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Well well done everyone, after a few dry episodes I think you’ve given us a lot to chew on this time round. As ever, I can’t verify any of it – the truth is known only to the writers and the people involved and I usually filter out stuff that feels a bit attention-seeky and false but you never know. Let’s see what you’ve given us:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Apparently Million Dollar Island<\/strong> isn’t doing that well in the Netherlands – it was losing to their version of Beat The Chasers<\/strong> and the reality show Farmer Wants A Wife<\/strong> – but it still is selling; Australia’s 7 Network just picked up the format….<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

I can verify this though – it’s not doing well, although Farmer Wants A Wife<\/em> is one of those shows that’s massive in one particular territory and not really elsewhere. Still, at least they can reuse the armbands.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Channel 4 considered showing the bleeped edits of Taskmaster<\/strong> in one of their struggling daytime slots<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Not the worst idea to be honest, although probably not when they’re in season.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

BBC Three discussing yet another revival of Castaway 2000 \/ 2007<\/strong>, as though it\u2019s the poorly rating show that just won\u2019t flush.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Don’t really see the point of this if the BBC is meant to be doing Survivor, although thanks for reminding us of Castaway 2007<\/strong> which I don’t remember at all, but did apparently have a contestant called Joe Chicken on it<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kind of a game show. Dave are piloting a new show where comedians take control as managers of Football teams using Football Manger to simulate matches. They have challenges in between based around press conferences, motivational team talks etc. each week, one comedian is relegated until one remains.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Potentially, I love<\/strong> this idea – Fantasy Football Manager League – although I fear so much of it is going to be down to casting, it will need comics that properly get into it and take things a bit personally. Also the way it’s described it sounds like it might come across as both<\/em> under- and over-formatted. Definitely something to look into, but I suspect less might be more. My gut right now is saying excellent Youtube series that doesn’t quite translate to television.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Britbox is getting that delightful game show we know and love… LETTERBOX<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

A special Eurovision-themed edition of Richard Osman’s House of Games Night<\/strong> will fill the gap between the FA Cup final and the Eurovision final on BBC One, with contestants M\u00e5ns Zelmerl\u00f6w, Michael Ball, Cheryl Baker and Mel Giedroyc.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

I don’t think this is true, but it’d make a great line-up. What would get played? Sing When You’re Winning<\/em> obv. I’m sure there are other games that’d fit the theme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Series 2 of Moneybags<\/strong> has a slight format change- contestants are no longer ruled out of play the next day(s) if they\u2019ve made the final before, which now means one person could potentially win the million pound prize pot throughout the week<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Yeah fair enough. Although it was quite nice that everyone was at least guaranteed a chance to get into the Final by Friday. I suppose it means it’s worthwhile everyone hanging around in the audience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fastest Finger First<\/strong> has already been filmed and edited, ready to air whenever now. Using the current Millionaire set but with 6 podiums stage left.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Big fan of The Rani getting another quiz gig, I’m still a bit perplexed as to how this is going to work from a broadcast point of view – are they all going out in a daytime block? Are they going out in the afternoon\/evening that Millionaire<\/strong> is also going out? It makes sense for one to feed directly (or closely) into the other so you’ve got an easy narrative to follow but you do risk having Too Much Millionaire<\/em>. I don’t know. I know Spain had a daily version of The Money Drop<\/strong> where the winners got to play for the big money in the evening, so there’s previous in the idea.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

BBC are done with new quiz until mid 2023. They’re happy enough with all their current quizzes that there are not looking for new ones at all. C5 are looking for heritage quiz to bring in to compliment Eggheads<\/strong>. I’ve heard 15-1<\/strong> is one about to go to pilot, but in a condensed form.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Well I wish my boss was happy with result expectations that low. I’m always wondering with these format pitching contests (that saw The Tournament<\/strong> and Bridge of Lies<\/strong> being made) how bad the other 30 shows must have been. A touch unfair on Bridge of Lies<\/em> perhaps, especially as we’ve heard way worse about a similar pitching contest for Channel 4 that has apparently led to One Question With Claudia Winkleman<\/strong>, so that’s something to look forward to.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I have heard that Channel 5 are looking for similar quizzes to Eggheads<\/strong> as they’re very happy with how it’s done. Surely a condensed version of 15-1<\/strong> is just… old-skool 15-1<\/strong>?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A pilot for a UK Jeopardy<\/strong> revival was filmed this month with Richard Madeley hosting.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

ITV have another UK revival of Jeopardy<\/strong> (with Richard Madeley hosting) in the pipeline for lunchtimes when Loose Women<\/em> is on hiatus.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Yeah I’ve been sitting on this for a little while and was caught off guard when I heard about it. So much of it feels like a hard sell – getting an hour’s format out of it, the sort of stakes you’re likely to be playing for at 12:30pm, whether there’s any real call for a middlebrow quiz at 12:30pm. Does Loose Women<\/em> regularly go on hiatus these days? It strikes me that there are probably enough people in the rotation that they don’t really need to take a break. Madeley would probably be quite a good host, but could you take it seriously?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I’ve always said that I’d hope someone would try it just so it would crash and burn and everyone would stop banging on about it. If only there’s another channel looking for a heritage middlebrow quiz they could run for half an hour, possibly whilst another show is on hiatus, and could probably get away with lower stakes and expectations. I guess we will just never know.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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