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Who Wants to be a Millionaire?

Sunday 8pm on ITV (February 2018)

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BR
Brekkie
Quite refreshing now to have a quiz show not padded out with small talk - at the pace Clarkson goes through it they could probably get two £1m winners in a show.
JA
JAS84
Ouch.
Two £1000 winners, and the guy who got £64,000 actually used all four lifelines and still ended up walking - had he got the question right he'd have been guaranteed £125k as he'd set the safety net, but he actually got it wrong.
Jon posted:
Johnr posted:
Ah

May not be the last the contestants are cursed by Nicki Minaj this week!

Does this relate to the event Clarkson has been talking about?
I don't believe so. The trailer shows someone being asked the million pound question, so it's probably that he was talking about.
JO
Jon
just to clarify I was asking Johnr if the Nicki Minaj incident he’s referring to relates to Clarkson’s interview comments.
JO
Johnr
Jon posted:
just to clarify I was asking Johnr if the Nicki Minaj incident he’s referring to relates to Clarkson’s interview comments.


Don’t think so, it was just mentioned in his end of series summary that he always does ‘this week we’ve learnt nobody knows who Nicki Minaj is’ or something along those lines...again I won’t spoil too much yet but I think old school Millionaire fans will enjoy the episode on Friday!
JO
Jon
Thanks. Hopefully we can come out of the masked singer mode now!
JA
JAS84
Of course, Friday's episode is extended by 10 minutes...
So that they can finish a £1million winning game?
JO
Jon
JAS84 posted:
Of course, Friday's episode is extended by 10 minutes...
So that they can finish a £1million winning game?

Wouldn’t read too much into that in itself, as they extended out the final episode of the last series too. Of course with the other hints we’ve been getting we can only assume something of significance will happen in that show.
JA
JAS84
The Sun says it's tonight. Posted rather too many spoilers too!
https://www.thesun.co.uk/tvandshowbiz/11599815/doctor-who-wants-to-be-a-millionaire/
JL
JamesLaverty1925
Jon posted:
JAS84 posted:
Of course, Friday's episode is extended by 10 minutes...
So that they can finish a £1million winning game?

Wouldn’t read too much into that in itself, as they extended out the final episode of the last series too. Of course with the other hints we’ve been getting we can only assume something of significance will happen in that show.


That happened a lot in the original run IIRC. The last episode was often 10-15 minutes longer to finish a contestants run rather than hae them carried over to the next series.
JO
Jon
JAS84 posted:
The Sun says it's tonight. Posted rather too many spoilers too!
https://www.thesun.co.uk/tvandshowbiz/11599815/doctor-who-wants-to-be-a-millionaire/

It might not be the same moment.
JO
Jon
Bit of an aside but I think it’s the first time I’ve seen someone in a wheelchair get into the ‘hot seat’? It may have happened in the Clarkson era, but I’m sure it never happened in the Tarrant era.
SS
SuperSajuuk
Jon posted:
Bit of an aside but I think it’s the first time I’ve seen someone in a wheelchair get into the ‘hot seat’? It may have happened in the Clarkson era, but I’m sure it never happened in the Tarrant era.

Yep. There was a “making of millionaire” thing on that dvd a long time ago, which showed at least one person in a wheelchair practising the game in rehearsals, but never got into the hot seat in the actual episode. They did show how they had structured things if they did need to do so, and clearly did accommodate everyone for the Tarrant episodes tho.

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