Rumours continue
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I think i would prefer to see a local version of Pointless instead of Tipping Point⌠watching the shelves move in and out waiting for the contestant to press the button can get a bit tedious⌠Pointless has more humorous banter between the host, offsider and contestants.
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Daily Mail reporting show to be axed while News.com.au reporting show is not
Daily Mail: Iconic Australian TV show 'set to be axed' after 14 years on the air | Daily Mail Online
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Even Eddie wouldnât be able to dictate what a commercial TV network airs in a timeslot. The choice isnât up to him.
From memory the show went to an hour to be more competitive with The Chase as it was getting a headstart prior to that. Reverting back to 30 minutes would only increase their problems and also give Nine the additional problem/expense of finding another show for 5pm
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Not if they run them together!
30 min tipping point 30min hot seat.
There is also the option that Millionaire could go back to being a prime time show once a week⌠as it used to be
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I agree with you, especially if they go for the full hour as opposed to the half-hour format Ten had.
If they are considering making the change to Tipping Point, it should either be the same format as the UK version or not at all. I feel part of the success of The Chase Australia was they copy and pasted the format from the UK version which people already knew and enjoyed. If you do want to keep a half-hour Hot Seat, the other show should be something which you know will work in a half-hour time slot (Jeopardy perhaps?).
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I think itâs time to rest the format. They can bring it back again in a few years when there might be renewed interest. But then againâŚThe Weakest Link reboot suggests a revival might not work.
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And that would allow contestants the option to walk away on a current question, as they cannot do on the Hot Seat format.
A twist I would introduce on the original Millionaire format is that, should a contestant get a question wrong, their game doesnât end, but rather the top prize available to him or her gets knocked down by one rung (similar to the Hot Seat format).
For example, if a contestant gets the $4,000 question wrong, their game continues, except the top prize ($1,000,000) gets knocked down to the second-highest value ($500,000), and the contestant is asked a new question of the same value. Eventually, their 15th question (if they make it that far without walking away) would be for the top prize still remaining (so if they got two questions wrong during their run, the top prize would be $250,000).
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It would be very costly for Nine to do it this way however, because it would mean the person in the seat is guarenteed money (unless they get all 15 wrong).
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True, though no one in this day and age would be stupid enough to get all 15 questions wrong.
In the US version, they had a âshuffleâ format between 2010-15, whereby the first question could be for $25,000, and the tenth for $100, and even if they gave a wrong answer on any question within these ten questions, they would still walk away with $1,000, regardless of whatever money they had accumulated to that point (walking away would see them claim half of what they had banked).
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IMO one of the reasons it tanked was because there was too much comedy in the revival, brought about by Magda Szubanskiâs personality. It lacked the suspense and intensity of the Cornelia Frances era.
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Didnât 10 do that?
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Yes, Mark Humphries hosted alongside Andrew Rochford. Ten didnât give it a chance though.
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Eddie McGuire spoke about Hot Seat on his footy podcast with Jimmy Bartel today. He said that Nine are producing 20 prime-time episodes of Tipping Point because they have a contract with Tipping Point whereby if they donât produce those episodes, the brand could be sold to another network, and obviously Seven want to knock off Tipping Point. Eddie said Hot Seat is safe and theyâve just signed a deal for the back half of the year.
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20 Prime time specials is more than i thought for Tipping Point. They could most of the episodes on Saturday nights later in the year to fill in the void for shows like Space Invaders (and Harry Potter franchises) and âthe big winsâ on other nights to draw in a crowd.
So Hot Seat could still be gone in the new year⌠Unless they film some episodes in October and November and air them in the early months of 2024? Still not guaranteed the show is safe in a years time from now.
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Very little is⌠even if say MAFS or The Block were to bleed viewers in the in 2nd half of the year, thereâd be questions about whether it can last into 2024.
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Does anyone know how the order of contestants after Fastest Finger First is determined, as there doesnât seem to be any correlation to anything from FFFâŚ.is it just done randomly?
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Isnât it order of correct answers and least time taken?
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I donât think so, as Iâm sure Iâve seen times when the first into the Hot Seat didnât win FFF.
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Maybe the winner gets to pick the order?