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Interesting that the American pilot doesn't have a credit for Alan Hawkshaw for the music, although I guess that might not be required as it's Library music? (Does the UK show have a separate deal these days hence the credit?).  They credit the French original but not YTV, which surprises me as it's using their name and elements of their format tweaks.

Suppose it comes down ultimately to Armand Jammot having the original idea to begin with (though didn't Marcel Stellman have his say in how the format was tweaked for the UK?)

Had it gone to a commission, Hawkshaw would have probably got credit somewhere. Interesting they had no qualms about using the rerecorded (1989?) version of the sig tune as a bed while using a synthed-up version as their main theme.

It's not a bad reworking by any means - enough bells, whistles and tropes typical of a US daytime game show, right down to getting in Charlie O'Donnell as announcer.

Not sure if something more akin to the UK format would have worked on PBS as some of the YT comments suggested - though it appeared to serve SBS in Australia well during its two year run as Letters and Numbers.