Alan Hughes' Family Fortunes

Go Harvey Go

Only just found out that Family Fortunes is coming to Ireland.

Will it do better or worse on these shores than DOND...?

Mind you, I much prefer Alan to Vernon Bl##dy Kay...

jjll

it wil be awful all the double entandres he will use why cant tv3 come up with there own shows instead of using other showswhat next the chase.....

Elmo

Bring back Talkabout!

Go Harvey Go

Oh dear... the show's in trouble before it even takes to the air... :rolleyes: :rolleyes:

Elmo

And yet he is happy to remain on Ireland AM?

Go Harvey Go

Elmo wrote: »

And yet he is happy to remain on Ireland AM?

Well, this gaffe wasn't his fault... it was the fault of the people who conducted the survey.

They probably haven't watched Pointless... :rolleyes:

Elmo

Go Harvey Go wrote: »

Well, this gaffe wasn't his fault... it was the fault of the people who conducted the survey.

They probably haven't watched Pointless... :rolleyes:

Perhaps they got people in the survey to spell nee Or its the gaffe of the Production Staff. (No rehearsals? or production meetings or auto-cues where the word nee might continually be spelled incorrectly?)

Alan: Okay folks we are looking for things viewers of Ireland AM want to use to hit Mark Cagney? So Sandra things you might like to hit my co-host of Ireland AM with.
Sandra: Nee?
Alan: Is knee there? our survey said

Bing

Alan: What where's the K gone like in C..t? Not that I'd know.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7yl3UMO-TkE

dulpit

Go Harvey Go wrote: »

Well, this gaffe wasn't his fault... it was the fault of the people who conducted the survey.

They probably haven't watched Pointless... :rolleyes:

To be fair, it was actually the fault of the numptys being surveyed who spell knee nee...

Havermeyer

Cheap advertising. Following the Ryanair school of thought.

Go Harvey Go

The first episode is now showing on TV3 - if anyone's interested...

Skid

Needs less chat and more questions!

Howjoe1

alan's new hair parting makes him look like someone out of little britain:D

MrStuffins

Carr's so wooden it's unreal!

This is something right from the script of Father Ted!

efb

was knee not given by the contestant, not the survey?

TV3 obv vetting the contestants to make sure they arent done for too much dough...

Im out!

Skid

The questions are rather dull.

It's all very pedestrian.

KKkitty

It's the first show and I know it's not an original format but give it a chance. I hope it does well

Go Harvey Go

"Name something you catch?"

'Cold' AND 'flu' were on the board... aren't they more or less the same thing? :rolleyes:

green day rule

Me & My Class Got Tickets To See It Being Recored Its Acctual very Good :pac:

iamwhoiam

Are Alans teeth is own ? They are too big for him ,as were his trousers ! He makes me laugh he takes himself so seriousely .

Elmo

Go Harvey Go wrote: »

'Cold' AND 'flu' were on the board... aren't they more or less the same thing? :rolleyes:

No they are different. A flu is much worse.

SweetCaliber

iamwhoiam wrote: »

Are Alans teeth is own ? They are too big for him ,as were his trousers ! He makes me laugh he takes himself so seriousely .

Did you not catch it on Xposé? Apparently he uses tipex! The man's a genious :rolleyes:

Elmo

lee3155 wrote: »

Did you not catch it on Xposé? Apparently he uses tipex! The man's a genious :rolleyes:

Ah so that is where the K went in Nee. :rolleyes:

Bet Xpose didn't come up as Things you Catch ?

NIMAN

Seen 5mins of it, it all seemed very Alan Partidgesque.

Dull & Tacky would be saying good things about it.

SweetCaliber

Elmo wrote: »

Ah so that is where the K went in Nee. :rolleyes:

Bet Xpose didn't come up as Things you Catch ?

Xpose is not my flavour but the minute I head about Alan by god I had to tune in.

Sure I always spell my Knee without a K, sure it's only silet at the end of the day, not reall important!

He did an alright job last night, looked a little tense and it was a really fast game I must say. Looking forward to the rest of them, I'm sure they will get better over time :P

Elmo

Was it anything like his days on Talkabout?

Elmo

I don't like this show at the best of times. Imagine if RTÉ had commissioned this and then put The Priest on as a family! uproar uproar I tell you.

I doubt they are using their own research. Minor point TBH. No spot prizes?

It should do well the UK version does well for the channel

jjll

it is awful to watch cringeworthy and they will strech it out for 25 shows

Elmo

jjll wrote: »

it is awful to watch cringeworthy and they will strech it out for 25 shows

I still don't understand this, Family Fortunes is a really cringey, camp and kitsch TV format from the 1970s. Are other version not just as cringey?

What did you expect?

