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Post by wheelfan910 on Jun 27, 2023 13:03:51 GMT -5
UK Wheel has been revived for an eight episode series with Graham Norton as host. The series will include two celebrity specials and launch in 2024.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 27, 2023 17:12:30 GMT -5
UK Wheel has been revived for an eight episode series with Graham Norton as host. The series will include two celebrity specials and launch in 2024. Any idea who the new hostess will be? |
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wheelfan910
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Post by wheelfan910 on Jun 27, 2023 18:11:05 GMT -5
They haven’t mentioned anything about a new hostess as this was just announced this afternoon.
…also did you just like your own post?
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Post by germanname1990 on Jun 28, 2023 22:20:59 GMT -5
So it is indeed coming back over there? Sweet! I'm looking forward to seeing how everything looks and plays.
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Post by MarioGS on Oct 26, 2023 18:48:55 GMT -5
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Post by palmer7 on Oct 26, 2023 23:16:55 GMT -5
Based on my understanding, the Australian version will be taped in the UK using Aussie expatriates.
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Post by MarioGS on Dec 2, 2023 20:25:14 GMT -5
An audience member on Twitter got an autographed photo of Graham showing part of the set. The photo was taken during an Australian taping, hence the dollar signs on the Wheel, but they confirmed that the UK version has the Wheel values in pounds, making this the first UK version that does not play for points.  |
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Post by germanname1990 on Dec 3, 2023 4:21:51 GMT -5
Already, this looks like a layout that I can recreate easily. Even so, I notice a pattern of $100-$150 between spaces that start with a 2, with a pattern itself of $250 then $200 then $250 again.
Now it's nice to see Wheel come back in the UK after 22 years and have their Wheel offer money, but if I recall correctly, this will also be the first time that Wheel had an English-speaking version outside the United States since Australia's short-lived spring 2008 revivial, and it's quite interesting to see the British and Australian version be the same as one another. It reminds me of when the Netherlands' version started back in 1989 as it used Belgium's set and - to an extent - Sweden and Norway's version back in the early nineties. So this will definitely be something very interesting indeed.
Added to the fact that Wheel returned in Mexico this year and that plans are in place to bring it back in Italy next year, all this really goes to show that 2023 has been quite the year for the Wheel of Fortune franchise.
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Post by germanname1990 on Dec 4, 2023 0:06:01 GMT -5
And yes, how could I have forgotten about the revivals in Slovenia and Germany from earlier this year? But yeah, even with Pat announcing his retirement, this has quite the year for the show.
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Post by StrangerCoug on Dec 4, 2023 19:47:23 GMT -5
From the looks of that picture, this might be the first version of the Australian Wheel of Fortune that sticks to using multiples of $50 for its wheel wedges. All past versions have used multiples of $5, and rarely very round ones at that (not unlike the occasional odd square on Press Your Luck, especially on the Banks version).
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Post by speedandstrategy on Dec 5, 2023 16:44:08 GMT -5
Found a wider set pic on the site formerly known as Twitter.  |
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Post by StrangerCoug on Dec 5, 2023 16:55:04 GMT -5
The wheel is too blurred to make out any values on it, but I do like their take on the set. A largely faithful repro, like Australia did when it started out. (If I remember right, this is the closest Britain has come to copying the American set, although it originally did have a faithful reproduction of our then-current puzzle board, like many other versions at the time.)
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Post by MarioGS on Dec 7, 2023 13:49:40 GMT -5
Not confirmed yet, but sources are saying WOF UK premieres, appropriately, on Saturday, January 6.
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Post by usedletterboard on Jan 1, 2024 11:17:01 GMT -5
The show's social media (at least the posts shared so far) seems to indicate that nearly all production elements are lifted from the US version, including the graphics and the music ("Changing Keys"). Is this the first foreign adaptation to do so?
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Post by willdj on Jan 1, 2024 13:09:19 GMT -5
is the wheel really small or is it just me?
and yes, Wheel premieres Jan 6th
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Post by germanname1990 on Jan 2, 2024 23:23:29 GMT -5
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Post by willdj on Jan 5, 2024 14:06:58 GMT -5
Another trailer - interestingly im not seeing anyone co-hosting at the puzzleboard, so either its entirely automated and there is no Vanna as such or perhaps they are doing the Belgian Wheel Of Fortune thing where each episode has a different "letter turner" (both male and female, models, sportspeople, actors etc...) Definitely seems to be noone at the puzzleboard  |
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Post by willdj on Jan 6, 2024 11:24:44 GMT -5
Confirmed the puzzle board is automatic with no co-host "touching" the letters
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Post by willdj on Jan 6, 2024 13:14:13 GMT -5
Quite different to the US version. 50,000 pounds is the top prize. Triple Toss Ups at the start of the game, and after each ad-break. No co-host at the letterboard, letters light up automatically Puzzle categories are not like Phrase etc... they are more like crossword clues Wheel: there are multiples of 5 on the wheel, top dollar values are 500, 750, 1000   There is a version of a prize puzzle, but the winner of the round plays a full bonus round in the middle of the show for a holiday with a choice of three categories.  Round 3 Wheel Before & After is called "Linked Phrases" Top Dollar in the final round is $2000 but surrounded by two bankrupts like the million dollars in the US  |
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Post by willdj on Jan 6, 2024 13:56:41 GMT -5
Bonus Round Ranges from 15,000-50,000 pounds  Theme music fans will be able to edit out some clean music as they play the full theme over credits (but with voice over at start) |
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