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I mean, it is a rather interesting concept in theory, and is rather entertaining to watch. However, there is a problem I've noticed with this sort of approach. That being that there can only be 1 winner in each episode of Fastest Finger First, and that's a huge problem because normally in Who Wants to Be a Millionaire there are multiple contestants per episode, and with such few contestants due to there being such few winners of Fastest Finger First, I'm afraid that this could ruin Millionaire. And I'm not sure if I'm down for way more episodes of Fastest Finger First compared to the amount of episodes of Millionaire. It's a tough thought.

One way to remediate this is to have 2 winners of an episode of Fastest Finger First (or to increase the amount of contestants on Fastest Finger First from 5 to 10 like in the older seasons of Millionaire). That alone could make it so that there's an adequate amount of episodes of Millionaire this season with a good amount of contestants. Another way could be to completely separate this show from Millionaire and have it to that the prize is actual cash instead of a spot to play Millionaire. Now that's something I'd prefer a lot more.

All in all, it's an interesting concept in theory, but could lead to the downfall of Millionaire due to a huge reduction in contestants. I don't know, I guess we'll have to wait and see what the new season of Millionaire is going to be like.

I have just read spacemafia's review, and while I believe he is right in theory, my guess is that ITV have some kind of solution to that flaw.

Anyway, the flaw which I spotted, and the reason I have given it only one star is the unfairness of the format.

There are 5 contestants. The host ( Anita Rani) asks aquestion. The first to buzz in gets the chance to answer that and other questions till he or she gets to 12 or the claxon goes. Whichever comes first. Wouldn't it be fairer if it was an open buzzer system?

Tha winner of that round goes forward to the fastest finger first part using the same format as who wants to be a millionaire.

The problem is the same player can play that part over again and win the majority the rounds and have it taken away from them in the last one bysomeone who barely answered any questions. Probably a quiz show version of being mugged.

Surly it would be fairer to have just 2 rounds of open buzzer questions and and one round of fastest finger first with the 2 winners of the qestion rounds.

BUt no. ITV won't do that because then the show wouldn't be long enough, and they wouldn't get enough advertising. Basically, and I know tv channels need commercials to survive, I see adverts as an intrusion. I would't have such a problem with it if they spent it on improving their dramas.

As I have written elsewhere on this site, tv channels around the world show ads. Australia and The USA for example have ad breaks but produce high quality drama. Why can't the UK commercial channels do the same. Compare to BBC dramas, the dramas on UK commercila channels are waterd down.

ITV must spend a lot of money on shows such as the voice UK and epic gameshow and the masked singer which are quite good quality productions. So why can't they do the same with their dramas. Why?

It annoys me that they come up with good ideas and spoil them by really poor productions.

I hope some big boss at ITV and other UK commercils stations are reading this and finally do somethong about it, because they really believe their dramas are high quality. They are not.