December 2011:
10:00-11:30pm Monday to Thursday,
9pm-10:30pm Friday
January 2012:
9pm Friday, 9:30pm Saturday
Davina’s back for another week of drop drama. I have no idea if any celebrities are playing or when.
Last series some massive amounts were given away (£300,000 being won by Jack Whitehall and his dad). Last Christmas the losers got to pick drops to go away with a prize – no idea if we’ll be seeing that this week.
It feels a bit too early for Christmas specials. The “too much?” advert was quite amusing though.
Edit: Everywhere comics Mickey Flannigan tonight and Paddy McGuinness later the week, so @bbspy tells us.
They’ve got weighing things on the drops. Am intrigued to know if they actually weigh the bundles or if jt’s a little man guessing.
It certainly looked as if it was being done by a man guessing.
There didn’t seem to be many people playing online tonight compared to previous series. Around 25,000 at one stage mid-show; no ‘come and play for real’ incentive this time I gather, but still quite a bit lower than in the past.
Also not sure if 90mins stripped for five days isn’t a bit much. We are big fans of MPD, but felt that the show outstayed its welcome somewhat, despite some entertaining and likeable contestants (even if they did think that TV-AM may still be running.)
I think having it stripped cross this week with Monday to Thursday running until 11.30pm is a risky move, since it’s technically a week night and people like me, I have to get up in the morning.
I certainly didn’t approve the celebrity game last night. They have shown in the past a full game with 8 questions can run up to around 45 mins but last night it ran for nearly 70 minutes.
Coming soon very early next year:
Well frankly we should have got it last year.
Felt rather smug all day that I got the ‘Hello Dolly’ question on the second clue last night – and it was a Final strength question.
Loved this series. Makes Monday nights tolerable for 30 mins between 8.30 and 9.00pm.
Anyway, a thrice load of questions that entered my head during the show.
a)Have the OC team thought about introducing a new round in the show? Keep it refreshed and all that.
b)If OC is not going to escape the BBC Four programme cull-will it end up on BBC Two?
c)I have a couple of question ideas. Where do I mail them to?
a) Coming up with sequences is the hardest thing. If we ever ran out, I’d be tempted to make rounds 1 and 2 about connections but maybe R1 is text clues and R2 is more ‘multimedia’ (maybe 2 music, 2 pictures, 2 puzzly/alphanumeric).
b) We’ll still be around.
c) Me. And my email is not hard to find.
Million Pound Drop was the most watched quiz show on commercial television yesterday. Thank you for your continued support.
It only got 1.3m viewers so don’t sing your own praises Joe. It’s a bad decision to run it till 11.30pm on weeknights – especially when the show dragged so much last night with only 10 questions across 90 minutes (and I thought In it to Win It dragged!). You used to manage that comfortable within an hour.
And wasn’t it the only quiz show on commercial television (ITV1,C4,C5) last night?
Amazing how nearly ten years ago, nearly everybody slagged off In It to Win It for being too slow but it got through over 20 questions inside 50 minutes (including Lotto breaks). Where since then we had 1 Vs 100 which got through 9-12 questions and Secret Fortune getting through 11 questions in the same timeslot.
Actually I would say last night’s Million Pound Drop actually made Secret Fortune look like a ultra fast quiz.
The fourth most watched show in its timeslot. Nice one.
And the third most watched quiz show on all networks (Pointless, Eggheads).
And the original point only holds if you use a narrow “quiz show” definition as opposed to a “game show” one, anyway, as Deal had about 50% more viewers.
I sort of think your’re being a bit tongue-in-cheek, though – right Joe?
We may never know.
In fairness, it has half a chance of coming pretty close to High Stakes tonight.
Although there was a nice little plug for The Bank Job (which is what it’s called Joe)!
Remember – be careful not to get yourself hidden among the Urban Nederlanders… 😉
Almost 1.5m for this last night.
Is this new?
http://www.skybet.com/betting/tv-and-film-specials/c10000039.html?aff=6559
Hahahaha
What are the odds of what has just happened on the MPD?!
I don’t know, but if anyone HAS bet on it, they’re laughing all the way to the bank right now! 😀
It was a bit of a shocker, although I wasn’t positive on the second one I must say.
I liked the Crystal Maze-esque consolation prize of indoor skydiving, mind you.
Wow, just how stupid are the people they’ve let onto the show this series? 2 couples in a row have lost all their money on the first question!!!
Ooh, bit of a vague choice on the Time question. As the Million Pound Drop has had variable running lengths since it first began as far as I remember?
Plus wouldn’t there be different train services running between Edinburgh and Glasgow? Express and stoppers maybe?
Yes, that felt a bit off really. Question writing feels a bit lazier this series.
That was a pretty lousy question I thought too.
Don’t know about anyone else, but the Clubs question (which opened first – Hacienda, Cream, Ministry of Sound) sounded awfully familiar to me. I seem to remember in a previous series debating which out of MoS and Cream opened first.
Maybe it was a different quiz show or maybe I just dreamt it. It’s late. Too late, in fact.
1.5m again last night. I think that’s OK, although like a lot of people I think I prefered it on Friday/Saturday rotation.
Final show (9th December) managed to grab 1.76m (8.0%) +1 212k (1.3%).
Excluding +1, it was forth place in the timeslot. Even losing out to Gardeners World on BBC Two. Oh…
It is a decent figure for Channel 4, though.