[quote name=\'PeterMarshallFan\' date=\'Nov 1 2003, 09:47 PM\'] Wasn't Play Your Cards Right revived last year with Bruce? [/quote]
It was indeed - in a bigger-money edition which technically could pay out up to (from memory) GBP 136k but practically tended to pay out sums of the order of GBP 15-20k. Maybe people don't actually want to win more than the price of a(n upmarket) new car.
One major difference between UK and US scheduling habits is that relatively few shows run year-round here. It is far more common for a show to return for one series of 13 (or 6/8/10/16/26...) episodes year after year and still be considered perfectly successful while doing so. A few shows have two short series per year instead. I am not sure whether there will be more PYCR or not.
Bruce is getting old, man. Ten, fifteen, twenty years ago, he would've been able to host this sort of show - an overt Brucie vehicle - in his sleep. As it is, there are some ways in which I'm not looking forward to it.
We shall see...
Chris
