Originally Posted by C14E:
“I think that's likely, although don't know that Corrie will gain out of this arrangement.
But then again, will that spin still work as well on Friday when we've seen it several times already and can't even remember the name of the bloke who won £1m in the first show? When the show was first announced, I didn't get why it was stripped...
BGT was stripped because it was a "story" over a week - auditions, semi finals, final. It built momentum.
Even Pokerface had a reason - they played 6 times and then the 6 winners came back for the final to play for £1m.
With Corrie, I'm guessing there's some kind of story that will play out across the week with some kind of conclusion at the end?
Same for something like Collision - a serialised drama following one story from start to finish over a week.
Stripping Red or Black over a week is like stripping a procedural drama. It's self-contained. My guess is that they save some money on studio/staff costs which is why they're doing it.”
“I think that's likely, although don't know that Corrie will gain out of this arrangement.
But then again, will that spin still work as well on Friday when we've seen it several times already and can't even remember the name of the bloke who won £1m in the first show? When the show was first announced, I didn't get why it was stripped...
BGT was stripped because it was a "story" over a week - auditions, semi finals, final. It built momentum.
Even Pokerface had a reason - they played 6 times and then the 6 winners came back for the final to play for £1m.
With Corrie, I'm guessing there's some kind of story that will play out across the week with some kind of conclusion at the end?
Same for something like Collision - a serialised drama following one story from start to finish over a week.
Stripping Red or Black over a week is like stripping a procedural drama. It's self-contained. My guess is that they save some money on studio/staff costs which is why they're doing it.”
It's stripped because they want it to do a Millionaire which went from a debut 8m for its first show to 19m at the end of its run, or BGT went from 5m to 14m - it was on every night, people talked about it at work and school, the papers got interested in it, and the whole thing just snowballed.
Really surprised at how universally panned the first night has been. I think it may have been "massive" in overnight ratings terms given how everybody seems to be talking about it tonight - but are people really going to be in front of the box at 6.45pm tomorrow glued to their sets for more random guessing of briefcase lining colours and contestants not even getting a chance to pick a colour yet still potentially winning £1m for a series of random guesses (or even not having a chance to guess)?
Is it unthinkable that it may even get beat by Countryfile?
I've seen a TV ad once or twice (admittedly I don't watch much ITV) and the menu that Domino's put through my door had a little bit on the bottom of it. 
) is the lack of a serial element to the show which each day's programmes being stand-alone. As you say, all other stripped programes, including IAC with its soap opera element of celebrities falling out or forming friendships, have that "come back and see what happens next" aspect.
Really good rating for it last night.