Audience ticket information should be able to confirm this but they’ll be filming at least 3-4 episodes a day (I suspect two sessions of two episodes in each), so we’re talking 25-34 days for a block of 100 episodes. Plenty of time between the Australian Open and French Open and US Open and Christmas to film two blocks of episodes a year. The 100 in the can already should see them through to the Olympics with repeats starting to be introduced around Easter I suspect. Add in Friday repeats and they’d get away with probably 60 additional episodes to get through to the end of November.
I suspect moving forward too they’ll probably be at most 40 weeks of 3-4 new episodes a week from the second year so you’re looking at 30-40 filming days a year. It’s a good gig if you can get it.
The Chase UK doesn’t even film annually anymore - they just record a stack of episodes every couple of years with production often on a long hiatus when Bradley is away filming things.
Thanks for that. Assuming though $20k is the jackpot if you win it in the final round (although it could be potentially $40k, even $80k with the doubles) it seems a bit of a flaw that you possibly have a chance of a better prize if you don’t win the jackpot and then gamble.
Latest promo running opens with “This is the new 5 o’clock game changer”. However the promo shown in Perth is missing this v/o. Instead it starts with Todd saying “It’s a game of strategy…”. The rest of the promo is the same. So it suggests that Perth will keep WA News First and slot the new Tipping Point Australia into the 4pm spot that currently has the Tipping Point UK - an easy switch. Highly speculative of course.
They should keep the afternoon news at 5pm in Perth. It rates quite well in the time slot and is helping 6pm rate better as well. Putting it back at 4pm would not be a smart decision for either the news or Tipping Point in Perth. 9 needs to do something different to 7 to get better ratings in the west imo.
I wouldn’t be surprised if a game board for Tipping Point is produced and then eventually sold at Big W, Target etc. in the coming months. I say this because there have been game boards produced for The Chase Australia, Family Feud etc.
A game board for the British version already exists, so therefore for the Australian market it would need to be retooled to include Todd Woodbridge instead of Ben Shephard, and also include questions/answers suited to the local audience (for example, including some AFL/NRL questions, local music questions etc.).
