08May2013
Buzzer UK Special: Sir Alex Ferguson on Who Wants to be a Millionaire?
It was announced earlier today in the football/soccer world that existing manager of Manchester United, Sir Alex Ferguson has taken the decision to retire from managerial duties from the end of this season. After nearly 27 years at the club, he has managed to win a total of 28 trophies, making him the most successful manager in English football history. With his latest trophy being his 13th Premiership league title (20th for Manchester United overall). When Celebrity Who Wants to be a Millionaire had high profile guests back in the day. Alex Ferguson is the only football manager to have ever faced Chris Tarrant in the hotseat. In Christmas 2004 he appeared with lifelong Manchester United fan and host of Sky News Sunrise, Eamonn Holmes playi
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Civilians Play for £1,000,000 on ITV’s “Millionaire: The People Play” Starting May 7th
Most of the year, whenever Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? returns to ITV, celebrities sit in the Hot Seat. However, starting tonight, civilians are back facing Chris Tarrant and attempt to win £1,000,000 for themselves. For three special shows beginning tonight, May 7th, ITV is bringing back Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?: The People Play at 9:00PM UK (4:00PM ET). Click here to learn more about the specials and to find out how to play along live via tablet or smartphone.
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Weekend Replay: Team Versus Paul Sinha for £51,000 on “The Chase”
With GSN's adaptation of The Chase coming awfully soon, and with the current great ITV edition still going daily, I want to be sure to showcase the best that the intense quiz format has to offer. Luckily, if you watched it this week, you saw a few great matches. Monday's, in particular, is arguably in the top three Final Chases of all time. Our team has managed to bank a massive £51,000 throughout four rounds. To win it they have to outrun the Chaser, Paul Sinha, one final time in a relentless two minute marathon of questions. If they can't beat him, though, they'll leave with nothing. Can the team take away one of the biggest paydays in the show's history? You aren't going to want to miss this. It's impossible to be any closer. Click here to watch and let us know what you think of the exciting moment.
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GSN’s “The Chase” Now Casting
I've been away the past few days, but there's been a few exciting things going on that you'll be interested in. If you've been a long time reader, you've probably read or watched ITV's The Chase around here. There was a lot of excitement over the announcement that GSN will be making an American version. Do you think you can beat Mark "The Beast" Labbett and take home tens of thousands of dollars? The show is now casting and needs you. Click here to visit the casting website. They've had a lot of BuzzerBlog readers apply so far, and we'd love to see you on the air. Few people know about the show so far except you all. You have the upper edge. Do us proud and click here to apply. Tell them BuzzerBlog sent you. Good luck.
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GSN Announces US Adaptation of ITV’s “The Chase”
More information coming soon but I feel like this is the announcement most of you will care about: GSN has announced an American version of ITV's popular daytime quiz show The Chase. Each episode sees a team take on a quiz expert in head-to-head challenges for tens of thousands of dollars. At the end of the show any surviving team members face off against "The Chaser" one more time for the tense "Final Chase". If they outrun The Chaser one final time the team will split their bank evenly. Get caught, though, and they leave with nothing. The ITV edition has become a popular daytime staple for the network, averaging well over three million viewers a day and topping the daytime quiz charts. Fox shot a pilot for stateside version in 2012 but it was not picked up. The pilot was hosted by UK host Bradley Walsh and The Chasers were UK import Mark "The Beast" Labbett and Jeopardy! champion Brad Rutter.
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Review: “Catchphrase” Good, Retro Fun
I don't think there's been a show that's been as retro as ITV's revival of Catchphrase in a while. There's no gambling your winnings, there's no empty-handedness for the second place finisher, there's no terrifying lights or music. It's just relentless game, puzzles, and what made the original so fun. If you liked the brief US version from the 80s odds are you'll get into this one, too. It picks up where the previous version left off, adds a few tweaks, modernizes it a bit, and delivers a very entertaining hour. Click here to learn more about the show, read our thoughts, and watch some of the first episode. Let us know what you think.
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ITV and Channel 4 Debut New Games This Weekend
If you're a game show fan in the United Kingdom, you're going to have a very busy weekend. Saturday and Sunday are virtually bursting with genre offerings anywhere you look. The two we'll be keeping an eye on the most are ITV's Catch Phrase and Channel 4's 5 Minutes to a Fortune. The latter, 5 Minutes to a Fortune, starts this Saturday, April 6th, at 5:10PM UK (12:10PM ET). Davina McCall (The Million Pound Drop, Big Brother) hosts. Each episode sees a team compete in five challenges within five minutes in order to save as much cash as possible from an ever-draining larger-than-life hourglass. Then, on Sunday, April 7th, a classic game returns. After an eleven year break, Catchphrase comes back to ITV with new episodes at 6:45PM UK (1:45PM ET). The weekly show hosted by Stephen Mulhern simply asks contestants to "see what they say." Beyond those two exciting new shows there are several others on this weekend. Click here for the full story one ach show and let us know which one you're looking forward to the most.
