different though - there is no qualification criteria; you are selected 'at random', i.e. they can ensure that they get you on to play while making the most of the time you have allotted to record (which I'd expect to be specified as part of the audition). Given that the average contestant on DOND might 'wing', what, a region of 15-20 shows before being 'selected', that would be 3-5 studio days.
As far as I'm aware, nobody has ever dropped out of DOND for having to wait too long.
With Benchmark's mechanics, you would have no real way of knowing how long you are going to be there, so I can see why some would retire, as Eileen did, after a while.
"The show returned on 2 November at 1.10pm lunchtime — before being taken off air again on 11 November after 7 more episodes had been shown. Episodes planned for 12 and 13 November went out in the early hours of the morning of 17 and 18 November — and by "early hours" we mean "3.55 and 4.45am", which we think was the earliest hour any new game show episode has been aired.
The show came back on 16 December, getting rid of the last episodes in the wee small hours of the morning. None of the programmes was on air after 6am, and the unwanted record for earliest hour for any new game show was set at the start of the run - 3.15am on 16 December 2015."
Well I guess that explains it. They just want to play out the remaining episodes for the people who enjoy the show.
They can either record them or download them (as I doubt many will be watching live).
I suppose for fans it's better than just scrapping the remaining episodes. I believe C4 did that with Iron Chef. They still have remaining episodes to show but I can't see that happening.
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I'm Dan, who's been on every show so far. It's a massive shame the ratings haven't been great because (and of course i'm biased) it was such a fun show! Paddy especially was awesome. Lets hope it picks up!
More likely bloody horse racing.
Dan, hard luck in the last ep. Wasnt shiralee brilliant tho? 6/7 questions correct!
It will be one in a million who will win the 25,000 ! Almost impossible ,I would be no good at guessing, I'm always wrong
Can't see it in next weeks schedule either, but there's no horse racing.
Has it really gone down that well it's been pulled already?
And what of the celeb specials?
I agree the answers to the questions can be a bit suspect. The one I saw suggested men check themselves in mirrors something silly like 80+ times a day. Even most women wouldn't come close to that, I imagine?!
Questions like how many feet tall is the statue of liberty, are valid and fair. How many hairstyles does a woman have in their life, aren't!
Im not a fan of quiz shows that are more to do with luck than knowledge.
DOND is different though - there is no qualification criteria; you are selected 'at random', i.e. they can ensure that they get you on to play while making the most of the time you have allotted to record (which I'd expect to be specified as part of the audition). Given that the average contestant on DOND might 'wing', what, a region of 15-20 shows before being 'selected', that would be 3-5 studio days.
As far as I'm aware, nobody has ever dropped out of DOND for having to wait too long.
With Benchmark's mechanics, you would have no real way of knowing how long you are going to be there, so I can see why some would retire, as Eileen did, after a while.
Are you sure they are new?
ITV repeat quiz shows with sign language in the early mornings. Tomorrow it is Ejector Seat.
Definitely new. Here's the write-up on UK Gameshows: http://www.ukgameshows.com/ukgs/Benchmark
The show came back on 16 December, getting rid of the last episodes in the wee small hours of the morning. None of the programmes was on air after 6am, and the unwanted record for earliest hour for any new game show was set at the start of the run - 3.15am on 16 December 2015."
They can either record them or download them (as I doubt many will be watching live).
I suppose for fans it's better than just scrapping the remaining episodes. I believe C4 did that with Iron Chef. They still have remaining episodes to show but I can't see that happening.