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Title: Family Feud (Australia) - Axed after 1200 episodes
Post by: pownster on May 07, 2018, 10:12:53 PM
News has come through that the Aussie version of Family Feud has been axed after 1200 episodes under the stewardship of Grant Denyer.

https://tvtonight.com.au/2018/05/grant-denyer-confirms-end-for-family-feud.html
Title: Re: Family Feud (Australia) - Axed after 1200 episodes
Post by: BrandonFG on May 08, 2018, 03:17:54 PM
Not quite. This version aired for just shy of four years. The runs of the first two versions closely mirrored that of the Dawson and Combs runs...the Aussie versions (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Family_Feud_(1977_Australian_game_show)) ran from 1977-84 and 1989-96.

So, no. Not the longest-running.
Title: Re: Family Feud (Australia) - Axed after 1200 episodes
Post by: DoItRockapella on May 08, 2018, 10:22:39 PM
Its likely replacement: Pointless.

https://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/tv-and-radio/british-game-show-pointless-set-to-replace-family-feud-20180508-p4ze13.html
Title: Re: Family Feud (Australia) - Axed after 1200 episodes
Post by: trustno1 on May 10, 2018, 06:26:13 AM
That would be a good programme to replace it.
I would like to know how it will work with commercials.
Title: Re: Family Feud (Australia) - Axed after 1200 episodes
Post by: WhammyPower on May 10, 2018, 11:17:51 AM
That would be a good programme to replace it.
I would like to know how it will work with commercials.
Probably just put them in between each round.  That's 3 natural commercial breaks right there.

/For America, I would also put a commercial during the midpoints of Rounds 1 and 2, and possibly after the lock-in of answers in the Final, if necessary.
Title: Re: Family Feud (Australia) - Axed after 1200 episodes
Post by: BrandonFG on May 10, 2018, 04:42:32 PM
/For America, I would also put a commercial during the midpoints of Rounds 1 and 2, and possibly after the lock-in of answers in the Final, if necessary.
During the Karn and (I think) O'Hurley eras, if a game ended early, they would take a commercial break between the first and second player's turns on Fast Money. I always thought that was kinda neat, and would like to see it carry over to the current version.
Title: Re: Family Feud (Australia) - Axed after 1200 episodes
Post by: Long live Jeopardy! on May 10, 2018, 05:07:58 PM
^In the 2003-04 and 2004-05 seasons, if a family got to 300 in three rounds, the last commercial break would be before the second contestant came out, but in Karn's last season and O'Hurley's first two seasons, it would be just after the second contestant came out from the backstage room.