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The Game Show Thread - Score - 21-02-2022
eyeTV post_id=69469 time= user_id=1517 Wrote:Any ratings for Takeaway?
https://twitter.com/liamhamilton16/status/1495375136249286662?s=21
The Game Show Thread - Cando - 22-02-2022
Brekkie post_id=69468 time= user_id=976 Wrote:If it stays above 3m it'll almost certainly get a second series.
Not sure, away from Takeaway there is zero chance it would be over 3m. It being left on the shelf for so long is telling
Dancing on ice is on thin ice too with just 3.5m and it is adding very little in timeshift (400k). It's under 4m most weeks.
Which is pretty poor return given the very big price tag attached. What with it having to be live every week and the months of pre production. 2023 could be the last I reckon. (Until it is revived in 2029)
The Game Show Thread - Brekkie - 22-02-2022
The sad thing is 3-4m is the new benchmark really - only the very top shows are getting 6m+. I think Dancing on Ice has generally been better received this year even if that's not reflected in the ratings - I suspect it'll make it through to 2024 anyway so they can mark 40 years since the Bolero.
Yes, Starstruck being sat on the shelf so long isn't a great sign of confidence but if it rates well enough it'll get a second series, just like Rolling in It did despite also being sat on the shelf so long. Indeed if it wasn't for covid it might have stayed on the shelf.
The Game Show Thread - Neil Jones - 22-02-2022
Brekkie post_id=69514 time= user_id=976 Wrote:The sad thing is 3-4m is the new benchmark really - only the very top shows are getting 6m+.
Sad, but inevitable. The days of double digit viewership being granted for anything (bar maybe high profile sporting events) are long gone. That being said, if 37% of TV viewers is only 6m, then that implies there were were only about 17m people watching TV on Saturday night, so it's always going to be an uphill struggle to some extent.
The Game Show Thread - Score - 22-02-2022
Cando post_id=69510 time= user_id=1314 Wrote:Brekkie post_id=69468 time= user_id=976 Wrote:If it stays above 3m it'll almost certainly get a second series.
Not sure, away from Takeaway there is zero chance it would be over 3m. It being left on the shelf for so long is telling
Dancing on ice is on thin ice too with just 3.5m and it is adding very little in timeshift (400k). It's under 4m most weeks.
Which is pretty poor return given the very big price tag attached. What with it having to be live every week and the months of pre production. 2023 could be the last I reckon. (Until it is revived in 2029)
I suspect it might go below 3m even after Takeaway before the series is out. Not sure about the time spent on the shelf. If they didn't rate it, I can't imagine they'd have given it such a big slot out of Takeaway, and moved The Voice out of the way for it. It suggests there was some degree of hope going into it. It's not flopping (yet) but the numbers are not very impressive.
Dancing on Ice isn't doing well but I think has got a couple of years left in it yet just because of how difficult it will be to replace. None of the new swings in the talent show space have done very well (although none of them have been very good either, and you'd hope that now TV production appears to be close to normal again we'll get some better attempts in the near future).
The Game Show Thread - tellyblues - 22-02-2022
Casualty instead of The Wheel for the next few weeks should help Starstruck. On a different note, the "stay-at-home Dad" who won as Freddie Mercury is in Majesty, a pretty successful Queen tribute band and the woman who won as Cher is a professional musician so you have to wonder if they were invited to apply for the show.
The Game Show Thread - gottago - 22-02-2022
tellyblues post_id=69643 time= user_id=1333 Wrote:Casualty instead of The Wheel for the next few weeks should help Starstruck. On a different note, the "stay-at-home Dad" who won as Freddie Mercury is in Majesty, a pretty successful Queen tribute band and the woman who won as Cher is a professional musician so you have to wonder if they were invited to apply for the show.I'm pretty sure most of the contestants will have been approached rather than applied, as is the norm for shows with quite specific casting like this these days.
The Game Show Thread - eyeTV - 22-02-2022
gottago post_id=69655 time= user_id=900 Wrote:I'm pretty sure most of the contestants will have been approached rather than applied, as is the norm for shows with quite specific casting like this these days.
Yes I don't think it's a big deal on this show at all. You want the most convincing 'sound-a-likes', many of them probably have singing careers or are already some kind of tribute act.
The Game Show Thread - Brekkie - 23-02-2022
Sitting on a Fortune has been reportedly renewed. Quite surprised really considering it didn't rate that well and the reviews weren't really favourable, so I hope they at least rework the format a bit.
https://www.tvzoneuk.com/post/sittingonafortune-renewed-report
The Game Show Thread - Johnr - 23-02-2022
I didn't think it was a bad show myself, although it felt slightly more suited to a daytime format rather than a Sunday evening format (particulary as the prize money seems rather generous for not having to do too much!)
Not often I say this but the celebrity edition was quite good fun too
The Game Show Thread - tellyblues - 23-02-2022
Moneyball has also been recommissioned.
hock: https://www.thetalentmanager.com/tv-jobs/47932/casting-researcher-manchester-based-sitting-on-a-fortune-and-moneyball
The Game Show Thread - Brekkie - 23-02-2022
That is even more of a surprise.
The Game Show Thread - TVNerd - 23-02-2022
eyeTV post_id=69671 time=1645561733 user_id=1517 Wrote:Indeed the winner of the Harry Hill revival of Stars in Their Eyes in 2015 was a professional Frankie Valli tribute performer.gottago post_id=69655 time= user_id=900 Wrote:I'm pretty sure most of the contestants will have been approached rather than applied, as is the norm for shows with quite specific casting like this these days.
Yes I don't think it's a big deal on this show at all. You want the most convincing 'sound-a-likes', many of them probably have singing careers or are already some kind of tribute act.
FWIW he also appeared on the revival of Family Fortunes too.
The Game Show Thread - Brekkie - 23-02-2022
A Simpsons edition of The Chase today with Lisa, Maggie, Bart and Marge. Even Bradley noticed.
https://twitter.com/elishahannon/status/1496539397822504962
The Game Show Thread - JasonB - 24-02-2022
Brekkie post_id=69818 time= user_id=976 Wrote:A Simpsons edition of The Chase today with Lisa, Maggie, Bart and Marge. Even Bradley noticed.
https://twitter.com/elishahannon/status/1496539397822504962
Kids, can you step outside for a moment?