{"id":15099,"date":"2025-05-26T09:41:49","date_gmt":"2025-05-26T08:41:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=15099"},"modified":"2025-05-26T10:16:28","modified_gmt":"2025-05-26T09:16:28","slug":"who-doesnt-want-to-be-a-millionaire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=15099","title":{"rendered":"Who Doesn’t Want To Be A Millionaire?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I watched WWTBAM<\/strong> for the first time in ages last night after a tip-off that something interesting happened, it did, and I’ll save it for later in the post so you’ve got a chance to walk away if you haven’t watched it or encountered the news yet, although you may be able to pick it up sooner so reader beware.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What struck me pretty immediately is that for the show that was built on slow, tense reveals, under the current management it got through the titles, introducing the contestants, Fastest Finger First and the first twelve questions in under 12 minutes. Sure, we had a contestant who was pretty confident in most of his answers, but it also struck that many of the questions even towards the upper levels were not all that difficult. Is quickfire Millionaire standard, regular viewers?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was also interesting that a 50:50 situation came up – at a really high level question – where after an Ask the Audience and some discussion it did not<\/em> leave the two most obvious (or difficult to choose between) answers. I’m told that despite the removal of “random” from the “remove two random wrong answers” host instruction it had for a while, the removed answers are still indeed random.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Anyway Nicholas Bennett has the dubious honour of being the first UK civilian contestant to go for the million pounds and lose, although he still won \u00a3125,000. Still, we think \u00a3375,000 is the largest amount of money willingly risked and lost on a UK gameshow – no Limitless Win<\/strong> doesn’t count because the money isn’t yours to risk until it is banked, and you can’t walk away from The Million Pound Drop<\/strong>, so that doesn’t count either.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I watched WWTBAM for the first time in ages last night after a tip-off that something interesting happened, it did, and I’ll save it for later in the post so you’ve got a chance to walk away if you haven’t watched it or encountered the news yet, although you may be able to pick it\u2026 Read More »<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pLcmt-3Vx","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15099","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15099"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15099\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}