Fair play to Ant and Dec - they could go on presenting their three big ITV shows forever, but instead have decided to test themselves with this new show.
They've been down the game show route before, and it's never quite worked, and the schedules aren't exactly bereft of them in the first place. So this does present some level of risk.
But we need to allow them to try new things. Look at Eric and Ernie, they felt a bit trapped in their format because they were worried the public wouldn't accept them for anything else. It'd be a shame for this to happen to Ant and Dec.
I thought this was ok, like many new game shows it takes a while to get to grips with the format. It's certainly not the easiest to grasp initially.
For me the biggest flaw was that it was a bit slow. The contestants seemed to have an age to work out their answers - put them under a bit of time pressure in a 'Million Pound Drop' way!
This doesn't leap out at me as being a massive hit, and whether people will accept the Geordie duo doing something different remains to be seen.
They've been down the game show route before, and it's never quite worked, and the schedules aren't exactly bereft of them in the first place. So this does present some level of risk.
But we need to allow them to try new things. Look at Eric and Ernie, they felt a bit trapped in their format because they were worried the public wouldn't accept them for anything else. It'd be a shame for this to happen to Ant and Dec.
I thought this was ok, like many new game shows it takes a while to get to grips with the format. It's certainly not the easiest to grasp initially.
For me the biggest flaw was that it was a bit slow. The contestants seemed to have an age to work out their answers - put them under a bit of time pressure in a 'Million Pound Drop' way!
This doesn't leap out at me as being a massive hit, and whether people will accept the Geordie duo doing something different remains to be seen.