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Post by millionaireandtpir on Jan 21, 2010 18:48:34 GMT -5
...winning only $10,000-$15,000?  I mean in recent days, those are the only amounts people are winning. They don't seem to go past the $25,000 mark anymore. What's going on??? |
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Post by RyanZ on Jan 21, 2010 22:19:45 GMT -5
I'm not sure, although I guess they could have possibly started having harder questions due to nearly EVERYBODY winning at least $25,000. I mean, at some point getting to $25,000 just meant to me that you didn't fail completely.
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Post by FrankT on Jan 22, 2010 11:12:22 GMT -5
It's that loony Michael Davies! If he hadn't gotten rid of the Phone-A-Friend, this wouldn't happen!
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Post by ljouvin on Jan 22, 2010 14:06:31 GMT -5
Harder questions, and one lifeline less... even if I think it comes more of harder questions
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Post by leimeisei on Jan 22, 2010 20:13:06 GMT -5
They have terrible question writers nowadays IMO. Did anyone notice during the 10th Anniversary shows that EVERY QUESTION SET had a Barack Obama related question? And stupid things too, like the Secret Service codenames for Sasha and Malia. Who would know that off the top of their head? The guy I believe had to use Ask the Expert, and that day the Expert was a Washington press member, so they got it, but still... stupid.
Millionaire isn't even played during the day anymore in my area. My local NBC affiliate used to purchase the show for the 3PM timeslot, but they now purchase some show called "Dr. Oz" instead, now some no-name station picked up WWTBAM and airs it at 2:30 AM, which I could DVR but quite frankly it's not even worth it. In my area, every standard-def Comcast digital channel is really shaky and the video quality sucks, even on standard def TVs, so I don't even bother.
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Post by RegisFan on Jan 23, 2010 2:33:37 GMT -5
I think that more contestants are leaving before the second milestone because of the new money tree. Because the amounts before the $25,000 level are bigger than before, contestants have no problem with walking away at those levels. I think that was the strategy behind the new money tree to begin with- to give away less money while appearing to give away more.
I'm more concerned with the recent rise in the number of contestants leaving with nothing.
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Post by FrankT on Jan 23, 2010 3:52:35 GMT -5
Guess that part of the conspiracy backfired then!
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Post by millionaireandtpir on Jan 31, 2010 1:03:14 GMT -5
I think that more contestants are leaving before the second milestone because of the new money tree. Because the amounts before the $25,000 level are bigger than before, contestants have no problem with walking away at those levels. I think that was the strategy behind the new money tree to begin with- to give away less money while appearing to give away more. I'm more concerned with the recent rise in the number of contestants leaving with nothing. That may be the case, but I hope contestants win big again (i.e., beyond $25,000...or possibly another millionaire)... |
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Post by ljouvin on Jan 31, 2010 12:56:00 GMT -5
We all hope that! I'd just like that the next big winner won't be coming from another Tournament thing...
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Post by FrankT on Feb 9, 2010 7:53:37 GMT -5
That's if there's another one at all.
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Post by ktitus on Feb 9, 2010 13:20:15 GMT -5
It's also really boring (and hard) to watch Millionaire with all of the middle-of-the-road winners. Maybe if they'd use some easier questions and have smarter contestants we'd start seeing more money given out.
Millionaire was the only quiz show I can think of that didn't drop their jackpot amount after switching from Primetime to Syndication (ie. Deal or No Deal dropped from $1 Million to $500,000; 5th Grader dropped from $1 Million to $250,000), so I can understand they they can't afford to give out as much money as they did on Primetime, but this is just stupid.
I don't know how Millionaire is still on with all of the changes they made.
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Post by FrankT on Feb 11, 2010 7:31:30 GMT -5
5th Grader dropped from $1 Million to $250,000 Hey, yeah! Our version of that had a primetime of £250,000, but daytime had just £50,000! |
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Post by ljouvin on Feb 11, 2010 9:31:56 GMT -5
Oh, I didn't know there was primetime AND daytime versions of "10 year old" in the UK...
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Post by Tim0n on Feb 11, 2010 16:41:40 GMT -5
Sky1 jumps from Noel's primetime (normal+celebrity) version to Damian's daytime version - for some time they air primetime, and for some - daytime.
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Post by ljouvin on Feb 11, 2010 17:33:25 GMT -5
There's not so many shows that have both primetime and daytime versions at the same time. It should be a real ratings winner then !
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) I guess the next on will be Poland then...
I mean in recent days, those are the only amounts people are winning. They don't seem to go past the $25,000 mark anymore. What's going on???
