The Chase

brian_t · 10-06-2018 08:34PM

jr86 wrote: »

Fully agree

I think - like with WWTBAM - the celeb versions are the biggest rating draws so sadly I can't see anything changing

Some of them are embarassingly rigged :mad:

But look they appear fun to make, they're played in a good spirit, can be good craic to watch and of course its all for charity so at the end of the day it's pretty harmless - I can accept :pac:

Celebrities on game shows often get paid more then the amounts given to the charities.

jr86 · 11-06-2018 06:34AM

Eh theyre hardly going to come on for free...

03-09-2018 05:53PM

Ann had a horror today. £100,000 won, the highest amount ever won on daytime TV.

rubadub · 03-09-2018 06:38PM

https://www.dailystar.co.uk/showbiz-tv/hot-tv/536172/The-Chase-celebrity-special-paid-thousands-win-less-for-charity

It should come as no surprise, really, that the stars that appear on quiz shows are paid but the amount is shocking.

Sarah Harding, Natalie Cassidy and Carl Froch were reportedly offered £7,000 to take part and only won £1,000 each for their charities.

But for bigger names, the fee can be even higher.

lertsnim · 03-09-2018 09:27PM

Nice work if you can get it.

SureYWouldntYa · 04-09-2018 12:52AM

The celebs get paid on the charity versions?

I really thought it was a free publicity type of arrangement, especially when you see some of the "celebrity" names

Especially now that the show has a good name and isn't some new thing that could drag their name into the mud

Phoenix Wright · 04-09-2018 07:38AM

Deleted User wrote:

Ann had a horror today. Â£100,000 won, the highest amount ever won on daytime TV.

I've seen that statement mentioned in a few places though I've been wondering - what about the 250k winners in Deal or no Deal?

tedpan · 04-09-2018 07:59AM

Phoenix Wright wrote:

I've seen that statement mentioned in a few places though I've been wondering - what about the 250k winners in Deal or no Deal?

That wasn't daytime TV

Phoenix Wright · 04-09-2018 09:11AM

tedpan wrote: »

That wasn't daytime TV

Really? I'm so confused :P

Basq · 04-09-2018 09:36AM

It aired at roughly the same time (if not earlier) than The Chase.. so don't understand that either..

lertsnim · 04-09-2018 11:24AM

tedpan wrote: »

That wasn't daytime TV

How was a show aired in the afternoon not daytime television?

tedpan · 04-09-2018 11:34AM

Basq wrote:

It aired at roughly the same time (if not earlier) than The Chase.. so don't understand that either..

lertsnim wrote:

How was a show aired in the afternoon not daytime television?

Phoenix Wright wrote:

Really? I'm so confused

I thought it was on after 6 when I watched it years ago although I'm probably wrong

Basq · 04-09-2018 11:39AM

tedpan wrote: »

I thought it was on after 6 when I watched it years ago although I'm probably wrong

They had celeb specials and the like that were prime-time but the regular show aired about 4.30pm - 5.15pm IIRC.

jr86 · 04-09-2018 01:38PM

Yeah it was always around 4-ish in the afternoons when I used to watch it in its heyday

Phoenix Wright · 04-09-2018 07:35PM

This ^ and I remember the first 250k win airing at that time as well

04-09-2018 08:01PM

I think Bradley was bragging. Deal or No Deal was the highest paying daytime quiz.

Welsh Megaman · 04-09-2018 08:31PM

Deleted User wrote: »

I think Bradley was bragging. Deal or No Deal was the highest paying daytime quiz.

‘Quiz’ in the loosest sense of the word!

SELECTING A F**KING BOX!

Basq · 04-09-2018 08:41PM

Welsh Megaman wrote: »

‘Quiz’ in the loosest sense of the word!

SELECTING A F**KING BOX!

But THAT was THE BOX that the contestant knew as soon as they got on the show they'd pick as their recently deceased spouse / parent / dog / cat shared a birthday / house number etc with that box.

I loathed that show and the gormless idiots that appeared on it and the horsesh*t that spewed from their and Noel Edmond's mouths!

/rant

lertsnim · 04-09-2018 09:19PM

We used to get a great laugh out of watching them all chanting blue or red while holding hands before a box is opened during breaks at work. I bet they all regularly attend psychics too.

richiepurgas · 04-09-2018 09:22PM

Saw what I think is an old episode a few days ago and one of the contestants was a son of Nobby Stiles member of English team that won the world cup in 1966. They made him a high cash offer of, appropriately enough, 66K. IIRC, he did not win out.

Go Harvey Go · 04-09-2018 11:27PM

I'm not ashamed to admit that I was a huge fan of DOND for its first three years.

I do feel it greatly outstayed its welcome, however.

