[Brekkie]

I just don’t know how the can drag it out to an hour when it’s on half an hour in the States.

Have ITV got a thing now where all game shows that were normally half an hour are drawn out to an hour?

It is usually quite annoying and I think Wheel of Fortune will really suffer for it on Saturday but I thought the pacing here actually wasn't too bad. Perhaps it helps not being familar with the half hour format but three game boards (rather than two in the US) and then the final jeopardy question gives them 91 questions across the hour, which isn't bad going nowadays really. The revived Fifteen to One had a similar number of questions across the hour but felt much slower. The Chase probably has about 120 questions per show for comparison.

I really do think Stephen Fry lifts this alot too - he obviously backs the format and has the right level of enthusiasm throughout, plus doesn't bog the whole thing down with extra facts.