I wanted to like it... and will give it another go... but rather disappointed with S1E1 
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[TV] Jeopardy
- Thread starter Titanic
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Boring boring boring
Thank god for House of Games to come to the rescue
Thank god for House of Games to come to the rescue
A mex eyecan
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- Nov 3, 2011
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seemed as cheesy as a programme made decades ago. Fry just awful.
GT49er
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Watched the first part. That's it for me.
thedonkeycentrehalf
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- Jul 7, 2003
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Much as I love Stephen Fry, he is the wrong choice for this. It needs someone with energy but this was slow and boring.
Brian Fantana
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Having never watched the American version, what does the winner of each show get? The amount of money they finished the show with?
LANGDON SEAGULL
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Correct, and they get to defend their title next show
Man of Harveys
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I liked it. The American one is good too.
Rookie
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- Feb 8, 2005
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Yep and the most taken home is about $2 million I think
- Oct 17, 2008
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Needs more Mulhern
US Seagull
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They're trying a UK version of Jeopardy again?
All I saw from Googling was a quick a trailer. And yeah, it looked like Stephen Fry was putting far too much banter on every answer. That'll slow the game down plenty. The legendary Alex Trebek would only occasionally interject.
It (the US version) is actually a really decent show and the most high-brow of game shows in the TV landscape (celebrity Jeopardy excluded).
All I saw from Googling was a quick a trailer. And yeah, it looked like Stephen Fry was putting far too much banter on every answer. That'll slow the game down plenty. The legendary Alex Trebek would only occasionally interject.
It (the US version) is actually a really decent show and the most high-brow of game shows in the TV landscape (celebrity Jeopardy excluded).
US Seagull
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It used to be the case that they could only defend for 5 days and then had to retire. But they changed that so you can defend essentially forever.
Ken Jennings (now the current host) won 74 games in a row and took about $2.5 million in winnings. But if you include tournaments (they sometimes have a tournament of champions where they bring back previous big winners) he totaled something like $4.3 million. Which is not the biggest money winner. That's a guy named Brad Rutter who won a total of almost $5 million.
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Bored with it now
Although the 18 year old kid has a brain so big it might explode. The things he knows
Was he just 18? I thought he was a good few years older.
maltaseagull
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Watched it for the first time.
Won't bother again.
Stephen Fry is brilliant usually but was very dull.
Won't bother again.
Stephen Fry is brilliant usually but was very dull.
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- Feb 8, 2005
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Does the woman from Big Bang Theory (I can’t remember her name) still present it as well?It used to be the case that they could only defend for 5 days and then had to retire. But they changed that so you can defend essentially forever.
Ken Jennings (now the current host) won 74 games in a row and took about $2.5 million in winnings. But if you include tournaments (they sometimes have a tournament of champions where they bring back previous big winners) he totaled something like $4.3 million. Which is not the biggest money winner. That's a guy named Brad Rutter who won a total of almost $5 million.
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US Seagull
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They just recently canned her. Not entirely sure why. I wasn't really following the story.
I had heard somebody say that it might have been a result of her support for the recent Hollywood writers strike (I guess quiz question writers are covered by the same union? I dunno) and that pissed off the higher ups. But that might be entirely untrue.
For what it's worth, the official word from Sony was that they let her go to "Maintain continuity for our viewers"
But it might be more to do with this:
And, of course, some people will claim it's antisemitism.
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ElectricNaz
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I genuinely love it. Huge jeopardy fan, have been for years, I actually applied to go on this but obvs didn't get on. This is the one quiz where I think I'd do very well! Didn't like how they let people off of using the incorrect responses though. They surely should have been briefed during the interview process, and should have watched the North American version.