Watching an episode on Sony channel atm, some editing techniques are pretty inventive for covering up ad breaks and end of programmes. Instead of showing a different contestant’s “walk to chair” when a contestant was selected for FFF, they instead took an intro of the contestant for a new episode, muted the audio and just added an applause track, plus the walk to chair music.
If someone wants to try finding the episode, it was the contestant Paul Cleary in 2002. I don’t have the ability to record the segment in question at post time and i don’t make a habit of uploading tv shows to youtube
The current contestant is a bit small for the podium. You’d think they’ve have tried to raise the stall or something.
:-(
A former member
2 of the questions that were answered incorrectly tonight were broadly the same format - event A occurred in the same year as which event B. I thought both of them were too difficult for the fairly low value they were for (reflected in the audience giving the wrong answer for the first too).
2 of the questions that were answered incorrectly tonight were broadly the same format - event A occurred in the same year as which event B. I thought both of them were too difficult for the fairly low value they were for (reflected in the audience giving the wrong answer for the first too).
Having watched so many classic millionaires, my general thoughts about where questions are positioned seems to be based on the relative "obviousness" of the correct answer in relation to the other options given. If the answer should be fairly easy to see from a cursory glance, the other options would be spread out enough to not really be relevant as an option.
I was also not sure of the answer myself and I did think a question like that could have better suited a little higher up the money tree, but then if they did that, they would need to pick other events much closer to the event of the correct answer to allow for potential doubt in the contestant giving an answer.
2 of the questions that were answered incorrectly tonight were broadly the same format - event A occurred in the same year as which event B. I thought both of them were too difficult for the fairly low value they were for (reflected in the audience giving the wrong answer for the first too).
Yes, the first one seemed like a random bit of trivia only a film buff might know if they’d happen to have heard the fact and the second one basically required the player to know two separate bits of trivia, I don’t think they’re very Millionaire style questions certainly at that level.
The strategy from the contestants tonight seemed a bit off. The second and third contestants safety nets seemed to be used too late given their lack of lifelines. Ultimately it wouldn’t have made a difference to the second contestant as she took the money on a question she would have got wrong, but given how the third contestant was going and lack of lifelines it seemed like a no-brainer to set it at £16,000.
It’s almost as if the contestants forget they have to answer two more questions correctly before they reach their safety net if they don’t set it.
Also very boring contestants generally.
:-(
A former member
Paul Sinha did a really good interview on Five Live the other day. He talked about writing questions himself, and how his golden rule is that the answer should always be something that you know in the back of your head rather than being a guess for most people. I’d say these questions failed that rule and would be pretty unsatisfying to go out on.
