(CNS) Posted Monday December 20, 2010 – 9.22am
“Million Dollar Money Drop” premieres with a two-hour partial tonight as Fox Broadcasting seeks to gain upon a nonesuch of first-run programming upon a alternative promote networks in a week heading up to Christmas.
Following tonight’s two-hour episode, hourlong episodes will air from 9-10 p.m. Tuesday as well as Wednesday as well as a two-hour partial from 8-10 p.m. Thursday.
“Million Dollar Money Drop” additionally will air Jan. 4, 6 as well as 13.
Fox is duplicating a scheduling plan primary used by NBC in 2005, when it premiered “Deal or No Deal,” by airing 5 episodes from Dec. 19-23.
All 5 episodes won their time slots, with 3 finishing in a week’s tip 10. “Deal or No Deal” a singular after another to be partial of NBC’s prime-time lineup by 2009 as well as right away runs in syndication progressing during a day.
In what Fox is billing as “the many relentless diversion ever imagined,” “Million Dollar Money Drop” has a two-person group of contestants in a attribute — married, engaged, dating or parent-child — operative together to keep $1 million by responding 7 multiple-choice questions.
One million dollars in blocks of $20 bills value $20,000 any is placed in front of a contestants, who have a singular volume of time — 60 seconds for any of a primary 3 questions, 75 seconds for any of a subsequent 3 — to confirm how most of a income they will risk upon any of a intensity answers.
“Having a genuine income in front of we only adds to a play similar to we can’t believe,” senior manager writer Jeff Apploff pronounced in a discussion call with reporters this month.
“I would contend 99 percent of Americans have never seen which volume of income or been means to hold it.”
After a contestants allot their money, income placed upon wrong answers disappears by a income dump below.
Retaining a complete $1 million is doubtful as a integrate would have to rightly answer all 7 questions as well as betting all of a income upon a singular answer for any question.
Actor as well as stand up comic Kevin Pollak is a host.
“Million Dollar Money Drop” is constructed by Endemol USA, which additionally produces “Deal or No Deal,” “Wipeout” as well as “Big Brother.”
Versions of “Million Dollar Money Drop” additionally air in a United Kingdom, Germany, Greece, Israel, Russia as well as Ukraine.
There have been multiform differences in between a American as well as British versions, stemming from a actuality which American audiences wish to see contestants win as well as British audiences wish to see contestants lose, Apploff said.
The American chronicle has a singular reduction subject per group than a British version.
Contestants additionally have thirty seconds to shift their income allocations over a primary 6 questions after their primary time expires.
“Our questions have been a small bit opposite as well as a feel as well as a tinge of a uncover is different,” Apploff said.
“You watch a little of a questions upon a UK chronicle as well as it’s not as relatable. On a show, roughly each singular subject is so relatable where you’re like, ‘Oh my God, we know that.’”
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