Signs of Who Wants to be a Millionaires death were apparent when THE VAULT was advertised and it said "The £1 million question, and NO its NOT Who Wants to be a Millionaire"
Prob just an innocent remark, but i've noticed its not very much advertised a lot recently. Are ITV slowly phasing it out.
Forgive me if i'm just being ignorant and its as popular as ever, but i just want to know what other people think.
Signs of Who Wants to be a Millionaires death were apparent when THE VAULT was advertised and it said "The £1 million question, and NO its NOT Who Wants to be a Millionaire"
Prob just an innocent remark, but i've noticed its not very much advertised a lot recently. Are ITV slowly phasing it out.
Forgive me if i'm just being ignorant and its as popular as ever, but i just want to know what other people think.
Wouldn't surprise me if they did phase out WWTBAM they seem to phase out everything that everyone finds popular, but i doubt they will. It's a well-known format now and getting rid of it'll be a huge mistake
I think you're absolutely right. I hardly watch it anymore. The Weakest Link is the same, both are slowly resorting to charitiable celebrity specials too.
Signs of Who Wants to be a Millionaires death were apparent when THE VAULT was advertised and it said "The £1 million question, and NO its NOT Who Wants to be a Millionaire"
Prob just an innocent remark, but i've noticed its not very much advertised a lot recently. Are ITV slowly phasing it out.
Forgive me if i'm just being ignorant and its as popular as ever, but i just want to know what other people think.
It's just an another example of ITV running a good format to death and killing it off. As mind numbing as it seems now, Millionaire is actually an excellent programme with a sound format. It could easily have support 1 series a year for decades. As it is, something just over 5 years old has allready been run to death and is now well past it's sell by date.
It wouldn't surprise me if they end up reserving Millionaire for specials rather than running whole series, and it's total cancellation can't be that far off now.
Well its on it's usual summer break, no doubt it will return to Saturday nights in the autumn, probably sandwiched between the X-Factor and Parkinson ?
It is feeling tired now, but at least its been rested, unlike the Weakest Link, now that IS becoming tedious.
Well the BBC do seem intent on running the Weakest Link as long as possible. This week they are annoyingly moving it to 6PM on BBC2 as a trial replacement for the Simpsons
WWTBAM isn't on now is it? Now would probably be a good time to give it a little bit of a revamp and bring in a few new ideas, before the next series.
Ideas:
• Seperate questions 1-5 from 6-15 into 2 different rounds.
• I think most would agree to make it live.
• A new lifeline called "Phone a Stranger" - you have to use all your lifelines first before using this one, if/when you do have to use it, the caller is picked randomly from people who register at the beginning of the show. If the answer they give is wrong, the contestant falls back to the last milestone. If it's right, the caller gets half the amount the question was worth, the contestant gets the other half and can then move on to the next question.
OR
Some form of viewer interaction.
It'll never get the ratings it used to get though.
Prob just an innocent remark, but i've noticed its not very much advertised a lot recently. Are ITV slowly phasing it out..
That's because it isn't on at the moment!
Far from phasing it out, ITV actually extended the 2003/2004 run a bit longer, instead of finishing in April like it did the previous year it ran to about June didn't it, this was because its usual summer replacement The Vault is on a Tuesday this year instead.
I agree with Ministry of Design that the show could do with a re-vamp. Making it live would be a great option wouldn't it, as would perhaps altering the options a bit. The Phone a stranger option is a very good option as you would be cautious as to using it as you don't know the person and don't know what they know. It's a good idea!
Making the show live would stretch it out to a 4 hour show due to the amount that gets edited out of a typical filming.
BRING BACK THE KRYPTON FACTOR!!
Not the same but I enjoyed the 'clunk' sounds the things the contestants were putting together during the 'mental agility' round.
Ah, nostagia ain't what it used to be.
Yes it was a good noise that, along with the hushed tone commentary.
If I was director of programmes at ITV this would be one programme I would bring back, I'm sure it would have been not that expensive (unlike The Crystal Maze which was very expensive), plus Gordon Burns would surely want any escape from being stuck in a timewarp on North West Tonight.
I agree with Ministry of Design that the show could do with a re-vamp. Making it live would be a great option wouldn't it, as would perhaps altering the options a bit. The Phone a stranger option is a very good option as you would be cautious as to using it as you don't know the person and don't know what they know. It's a good idea!
Didn't we go through why this show cannot be live a few months back? Basically Phone A Friend would undermine the show's integrity being as the friend would have seen the question for many minutes before and had chance to Google it to boot. And as this is essentially what happened with the Charles Ingram case (albeit not using an actual lifeline as such but outside communication nevertheless), they're not going to let that happen again.
Add to that of course, a live 1hr show would be, essentially, complete crap. As there never has been any limits on how long to answer a question, it would be quite possible to go for the full hour and only get through four questions especially at the higher levels.