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Nicky Byrne's Million Euro Challenge

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    #962
    Go Harvey Go
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,038 ✭✭✭Go Harvey Go


    Meanwhile... In It to Win It has just started on BBC1.

    This show has been going for a stonking 13 years now, and has done just about everything it can do - have contestants win £100,000, have a contestant put £100,000 into the prize pot only to get the final question wrong, have a contestant answer just one question and thus win the full prize pot, have all five contestants share the prize pot, have the contestants keep going in and out of the Red Area and put virtually nothing into the prize pot, etc etc etc etc - yet it's still more entertaining than what's just happened on the Million Euro Challenge. :o:o:o:D;)

    Also, it goes without saying that Dale Winton is at least a thousand - possibly even a million - times better a game show host than Nicky. Hard to believe he'll be 60 next month. :eek: :D;)


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    #963
    Halpenny
    Registered Users Posts: 186 ✭✭Halpenny


    Nicky's hair looked a bit shook tonight; must have seen the million coming.


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    #964
    Skid X
    Registered Users Posts: 21,444 ✭✭✭✭Skid X


    TV and lotto bosses will be hoping the huge giveaway will give the show a much needed lift in the ratings, as some viewers were turned off - complaining the format was complicated.

    http://www.independent.ie/entertainment/television/tv-news/family-wins-whopping-1m-on-nicky-byrnes-million-euro-challenge-31164902.html

    It might get a spike in the ratings this week, but I doubt if many new viewers will stay watching after this

    After all, if someone else wins a million, you will hear about it long before it is broadcast.


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    #965
    Pretzill
    Registered Users Posts: 4,683 ✭✭✭Pretzill


    I watched the last few minutes - so adding to the first 30 minutes of the first show and the last 20 odd minutes of another one I can now say I've watched a whole show! I did think the million winning show was a bit anticlimactic but I'm sure not so for Martin and his family -

    Also is it just me but does Nicky bear a resemblance to Max Headroom (can't post pics on me phone to remind you) but he does resemble an android or a computer generated image.


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    #966
    Halpenny
    Registered Users Posts: 186 ✭✭Halpenny


    Pretzill wrote: »
    Also is it just me but does Nicky bear a resemblance to Max Headroom (can't post pics on me phone to remind you) but he does resemble an android or a computer generated image.

    Good call Pretzill - can't tell the difference myself.

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    #967
    Odyssey 2005
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    Halpenny wrote: »
    Good call Pretzill - can't tell the difference myself.

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    Twins..:eek:


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    #968
    dublinman1990
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    If you weren't watching this show tonight; a total of €6,000 was won on the Million Euro Challenge pyramid which is again a big let down from last week's big win of €1 miilion.


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    #969
    Atlantic Dawn
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    dublinman1990 wrote: »
    If you weren't watching this show tonight; a total of €6,000 was won on the Million Euro Challenge pyramid which is again a big let down from last week's big win of €1 miilion.

    That would hardly pay for my drinks bill if I was on it :D


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    #970
    thelad95
    Registered Users Posts: 7,812 ✭✭✭thelad95


    Lol is this garbage actually still on?


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    #971
    Go Harvey Go
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    dublinman1990 wrote: »
    If you weren't watching this show tonight; a total of €6,000 was won on the Million Euro Challenge pyramid which is again a big let down from last week's big win of €1 miilion.

    The snooker and cricket were far more exciting, so I decided to wait for the repeat. :o;)

    Fair play to Joey and Martina for guessing their code correctly on the second go and winning €16,000 as a result. :)

    But very, very poor play by Nicky and the producers in not once mentioning the Martins' achievement last week... :(:(:( :rolleyes:


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    #972
    Go Harvey Go
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    thelad95 wrote: »
    Lol is this garbage actually still on?

    For at least another four episodes.

    It'll probably air at 7pm on 23 May because of the Eurovision.


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    #973
    Skid X
    Registered Users Posts: 21,444 ✭✭✭✭Skid X


    The National Lottery Website says this show will run until the end of May
    This first series of Million Euro Challenge will run from January to the end of May and an incredible €1 million may be won each week.

    https://www.lottery.ie/Games/Game-Info/How-to-play-Scratchcards/Million-Euro-Challenge


    and the Crack the Code thing will also be winding down soon
    -The final date and time for entry will be 10:00am on Wednesday 20th May 2015 or such other date as may be determined by the National Lottery and posted on lottery.ie.

    https://www.lottery.ie/en/crackthecode-tc


    so we should be hearing something about the return of Winning Streak soon


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    #974
    JONJO THE MISER
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 12,333 ✭✭✭✭JONJO THE MISER


    He cant talk to people, no charisma nor nothing, cringe worthy.


