Nicky Byrne's Million Euro Challenge

madmaggie

I was tempted to call this programme a pile of FYM, but that stuff is useful! I wonder how long will it take for them to axe this drivel.

AwaitYourReply

madmaggie wrote: »

I was tempted to call this programme a pile of FYM, but that stuff is useful! I wonder how long will it take for them to axe this drivel.

I suspect you had a typo with your post from earlier and you were intending to say useless rather than "useful" ? Surely you meant useless,eh ?

CountyHurler

yosser hughes wrote: »

Let's be clear here. Somebody, you do not know, has made a decision that Nicky Byrne will be shielded from the blow that having ZERO talent will not provide him with the lifestyle he has become accustomed to.

Good man Yosser, how are things.. I wouldnt agree that he has NO talent at all, but certainly 2015 seems to be the year of Byrne, for RTE... But it does seem like Nicky is the current favourite with RTE management. He's jumped a couple of rungs on the ladder to get this lottery show and his own radio show (with Jenny Greene)

tbh, I would have thought that one of the usuals would have gotten this show.... Geri Maye, Marty Whelan, Sinead Kennedy, Brian Ormond, Nuala Carey, Ella McSweeney, Aidan Power? All overlooked to bring in Nicky Byrtne. Somebody certainly like him

cofy

Go Harvey Go wrote: »

Winning Streak WILL be back.

I hope so, I buy one ticket a week, I have a load of 3 star tickets, there is absolutely no way I would send them in, with the current format show, the chances are I would be financially worse off even if my ticket was successful. I take it each contestant still has to bring 20 friends to be in the audience. By the time you have organised travel to Dublin and at least a meal for each of your friends there is every possibility having your ticket pulled will actually cost you.

Don't even get me started on the stub winners. 2 in 3 chance that you will travel to Dublin to get nothing.

THE WHOLE THING HAS BECOME FARCE AND A KICK IN THE FACE TO PEOPLE WHO BUY TICKETS.

cofy

CountyHurler wrote: »

Good man Yosser, how are things.. I wouldnt agree that he has NO talent at all, but certainly 2015 seems to be the year of Byrne, for RTE... But it does seem like Nicky is the current favourite with RTE management. He's jumped a couple of rungs on the ladder to get this lottery show and his own radio show (with Jenny Greene)

tbh, I would have thought that one of the usuals would have gotten this show.... Geri Maye, Marty Whelan, Sinead Kennedy, Brian Ormond, Nuala Carey, Ella McSweeney, Aidan Power? All overlooked to bring in Nicky Byrtne. Somebody certainly like him

There is no way that Geri Maye or Marty would put their stamp on something like this. The only one shallow enough to take this on is Nicky Byrne.

madmaggie

AwaitYourReply wrote: »

I suspect you had a typo with your post from earlier and you were intending to say useless rather than "useful" ? Surely you meant useless,eh ?

The FYM is useful, the other, well you get my drift. Could be a typo, dosed up on Benylin, Lemsip, Strepsils, etc, so not quite with it.

AwaitYourReply

Go Harvey Go wrote: »

Ah, Treasure Ireland.

Streak never made a big impression, though, did he? Even though he was the show's unofficial mascot for the entirety of Derek Mooney's time as host...

Derek Mooney's familiar phrases:

FANNNN.....TASTIC!!
Win & Spin game:
Time to Go To THEEEEEE..... "BUBBLE"! (as opposed to the Ball Machine)
OOOOOOOhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!.unlucky ... Back we must go to the BUBBLE!

CarpeDiem85

I used to buy one WS scratchcard every week to try my luck. I'm going to start playing the lotto instead or use the money to buy tickets for local draws. They must be giving out a lot more 3 stars with this gameshow too. I got 3 scratchcards with 3 stars in a row. My sister got 2, 3 stars cards in a row. I used to rarely get scratchcards with 3 stars with the WS format.

mikom

Go Harvey Go wrote: »

A spokesperson for Nicky Byrne said the show was in its first week and there were always teething problems with first nights.

http://www.independent.ie/entertainment/television/tv-news/80-complain-over-nicky-brynes-stingy-new-gameshow-on-rte-30914712.html

Those are some funking big teeth.

