Ten did try it about thirty years ago, but it was on the old dollar values (before the US version doubled them) and even then the values were squibbed a little. Probably similar state to when Seven did Press Your Luck, the values won were more like mid-four figures than consistently five. Of course, you can’t get away with that too much in Australia anymore, and I don’t think you could do a local daily Jeopardy! on a $5-10k per ep average prize, which is what the likes of Ten would likely need to jump into it.
On the other hand, the Fry version is not a daily version either, it’s a 1-hour format, with a “Triple Jeopardy” round of sorts added - so once? twice? weekly, I guess. Presumably Ten would be the faves to get the Australian episodes of those, given Paramount own the format rights to Jeopardy! .
I get the idea of using the UK sets, but would make far more sense to just fly over an Aussie host from the start.
Say any of these do well and they want to invest in making an actually local version, you’re not going to have these major UK names hosting them still - you don’t know if it’s the format working or the host, and you’re just opening up for comparisons, likely negative ones.
To take advantage of this being in the ‘history’ part of the forum - is there any example of a format being done with an imported host and then had success with a local host later? The closest I suppose is those US shows that get a different host for primetime specials vs the syndication version, but I can’t think of any in Australia?
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I don’t know why they don’t just fly a local host in. You would think that would be cheaper than using someone so high profile like Graham Norton (or surely there is some Aussie talent in the UK). It also then sets the show up better longer term if it continues.
Yes and no; they’re just tacking it on as extra production to the UK version like they probably would be with J!. It’d only be an incremental expense as opposed to trying to wrangle someone else - but I also get your point.
Also suggests the “late May” filming of the AUS J! episodes has been pushed out to October… I guess Nine will push out the UK version out in late-ratings/over summer and then jump into the AUS episodes at start of the 2024 ratings period proper (since that Today clip/article was promoting the AUS version and mentioned 2024). Who knows there.
He did also fill the host role on the local version of Game of Games too (the show that Ellen Degeneres hosted in the US). Although that wasn’t early-evening like Feud or Name Game was.
Sorta became Ten’s version of “Eddie Everywhere” for a while, although trying to play up his things on Feud on social media like they do with Steve Harvey in the US version didn’t do any harm in that.
