Steve Williams <skill...@ntlworld.com> wrote: > I was reading an interview > with Terry Wogan from his spell as host as he said he loved it when nobody > scored any points or won anything because he felt that was really the ethos > of how they approached the game in the UK, just half an hour of idle fun, > comparing it to The Match Game. He said that if the prizes were actually any > good (which famously they weren't due to the Beeb not wanting to spend > licence-payer's money on them) they'd all have to concentrate, which > wouldn't be right. I think that's always been the way.
For me, that's always been one of the great things about the original "What's My Line?" The game was for such low stakes (that invariable $50 cap is still only about $450 in current dollars, a nice prize but not life-changing) that everybody could have fun without worrying about the money. -- Ed Dravecky III http://www.fencon.org/ -- -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to tvornottv@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to tvornottv-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to tvornottv+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
