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Old 07-03-2016, 03:14 PM #1
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CHANNEL 4 has shelved Davina McCall’s gameshow MILLION POUND DROP.

The programme, which began in 2010, featured members of the public trying to win big money by placing bundles of cash on top of trapdoors and answering a series of questions.

Getting them wrong meant the money plummeting down a chute with the prize fund diminishing.

A number of celebrity specials were also made featuring stars including Alan Carr, Joey Essex, Jonathan Ross and Zara Phillips.

The highest prizes came in the fifth series when Jack Whitehall and dad Michael won £300,000 for charity while the largest payout to a non-celeb was £250,000.

In its heyday the show pulled in ratings of up to three million viewers but Channel 4 has decided not to bring it back, making last year’s eleventh series the final one.

Davina has instead been focusing on C4’s winter sports show The Jump, which came to an end last night, as well as ITV’s Long Lost Family.

An insider said: “Bosses have decided to put their money into other shows and there are no plans currently to bring back Million Pound Drop. People say it’s a shame as it had a big following.”

The show originally launched as a live series before becoming pre-recorded and was one of the first programmes to allow viewers to play along online and on social media.

It hit the headlines in 2010 when bosses got the answer wrong on a Doctor Who question, prompting them to bring back a couple who had been wrongly booted off.

They carried on playing with the £325,000 they should have been left with but eventually ended up with just £25,000 of prize money.

A Channel 4 spokeswoman said last night: “Million Pound Drop is not currently in the schedule but could come back at some stage.”

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage...ound-Drop.html
For me, the move to 8PM and the pre-recording the shows gave a totally different dynamic to it in the end - it just felt really flat. I will miss it though, at it's peak it was brilliant.
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The Jump and then this.

Not Davina's shows all being axed in quick succession. </3
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I haven't watched it for a while but I used to really enjoy it when I did watch.

I managed to win the million on the official mobile app once, shame it wasn't real.
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Davina certainly knows how to kill off a show.
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Davina McCall your bank cause your about to overdraft.
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I thought this was axed years ago.
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The format wasn't as good as Who Wants to be Millionaire? because in that show the money went up each question, instead of down.
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I hadn't watched in ages but at its peak I really enjoyed it
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Davina to be homeless and have to do BB again??
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Here for Rylan pissing off and Davina taking over BOTS?

Or here for Davina filling in for Emma during BB17 if needed
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I'd rather Davina do the main show and Emma do BBBOTS
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Don't be silly


She has shows on ITV and Ch4
loads of contracts still going
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True, but that will never happen.
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I haven't watched it for a while but I used to really enjoy it when I did watch.

I managed to win the million on the official mobile app once, shame it wasn't real.
Google is cheating you know
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Well you clearly haven't watched C4 BB then loov!
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She didn't leave it for them though.

If BB was still on channel 4, she'd probably still be doing it.
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