The sly axing of Winning Streak

Its outdated and young people aren’t interested in watching it.
€3.50 for a scratchcard with a 1% chance of being on the show.
The games were silly and required no skill.
I can’t think of one thing that made Winning Streak good.
Rte need to produce a new gameshow that will capture the viewers interest.

Does anyone remember the name of the fella from Stokes Kennedy Crowley?

He always did that exact same nod of his head with a fake smile, but I never once remember hearing his voice.

1% you wish it was. It was a lot less than that. They pulled out 100 tickets out of all the tickets received which went into the tv drum. I think also the names were written a different angle to what you’d fill in. Else be reading some people’s scribbles.

It was a game of pure luck and rubbish for years

They used to have to record it in the early afternoon on Saturday because the audience and punters were coming in tanked up out of their minds when they recorded it in the evening.

Alex Burns I think.

All it fueled was gambling with these lottery tickets. Working in a newsagent when I was younger - I could see the amount of money pouring in for especially Winning Streak cards. And a lot of meaningless prizes at the end, which just end up purchasing another one. We hand out a lot of envelopes too for 3 stars entry, so just imagining that being duplicated across every shop in Ireland showed the amount of money pouring into these.

Was silly having TV3's Deal Or No Deal based around lottery tickets as well. I guess that's the only way they could fund it at the time.

Not sure if quiz shows fit the category of family game shows the OP has in mind, but as a quiz enthusiast I was seriously impressed with the Ireland's Smartest show which aired a while back and hopefully will continue in the future. The format seemed to be quite original and the questions were a good mix of easy, moderately challenging and hard which catered for all levels. Up with this type of thing!

Dear sweet weeping Jesus on the cross. What kind of lives do these people lead that the absence of Winning Streak leaves a void so big in their life that they take to the national airwaves to complain. When you hear something like this you think "Christ. Things are worse than I thought." So this is what stimulates the sophisticated Irish electorate, eh?

The Tipping Point has been running for 12 years, I know they ask questions but its USP is the arcade type coin game.

So there is a market for those sorts of shows, not just in Ireland.

"The Money List" is a reformatted version of the UK gameshow "Who Dares Wins" which was one of their lottery incorporated gameshows on Saturday nights.

"Who Dares Wins" itself is a reformatting of a US gameshow called "The Rich List".

Can't say I missed its absence. Crap game show with zero skill other than Fisher Price activity centre button pressing. I'd say the fan base of the over 70s and nursing home inmates must be devastated.