Anyone else a bit sick of all these older game shows being brought back constantly? The Weakest Link, Who Wants To Be A Millionaire, Blankety Blank, etc.
It’s like the suits in charge of programming at BBC and ITV are constantly trying to play it safe, but really they need to try commissioning something new for once if they want to actually keep up with streaming.
I’m sure someone will respond, “but you don’t have to watch any of these series,” but that’s precisely my point—surely broadcast TV viewership is only going to continue to decline with decisions like these.
I can’t see this article past the paywall, but I absolutely guarantee that this show will be hosted by one of the usual members of the ITV cartel gravy train, that are in on everything, all the time.
*Don’t be Stephen Mulhern…*
*Don’t be Stephen Mulhern…*
*Don’t be Stephen Mulhern…*
…..oh *fuck*…
Fuck this, give me Total Wipeout, or give me Death
Why? The whole idea of the show was awful. No skill whatsoever.
Never saw a show then and definitely won’t see a show now
My FiL, who is a very clever, very wealthy man insists he has a strategy for DonD…
I saw this when I first came on air and couldn’t believe something so idiotic had ever got off the drawing board. The fact that this is still being considered as a damning indictment of society. No, seriously.
I only ever caught the end of one episode and pretty much ascertained that it was a guessing game. Yet Noel Edmunds signed off talking about the fascinating tactics of the winner. What tactics? You guess a box and hope!
The audience and contestants were so hyped, hugging and praising each other I can only assume they were sourced from the local religious nutters church and given some white powder to sniff before filming.
Utter tosh.
Ah, how I’ve missed the stimulating discussions this game lead to.
There’s always a contestant that declares that they have a blue box, they can just feel it. The player then goes for them and of course its the 250k.
Or there’ll be a 50p and a 50k remaining. Banker offers 10k. Player is mulling over their choice when a fellow contestant interrupts them to give them some words of wisdom. Camera pans around dramatically. “Dave, 10k is a lot of money but you could have 50k in that box. But there’s a chance you could just have 50p, which is less than 10k.” Thanks for explaining the game to the rest of us simpletons, Einstein.
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Terrible then and will be terrible now.
Anyone else a bit sick of all these older game shows being brought back constantly? The Weakest Link, Who Wants To Be A Millionaire, Blankety Blank, etc.
It’s like the suits in charge of programming at BBC and ITV are constantly trying to play it safe, but really they need to try commissioning something new for once if they want to actually keep up with streaming.
I’m sure someone will respond, “but you don’t have to watch any of these series,” but that’s precisely my point—surely broadcast TV viewership is only going to continue to decline with decisions like these.
I can’t see this article past the paywall, but I absolutely guarantee that this show will be hosted by one of the usual members of the ITV cartel gravy train, that are in on everything, all the time.
*Don’t be Stephen Mulhern…*
*Don’t be Stephen Mulhern…*
*Don’t be Stephen Mulhern…*
…..oh *fuck*…
Fuck this, give me Total Wipeout, or give me Death
Why? The whole idea of the show was awful. No skill whatsoever.
Never saw a show then and definitely won’t see a show now
My FiL, who is a very clever, very wealthy man insists he has a strategy for DonD…
I saw this when I first came on air and couldn’t believe something so idiotic had ever got off the drawing board. The fact that this is still being considered as a damning indictment of society. No, seriously.
I only ever caught the end of one episode and pretty much ascertained that it was a guessing game. Yet Noel Edmunds signed off talking about the fascinating tactics of the winner. What tactics? You guess a box and hope!
The audience and contestants were so hyped, hugging and praising each other I can only assume they were sourced from the local religious nutters church and given some white powder to sniff before filming.
Utter tosh.
Ah, how I’ve missed the stimulating discussions this game lead to.
There’s always a contestant that declares that they have a blue box, they can just feel it. The player then goes for them and of course its the 250k.
Or there’ll be a 50p and a 50k remaining. Banker offers 10k. Player is mulling over their choice when a fellow contestant interrupts them to give them some words of wisdom. Camera pans around dramatically. “Dave, 10k is a lot of money but you could have 50k in that box. But there’s a chance you could just have 50p, which is less than 10k.” Thanks for explaining the game to the rest of us simpletons, Einstein.