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Who Wants to be a Millionaire?

Sunday 8pm on ITV (February 2018)

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AG
AxG
The visually-impaired contestant has also appeared on Mastermind and also Only Connect.

Edit: Impossible and Fifteen to One also.
BR
Brekkie
JAS84 posted:
Yeah, we just saw someone get to £32k with all lifelines intact... only to use all the lifelines on the next two questions.

And one of the contestants is married to a Mastermind champion! If his wife got to £64k, how well would he have done?

Perhaps her intelligence isn't determined by her husbands.
GM
Gary McEwan
JC was tweeting about tonight's episode and how it was 'Properly good'. Are we going to see the first Millionaire winner tonight since 2006?

EDIT - That'll be a no then...
Last edited by Gary McEwan on 8 March 2019 9:32pm
JA
james-2001
If there'd been one, I doubt it would have been kept out of the press.
CU
Curto21
If there'd been one, I doubt it would have been kept out of the press.

Which is the reason why I don't look at the internet while watching an episode of a quiz show
JO
Jon
If there'd been one, I doubt it would have been kept out of the press.

Which is the reason why I don't look at the internet while watching an episode of a quiz show

I think you’d be ok for spoilers if you were watching Eggheads.

161 days later

JJ
Juicy Joe Founding member
Interesting ITV are scheduling New Who Wants To Be A Millionaire on Saturday & Sunday next week only, rather than stripped across the week. This means, you will be able to watch 3 different versions of WWTBAM on 3 different channels at 10pm next Saturday.
BR
Brekkie
Not too surprised but a shame. Just as first time around I really feel stripping it across the week really helps engage the audience to continue watching throughout the week. A week between episodes means you don't particularly care whether you catch it or not.
JK
JKDerry
Not too surprised but a shame. Just as first time around I really feel stripping it across the week really helps engage the audience to continue watching throughout the week. A week between episodes means you don't particularly care whether you catch it or not.

ITV may have felt that having an episode each night was a waste, and having it aired weekly enables them to fill prime time schedules at weekends. There is also the fact, that having it stripped can cause people to become bored with the show after say night 3, and lose interest.
DM
DeMarkay
Not too surprised but a shame. Just as first time around I really feel stripping it across the week really helps engage the audience to continue watching throughout the week. A week between episodes means you don't particularly care whether you catch it or not.

ITV may have felt that having an episode each night was a waste, and having it aired weekly enables them to fill prime time schedules at weekends. There is also the fact, that having it stripped can cause people to become bored with the show after say night 3, and lose interest.
IIRC did they show WWTBAM weekly in the early years?
BR
Brekkie
Was stripped initially for it's first few runs then it ran three nights a week most of the year, ultimately being cut back to one.
LL
Larry the Loafer
Their logic was the drama would keep the viewers coming back each night, and if the episodes were weekly, they might've lost interest. Funny really that we're now in the era of box sets and some people can't cope with not being able to watch the next episode of something right away.
Closedown and DeMarkay gave kudos

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