Report: Fox Finished Taping “Million Dollar Money Drop”

This one is a shocker.  According to an audience report on Hollywood Junket, the American version of the hit UK game show The Million Pound Drop has already taped.  We were the only American news outlet who paid attention to this show when it first came out, so I’m glad to see it doing so well.  Fox’s version, called Million Dollar Money Drop, because adding Million Dollar before any title is the new cool thing to do, apparently taped for two days and around five episodes a day.  The show appears to be basically the same thing as the Channel 4 version.  Kevin Pollack, who hosted the allegedly rigged Fox game show Our Little Genius, hosts this one.

It does appear to be just about identical to the original.  In the Fox version of Million Dollar Money Drop, a pair of contestants is given 50 stacks of $20,000 (making up $1,000,000) to play with.  In the UK version, contestants are given 40 stacks of £25,000.  Contestants have to place all their money on drop zones corresponding to the answers, but they can split it up between the zones however they want if they need to.  The catch is you have to leave one of the drop zones open.  The first few questions have four choices, then three, and the final question has just two so it becomes a 50/50 decision.

The Fox version will only use seven questions.  The Channel 4 version uses eight.  After seven questions, if the team has any money left over they take it home.  It’s hard to win but it’s incredibly dramatic and if you realize that the point of the show is just damage control and you really won’t be winning the million most likely, it’s very fun.  So there we go.  Pretty exciting, isn’t it?  Million Dollar Money Drop is a very fun show and the sooner it gets on the better.

I just fear one thing.  Sorry if this makes people angry but it’s true: Americans are sentimental wimps.  We don’t like to see people lose everything constantly, and that’s the entire point of this show.  I guarantee you a vast majority, if not all but one, teams will leave with $0 and only one team will win a low six figure amount.  It’s the point of the show and it’s good.  If Americans can get over this, it’ll work out.  If people start to get extremely sad seeing everyone lose, it’s a goner.  Let’s hope people toughen up for it, because it’s a great show.  You can read another blog about it here and see how people get about seeing people constantly lose money.  If a majority of people can’t get over it, the show is doomed.

Don’t forget that the British version, The Million Pound Drop Live, is now casting and comes back in October.  We’ll be covering that extensively as it comes closer.