Jeremy Clarkson presents Who Wants To Be A Millionaire

Merlin5 · 20 Apr 2018 at 18:09

Yep, starting next month.

I'm really pleased to see this show is returning after 4 years. I'll miss Tarrant but Clarkson will be great.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-43342726

JBod · 21 Apr 2018 at 01:12

Good choice!

Curunen · 21 Apr 2018 at 18:12

I'm surprised they're able to bring this back - would have thought the prize money would be scaled down to fit in with the times.

Always makes me laugh on things like Pointless where the grand prize is like £1000, which on most people would be guaranteed to win in less than 5 minutes on who wants to be a millionaire.

Chojin · 26 Apr 2018 at 19:42

I still can't get my head around Jeremy Clarkson presenting. It will be interesting to see if he can do anything to a tired old format. To me Who Wants to be a Millionaire, along with the likes of The Weakest Link, and Deal or No Deal, are better off left in the annals of over played game shows.

McPhee · 26 Apr 2018 at 20:44

Curunen said:
I'm surprised they're able to bring this back - would have thought the prize money would be scaled down to fit in with the times.

Always makes me laugh on things like Pointless where the grand prize is like £1000, which on most people would be guaranteed to win in less than 5 minutes on who wants to be a millionaire.

Inflation

The prize was £1m in 1998. It's still £1m now. But the value of the prize has dropped 40% in 20 years.

Hardly anyone will win it. Just like before.

Rroff · 26 Apr 2018 at 20:48

Chojin said:
I still can't get my head around Jeremy Clarkson presenting. It will be interesting to see if he can do anything to a tired old format. To me Who Wants to be a Millionaire, along with the likes of The Weakest Link, and Deal or No Deal, are better off left in the annals of over played game shows.

Despite the sometimes appearances JC has done a lot of other work and usually successfully - his WW2 documentaries for instance are really good.

Efour · 26 Apr 2018 at 21:27

Unless he can be smug and condensing it won't work.

jpaul · 26 Apr 2018 at 21:41

jc must have enough money, you would think he would have some pride/standards.
I suspect he has a strong patriotic streak and wants to return to a terrestrial UK broadcaster, as opposed to the Amazon $, have the the BBC shut the door for ever ?
wasn't the best part of his career in the original top gear with Tiff, Vicki , etc. when it was about cars.

Rroff · 26 Apr 2018 at 21:45

jpaul said:
jc must have enough money, you would think he would have some pride/standards.
I suspect he has a strong patriotic streak and wants to return to a terrestrial UK broadcaster, as opposed to the Amazon $, have the the BBC shut the door for ever ?
wasn't the best part of his career in the original top gear with Tiff, Vicki , etc. when it was about cars.

Or just bored and wanting to do something different.

Slam · 26 Apr 2018 at 21:54

I was hoping he'd become exclusive to Amazon.
I don't have Prime.

easyrider · 30 Apr 2018 at 00:55

Cough cough

NewGamer11 · 1 May 2018 at 16:11

Starts 5th May (Saturday) but I think it’s only on for a week rather than being a lengthy series.

Wizzfizz · 1 May 2018 at 17:59

If it's well scripted he will be onto a winner for sure

Feek · 7 May 2018 at 22:14

Efour said:
Unless he can be smug and condensing it won't work.

He certainly can!

Fubsy · 7 May 2018 at 23:27

I found out that Umbro was the Greek goddess of victory the other night. Well worth watching for the knowledge of that fine Scottish doctor.

this_is_gav · 8 May 2018 at 08:32

I watched it last night, intending it to be a one-off to laugh at Clackson, but it was all strangely familiar. If that was the first episode recorded I thought he did a surprisingly good job.*

I don't like change to setting your own safety net (rather than being set at £32,000), and it's still too slow for a long-term revival, but otherwise it worked well.

* Don't get me wrong, I watched Top Gear and used to like Clarkson (and know he's extremely intelligent from his work away from TG), but on that he ended up too reliant on scripts, playing the dumbass, and seemingly believing his own character - it was good to see he could still do the other side of things.

Converge · 8 May 2018 at 09:44

I thought it was pretty good, made me laugh when he was harsh to some of the contestants, and the addition of a new lifeline of ‘Ask the Presenter’ made it pretty humorous!
It is very slow though, the first guy on the first episode was painful to watch, but at least Clarkson highlighted that too!

robfosters · 8 May 2018 at 13:58

ITV must be tightening the purse strings, they’ve rounded up some right thickos for this.

Hades · 8 May 2018 at 14:27

I saw 10 mins of this and though Clarkson did a great job.

robfosters · 8 May 2018 at 14:43

Hades said:
I saw 10 mins of this and though Clarkson did a great job.

Like the fact as well that on Millionaire, some contestants can be rights douches. Tarrant would just carry on as normal but JC calls them out on it.