AwaitYourReply

madmaggie wrote: »

The FYM is useful, the other, well you get my drift. Could be a typo, dosed up on Benylin, Lemsip, Strepsils, etc, so not quite with it.

Oh sorry you are under the weather! Get well soon then

SpaceTime

I miss Sinead & Marty.

There was something "old school" classic RTE about Winning Streak. It was in that same genre of production as the old Den.

Sadly, a little piece of Ireland died when they decided to decommission it and it was one of the nicer, more fun pieces too. Tacky, but fun.

It's a bit like putting Zuppy down!

AwaitYourReply

cofy wrote: »

There is no way that Geri Maye or Marty would put their stamp on something like this. The only one shallow enough to take this on is Nicky Byrne.

Oh I would reckon it was not even offered to any of the other TV presenters (no disrespect intended to any of them) but I would imagine that The National Lottery, especially in light of it's recent shake up clearly specified that they now wanted a relatively youngish celebrity/ex-boyband member to front their new prime-time TV game show.

cofy

madmaggie wrote: »

The FYM is useful, the other, well you get my drift. Could be a typo, dosed up on Benylin, Lemsip, Strepsils, etc, so not quite with it.

Hope you are feeling better, don't forget to try olbas oil.

AwaitYourReply

Go Harvey Go wrote: »

Winning Streak WILL be back.

Of course, even if and when Winning Streak returns as suggested for the Summer months period, there is no guarantee that the new owners of The National Lottery/RTÉ will present it as follows:

2 TV Show Presenters: Marty & Sinéad
5 contestants playing
Run with the last Winning Streak order/type of games format used
Identical prize money options with same minimum 20K each
Same Big Wheel /Grand Prize winning segment amounts

madmaggie

Ta, cofy, forgot about that old reliable.:D

cofy

Winning Streak is now Loosing Streak.

cofy

madmaggie wrote: »

Ta, cofy, forgot about that old reliable.:D

Hope you feel better soon. xxx

RabbleRouser2k

DoomZ wrote: »

Maybe the old voting machines finally got used.

Considering Bertie Ahern's Son-in-Law is at the helm, maybe that was part of the contract.
Try to help save on expenses.

RabbleRouser2k

CountyHurler wrote: »

Somebody up there must really not like Brian Ormond....

up there being RTE I mean of course...

After that business with the Viper...can you blame them? I wouldn't let the guy near my piggybank, never mind have him hosting a show where thousands are give out.
They might be afraid he would try and rope in contestants into another one of his 'sure thing' money making deals.

RobbingBandit

cofy wrote: »

Winning Streak is now Loosing Streak.

What are they loosing, surely it's not the coffers, this is the lottery after all.

Losing viewers is what they are losing.

RabbleRouser2k

AwaitYourReply wrote: »

There was a whole load of pre-publicity in advance of the show going out on RTÉ One TV and the angle stated back then was that this was just a pilot airing of a quiz show idea. If it scored high in the ratings, it was suggested that it may well return as part of a new series at some point in the future. I saw the show at the time and it was alright - I've seen worse quiz shows but to be fair, I've also seen better ones.

I believe the main reason RTÉ decided not to continue with the Irish version of Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? hosted by Gay Byrne in the early 2000s was mainly to do with the high costs of storing the studio sets for the show - they were not prepared to fork out for these high costs was apparently the stumbling block as I understand that the ratings were not the problem with the show here.

Back to Nicky Byrne's Million Euro Challenge - I wonder how serious RTÉ/The National Lottery are taking the high levels of negative reaction voiced on the changes! Can they really afford to keep the unpopular format running until next Summer or will they opt for tweaking it asap before they lose any more punters? Time will tell I guess...