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Weekend Replay: Can Kevin Beat “The Cube”
The Cube is currently into its sixth series on ITV and it's still thrilling us week after week. Yesterday's starting contestant, Kevin, returns in one of the strongest positions anyone on the Phillip Schofield-hosted show has ever been in. He's already won £50,000. He's starting the show on game six of seven, for £100,000. Best of all he still has six lives, his Trial Run, and his Simplify lifelines for additional help. Kevin is just two games away from beating The Cube and being the first civilian to win £250,000. Can Kevin get passed his £100,000 game and, most importantly, does Kevin have what it takes to gamble it all for the shot at defeating The Cube? Click here to watch this Cube moment to remember.
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ITV Schedules “Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?” Best Of Friends Edition for March 17th
Do you trust your best friend enough to help you win a million pounds? Celebrity teams will put that to the test with a special "Best of Friends" edition of Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? on Sunday, March 17th, at 7:00PM UK on ITV. Best celebrity friends will sit in the Hot Seats for a chance at £1,000,000. Whatever they win will be split between their charities and a viewer prize pot. Playing for the million will be sporting legend Lord Sebastian Coe will team up with best friend, athletics commentator and former Olympic silver medallist Steve Cram. Click here to learn more about the special and who else to expect.
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Updates While We Were Away
Apologies for the slow few days. We've been away and incredibly busy. Luckily there hasn't been a lot going on. We do have a few small updates you may be interested in, though. What you may also be interested in is we'll be on the set of Wheel of Fortune next week so watch out for some cool features then. Until that time, though, here's what we missed while away. We've got updates on The Price is Right, Robot Combat League, America's Got Talent, CBS's upcoming import of The Great British Bake Off, ITV's Tipping Point, and UK Millionaire. Click here for the full story on each.
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“The Cube” Returns for Sixth Series on March 2nd
Does anyone have what it takes to beat The Cube? We'll find out in just a few weeks. ITV has announced the sixth series of the futuristic stunt game hosted by Phillip Schofield will begin on Saturday, March 2nd, at 8:15PM UK (3:15PM ET). Each episode sees contestants try to complete seven seemingly easy games to win £250,000. However, nothing is easy once inside The Cube. The last series ended December 2012. Olympic gold medalist Mo Farah became the first person to beat The Cube and take home the jackpot. Can we get the first civilian winner this time? ITV has recently renewed the series for a seventh series which begins recording next month. This will take The Cube, which began in August 2009, to over 50 episodes in the course of four years. Mo Farah's jackpot win was voted the best game show moment of 2012 by BuzzerBlog readers during the Best of 2012 countdown.
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Weekend Replay: Full Episode of “The Chase” with a Final Chase to Remember
I feel we have to repeat it every single time we talk about it, but The Chase is flat-out the best quiz show on TV anywhere today. It's hard to ask for more and, pound for pound, the Final Chase is the most exciting few minutes on television currently. We often just show you small highlights. I'm guessing many of you haven't seen a full episode. Want to see one and see why we like it so much? Here's an episode from earlier this week. It was just a few weeks ago where we had a record £60,000 win on a one-versus-one Final Chase. This Final Chase is equally memorable for reasons you will see. Click here to see the entertaining episode and the extremely exciting and unexpected Final Chase to remember.
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ITV Brings Back “The Cube” for New Series; Now Casting
Last year Olympic champion Mo Farah became the first person to ever beat The Cube, ITV's critically acclaimed futuristic game hosted by Phillip Schofield. Do you think you have what it takes to beat The Cube and be the first civilian to win £250,000? You have your chance. ITV is bringing the show back for a new series. They are now looking for contestants. If you live in the United Kingdom and are over 18, click here to email the casting department. The last series of The Cube started in April 2012 and ended in December with a celebrity edition. It averaged around three million viewers. Click here to learn more and see a recent clip of the show.
Read MoreView Comments (5)30Jan2013
“Millionaire” Updates: “American Pickers” on US Version February 1st; ITV Schedules New UK Celebrity Shows
Who Wants to be a Millionaire (or Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? in England for some reason) has some special celebrity shows coming up. Whether you live in the United States or the United Kingdom you'll see some stars play to win a million for charity. Here's a rundown of what to expect wherever you are. The US syndicated version, hosted by Meredith Vieira, will welcome History's American Pickers stars Mike Wolfe and Frank Fritz to the million dollar table on Friday, February 1st. They'll be playing for America's Vetdog, an organization that provides assistance dogs and training to disabled veterans and active service members. Then, ITV has announced new episodes of the celebrity edition of Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?. The episodes will record on February 11th and 12th at 6:30PM and 5:45PM, respectively. Click here to read about both Millionaire stories and see a clip of the American Pickers special. An iconic piece of Millionaire history returns for the first time in four years.
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ITV Recommissions “The Chase” Into 2014
We've got some good news this afternoon for fans of ITV's daytime game show The Chase. The Bradley Walsh hosted quiz has been recommissioned through 2014. ITV has ordered 324 episodes. This consists of 300 daytime episodes split between series seven and eight along with 24 primetime celebrity editions. This will bring the entire series library to over 600 episodes. The Chase has boosted the time slot's average by 1.1 million viewers, a year-to-year increase of 39%. It also regularly beats its rival, BBC's Pointless. Click here to read more about the recommission and to see a clip from the show, if you haven't seen it before.
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