Fortune: Million Pound Giveaway

2007
Fortune: Million Pound Giveaway

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EP1 Show 1 Jan 02, 2007

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EP2 Show 2 Jan 09, 2007

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EP3 Show 3 Jan 16, 2007

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EP4 Show 4 Jan 23, 2007

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EP5 Show 5 Jan 30, 2007

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EP6 Show 6 Feb 06, 2007

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EP7 Show 7 Feb 13, 2007

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Released: 02 January 2007 Ended
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Country: United Kingdom
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Fortune: Million Pound Giveaway was a British television show hosted by Richard Madeley which first aired on ITV on Tuesday 2 January 2007. Over seven weeks, various members of the public appeared, several per show, and appealed before a panel of judges for money to fulfil ambitions or dreams. The show was made by Fever Media for ITV. The panel consisted of five high-profile members, four of whom are multi-millionaires: ⁕Jeffrey Archer - best selling author, convicted criminal, former Member of Parliament and former Deputy Chairman of the Conservative Party. ⁕Duncan Bannatyne - entrepreneur, panel member of BBC Two's Dragons' Den and owner of Bannatyne's Health and Fitness clubs ⁕Jacqueline Gold - Managing Director of Ann Summers and daughter of David Gold, the co-chairman of West Ham United F.C. ⁕Simon Jordan - mobile phone entrepreneur and the then owner of Crystal Palace F.C. ⁕Kanya King - founder of the MOBO awards. The concept is similar to that of BBC Two's Dragons' Den, also featuring Duncan Bannatyne. The programme was recorded between 10 December and 15 December 2006 at Three Mills Studios in Bow, London. Each day of this week several requests were filmed, and after recording was complete edited together to give a balanced series of seven programmes.

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bob the moo Ah ITV. In years to come will entertainment historians (for they will exist if they do not already) look back at your gradual losses in the face of the multi-channel work and perhaps point to your lazy and copycat method of cranking out reality shows and so on that bare a stunning resemblance to existing shows? If so I would like to think that this terribly simplistic and manipulative show gets a method because it is such a carefree rip-off of BBC2's Dragons' Den that they even decided to rope in one of the Dragons to be part of it.Personally I didn't take a lot from Dragons' Den and found it a far second to business reality show The Apprentice in the entertainment stakes, however alongside "Fortune: etc" it is the best show on television – an accolade that really only applies to HBO's The Wire (and no I won't stop banging on about it). The concept is a bit of a twist on Dragons' Den though because this is not just limited to businesses to come and pitch ideas so much as groups and individuals to come and beg for no-strings attached donations from the well-heeled panel. The contestants are even more obvious forms of entertainment than those in the Den and they mostly fit into simple groups. Idiots to provide colour and humour, sob stories to get the audience and panellists to soften up and those that fall in between who want cash to do something that is neither necessary or stupid.This formula is rolled out to the usual pantomime involving audience and panellists and it is depressing stuff that never feels anything other than manufactured and forced. A ruffled Richard Madeley forces sex appeal through the screen to try and draw in the bored, mid-week viewers and the panellists all force their personalities to the point where it is just like a Christmas panto. Bannatyne does what you expect, Kanya is sensual, Archer is dreary in his latest reality TV attempt at winning over the public while Jordan is just an annoying fop.Overall then a populist and tacky twist on Dragons' Den that doesn't even try to mask the lazy development and delivery. Everything runs to formula and I can understand why some viewers will love it while whooping and sobbing in their front rooms, eating their oven chips while the kids play video games in their rooms.