A rumor is making the twitter rounds that Million Dollar Money Drop will return to Fox for a summer run. I looked for reliable confirmation but couldn't find any. A summer comeback wouldn't stun me. The show is cheap - hardly anybody ever wins big - and the numbers were at least marginally acceptable for nonscripted frivolity. Even the fellows at TV by the Numbers, who are no easy graders on the Nielsen exams, thought the show had a chance for a second go-round.
My initial review slammed Money Drop's barely detectable pace. Later episodes did pick up a tiny bit of speed, though the show will never proceed at warp factor ten. I'm a sucker for even the most glacial quizzers, so I wouldn't mind the show getting another chance. It's not like Fox has a long roster of winners for the summer, anyway.
The show received decidedly mixed reviews from other pundits besides moi. The main rip: Money Drop is just another Millionaire clone, though with a reverse money tree. That's a fair enough criticism, but Millionaire is not a dreadful model to emulate.
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