Australia's Million Dollar Drop (Audience member)

[bl5965]

About time!



A summary by an audience member is here: www.thevine.com.au/blog/clembastow/%27the-million-dollar-drop%27-or-the-day-i-held-a-year%27s-income-in-my-hands20110309.aspx



No pictures of the set or when it'll air, but it should be soon and I'll try upload at least 1 episode when it does.


P.S: That's not me!

BL

[Tim0n]

No. No. NO! The American format is spreading!!! NOOO!!!

[bl5965]

I must say, Australia has colourful money, compared to the bland notes used in the US/UK version Anyway, because they only started taping today, they would have learnt the mistakes from the US version hopefully, like pacing and question writing

[leimeisei]

As long as it has more gameplay than commercials it is better than the American version.

[bl5965]

An airdate has been announced - this Monday, only 6 days to go. They've put it in the timeslot where Classic Millionaire was a ratings hit - 8:30pm Monday. Hopefully it goes well. The 4 promos that have appeared on YouTube show that it is near identical to the US studio, no idea on other aspects. Here's the first promo I saw:



I'll try post the first episode.
BL

[RyanZ]

Mar 9, 2011 13:25:02 GMT -5 Tim0n said:

No. No. NO! The American format is spreading!!! NOOO!!!

I wouldn't say that the American format is bad; however, the unnecessarily long reveals and blah question writing, as well as a predictable end to every game, is. (Although the pacing in general did get better as the show continued.) Of course, I would say that the British format is better, but the American format isn't so bad as to be a game-killer.

I do prefer the American set, though. Actually, I like it a lot. Glad they used it in Australia.

[RegisFan]

The American version actually improved greatly as it went along. I found myself enjoying the show by the end of its run. The pacing picked up immensely. It's a rare example of a show that listened to audience feedback before it was too late. I hope we see it again this summer.

I'm crossing my fingers that the Australians paid attention to what our version did right and wrong and makes a great end product.

[bl5965]

Alright, the first episode has been aired. Set is exactly same as the US version, but I think the pacing is much better. It's approximately 8 questions in 40 minutes, which is 5 minutes each, which is acceptable. The only difference is that we have 8 questions, not 7.

First couple did well - held on to $1 Million for 3 questions, then eventually won with $180,000 (they were aiming for $160,000 for a wedding and honeymoon) so congratulations to them!



Here's the first part, find the rest from the video.

Enjoy!

[bl5965]

Episode 2: $640,000 loss on the FINAL QUESTION!!!

It's interesting how a $800,000 loss on a minor middle question can cause such a fuss when it had no effect on the game, yet a $640,000 loss here, a proper loss on the last question is worth nothing. It is noted though, that the question was a bit ambiguous (http://www.tvtonight.com.au/2011/03/mmillion-dollar-mmoney-drop-on-mms.html).

But $640,000 is much greater than the $468,000 lost on a WWTBAM $1 Million question.

Anyway, ratings are so-so. Not sure about the future of this. Also, we had a $250,000 (US $500,000) question loser this week. Thought you may want to know.

BL

[bl5965]

Episode 3: $140,000 win!
They lost $600,000 on question 1, battled it out to Q8: What is the most commonly used letter in the English Alphabet? A or E? The answer was E.

It's interesting that so far, every single couple has reached Q8 - 2 have won, 1 has lost.

BL

[RyanZ]

The most commonly-used letter? Wow, I thought that was a tad bit easy for the final question. Anyway, looks like there's a lot of money being won in Australia!