Who Wants to Be a Millionaire with Jeremy Clarkson

15-05-2020 10:13pm

Jeremy has grown on me.

MisterAnarchy · 15-05-2020 10:14pm

She obviously isnt a fan of the band

Water John · 15-05-2020 10:50pm

I was wondering why I was inclined towards Bell. It was only when Jeremy said Bell X -1 that I copped. She skipped telling her father X-1, whether that would have helped him.
Never noticed an awkward question burning 3 or 4 lifelines as much before. Might indicate the occasional very hard question in the mix.
Then they're are easy regular quiz questions turning up, like the Rubicon crossing by Julius Caesar. That was for £64K.

siblers · 18-05-2020 2:38pm

A lot of contestants seem to be leaving a lot of money behind because they leave their safety net too late.

If you're on 32,000 and leave it to125,000, you're ****ed if you struggle on either question.

One guy let his safety net to 125,000. he used all his life lines by 64,000 and didn't know the answer to the 64,000 question.

He had a hunch but not enough to risk it. His hunch was correct and he didn't make an extra 61,000 as he left his safety net too late.

Still Ill · 18-05-2020 2:56pm

Yeah, I think for most people the 32k safety net is the optimal play. Unless they're very strong or have all their lifelines left.

VG31 · 18-05-2020 3:10pm

Water John wrote: »

Then they're are easy regular quiz questions turning up, like the Rubicon crossing by Julius Caesar. That was for £64K.

That question was very easy. There's been harder questions for £2,000! Surely most people would know that?

Still Ill wrote: »

Yeah, I think for most people the 32k safety net is the optimal play. Unless they're very strong or have all their lifelines left.

Even if they have all their lifelines left, they can end up using them all on the one question.

Water John · 18-05-2020 3:44pm

Jeremy has been egging people to be brave and wait in setting their second lifeline, some are listening and it's backfired. An ordinary quizzer should possibly set it at 32K and a very good one might get away with setting it at €64K.

coylemj · 18-05-2020 4:20pm

Water John wrote: »

Jeremy has been egging people to be brave and wait in setting their second lifeline, some are listening and it's backfired.

I haven't detected that at all. Compared to Chris Tarrant, he seems supremely indifferent to the contestants' tactics.

He has to ask the question 'do you want to set your safety net' after every question above €1,000 so I don't even notice when he asks.

HeidiHeidi · 18-05-2020 6:13pm

coylemj wrote: »

I haven't detected that at all. Compared to Chris Tarrant, he seems supremely indifferent to the contestants' tactics.

He has to ask the question 'do you want to set your safety net' after every question above €1,000 so I don't even notice when he asks.

Not so much in this series (although the attitude is still there), but definitely in the last series he was only short of calling them chicken if they set it at anything below 64K!

robwen · 30-07-2020 7:32pm

Currently being filmed for a return in Autumn sometime, with no ask the audience lifeline the contestants will instead be allowed phone 2 different friends so they have the same number of lifelines

https://www.mirror.co.uk/tv/tv-news/who-wants-millionaire-return-itv-22442735

Thargor · 21-08-2020 12:29pm

Massive spoilers for the upcoming September series all over the place this morning.

JP Liz V1 · 21-08-2020 5:07pm

Thargor wrote: »

Massive spoilers for the upcoming September series all over the place this morning.

Yes no surprises

21-08-2020 6:57pm

Thargor wrote: »

Massive spoilers for the upcoming September series all over the place this morning.

Yep. Jeremy will actually know the answer to a question.

MisterAnarchy · 21-08-2020 7:16pm

JP Liz V1 wrote: »

Yes no surprises

Its been really dumbed down in recent series.
I've been watching some old shows on Sony Channel the last few weeks, there have been some reallly great episodes of late, Tarrant is the master.
Clarkson is dreadful in comparison .

This episode was on last week ,one of the craziest phone a friends I've ever seen

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4h4YZbI0Sfk

Thargor · 21-08-2020 10:09pm

MisterAnarchy wrote: »

Its been really dumbed down in recent series.
I've been watching some old shows on Sony Channel the last few weeks, there have been some reallly great episodes of late, Tarrant is the master.
Clarkson is dreadful in comparison .

