Fortune: Million Pound Giveaway

Synopsis

For years, the News of the World's very own Cap'n Cash ("he boosts the needy and bashes the greedy") has been doling out money to anyone who writes in to the scandal rag for hundreds of pounds for their charity, house extension or holiday to Marbella. Seems then that the notion of begging for entertainment has now reached modern television.

Contestants have one minute to make an appeal for money from the resident panel of ridiculously wealthy people, each of whom can give away up to £200,000 (of their own money, though they can probably write it off against tax). Contestants are questioned by the panel and must get a majority vote in their favour to take the money away.

Without having actually seen it, we reckon it sounds like an updated version of the 1950s format State Your Case, with elements of Dragons' Den and Without Prejudice? in the mix.

This programme has not yet aired. A full review will appear here after broadcast.

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