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Post by Deleted on Oct 1, 2017 10:03:56 GMT -5
Here is a question that popped in my mind...
Why did the UK decide to no longer use the classic Strachan beds, and used the Ramon Covalo beds?
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Post by Gagamillionaire on Oct 2, 2017 14:19:59 GMT -5
Perhaps it was a cost-cutting move. And replacing only the question beds but basically keeping the theme music didn‘t distort the recognizability of the brand as much as a completely different theme would have done.
Or maybe it was just about modernization. Their calling the new cues „re-energized“ suggests to me that they found the old ones had gotten a bit stale.
If so, they went from stale to blah, IMO.
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Post by multimillionaire93 on Oct 2, 2017 22:54:50 GMT -5
Well, if you thought replacing the cues in the UK were bad, replacing the cues in the US was even worse, because as you know, starting in 2010, the US version had NO familiar music, and even worse, had eliminated the hot seat, and shuffled up all of the first ten questions (which literally no other country did!) until 2015.
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Post by millionaireloveruk on Oct 3, 2017 15:00:36 GMT -5
IIRC, I think I read somewhere (maybe even on this site somewhere) that it was part of an entire rebranding of the show as part of the sell off to 2WayTraffic from Celador. Cavalo had created an entire new set of cues to use for the show, including a new theme, completely different from the original. However, the production team decided to keep some of the classic cues, because they didn’t feel that all of Cavalo’s new theme fitted with the show, so they kept some of the Strachan cues to keep the show recognisable as the Millionaire that the public had knew and had loved for 9 years, and ‘reenergise’ some of the parts of the music that contained the eight ‘Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?’ notes, which is why the Rave theme, Hot Seat Crossover, £1,000 and £50,000 Win, and Closing Theme all have the same tune as their Strachan counterparts. These parts of the new soundtrack weren’t composed by Cavalo, but my (I think) Nick Magnus. I’m not sure whatever happened to the rest of Cavalo’s soundtrack, although the Main Theme was available on his website for a while, not sure whether it still is. Not sure if all of this is completely right, but this is what I think I came remember. Hope it helps!  |
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Post by roboboy on Oct 3, 2017 18:31:54 GMT -5
I seem to remember reading (possibly on this site) that the Strachans were asked to compose a new score but rejected the project as they were too busy.
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Post by FinalAnswer19 on Oct 4, 2017 0:54:44 GMT -5
I seem to remember reading (possibly on this site) that the Strachans were asked to compose a new score but rejected the project as they were too busy. The actual themes (opening, closing, and milestone wins) were composed by them. I do not know why they didn't do the question music, too though. |
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Post by futuregshost on Oct 6, 2017 22:57:58 GMT -5
IIRC, I think I read somewhere (maybe even on this site somewhere) that it was part of an entire rebranding of the show as part of the sell off to 2WayTraffic from Celador. Cavalo had created an entire new set of cues to use for the show, including a new theme, completely different from the original. However, the production team decided to keep some of the classic cues, because they didn’t feel that all of Cavalo’s new theme fitted with the show, so they kept some of the Strachan cues to keep the show recognisable as the Millionaire that the public had knew and had loved for 9 years, and ‘reenergise’ some of the parts of the music that contained the eight ‘Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?’ notes, which is why the Rave theme, Hot Seat Crossover, £1,000 and £50,000 Win, and Closing Theme all have the same tune as their Strachan counterparts. These parts of the new soundtrack weren’t composed by Cavalo, but my (I think) Nick Magnus. I’m not sure whatever happened to the rest of Cavalo’s soundtrack, although the Main Theme was available on his website for a while, not sure whether it still is. So then if 2WayTraffic is pretty much responsible for the entire rebranding in the UK, are they also responsible for the clock format in the US? But then why would they keep the fast-track format with Cavalo beds in the UK and then have an entirely different format in the US with Strachan beds? |
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Post by retched on Oct 7, 2017 12:00:37 GMT -5
IIRC, I think I read somewhere (maybe even on this site somewhere) that it was part of an entire rebranding of the show as part of the sell off to 2WayTraffic from Celador. Cavalo had created an entire new set of cues to use for the show, including a new theme, completely different from the original. However, the production team decided to keep some of the classic cues, because they didn’t feel that all of Cavalo’s new theme fitted with the show, so they kept some of the Strachan cues to keep the show recognisable as the Millionaire that the public had knew and had loved for 9 years, and ‘reenergise’ some of the parts of the music that contained the eight ‘Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?’ notes, which is why the Rave theme, Hot Seat Crossover, £1,000 and £50,000 Win, and Closing Theme all have the same tune as their Strachan counterparts. These parts of the new soundtrack weren’t composed by Cavalo, but my (I think) Nick Magnus. I’m not sure whatever happened to the rest of Cavalo’s soundtrack, although the Main Theme was available on his website for a while, not sure whether it still is. So then if 2WayTraffic is pretty much responsible for the entire rebranding in the UK, are they also responsible for the clock format in the US? But then why would they keep the fast-track format with Cavalo beds in the UK and then have an entirely different format in the US with Strachan beds? If I remember right Disney was responsible for the US Clock format, much like how Millionaire Hot Seat was a result of Nine Network wanting a faster game. |
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Post by RegisFan on Oct 7, 2017 23:06:40 GMT -5
That is correct. Disney’s rights to the series give them control over the U.S. format that other countries do not have for their local versions. The leaked Sony documents shed a lot of light on this topic. If Disney were to let their rights lapse, control would shift back to Sony/2WayTraffic and they could rebrand the show to match the international format.
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Post by thepixelpolygon on Oct 11, 2017 15:24:39 GMT -5
That is correct. Disney’s rights to the series give them control over the U.S. format that other countries do not have for their local versions. The leaked Sony documents shed a lot of light on this topic. If Disney were to let their rights lapse, control would shift back to Sony/2WayTraffic and they could rebrand the show to match the international format. So they still have the rule where you're supposed to use the same music and set in other countries, but the US is exempt from this because Disney has the right in the US? |
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Post by RegisFan on Oct 11, 2017 19:19:32 GMT -5
Correct. Disney’s control over the U.S. version is unique among all of the international variants.
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) I guess the next on will be Poland then...
