Comments on: First Review: Power of Ten

By: Matt

Matt — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 04:52:00 +0000

I auditioned for this poor excuse for a show, and the fact that the prize money was ONE-TENTH of the American version didn't go down too well.

To finally give away the million, contestants would have to get the exact percentage of the last question (a one-in-ten stab-in-the-dark).

I predicted it would last two episodes, and was glad to be proved right.

Nine has to stop treating viewers (and contestants) with contempt if it wants to keep these shows on air.

By: craigiej

craigiej — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 23:34:00 +0000

i found this to be really irritating, steve jacobs was ok, but the audience cooing just wont work in Australia and the amount of time it took the dial to settle on the answer was making me want to throw something at the TV, it only just scraped over 700K viewers so I dont think it will be around for long, wonder if we will see Today Tonight do a story on the contestants from any unaired episodes that done get their money..he he

By: David Knox

David Knox — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 13:06:00 +0000

True, Thomas, that was used for many years. But it was also dropped. Last series there was none of that.

By: Lakeyboy

Lakeyboy — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 12:43:00 +0000

I totally agree with you with the performance of Steve Jacobs. Very relaxed and comfortable, lively audience to help him along and did not feel fake or forced. I was abit worried about Nine doing a prime time game show (7:30 > ) without Eddie being the star of the show but it worked.

I also agree that the current format is not the best and the time filling features do not help.

If they want to keep the hour long format, I suggest they shorten the contestant selection round to best of 3 instead of best of 5 and also rename the show "Power of 2" or even better, "Double Up" or something along those lines. It doesn't sound as impressive but the format would be more exciting. You can cut the time wasting exercises (e.g. dial spinning randomly for 15 seconds) and have dollar amounts starting at $1,000 going up by the power of 2 to $64,000, then have Millionare style amounts to $1,000,000. Nobody is ever going to go for the million and risk leaving with only $10,000.

Or they could put it on at 5:00 in a half hour format but they would have to seriously tweak it because as we found out, pre-news game shows need to wrap up the game they are playingin the same episode. Maybe they keep the 1 vs. 1 system and have a contestant win $1,000 for every survey and they stay on until another contestant beats them and becomes the champion and it rolls on from there.

By: Thomas

Thomas — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 12:28:00 +0000

> Millionaire doesn’t have to muddle through a preliminary round to decide who will face off with Eddie.

huh ? What about the preliminary round where they ask 10 people a question and the one who answers correctly the fastest gets to “face off” with Eddie ?