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Watching again today... I don't really get any sense of Jeopardy watching it.
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[TV] Jeopardy
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There it is! A failed £2000 punt. Pity I rather liked Brendan.
it is all frightfully middle class, isn't it?
US Seagull
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The British Did the Unthinkable to Jeopardy!
The new edition fails to learn a lesson the U.S. version did very publicly two years ago.
Fignon's Ponytail
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My wife is hooked on it, but I find it so DULL.
Cowfold Seagull
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I quite enjoy it actually, as l do most tv quiz programmes. There again l'll watch whatever Stephen Fry does.
A mex eyecan
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I use the programme as an alarm for me to attend to a less mind numbing task and go and see how much my garden compost has decomposed since the last episode.
Fignon's Ponytail
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Maybe thats the difference - I usually like Stephen Fry, but hate quiz shows...whereas my wife seems to watch them all.
Ludensian Gull
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So dull,not helped by Frys monotone voice.
Man of Harveys
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Not sure why people have such a downer on this show. I’m a big Fry fan and think he’s doing a perfectly good job with a good, rather highbrow format. So there. 
Fignon's Ponytail
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Now that would be a quiz show worth watching.
"Calling Rachel Riley & Victoria Coren-Mitchell...."
Normal Rob
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Not sure why people have such a downer on this show. I’m a big Fry fan and think he’s doing a perfectly good job with a good, rather highbrow format. So there.
It's because it's very boring.
US Seagull
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So I haven't seen the UK version, or managed to find a full episode on YouTube, but judging just from this bit of final Jeopardy I found here, along with a couple of other short clips:
The problem is that Stephen is slow as f***. You don't need to comment on absolutely everything that's happening. You don't need to explain how the wager works again. It's really not that complicated. And you don't need to congratulate or apologize to every contestant. Just get on with it. Trust the viewers to understand what somebody's wager means.
And I love Stephen Fry, he is a very funny man, but gameshow host is not his thing. And no, QI isn't really a gameshow. It's a panel show with the questions just existing to give the guest something to riff on. Stephen seems to be still operating in that mode here. He wants to riff on the questions and answers.
And an hour is far too long. Half an hour is the perfect size for a daily bit size dose of trivia.
From the Slate article I posted yesterday:
The problem is that Stephen is slow as f***. You don't need to comment on absolutely everything that's happening. You don't need to explain how the wager works again. It's really not that complicated. And you don't need to congratulate or apologize to every contestant. Just get on with it. Trust the viewers to understand what somebody's wager means.
And I love Stephen Fry, he is a very funny man, but gameshow host is not his thing. And no, QI isn't really a gameshow. It's a panel show with the questions just existing to give the guest something to riff on. Stephen seems to be still operating in that mode here. He wants to riff on the questions and answers.
And an hour is far too long. Half an hour is the perfect size for a daily bit size dose of trivia.
From the Slate article I posted yesterday:
As somebody who moved to the states in my early twenties, I reject the idea that "answer in the form of a question", odd as it is, is in anyway hard to grasp. I took to Jeopardy very quickly. It literally takes maybe one round, maybe half a round, to get the gist of it.
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Hilarious end to todays show. 
Still not really engaged.
Still not really engaged.
Anger
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Bloke mis-calculated his final total and lost! You need to watch to understand.Hilarious end to todays show.
Still not really engaged.
Meanwhile we can now work out who, on NSC, is either unemployed, a student, retired or pretends to WFH but watches TV instead.
Me? Could watch Fry in QI all day but sadly this scripted Fry wouldn't last 5 minutes if it was his first show on tele.
Although, Uranus joke today, bit risky for day time TV.
autopsyturvey
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I certainly don't have trouble grasping the "answer as a question" idea, but I think it adds absolutely nothing to the format and might be mistaken for the show's main focus.
The other thing that doesn't really work is choosing the questions from the board. Every question will be asked at some point and anyone can buzz in to answer each time, so what's the point of the contestant choosing the next one (apart from the lottery of getting the 'daily double')?
TBH, though, I quite enjoy it - mainly as I can keep it on silent on one monitor whilst I work, just glancing the questions as they come up.
US Seagull
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Yeah, that does strike me as pretty bad. For comparison, on the US edition, the first round has clues from $100 - $500 (so about £80 - £400) and the second round has clues from $200 - $1000.
US Seagull
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Exactly that. The lottery of getting the "daily double". Also the possibility of picking categories you feel you are strong in so that a) you keep control of the board (important for finding the daily double) and b) you can build up enough of a lead that you can potentially make a large wager for the daily double and probably c) the psychologic advantage of building up a lead.