Even when I was a huge fan, I considered the show's natural lifespan to be six years at most. Sure enough, 2011 - the year in which it turned six - was its last good year, with two £250k winners but also the extension from 45 minutes to 60 (which wasn't really necessary and, sure enough, ultimately did more harm than good). I'd even say that if it had ended after just four years, in 2009, it wouldn't have been obviously too soon.

But then again, Noel has a habit of presenting shows that continue beyond their ask-by date. Many agree that Noel's House Party should have ended in 1996 rather than 1999, and that the Late Late Breakfast Show was already looking tired at the time of the Michael Lush incident.

When it comes to ask-by dates, The Chase has one, as do Pointless and Tipping Point. By my reckoning, The Chase's ABD is about two years from now, and the same for Tipping Point - whereas Pointless's ABD is closer.

There are very few evergreen game shows, anyway - Mastermind, University Challenge and Countdown are the three most obvious.

Basq · 04-09-2018 11:56PM

Tipping Point's lifespan was 3 months after airing.. it's tired and any gameshow whose end game takes often 15+ minutes is doing it wrong.

Only Connect is a superb game show.. difficult but hugely rewarding.

Go Harvey Go · 05-09-2018 12:09AM

Basq wrote: »

Tipping Point's lifespan was 3 months after airing.. it's tired and any gameshow whose end game takes often 15+ minutes is doing it wrong.

Well, it's certainly true that many slagged it off when it first came on air - yet six years later, it's still there and still getting fairly decent viewing figures.

And it pretty much killed off DOND, too.

On the other hand, 1000 Heartbeats definitely ended way too soon...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JU2PJkF-4Mw

jr86 · 05-09-2018 08:35AM

lertsnim wrote: »

We used to get a great laugh out of watching them all chanting blue or red while holding hands before a box is opened during breaks at work. I bet they all regularly attend psychics too.

It was all a complete cult

Well worth a read https://www.theguardian.com/media/2006/oct/21/broadcasting.arts

MistyCheese · 05-09-2018 09:13AM

Go Harvey Go wrote: »

On the other hand, 1000 Heartbeats definitely ended way too soon...

YY to 1000 Heartbeats.

And does anyone remember 5 Minutes To A Fortune hosted by Davina MacColl? It was a bit similar in its 'lateral thinking' games. For example 'put these numbers in alphabetical order'. There was a giant hourglass ostensibly filled with coins and the games were timed so the longer it took to solve the puzzle, the more of the prize fund was getting lost.

I liked that one, I'm pretty sure it was on weekday afternoons in the summer of 2013.

Pussyhands · 05-09-2018 09:18AM

I'm getting tired of Bradley tbh. Tired of the "ohhh the chasers are big and mean and tough" gimic they have too. But I have no choice but to listen to it.

Also the charity celeb versions are absolutely pointless. What's in it for the chaser to stop people winning for charity? The questions are easier yet the chasers get more wrong than normal.

Go Harvey Go · 05-09-2018 04:51PM

jr86 wrote: »

It was all a complete cult

Well worth a read https://www.theguardian.com/media/2006/oct/21/broadcasting.arts

As I said, it could have ended in 2009 and it wouldn't have been obviously too soon.

There had already been two £250k winners by that stage, and loads of 1p winners - plus the show had already done almost everything it could possibly do (aside from the £100k/£250k "dream finish" in live play, and having a male £250k winner).

WWTBAM is another show that should have ended earlier than it did - the recession resulted in fewer contestants playing on for the big money, and imposing a time limit on the first few questions was unnecessary. Chris Tarrant definitely wasn't as enthusiastic in the show's final years as he was during its glory days...

MistyCheese wrote: »

And does anyone remember 5 Minutes To A Fortune hosted by Davina MacColl? It was a bit similar in its 'lateral thinking' games. For example 'put these numbers in alphabetical order'. There was a giant hourglass ostensibly filled with coins and the games were timed so the longer it took to solve the puzzle, the more of the prize fund was getting lost.

I liked that one, I'm pretty sure it was on weekday afternoons in the summer of 2013.

Up against - guess what? - The Chase and Pointless.

Shame on you for not having enough faith in it, Channel 4...

Go Harvey Go · 06-09-2018 01:51PM

Pussyhands wrote: »

Also the charity celeb versions are absolutely pointless. What's in it for the chaser to stop people winning for charity? The questions are easier yet the chasers get more wrong than normal.

Most people agree at this stage that, in both the celeb and civilian versions, the Chasers deliberately get questions wrong in order to allow more winners - and to make the Final Chase more exciting if the target is low.

Mind you, I've no complaints whatsoever about Rachel Riley and Kirsty Gallacher winning £160k for UNICEF. Two women I've always liked (and not merely because of their looks), winning a huge wodge of cash for a good cause - and they both took the higher offer, too.