[SuperSajuuk]

Didn’t Chris Tarrant call Millionaire at least in the early days ‘Event TV’ where everyone used to sit down and literally do nothing.

There doesn’t seem to be that sort of thing anymore when it comes to big prime time game shows.

I don’t think he outright said it was event tv, but he did hint — in the magic moments and more dvd — that “it emptied pubs without tv’s and filled pubs which had them”. A rather oversimplification of what was meant, but obviously millionaire could draw viewers in like a magnet, without any effort really needed in the early years.