The Poll of the Year 2018 is officially… OPEN!

By | January 1, 2019

What’s that coming over the hill is it a monster? Is it a monster? No it’s the Poll of the Year 2018, featuring NEW things, and it’s open right now. Get voting!

In other news a new run of Who Wants to be a Millionaire? with Jeremy Clarkson begins on ITV tonight at 9pm.

24 thoughts on “The Poll of the Year 2018 is officially… OPEN!

  1. Brandon

    Let’s hope they’re fixed all the weird editing problems that were in the last series. I don’t know if this was deliberate, but Clarkson’s second series starts exactly 20 years(and an hour) after the second ever series started, which you can see here https://youtu.be/6E1g3TdISgI

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    1. Brandon

      I first saw that in a format promo trailer uploaded to the official Millionaire YouTube channel a few months back. I think I pointed it out on here then. I think they’ve changed the question graphics slightly as well, maybe also the contestants name graphics in the introductions.

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      1. Danny Kerner

        At the time the font must not have been cleared in the lawyers department in time so they must of had to edit it at the very last moment. This time they had more time from production to broadcast to get everything cleared.

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        1. David B

          But the same font was being used on the background screen to show the money wins, was it not? And it also appears in the logo! Besides, you don’t need a legal department to approve fonts – you just pay a licence fee.

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  2. Brandon

    Millionaire is brilliant tonight! The first contestant is probably the best in at least 10 years in my opinion,and I don’t think it’s been this tense since at least the last million pound winner.

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  3. Danny Kerner

    Well there’s a first. No-one getting the fastest finger first.

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    1. Brandon

      It’s not a first surprisingly, it’s happened at least once before that I clearly remember, and probably more than that. I remember it happening on the question “Put the traffic light sequence in order starting with stop” or something similar, and Chris Tarrant saying “What do we want questions on? Teletubbies or something?”. I also think it might have happened on a question about nursery rhymes but that might be the time 2 contestants posted the same time.

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      1. Danny Kerner

        Can Anyone on the board able confirm this statement by Brandon.

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        1. Brandon

          I know I’m confirming my own statement here, but here’s the clip on YouTube. https://youtu.be/yTGX_4u90dg

          Some people in the comments section say the question could be seen as ambiguous, as it’s not 100% clear what is meant “starting with stop” in this case, but I don’t know.

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          1. John R

            There is actually a compilation video too on YouTube

            https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LRCZbWHaaz0

            Although I suspect there will be more than just get cut out of the edit – certainly now they only have 6 FFF contestants reducing down as the show goes on the probability is quite a bit higher nobody will get it right!

          2. Brandon

            Wow, look at the amount of times it’s happened in the Czech Republic! Their questions must be very hard, or maybe a lot of people forget to press enter.

  4. David B

    Why did they describe “Good Morning Britain” as a ‘new’ show? Isn’t it effectively a reboot of the 1980s show?

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    1. David B

      Having watched the whole thing, I did enjoy the show. The run up to 32k felt a tad soft, but the top tier questions were well-pitched. I wouldn’t have had much joy with them personally but they felt fair. I do find the lack of a money strap after a correct answer unreasonably frustrating, though. It’s really hard to read the numbers in the background.

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      1. Brandon

        And as we saw last series, they clearly had the money strap graphics made as they appeared a couple of times by mistake.

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        1. Jon

          I’m not sure if it’s a case of they had it made rather it’s a feature of the software.

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          1. Crimsonshade

            This is what I suspect as well – that the software has the money strap graphics, but ITV have chosen to not use them because “the set does that job already”. It is probably notable that there is always a very quick camera cut to an overhead shot after a right answer is given, as well.

          2. Brandon

            I thought it was completely new software as from what I remember it’s a different name on the credits

          3. David B

            Effectively, Kinetic Pixel is the new name for Cat and Mouse, that’s why. The old company was bought up by Microsoft because of a video conferencing patent they owned, so the rest of the staff set up a new company to continue TV graphics work.

  5. Tom H

    3.39m for WWTBAM last night – (well down on last year’s series premiere) – peaked at 3.6m on the half-million pound question.

    And David B is completely right about the money strap – it’s such a simple, useful device, I’m baffled why they got rid of it.

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    1. Score

      3.6m last night so a bit better and not far off where it settled last time.

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