The chance of your life
| Television broadcast | |
|---|---|
| Original title | The chance of your life |
| Country of production | Germany |
| year | 2000 |
| Production company |
Endemol |
| length | 120 to 150 minutes |
| Episodes | 6th |
| Broadcasting cycle |
Sundays, 8.15 p.m. |
| genre | Quiz show |
| Moderation | Kai plum |
| First broadcast | April 30, 2000 on Sat.1 |
The Chance of Your Life was a quiz show on Sat.1 from the year 2000. The prize was 10 million German marks . The show was moderated live by Kai Pflaume . The quiz show served as the original version of the Dutch guessing program "Postcode Loterij Miljoenenjacht", from which the game show format "Deal or no Deal" was later to emerge.
In the third edition of October 1, 2000, there was a scandal when a candidate lost his nerve, threw his jacket on the floor, and complained about the show to the booing of the audience. The candidate blamed technical failure of his buzzer for his departure. After that there were initially no further programs, after a break the program came back with changed rules for two more programs and a final program. The final broadcast ran on December 17, 2000. A total of six programs were broadcast. The rules of the game were changed twice.
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Version 1 (programs 1 and 2)
At the beginning of the show, there were 1000 candidates in the studio. These were divided into 10 numbered sectors / blocks of 100 candidates each, which were again divided into 5 sections of 20 players each. Initially, three selection rounds were played. In each round, a question with three possible answers was asked, and the candidates could use the voting device to log in what they thought was the correct answer. Each candidate who decided on the correct solution earned his team one point (in the first round a red team (blocks 1–5) played against a blue team (blocks 6–10); in the second round the five winning teams played Sectors as independent teams against each other, and in the last selection round a segment (consisting of 20 candidates) was selected from the five sections of the winning sector). The team with the most points advanced to the next round, the players in the losing group (s) were eliminated. After three selection rounds, 20 candidates were selected, who now competed against each other in six further elimination quiz rounds. During these rounds there was always the chance for the candidates who had already left to replace voluntary dropouts. The successors were then determined by a random generator. The last game was always a quiz between the two remaining candidates, in which the winner was determined. In the final, the winner had to answer seven questions with seven possible answers each. The finalist's starting capital was one mark. After every correct answer a zero appeared after the one, i.e. H. after a correct answer there was 10 marks, after 2 100, after 3 1,000, after 4 10,000 DM etc. This enabled the candidate to win a maximum of 10 million marks after seven questions, but this was never achieved.
Version 2 (programs 3 to 5)
In the second version too, 1,000 candidates took part in each show. Of these, five were selected based on their speed in answering a question. A further round of questions, which the five candidates had to complete one after the other (5 questions with 5 possible answers each had to be answered within five minutes, whereby a maximum of 50,000 DM could be safely won), their number was reduced to 3. A candidate could go home with a sure win by choosing a car and in that case was replaced by the fourth best player. If no one got out voluntarily, the car was given to a public guest who was determined by a further question. In a further round, the three players had to put five historical events in chronological order, which meant that the weakest participant was eliminated. The candidate for the final round was determined in a direct duel between the other two. In the final, the finalist had to answer seven questions again. Depending on the number of those answered correctly, there was again up to 10 million marks to be won, but the maximum amount was never reached. The division of the 1000 candidates into 10 numbered blocks / sectors of 100 candidates each remained, after the semifinals each of the 99 players from the finalist's sector won 1000 marks.
The duel of the winners (broadcast 6)
In the last show the five winners of the previous shows fought against each other. After four rounds of elimination quizzes, there was only one candidate left who had another chance to earn 10 million marks by answering seven questions. The broadcast took place one day after the fifth broadcast.
winner
In the premiere broadcast, Uwe from Sankt Goar , who had been randomly added as a substitute candidate three rounds before the final, made it to the last round. Of the seven questions asked by Kai Pflaume, he answered four correctly and received 10,000 DM.
Candidate Roy from Bremerhaven made it to the final in the second edition. Here he managed to give five correct answers and win 100,000 DM.
