Please make it stop!! (Who Wants to be a Millionaire?)

Member Name: kayelletee

Product:	Who Wants to be a Millionaire?
Date:	13/10/06 (109 review reads)
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Advantages: All advantages disappeared long ago

Disadvantages: Dull prime time viewing

Hmmmm...

Q: Who Wants to be a Millionaire?

A: Most people

Q: Who wants to watch Who Wants to be a Millionaire?

A: Not me!!

Okay, so nowadays most of us are familiar with the format of the show - Chris Tarrant appears in a poof of smoke, surrounded by lights and lots of waving numpties...

doo doo doo doo doo

the music stops... fastest finger first... place 4 items in date order etc etc... we have a winner, step into the hot seat...

Anyway, now (probably about 10 minutes into the show), we get down to Chris's dull chat with the contestant. What would you do if you won a million - holiday, house, blah blah... Who's supporting you in the audience (presumably nowadays expressly forbidden from coughing and conveying the answer to you)...?

Okay, 15 minutes in and we're on question one - the simplest question ever and, get it right and you get £100. It progresses like this until the person in the hot seat gets to £1,000 (contain your excitement). After that, it gets slightly more interesting and we might even see the use of one of the three lifelines - phone a friend (why are they always shocked to hear from Chris - have they not been specifically instructed to stay in??!), ask the audience (if you dare..) and 50:50 (often after the contestant has told the show what 2 they're torn between and then, guess what 2 are "randomly selected" - hmmmm...)

Anyway, if anyone used 2 lifelines before £32,000 then it is almost GUARANTEED that they won't get to the million therefore, for me, it's interest over. Especially when Chris Tarrant can spin 13 questions out over the course of an advert-filled hour.. "Final answer?" "Sure about that?" "What are you thinking?"... SAME OLD, SAME OLD!!

Celador's website heralds "Millionaire" as the "Worldwide television hit". Possibly true, but WHO is voting for its return to our screens year after year??!! Twenty series so far in the UK!!! How many black & grey shirt-tie combos can one man have??!

All in all, I can't help but feel that Who Wants to be a Millionaire has had its day! Keep it as a reserve for swotting up on pub quiz questions but other than that flip over to Deal or no Deal - that's where it's at now and, if it's still on in 7 years, no doubt it will also be as stale as this. The moral of the story is quit while you're ahead but, in the case of Millionaire, sadly it's too late for that!

Summary: Past its best quiz show