If you remember, "Slumdog" was produced by Celador, the original creators of "Millionaire," after they had sold off the format to the Dutch company that shortly thereafter became a division of Sony. The novel the film was based on, "Q&A," had a fictitious show called "Who Will Win the Millions?"
Mark Jeffries Saints Spotlight Editor spotligh...@gmail.com On Fri, May 4, 2018 at 11:29 AM, Adam Bowie <a...@adambowie.co.uk> wrote: > This is quite a big relaunch for Millionaire which has been off British > screens for a while, aside from reruns on a UK gameshow channel called > Challenge TV. There's no daytime version. > > ITV is giving it the full original "stripped" treatment, running it at 9pm > nightly for a week - just as ABC did all those years ago. It kicks off > after Britain's Got Talent which does good numbers for ITV, so it'll be > interesting to see. While Clarkson has done other stuff in the past, > including a few popular military history documentaries for the BBC, I don't > know how he'll go down with more general audiences. > > YouTube trailer based around car shows promoting the Clarkson version: > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=crcmSjbIx1k > > In other "Millionaire" news, there's actually a play in the West End at > the moment called "Quiz the Play" which is about the case of three people > in 2001 who tried to cheat the show, with the so called Coughing Major > 'winning' the £1m. Unlike the movie, Slumdog Millionaire, they don't seem > to have got the rights to the actual gameshow however. > > > Adam > > On Fri, May 4, 2018 at 4:30 PM 'Bob Jersey' via TVorNotTV < > tvornottv@googlegroups.com> wrote: > >> >> Variety >> <http://variety.com/2018/tv/news/jeremy-clarkson-itv-who-wants-to-be-a-millionaire-1202797435/> >> (link): He's fitting it in between "Grand Tour" episodes... and learning to >> curtail his gift of gab. >> >> B >> >> -- >> 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/d/optout. >> > -- > 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/d/optout. > -- 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/d/optout.
