The National Lottery Live

Current revision as of 21:33, 25 February 2025

Host

Broadcast

BBC1, 19 November 1994

Synopsis

A one-off, hour-long game show in which the winner got to press the button to start the first ever UK National Lottery draw.

The title was retained for subsequent lottery shows (hosted, starting the following week, by Anthea Turner), but the game show format only appeared in the first one.

Theme music

Ed Welch

Trivia

For the record, the numbers drawn were 3, 5, 14, 22, 30, 44, and the bonus number 10.

This was the last UK game show (indeed, almost the last UK TV show of any kind) to muster an audience in excess of 20 million. Discounting football matches and royal funerals, only three shows since then have achieved a higher audience than this - Princess Di being interviewed on Panorama, and two episodes of Only Fools and Horses.

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 == Host ==
-"Voice of the balls": [[Alan Dedicoat]]
+[[Noel Edmonds]]
 == Broadcast ==
-BBC1, 19 November 1994 to 31 December 2016
+BBC1, 19 November 1994
-BBC iPlayer, 7 January 2017 to present
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 == Synopsis ==
-The show started off as an hour long game show in which the winner got to press the button to start the first ever UK National Lottery draw.
+A one-off, hour-long game show in which the winner got to press the button to start the first ever UK National Lottery draw.
-The title was retained for subsequent lottery shows (hosted, starting the following week, by [[Anthea Turner]]), but the game show format only appeared in the first episode.
+The title was retained for subsequent lottery shows (hosted, starting the following week, by [[Anthea Turner]]), but the game show format only appeared in the first one.
-Hard to imagine now, but when the National Lottery launched in 1994, it was just about the most exciting thing ever. Of course its appeal waned somewhat once we all realised we were never going to win the thing. Anyway, being stuck with it, the BBC has deigned to build a few game show formats around the draws, which is nice - or would be, if they were any good. Here they are, in chronological order, and if you click on the links you can read all about them.
+== Theme music ==
-*[[The National Lottery Big Ticket]] (1998)
+Ed Welch
-*[[We've Got Your Number]] (1999)
-*[[Winning Lines]] (1999-2004)
-*[[The Third Degree]] (midweek, 1999-2000)
-*[[Red Alert]] (1999-2000)
-*[[On the Spot (1)|On the Spot]] (2000)
-*[[Jet Set]] (2001-2007)
-*[[In It to Win It]] (2002-)
-*[[Wright Around the World]] (2003-5)
-*[[Come and Have a Go If You Think You're Smart Enough|Come and Have a Go]] (2004-5)
-*[[Millionaire Manor]] (2005-6)
-*[[Everyone's a Winner]] (2006, one off)
-*[[1 vs 100]] (2006-9)
-*[[People's Quiz]] (2007)
-*[[The National Lottery Big 7]] (annual specials, 2007-9)
-*[[Who Dares Wins]] (2007-)
-*[[This Time Tomorrow]] (2008)
-*[[Guesstimation]] (2009)
-*[[Secret Fortune]] (2011-2)
-*[[Break the Safe]] (2013-4)
-*[[Win Your Wish List]] (2014-6)
-*[[5-Star Family Reunion]] (2015-)
-There was also an unofficial lottery-related show on ITV:
+== Trivia ==
-*[[The Big Call]] (2005)
+For the record, the numbers drawn were 3, 5, 14, 22, 30, 44, and the bonus number 10.
-== Trivia ==
+This was the last UK game show (indeed, almost the last UK TV show of any kind) to muster an audience in excess of 20 million. Discounting football matches and royal funerals, only three shows since then have achieved a higher audience than this - Princess Di being interviewed on ''Panorama'', and two episodes of ''Only Fools and Horses''.
-The hour-long one-off was the last UK game show (indeed, almost the last UK TV show of any kind) to muster an audience in excess of 20 million. Discounting football matches and royal funerals, only three shows since then have achieved a higher audience than this- Princess Di being interviewed on Panorama, and two episodes of Only Fools and Horses.
+== See also ==
-Among the game show celebrities who've presented non-gameshow lottery formats are [[Anthea Turner]], the great [[Bob Monkhouse]] ("I know I'm a sinner, but make me a WINNER!") and [[Ulrika Jonsson]].  [[Shauna Lowry]] and [[Claudia Winkleman]] have both hosted the midweek show. For a while [[Carol Vorderman]] was a regular on the main Saturday night show, giving advice on mathematical strategies for winning, none of which were any of use at all as it's a ''lottery'', for crying out loud. You'd think she might have noticed that.
+[[National Lottery shows]]
 [[Category:National Lottery|National Lottery Live, The]]
 [[Category:Family Game|National Lottery Live, The]]
-[[Category:Current|National Lottery Live, The]]