As I recall, it was a number of factors - Who Wants to be a Millionaire I mean. First, ratings went down very quickly with that show (though quite a few can recall that one guy who was the only Irish person to not win anything. Like, zero money. He didn't know the name for a female rabbit, (a doe) and neither did the audience. He didn't make it to the 1000 euro question, and so, in front of a million Irish viewers, walked away with nothing. I still laugh about it at times to this day). It went from over a million, to a million, to just under a million, and gradually went down to about 300, 000 viewers.
Well, for a show that is giving out big money, that's not good. So RTE tried fixing the format of the show. It originally aired half an hour before Fair City, then Fair City ran, and they the second half hour of Millionaire aired. As the ratings went down, they moved it in the timeslot, and a full hour aired. But ratings still went down, then they moved the day it was on (to the weekend I believe). Until finally, it lost its sponsor, and, like the recent Irish MasterChef, it did not get a new sponsor. (I believe Vodafone was sponsoring it).
Without a sponsor, an audience, or someone to provide the money, the show was never resurrected.

RabbleRouser2k

thelad95 wrote: »

This honestly seems like it belongs on the Savage Eye.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qjOZtWZ56lc

I always thought that Numberwang was a great parody of incomprehensible quiz shows.

And then Million Euro Game show comes along...and numberwang starts to look comprehensible...
And NumberWang's host is less smug.

RabbleRouser2k

http://thecorknews.ie/articles/oflynn-challenges-national-lottery-17406

Cork's Deputy Lord Mayor has also complained to RTE and the National Lottery about the new tickets.

So it's good that people are making their voices heard.
Wonder if the protests will get as big as the Water Charges?

Tipsy McSwagger

So are we officially going to call this show Sh#t Streak from now on.

CarpeDiem85

I watched it again last night to give it one last chance. I thought it was really weird when the players spoke about their families at the start that the camera didn't pan to the family members even for a second. The faceless family members that are supposedly sitting in the audience. The whole show is as flat as a pancake. It's sad that the majority of the money is ultimately going out of the country too.

CountyHurler

RTE phone lines hopping with the complains about the show... lol

80 complain over Nicky Bryne's 'stingy' new gameshow on RTE

finnharpsboy

Im not sure i could keep a straight face if i got picked

CountyHurler

finnharpsboy wrote: »

Im not sure i could keep a straight face if i got picked

I think keeping your eyes open would be the primary concern...

Gael23

A sorry excuse for a TV show. Nicky Byrne does his best and I think he's actually quite good. But it's impossible to win any money and it's clear the show was put together at very low cost.
If it was aired 25 years ago that I'd have said it was good quality but this is 2015.

NinjaTruncs

According to that article there is a 1:17 chance to win the million. No way are the odds that good, or have my maths skillsxlet me down. I would expect its less that 1% chance of getting the million.

Gwynplaine

Just watching it here now. Nicky Button is better suited to the radio. The forced 'banter' with the pilgrims from beyond the pale is painful. Can the management please tell him to take his hands out of his pockets.

cofy

NinjaTruncs wrote: »

According to that article there is a 1:17 chance to win the million. No way are the odds that good, or have my maths skillsxlet me down. I would expect its less that 1% chance of getting the million.

I would put it at less than 1% chance. There is obviously someone behind the pyramid pushing out the drawers, it's far too easy to fix the amount being won.

Gits_bone

There's 6 lines in the pyramid right?

Line: Odds of hitting 0

1: 12/13 = .92
2: 7/11 = .64
3: 4/9 = .44
4: 3/7 = .43
5: 2/5 = .40
6: 1/3 = .33

Multiply the possibility of getting each of those in a row = .0147

This is 1/68 chance.

CarpeDiem85

The chances of getting the full €32,000 amount in the first game Crack the Code are basically zero. There are far too many numbers and combinations but they already knew that. The cheeky buggers.

Gits_bone

CarpeDiem85 wrote: »

The chances of getting the full €32,000 amount in the first game Crack the Code are basically zero. There are far too many numbers and combinations but they already knew that. The cheeky buggers.

9x8x7x6?

= 3024? Jaysus.