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    #975
    Halpenny
    Registered Users Posts: 186 ✭✭Halpenny


    Yeah the "chat" with those two women was more like an interrogation rather than a conversation.


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    #976
    Atlantic Dawn
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    Skid X wrote: »
    The National Lottery Website says this show will run until the end of May

    Hopefully the set and any recordings of the show are encased in concrete and buried somewhere off the Donegal coast in 500 metres of water when it finishes.


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    #977
    Bret Hart
    Registered Users Posts: 2,790 ✭✭✭Bret Hart


    Bring back Winning Streak and Marty.


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    #978
    Go Harvey Go
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    Bret Hart wrote: »
    Bring back Winning Streak and Marty.

    They'll be back very soon. Just be patient. :o:D:);)

    Meanwhile, Gary and Ciarán become the second team to win €16,000 in 'Crack the Code' for getting their code right on the second go... and also the second team to find just two zeros on the pyramid.

    Make of that what you will.


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    #979
    Bret Hart
    Registered Users Posts: 2,790 ✭✭✭Bret Hart


    Go Harvey Go wrote: »
    They'll be back very soon. Just be patient. :o:D:);)

    Meanwhile, Gary and Ciarán become the second team to win €16,000 in 'Crack the Code' for getting their code right on the second go... and also the second team to find just two zeros on the pyramid.

    Make of that what you will.

    Delighted too hear :D Thanks for the info.


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    #980
    Halpenny
    Registered Users Posts: 186 ✭✭Halpenny


    I think I've found the inspiration for this show. Pretty sure it was the 1980's Rubik Magic puzzle. The Pyramid is made from the same material; it's all about zeros which are hard to locate and it gives away a similar amount - next to nothing.

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    Lets hope the next game show RTE dreams up isn't based some childhood nostalgia like Hungry Hippos or Operation. Then again either of those two games would probably be much better craic ...


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    #981
    CarpeDiem85
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    Atlantic Dawn wrote: »
    Hopefully the set and any recordings of the show are encased in concrete and buried somewhere off the Donegal coast in 500 metres of water when it finishes.

    Haha why Donegal, what did we ever do on you. What would happen if they ever washed ashore!


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    #982
    Go Harvey Go
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    Nicky Byrne's One Hundred Euro Challenge, cuid a dó... :o:D:);)

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    #983
    Srobify
    Registered Users Posts: 21 ✭Srobify


    I love this show. It is very clever. Skilful. Great banter.


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    #984
    Go Harvey Go
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,038 ✭✭✭Go Harvey Go


    Srobify wrote: »
    I love this show. It is very clever. Skilful. Great banter.

    Please say you're being sarcastic. PLEASE. :o:o:D:);)


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    #985
    Pretzill
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    Srobify wrote: »
    I love this show. It is very clever. Skilful. Great banter.

    Hello Nicky :)

    (The threat of being submerged in concrete at a depth of 500 metres brought you here didn't it ? )


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    #986
    Un Croissant
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    Drum or accordian.. Is anyone still watching this ****e?


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    #987
    thelad95
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    Atlantic Dawn wrote: »
    Hopefully the set and any recordings of the show are encased in concrete and buried somewhere off the Donegal coast in 500 metres of water when it finishes.

    It's not enough. They need to be taken to the outermost part of Siberia, attached to nuclear bombs and detonated. Anyone involved in the production of the show NEEDS to answer for themselves in a court presided over by a jury of their peers. The million pound pyramid shall be placed in the garden of remembrance in memory of whatever jobsbridge intern had to push the drawers out.

    Never shall such tripe grace our screens again.


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    #988
    Sam Kade
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    Un Croissant wrote: »
    Drum or accordian.. Is anyone still watching this ****e?
    Just endured a bit of it last night as the wife was glued to it :mad: The contestants looked very cheerful :rolleyes: and Byrnes squeaky voice and stupid accent would damage anyone's ears.


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    #989
    Go Harvey Go
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    On at 6:55 tonight due to some singing in Vienna. :o:D;)

    I'm almost out of interest in the show now, as one might gather from the fact that I've been posting in this thread less and less often since the million was won.

    The only really interesting things last week were the codes. Not only did 3, 4 and 7 appear in all three of them - but these numbers appeared in the same positions in the second and third codes, and the first one also had the 7 immediately followed by the 4. What are the odds, eh?

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    #990
    Skid X
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    Go Harvey Go wrote: »
    The only really interesting things last week were the codes. Not only did 3, 4 and 7 appear in all three of them - but these numbers appeared in the same positions in the second and third codes, and the first one also had the 7 immediately followed by the 4. What are the odds, eh?

    About the same as seeing another series of this show being commissioned!


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    #991
    Alibaba
    Registered Users Posts: 490 ✭✭Alibaba


    Last show next week..

    Hopefully never again to return for all of eternity..


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