This episode was on last week ,one of the craziest phone a friends I've ever seen

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4h4YZbI0Sfk

Agree, I bet we'll be back in here in a few weeks complaining about how easy a run it was.

Wildsurfer · 22-08-2020 11:41am

MisterAnarchy wrote: »

Its been really dumbed down in recent series.
I've been watching some old shows on Sony Channel the last few weeks, there have been some reallly great episodes of late, Tarrant is the master.
Clarkson is dreadful in comparison .

This episode was on last week ,one of the craziest phone a friends I've ever seen

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4h4YZbI0Sfk

Ha brilliant, love that he actually got it right! Miss Tarrant alright he was made for this show.

MisterAnarchy · 22-08-2020 3:41pm

Wildsurfer wrote: »

Ha brilliant, love that he actually got it right! Miss Tarrant alright he was made for this show.

He was a very interesting contestant,that chap.
I looked him up after watching the show and it was a very sad story.

He won £125,000 on the ITV quiz show but was initially barred from receiving the money after it emerged that he had a criminal record.
Celador, the show's maker, froze his money when it emerged Mr Hallett had convictions for arson and driving off without paying for £5 of fuel.
Following a legal battle he was granted the prize, but died before he could spend it.
He died in April 2007, aged 52, and had no heir, so his winnings went to the British Crown.
Very sad .

Still Ill · 22-08-2020 7:12pm

MisterAnarchy wrote: »

He was a very interesting contestant,that chap.
I looked him up after watching the show and it was a very sad story.

He won £125,000 on the ITV quiz show but was initially barred from receiving the money after it emerged that he had a criminal record.
Celador, the show's maker, froze his money when it emerged Mr Hallett had convictions for arson and driving off without paying for £5 of fuel.
Following a legal battle he was granted the prize, but died before he could spend it.
He died in April 2007, aged 52, and had no heir, so his winnings went to the British Crown.
Very sad .

Wow... That's pretty crazy. Any idea how he died?
I think it's wrong they tried to withhold the money if he won it fair and square.

MisterAnarchy · 22-08-2020 10:43pm

Still Ill wrote: »

Wow... That's pretty crazy. Any idea how he died?
I think it's wrong they tried to withhold the money if he won it fair and square.

I think he died of natural causes.
It seems you cant go on the show if you have a criminal record.

batistuta9 · 04-09-2020 12:16pm

This is on Monday night through Friday on ITV.

HeidiHeidi · 04-09-2020 12:17pm

There were two celeb episodes on during the week if anyone wants to catch them on the VM player

jaffa20 · 06-09-2020 8:05pm

Is this an old season right now on virgin media?

Snorlaxx · 06-09-2020 8:10pm

jaffa20 wrote: »

Is this an old season right now on virgin media?

pretty sure they said new season on the intro

Water John · 06-09-2020 8:10pm

If there's an audience there, it is.

jaffa20 · 06-09-2020 8:13pm

Yeah they announced it was new series at beginning but this is a repeat. Doesn't look they have even scheduled to show the new series on tv guide

I remembered that Jurassic park question

HeidiHeidi · 06-09-2020 9:48pm

According to sky this is series 4, I'm fairly sure there were only 3 series shown before......

I'm catching up, only on the second contestant so far, but haven't recognised any faces or questions so far.

Beechwoodspark · 06-09-2020 9:49pm

I saw the episode with John Barnes

Not only did clarkson talk Barnes out of setting his safety net he ALSO got a question wrong when asked

Plonker

TheChrisD · 07-09-2020 1:14am

Snorlaxx wrote: »

pretty sure they said new season on the intro

It's only new in the sense that it's new to Virgin Media.

Speaking of which, this upcoming week of programs won't be showing on VM at all, only ITV!

jaffa20 · 07-09-2020 1:21am

TheChrisD wrote: »

It's only new in the sense that it's new to Virgin Media.

Speaking of which, this upcoming week of programs won't be showing on VM at all, only ITV!

Yep, very annoying. All the spoilers and now wont be able to even watch it. I think i need to get some freeview installed. VM don't want to pay for rights to show it maybe...?

Jeff2 · 07-09-2020 2:24am

TheChrisD wrote: »

It's only new in the sense that it's new to Virgin Media.

