The new titles were welcome, the new question graphics are OK but gone is Mark van Bronkhorst's lovely Conduit font to be replaced by, of all things, Verdana. Truly this is a Millionaire for the Microsoft Powerpoint generation.
From 3 August , more changes were introduced to the format, starting with the scrapping of the "Fastest Finger First" round. Instead, contestants were chosen through an off-screen audition process. Perhaps the biggest change was the introduction of a time limit on questions. The clock temporarily stops when a lifeline is being used. When the time runs out, the contestant is treated as having given an incorrect answer and drops back to the last safe haven.
For ten years, Who Wants to be a Millionaire had been either the brightest light on ITV's schedule or a reliable banker to bring in the viewers. By now, it was clear that it was no longer a significant draw, and ITV allowed us to think that they were only keeping the show alive for contractual reasons.
The public was phased out and only celebrities participated; a few "The People Play" specials made the new priorities sharply clear. Half of the celebrity prize fund was diverted from charity to a premium-rate phone-in question, and live episodes came to a hurried and abrupt end.
There was no tremendous surprise when we heard in October that Chris Tarrant was leaving the show. The producers decided that he was an impossible act to follow, and the programme came to a conclusion in February For a bit. ITV announced that there will be a special 7-episode revived series broadcast from May with Jeremy Clarkson as the new host, to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the programme.
The show returned to the 15 question format, with Ask The Host being introduced. However, we do miss Chris' extended reveals, which Clarkson simply does not do, and bizarrely so, since he's proved himself quite capable of extended reveals in the Star in a Reasonably Priced Car segment of Top Gear. Mind you, towards the end of the run, Chris seemingly lost interest in them as well…. This is despite several rehearsals that the director had carried out in previous weeks and months to ensure everything went smoothly when the big day came along.
So instead they tried again successfully at the end of the programme. This produced a world record at the time for the most money given away to one contestant on a game show. Another question was played instead about Roman Numerals, to which the contestants further demonstrated their thickness in that only one got it right! Not one of the show's highest winners in terms of money, but certainly one of the most effervescent was Fiona Wheeler, famous for her wish to bathe in a bath of chocolate something she later did do in a TV Times photoshoot.
However, minutes later viewers began ringing ITV and the newspapers to complain. It turns out that the answer to the question is A This is because you could serve 12 aces to win games one, three and five, then your opponent could double-fault 12 times, so you win games two, four and six without hitting a shot and hence win the set after 12 shots. This blunder made front-page news, and the next day an apology was broadcast.
Tony was allowed to keep his money. Richard subsequently claimed that he had intended his throwing away of the cheque as a joke, inspired by Chris Tarrant's "But we don't want to give you that! They were asked: "Translated from the Latin, what is the official motto of the United States?
It was later decided that the question was ambiguous, since 'In God We Trust', while not from any Latin source, is used as a motto for the US.
In fact 'E Pluribus Unum' was never codified by law and was only a de facto motto until when 'In God, We Trust' took over , so technically there is no correct answer to that question. The oddest thing about the whole affair was that the incorrect question was broadcast, despite the fact that the error had come to light before the show was due to be transmitted.
One participant, Charles Ingram, had to be edited out of an episode due to be broadcast on 18 September after being accused and later convicted of conspiracy to obtain a valuable security by deception ; the previous episode, broadcast 15 September, was extended last-minute by twenty minutes, through the weekend's news bulletin, and resulted in a film being cancelled.
His footage would later be broadcast on ITV2 following a Tonight documentary which set out the evidence against him and his accomplices on 21 April On a celebrity edition in , Rick Parfitt and Francis Rossi from Status Quo said there were two knights on a chessboard when the correct answer is four.
However, the game was restarted when producers claimed that the question had been used on the programme before. That personal mates of Chris Tarrant had bombed out on question one had nothing to do with it, presumably.
One contestant was asked the question "What was the middle name of playwright Richard Sheridan? However, it turned out that Butler was, in fact, Sheridan's second middle name, and so the contestant was invited back a few weeks later. Another contestant was asked the question "Which mythical person shares their name with a type of insect? The contestant gave the answer Goliath which was correctly accepted - however, one of the other choices was Hercules which is also correct.
Of note during the Clarkson era was his open contempt for the commercial breaks - having presented exclusively for the BBC for thirty years, he had never needed to throw to them - which he typically introduced facetiously.
The format was devised by David Briggs, who also devised many of the promotional games for Chris Tarrant 's breakfast show on London radio station Capital FM , along with comedy writers Mike Whitehill and Steven Knight. The much-lauded music, which runs almost continuously throughout the whole show, was written by Keith and Matthew Strachan in ten days after it was decided that the music in the pilot show composed by Pete Waterman wasn't good enough.
The 'Time's Up' cue is a French horn glissando played by three French horns. So now you know. There are over other different music cues. The original promotional trailer featured a fake game show called "Win a Wok", with Chris Tarrant in the foreground explaining the show's concept. He also said, "you can phone a friend, ask the audience or even ask me for help".
Also note that the question Levels should not be confused with the Safe Havens or the Question Value Structure that are both explained below. Contestants accumulate money with each correct answer, but should the they answer incorrectly before reaching a safe haven, they stand to lose a large amount of winnings.
Below is a summary of the question value structure:. If contestants get this question wrong, they leave with nothing. If this question is answered correctly, contestants are guaranteed S1, even if the answer incorrectly before reaching the next safe haven at Question If this question is answered correctly, contestants are guaranteed S32, even if the answer incorrectly before reaching Question Contestants are allowed three Lifelines that they can use at any point during the game.
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Do you think you have what it takes to become a millionaire? Which of these US presidents appeared on the television series "Laugh-In?
And the answer is Richard Nixon. The Earth is approximately how many miles away from the Sun?
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