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The return of Winning Streak
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Bump!
I see that the golden wheel has departed more or less as quickly as it had arrived, and hence we're back to just one contestant spinning the big wheel in every episode - yet the numbers of instances of each amount on the big wheel have not changed.
Yes, I'm looking at you once again, you mean Canadians...
:rolleyes: :rolleyes: 
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Go Harvey Go wrote: »Bump!
I see that the golden wheel has departed more or less as quickly as it had arrived, and hence we're back to just one contestant spinning the big wheel in every episode - yet the numbers of instances of each amount on the big wheel have not changed.
Yes, I'm looking at you once again, you mean Canadians... :rolleyes: :rolleyes:
Well, I don't know if you caught last Saturday night's edition of Winning Streak on RTÉ One but after the contestant won 40K on the Big Wheel + earlier winnings which came to a Total of €58,000 Marty & Sinéad bid everyone a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year - There was none of the usual customary quip from Marty Whelan at the very end: How do ya PLAY? Ya go out a BUY a Ticket! See you all again on January 9th, 2016! Is this the 1st Christmas time that Winning Streak has taken a prolonged break in transmission?0 -
AwaitYourReply wrote: »Well, I don't know if you caught last Saturday night's edition of Winning Streak on RTÉ One but after the contestant won 40K on the wheel + earlier winnings which came to a Total of €58,000 Marty & Sinéad bid everyone a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year - There was none of the usual customary quip from Marty Whelan at the very end: How do ya PLAY? Ya go out a BUY a Ticket! See you all again on January 9th, 2016! Is this the 1st Christmas time that Winning Streak has taken a prolonged break in transmission?
It took a prolonged break from last Christmas to this summer while the Million Euro Challenge was on. Remember?
And it usually takes some sort of a break for Christmas, anyway.0 -
Go Harvey Go wrote: »It took a prolonged break from last Christmas to this summer while the Million Euro Challenge was on. Remember?
And it usually takes some sort of a break for Christmas, anyway.
Ah well yeah of course I didn't mean the change of game to Nicky Byrne's lottery show that flopped as it was lacking in so many respects through no fault of Nicky either to be fair. The whole show concept was clearly not adequately tested among the general public as otherwise; it should never have actually made it to air.
In fact the Summer before last (June-August 2014), there was no weekly lottery show televised on RTÉ television. They did a "Money-Spinner" game draw and it went out on YouTube with Brian Ormond as the host.
Over the years, I always thought they kept Winning Streak going thru Christmas/New Year holiday period in previous Christmas times or maybe take one week off but this is 3 weeks off and you begin to wonder if this would impact in lottery scratch card sales at a time when some folk receive Christmas gifts in the form of money etc; - Surely, the show could have been re-scheduled for recording and re-broadcast later with alternative stand-in hosts like John Creedon, Derek Mooney if necessary? We all know this show never goes out live anyway! Furthermore, I'll never know why they require TWO presenters for Winning Streak these days especially when things are tighter! Marty Whelan could easily do it in his sleep
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dublinman1990 wrote: »Winning Streak is yet again taking another 3 week break to be back on the 30th of January.
The Fianna Fail Ard Fheis is on next Saturday and Fine Gael have theirs the following Saturday.0 -
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dublinman1990 wrote: »The new series of Winning Streak is back on the 24th of September.
https://www.lottery.ie/Games/Game-Info/Scratch-Cards/Winning-Streak
The top prize for the scratchcard cannot be a mistake can it? €5,000? They must be joking. Surely it's just an error on TNL's part; Right?
https://www.lottery.ie/en/Games/Game-Info/Scratch-Cards
In their promotion of the card:Win great instant cash prizes or get your three stars for your chance to join Marty and Sinead for the return of Europe’s longest running TV gameshow.
But in this description of a video they uploaded last April...Marty and Sinead give us a look at what happens behind the scenes of Europe's second longest-running TV game show!
They couldn't possibly have looked at this thread - and in particular, this post I made in June 2015. COULD THEY??!?!?! :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek:Go Harvey Go wrote: »RTE and the National Lottery have been making this claim for several years - even when Wetten, Dass...? was still going.
This was the original German version of You Bet!, and it ended last year having run for 33 years - nearly a decade longer than the 'Streak.
And surely it, and YB!, were games of chance - all the contestants had to do was predict whether or not a challenge would be completed successfully...0 -
Go Harvey Go wrote: »In their promotion of the card:
But in this description of a video they uploaded last April...
They couldn't possibly have looked at this thread - and in particular, this post I made in June 2015. COULD THEY??!?!?! :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek:
I'm afraid they probably realised that countdown has been running longer0 -
Here is said video, BTW:
Hard to believe that Marty's about to start his eighth year as host - thus surpassing Derek Mooney (who hosted from 2001 to 2008).
He still has a few years to go before he can say that he's hosted it longer than Mike Murphy, though.
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I'm afraid they probably realised that countdown has been running longer
Why be afraid?
And while Countdown has indeed been running longer, the French show on which it is based has been running longer still - 44 years and counting.
Mais bien sûr, neither are games of chance like the 'Streak is. 0 -
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