Ant & Dec’s Limitless Win is a game show hosted by Ant McPartlin and Declan Donnelly. It premiered on January 8th 2022 and is still broadcasting (although the next series will not be until 2026-7).
It’s made by Hello Dolly Productions and was commissioned by ITV.
S2 Ep1 was the Christmas Limitless Win (with celebrity contestants).
It started with a pairing of Rylan Clark and David Walliams. Aired on December 25th 2022 the 47-minute show then followed on with some of the pairing of Jimmy Carr and Katherine Ryan.
Running out of time they then showed the rest of Jimmy / Katherine’s appearance on January 7th 2023 (S2 Ep2).
Metro wrote about how Jimmy’s gamble had lost the charities of their choice a share of £75,000. Having pitched this loss as some sort of risky “gamble” the media were much kinder to Rylan / David (writing about how Rylan was in tears). It would seem that their “gamble” was far riskier as they had lost £250,000.
Personally, aside from the fact that I’m not a fan of gameshows, I found it quite a confusing format (possibly because I was watching for the first time). It’s been a while since I saw it but I seem to remember thinking the questions were REALLY hard at certain points. Which kind of feeds into a story the Daily Mail wrote about Richard Osman, picking up on something he’d said on his podcast (The Rest is Entertainment) about how gameshow questions are weighted, to stop the jackpot being achievable.
Apparently, each of them were awarded a consolation £1,000 (for their charities) but Birmingham Mail wrote about how viewers felt this was stingy.
- Jimmy – Alzheimer’s Research UK
- Katherine Ryan – Homeless charity*
*I couldn’t find anything more than that vague description
Limitless Win can be watched on Amazon Prime.
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