Ten hits out at ‘completely wrong’ and ‘misleading’ News Corp article about the future of its programs
Ten has rejected claims published over the weekend in News Corp papers that its flagship programs could be under threat from new owner CBS.
The Sunday Telegraph foreshadowed shows including The Bachelor, The Bachelorette, Survivor, I’m a Celebrity Get Me Out of Here and Pointless could be under review and speculated Ten’s chief content officer Beverley McGarvey was under pressure from CBS. Ten, however, has called the report “ill-informed, misleading and completely wrong”.
Ten says the article over the weekend was “ill-informed”
I feel for Ten – it was only last week that Ten/CBS made the right decision to take Sales back in-house from MCN.
Coincidentally – a full page article appears in the Sunday papers – I think the honeymoon is well and truly over for News and Ten !!
Pointless has to go. Whoever pushed that out onstage has lost touch with game show viewers. Question – answer — right or wrong. Then all the trappings. Pointless doesn’t give the viewer a chance to be right. Basic stuff.
If you’ve seen the original UK version, you realise that what Ten is making is a very ‘bare-bones’ stripped down version.
Only three pairs to start instead of four, so only one round before the ‘head to head’ not two; only two categories to choose from in the final round instead of four; only two answers/chances to win the jackpot instead of three. Even then, there’s still not enough time left for the Doc to give all the pointless answers to both categories.
It all feels very chopped off at the knees, and it’s taken all the charm out of it, not to mention most of the viewing audience’s enjoyment in participating.
TL;DR: You can’t cram a one hour format into thirty minutes.
I agree that the UK version (as screens on the ABC) is better, for all the reasons given.
Pointless gives viewers many opportunities to be right. More so than in Millionaire Hotseat.
Pointless is in one major way similar to Family Feud. In one contestants have to work out what the least popular answer given by the public is, and in the other, the most popular.
Who will be the first with an HQ style show, where the audience really can play along?
HQ has done that, I think 🙂 But yes, it would be interesting to see it on TV.