In broadcast 3, Andreas Voss made it to the final round after the controversial semi-final duel against opponent Francis, who had lost his nerve due to some technical problems, where he was able to answer four questions correctly and, due to the new staggering of the prizes, not with 10,000 DM, but went home with 250,000 DM.
The winner of the fourth broadcast was Florian Lederer with 520,000 DM. In the final, he answered the question about Derrick's rank incorrectly and was shown on the front page of Munich- BILD : “My God Florian! 10 million wasted. "
International versions
The show was produced by the Dutch production company Endemol . Endemol also sold this format abroad.
Constantino Romero presented the quiz 2001 on Spanish television under the title "Una Vez en la Vida" (Once in a lifetime).
In November 2000 the Dutch version of the quiz show started under the name "Postcode Loterij: Miljoenenjacht", moderated by Linda de Mol . The rules and the studio corresponded to the first German version, which means that of the 1000 candidates only the best section (20 players) of the winning sector from round 2 remained after three game rounds. In the 2001 Easter edition of the show, Linda de Mol caused a stir in the finale when she described the German national anthem as "rot lied" (damned song) after the finalist failed to answer the last question in which the composer of the Deutschlandlied had to be named could answer. Instead of 10 million guilders, he won (since he only answered six of the seven questions correctly) only one million. This statement, with which de Mol wanted to console the candidate for the wrong answer, caused a minor scandal in Germany . The presenter then apologized to her German fans and repeated this excuse when the then finalist appeared again as a candidate on September 2, 2001 in a special broadcast of "Miljoenenjacht" (which was the last edition for the time being).
On December 22nd, 2002, the quiz returned with a changed format. Although some elements from the old show were taken over, a completely new final game conceived by Endemol format developer Dick de Rijk was introduced (at the beginning of the new final round, the victorious candidate was given 26 suitcases with hidden checks in the amount of one cent to at 5 million euros; after the finalist had decided on one of the suitcases, the other suitcases were opened one after the other so that the contents of the suitcase chosen by the finalist crystallized more and more clearly and the candidate could better assess whether it was wiser, the suitcase or to accept an offer from the bank, which offered the finalist an amount of money in exchange for his suitcase), which was marketed internationally under the title " Deal or No Deal " due to the groundbreaking success achieved through this . This quasi-new television format was also broadcast in Germany, for the first time on May 1, 2004 under the title " Der Millionendeal ", also on Sat 1 and (at least in the first season) also presented by Linda de Mol. The music and the studio were there almost identical to the elements known from "Chance of your Life", at least in the first season of 2004. From the second season, which started in 2005, the show was not only given a new name, but was also visually and acoustically redesigned, which resulted in the abolition of the "Chance of your Life" jingles. Many other international versions of “Deal or no Deal” also used the music known from “Chance of Your Life”.
Odds
5.40 million people followed the start of the program. This corresponded to a market share of 20.7 percent. In the target group , the show achieved a market share of 21.6 percent. The second show, which was broadcast a week later, revealed the low level of audience interest with 4.80 million viewers. The target of six million viewers could never be achieved. After the first four episodes, the show achieved an average audience rating of 4.70 million viewers.
Web links
- Focus interview on the second broadcast
- Information about the broadcast onquotemeter.de
- Directory of all episodes on Fernsehserien.de
- Teaser of the show on Youtube.com
- Excerpt from the program Tv total (candidate freaked out; 52nd program from October 2, 2000)
Individual evidence
- ↑ The chance of your life. In: fernsehserien.de. Retrieved March 27, 2016 .
- ↑ One candidate freaked out. In: www.bz-berlin.de. Retrieved March 24, 2016 .
- ↑ The Chance of Your Life: Episode List. In: fernsehserien.de. Retrieved March 27, 2016 .
- ↑ The Chance of Your Life: The Sixth Episode. In: www.fernsehserien.de. Retrieved March 24, 2016 .
- ↑ SAT.1: Successful start for "The Chance of Your Life". In: presseportal.de. Retrieved March 27, 2016 .
- ↑ The television cemetery: "The chance of your life". In : quotemeter.de. Retrieved March 25, 2016 .
- ↑ Kai Pflaume has too few million. Retrieved March 27, 2016 .