Hot Seat

Television Nine Network
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Could Nine not retain Eddie, like what Seven did with AOK and Chase?

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Yeah I assume he’ll stay with Nine generally.

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633

Who says they aren’t?

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Sully?

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635

Yeh thats who I asked. Why did Sully assume that?

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636

Well if Eddie gets on the gear we will see.

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637

I’d say Adelaide is almost certain to change their schedule to match the east coast. A couple of years ago the modified schedule seemed to be helping the 6pm ratings but this year the news numbers are well down. Nine might be happy to move the new show to 4pm in Perth though.

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3 questions

  1. Has a new show been announced?

  2. Will they try and push the new show in a primetime slot to generate interest like Seven did in late 1989 during the Summer break of Home And Away?

(Before criticising this possibility, at end of September there are opportunities in the schedule with end of NRL season on Nine eg 7:30pm Thursday and Friday and possibly even slip it in at 7pm Sunday and bump reality and 60 Minutes back an hour - admittedly not a desirable proposition for Sunday night, but I think a 2 night a week trial could generate interest)

  1. will there still be network programming variations like WIN, Nine Gold Coast, Nine Adelaide and Nine Perth?
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639

Wasn’t there a local version of Tipping Point coming?

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Primetime specials this year of tipping point. These were the ones filmed in bristol.

Local version next year.

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I thought an inital run of Tpping Point was short. Like 10 episodes or so. Or am i mistaken for Jeopardy Aus with Stephen Fry?

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Im hoping whatever replaces it is treated well and given every opportunity to succeed.

I have done a mock schedule for 9Gem and 9Go! (9Go! having only a slight schedule change) which would offer an opportunity for an encore of the new show and offer a opportunity for repeats to screen of its predecessor at 5pm (Hot Seat)

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Probably let HS drag on a little longer vs what they should have. Regardless, thank Christ they have rights for TP. It’s a great show and is highly addictive at times.

Host will be key in a local TP. Very important part of the flow of that show.

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They were supposedly filming a run of Tipping Point and Jeopardy in the UK with Australian contestants. They might run Tipping Point from February and then Jeopardy later on. Then decide which one deserves to have a longer run.

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645

I think David Campbell or Hamish Blake might fit the bill.

Can’t have Eddie hosting every game show on Nine. Could you imagine he or a contestant saying “lock it in” on a question?

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646

Just not Grant Denyer or Karl

647

good riddance - always thought Hot Seat was the worst variation of WWTBAM, as the original format was, and still is far superior.

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648

I think the biggest problem was that if didn’t evolve enough to keep the format fresh… They could have done something a bit different … eg. Change the lifelines, introduce a trade option. It just got a bit too “same-ish” …

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On the US version many years ago, there was a lifeline called “Double Dip” wherein you would have two shots at answering the same question, but if your first guess was wrong you were committed to answering it, plus you couldn’t use any more lifelines or walk away.

It came after they got rid of the 50:50 lifeline, so as to prevent contestants from being guaranteed to answer any given question correctly.

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Surely it’s got to be either Tipping Point or maybe Pointless 2.0? More so the former considering the UK version rates its arse off here.

Though if it’s a local adaptation I think they’d ditch the main channel airing of the UK version to avoid over saturation.

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