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| Value for Money | 5/10  |
|---|---|
| Reviewer Rating | 5.7/10 |
| Overall Rating | 7.4/10  |
Full review by
rds1
expert review 
on 8th Mar 2007
User Rating : 2
Respect :
+4
This was once a great game show but after all this time I honestly can't watch it anymore. It is just so boring now that every last bit of novelty has been worn away, you are now just left with a tired and uninteresting quiz format.
Initially my reaction to this programme was, 'Wow, a million pounds! no one will win that!' and it was brilliant when Judeth Keppel won the million, but then the fun started to leave the show and before I knew it, it was a chore watching the programme every friday(right day?). TV is supposed to be entertainment so I wanted to turn it off and get on with dinner but the rest of my family still loved it. It was a living hell.
Every episode is exactly the same!: a middle aged accountant or IT consultant is selected via fastest finger. Tarrant makes some forced witty remarks about the guy's wife killing him if he comes away with nothing. Then the guy would just answer the first few silly questions, accompanied by the laughter of the audience as Tarrant reads out the facetious answers. Then the guy comes up against some harder ones, takes the money and then they start the whole thing over with someone else.
It is not entertainment, It is just watching someone conservatively making a living in an extravagantly lit room somewhere. And the only glimpse of variety the show offers is Steve from Swindon walking off with £16,000 and Mark from Birmingham walking on and sitting in the chair.
It is like watching the same 1 hour recording of office CCTV footage every week with your dinner, why would you do that?
And the show is so shameless! they fundamentally changed the format of the show a while ago so they could incorporate a phone in competition to eke a bit more money out of the show. This happens when someone takes the money, instead of being told the answer, Chris Tarrant turns to the camera and says, 'If you would like to win £1000 then simply text the correct answer to this question...' all I can say is, 'Get a life ITV.'Finally, how insecure do you have to be to write off 1 hour of every week so you can cockily say, 'it's obviously C! this guy is an idiot!' when you know the answer and when you don't; 'I thought it was B!' on hearing the answer on TV after feigning disinterest up until this point. To people who use this programme as a tool to impress their contempories, all anyone can say is 'please don't talk to me or come near me' and 'get a life'. I'm joking of course about the last bit.
rds1's review and ratings | 455 words | 3 comments added.
Review by
Bojangles
on 22nd Jul 2004
User Rating : 10
Respect :
0
I love Who Wants To Be A Millionaire, I love playing and trying to answer the difficult trivia questions. This game show was a great hit from the beginnig and is still the same way. This is one of my favorite game shows ever!!!
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Review by
thegriff
on 23rd Jun 2004
User Rating : 5
Respect :
0
Who Wants To Be A Millionaire has had us all gripped since it started. With the offer to make normal people millionaires just by answering questions who wouldn't want to be on there. I have tried all the normal ways of getting on the show to no avail. Then I thought my prayers had been answered when they came up with the idea to text-in to get on. So with held breath I picked my mobile up and started texting. After answering three questions (all needing there own text to confirm) correctly and i ...
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