Speaking of which, this upcoming week of programs won't be showing on VM at all, only ITV!

Thanks.

AJB39 · 07-09-2020 7:05am

TheChrisD wrote: »

It's only new in the sense that it's new to Virgin Media.

Speaking of which, this upcoming week of programs won't be showing on VM at all, only ITV!

Right. It is new for Virgin Media. They’ve not shown Series 4 before. I expect they will air Series 5 which airs on ITV this week after Series 4 and before the end of the year.

This all stems from Virgin Media’s weird decision to drop the show from last year’s Christmas episode onwards before then changing their mind. However because they then decided to repeat all the old Jeremy Clarkson episodes weekly before starting to show new episodes again, they are still playing catch up even now with ITV.

HeidiHeidi · 07-09-2020 10:47am

Because I can't record or watch ITV remotely on my Sky box, I'd pretty much forgotten that WWTBAM was on there!

Unearthly · 07-09-2020 11:16am

They should have a question for £100 which is the worst ever tv broadcaster and virgin is the obvious answer

Relikk · 07-09-2020 11:27am

That Celebrity/John Barnes episode was originally broadcast in April on ITV. It takes Virgin 4 or 5 months to get around to showing it. It bugs the piss out of me that they don't have ITV 1 and 2 on their service in favour of their own garbage channels.

dublinman1990 · 07-09-2020 9:22pm

The 1st contestant tonight had 2 phone a friends called David or Dave. That sounded a bit fishy.

Thargor · 07-09-2020 9:23pm

On now on ITV for anyone who forgot.

stargazer 68 · 07-09-2020 9:43pm

dublinman1990 wrote: »

The 1st contestant tonight had 2 phone a friends called David or Dave. That sounded a bit fishy.

Definitely different people. 2nd one sounded like his dad!

The Crazy Cat Lady · 07-09-2020 11:43pm

is there a repeat of this tonight/tomorrow? I missed it unfortunately:(

Atlantic Dawn · 07-09-2020 11:46pm

The Crazy Cat Lady wrote: »

is there a repeat of this tonight/tomorrow? I missed it unfortunately:(

Repeated in less than an hour at 00.35

The Crazy Cat Lady · 07-09-2020 11:47pm

Atlantic Dawn wrote: »

Repeated in less than an hour at 00.35

thanks

stargazer 68 · 08-09-2020 9:10pm

Anyone watching? Loving this guy.

unhappys10 · 08-09-2020 9:11pm

stargazer 68 wrote: »

Anyone watching? Loving this guy.

Very calm, hope he does well. 64k would be grand though!

dublinman1990 · 08-09-2020 9:20pm

There's a fella from Wexford on it? Are you serious?

stargazer 68 · 08-09-2020 9:27pm

dublinman1990 wrote: »

There's a fella from Wexford on it? Are you serious?

Missed that bit! Shes annoying though

dublinman1990 · 08-09-2020 9:39pm

Well she was entertaining.

Thargor · 09-09-2020 9:41pm

Dumbass, and she's a science teacher, unbelievable.

unhappys10 · 09-09-2020 9:44pm

Thargor wrote: »

Dumbass, and she's a science teacher, unbelievable.

Yeh, you go to the hassle of applying, 1 of thousands, you get to the studio and then get to the chair and you make a stupid guess when you don't know it.
Use a lifeline ffs

MisterAnarchy · 09-09-2020 11:42pm

Another old question reasked tonight, about which actress starred in the most Hitchcock films.
It was actually on one of the repeats on Sony TV a few weeks ago.

jaffa20 · 10-09-2020 12:10am

Thargor wrote: »

Dumbass, and she's a science teacher, unbelievable.

I knew the answer before they came up but then doubted myself

But i knew the environment one is a river/sea and a fish, isn't it?

jaffa20 · 10-09-2020 12:13am

MisterAnarchy wrote: »

Another old question reasked tonight, about which actress starred in the most Hitchcock films.
It was actually on one of the repeats on Sony TV a few weeks ago.

Must start watching some old episodes. That was a tricky question though and i love Hitchcock.

Who Wants to Be a Millionaire with Jeremy Clarkson

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