OptimusTractor

ryanf1 wrote: »

A sorry excuse for a TV show. Nicky Byrne does his best and I think he's actually quite good. But it's impossible to win any money and it's clear the show was put together at very low cost.
If it was aired 25 years ago that I'd have said it was good quality but this is 2015.

Ah shur aren't all gameshows gone to the dogs. Look at Tipping Point. Ben: "5 counters have gone into the drop zone giving you £250" Contestant: "I can't believe it, I'm well chuffed"

mikom

OptimusTractor wrote: »

Ah shur aren't all gameshows gone to the dogs. Look at Tipping Point. Ben: "5 counters have gone into the drop zone giving you £250" Contestant: "I can't believe it, I'm well chuffed"

You mean Tipping Point that has been on air since summer 2012, and is liked by many folk.

OptimusTractor

mikom wrote: »

You mean Tipping Point that has been on air since summer 2012, and is liked by many folk.

Is there another?

Gits_bone

Tipping point is really bad. So cringey.

mikom

OptimusTractor wrote: »

Is there another?

There will be soon when they sell the concept for re-creation in other regions.
Tipping point is produced by RDF/Zodiak Media. The group behind Being Human, The Secret Millionaire, Location Location Location, and The Inbetweeners.

Thargor

Gits_bone wrote: »

Remember they used to go on a virtual tour of irelands tourists spots. Good times.

I still dont know what the Acajun Fields are or whatever they used to say...

Go Harvey Go

Thargor wrote: »

I still dont know what the Acajun Fields are or whatever they used to say...

You mean that place in Mayo with that pyramid-shaped building?

Thargor

CarpeDiem85 wrote: »

I used to buy one WS scratchcard every week to try my luck. I'm going to start playing the lotto instead or use the money to buy tickets for local draws. They must be giving out a lot more 3 stars with this gameshow too. I got 3 scratchcards with 3 stars in a row. My sister got 2, 3 stars cards in a row. I used to rarely get scratchcards with 3 stars with the WS format.

Why not just buy a prize bond every week instead? The money will pile up as an emergency fund for you, you'll have one line entered this week, 2 the next, 3 the next etc etc and you'll be able to withdraw it all if you ever need it.

Skid X

OptimusTractor wrote: »

Ah shur aren't all gameshows gone to the dogs. Look at Tipping Point. Ben: "5 counters have gone into the drop zone giving you £250" Contestant: "I can't believe it, I'm well chuffed"

Tipping Point is dirge but there are plenty of decent quizzes and gameshows out there.

piperh

Gits_bone wrote: »

Tipping point is really bad. So cringey.

I like Tipping Point maybe its a throwback reminder to a mispent youth in arcardes ;-), but that's another stingy show. They should at least give the contestants what they get out of the machine.

Thargor

Go Harvey Go wrote: »

You mean that place in Mayo with that pyramid-shaped building?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C%C3%A9ide_Fields

Never even heard of it, will drive up next time Im home.

Go Harvey Go

Gits_bone wrote: »

Tipping point is really bad. So cringey.

If you think it's really bad... think about what an Irish version might be like.

piperh wrote: »

I like Tipping Point maybe its a throwback reminder to a mispent youth in arcardes ;-), but that's another stingy show. They should at least give the contestants what they get out of the machine.

It is hard on the eliminated contestants that they don't take home the money they've earned - but I suppose it keeps the costs down.

mikom

Go Harvey Go wrote: »

It is hard on the eliminated contestants that they don't take home the money they've earned - but I suppose it keeps the costs down.

Yep, it's not like they have folk from all over Ireland buying scratchcards to fund it........

Do people not realize how much those cards pull in?

Elmo

At least a change from Winning Streak. The set looks good, graphics aren't great. The CDs and toast holders could go. I didn't even think you could get a 10 piece toast holder!

Go Harvey Go

mikom wrote: »

Yep, it's not like they have folk from all over Ireland buying scratchcards to fund it........

Do people not realize how much those cards pull in?

...I was talking only about Tipping Point.