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Michael McIntyre has only asked 34 questions in THREE HOURS of BBC quiz show The Wheel
MICHAEL McIntyre’s new BBC1 prime-time Saturday quiz show, The Wheel, rarely gets round to the questions, The Sun can reveal.
Stand-up comic Michael, 44, has so far posed one puzzler every five minutes and 20 seconds in three hour-long episodes.
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There were only 11 asked in the first two shows, and just one more in the latest.
Bradley Walsh’s quiz show The Chase features around 135 questions per episode.
Most of the time on The Wheel is swallowed up with McIntyre telling jokes, spinning the wheel and discussing categories.
His show involves three contestants who answer questions for money, helped by one of seven celebs strapped to the 42ft wheel.
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Each star is chosen for their knowledge of a specialist subject.
The contestants keep answering questions until they get one wrong or land on the one star who is excluded — “shutdown” — for that spin.
Two of them — nurse Lara in show two and recruiter Kirstie in show three — landed on the excluded star without facing a single question, although both got to return for a second chance.
Singer Mel B, designer Gok Wan and telly host Dermot O’Leary are among celebs to have taken part.
Panto star Christopher Biggins will be joining a charity Christmas Special on December 25.
On Saturday, McIntyre apologised to viewers when no one walked away with a prize.
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He said: “This show is supposed to raise the mood of the nation — this is worse than Newsnight.
“This is so depressing. I would rather watch a Prime Ministerial briefing.
“We never thought nobody would win. It maybe came up in one meeting, and then we were like, ‘Nah’. And look at us now, a bunch of losers.”
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