However I like the US host anytime I see him on YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z-1VR7CGZNc

JP Liz V1

Aslan are on this week Christy might be a hoot

supernova84

Name something you jump over...the railings says christy from Aslan can't wait for this bit

SweetCaliber

So far I will admit it's not the best. It's sped up and it's like they are rushing it. I was in the audience and it wasn't what it's like on the TV. They really did cut the humorous parts of it out. Add them back in and it will become much better!

Overall it's still early days. I'll give it a chance as I want to see my family on it but if it keeps going the way it's going, this may be it's only season.

newcavanman

I saw a few minutes of this on saturday night, just to see if it really was the same family from Big Fat Gypsy Wedding and it was, with Ming Flanagans family . Watched 5 minutes, just so i could say i really had. It was even worse than i thought it might be . I dont usually agree with David Norris, but i think he has a point about current television output . Pure drivel of the lowest order. Having said that, TV3 must reckon they will get people to watch it, so , does it say more about the viewing public, or TV3?

JP Liz V1

I thought Alan seemed scared of Paddy Doherty and his family

Mr E

Moved from TV to Gameshows & Quizzes.

MidlandsM

The Alan Hughes muppet is so annoying and loud and out there.

Can't stand anything he's in.

Elmo

newcavanman wrote: »

I saw a few minutes of this on saturday night, just to see if it really was the same family from Big Fat Gypsy Wedding and it was, with Ming Flanagans family . Watched 5 minutes, just so i could say i really had. It was even worse than i thought it might be . I dont usually agree with David Norris, but i think he has a point about current television output . Pure drivel of the lowest order. Having said that, TV3 must reckon they will get people to watch it, so , does it say more about the viewing public, or TV3?

I think he was talking about Tallafornia (just try to spell check that :rolleyes:).

I thought Alan seemed scared of Paddy Doherty and his family

Yeah yeah look terrified IMO. Bring back Talkabout.

The Alan Hughes muppet is so annoying and loud and out there.

Can't stand anything he's in.

Yeah, I agree, surprised TV3 didn't suggest Martin King for that job, he is possibly the best suit to a Family Game Show. (Not that surprised really, I always felt Martin was underrate haha).

You can tell they aren't doing their own survey, what are people scared of Wolves and Bears!

CiaranK

I was at the recording of the Aslan episode. It was very funny. Spotted myself loads of times when it was on.

SweetCaliber

Alright lads and lassies,

It's coming back for it's second TV debut

9pm on TV3 tonight... Be there or be square...

Apparently it's families from now on in, no more celebs, not sure.

Go Harvey Go

It's now being billed as Alan Hughes' Irish Family Fortunes.

And I thought it was just the titles of documentaries that the folks at Ballymount messed around with... :rolleyes:

MidlandsM

awful muck.....

Skid

Go Harvey Go wrote: »

It's now being billed as Alan Hughes' Irish Family Fortunes.

And I thought it was just the titles of documentaries that the folks at Ballymount messed around with... :rolleyes:

We asked 100 people if they liked that name ...

Skid

"Name a part of your body which has three letters?"

Your Knee, Alan

keith16

Aw man, it's so bad it's good!

How cringey is it that his name is in the title?!

"BAKING....aaawwwww"

SweetCaliber

Haha first they were telling us knee was a three letter word and now they're saying it's not

JP Liz V1

Your one Tammy from the Meehan family from Limerick was on some reality show on RTE a few weeks back called Six in the City

Go Harvey Go

JP Liz V1 wrote: »

Your one Tammy from the Meehan family from Limerick was on some reality show on RTE a few weeks back called Six in the City

You mean the third pilot in the Format Farm series - which, for anyone who still doesn't know about it, was basically Come Dine With Me with nights out instead of dinner parties?

No surprise, really... :rolleyes:


This episode was repeated immediately before the X Factor - imaginitive scheduling by TV3. :rolleyes:

If there is one good thing to say about it, it's that 327 must be one of the highest Big Money scores ever on any version of the show around the world, if not the highest...

The highest I've seen on the UK version is 312, while 311 was once achieved on Bert's Family Feud in Australia:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZQLfCPXjSU

(As an aside, does that name at 2:16 look familiar? )

Skid

Go Harvey Go wrote: »

If there is one good thing to say about it, it's that 327 must be one of the highest Big Money scores ever on any version of the show around the world, if not the highest...

The highest I've seen on the UK version is 312, while 311 was once achieved on Bert's Family Feud in Australia:

327 is a massive score. I think on most games it would be impossible to score so highly. You need the top two answers on each of the five questions to average 32.7 between them (and the two contestants to find all ten of the top answers). Usually the Big Money questions generate more varied answers than that.

castletownman

Gwan the Masterson family from Wexford. My neighbours. Got 201 in the final round. Well done!