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.
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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.”