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Last Year I saw Push the Button, the game show with Ant and Dec and was thoroughly unimpressed. Not because it had Ant and Dec, not because it wasn't live so much, it was because the end game was thoroughly stupid. Memory games rarely make good TV, it's tense for the family playing, but at home it's rather subdued and uninviting.

So with the new aspect of having it "Live", there was always the chance it would actually work now. Well you're half right. Having live did add the tension, but couple things annoyed me at the beginning. First the introductions of the family. When you've announced the family and each individual member, why do you need to talk to them again and ask whose who? Waste of time really.

Then onto the challenges themselves, nothing wrong with them at all, stupid contestants but nothing wrong with it! :-p But there should be music to unveil each challenge, not just explaining it as it's being turned about. Oh I missed Ronnie Corbett too from announcing.

Onto the viewer competition, which felt Ant and Dec like with Saturday Night Takeaway, but still different, but was boring compared to the weekly changeabout they did with SNT.

The final round before D.A.V.E was a nice touch to add money back if a team is behind, but having it only 5k and 10k for the first two questions I feel is a bit too low, perhaps 10k and 20k max makes more sense. Now the Lever team member if he had sense would've betted the minimum (or nothing if possible) on the final 2 questions to avoid losing, as you knew the Braun member was going to bet practically all of it by the final question. Poor strategy on his part but he obviously didn't think that far ahead.

Now onto D.A.V.E., Now in last series they had teamwork to get the jackpot, but while having 1 team member doing it all make sense, it loses even more tension that the first one had. In fact the whole new series by having 1 team member only in each challenge is rather rubbish, I preferred when there were teams of two doing generation game style challenges, it made the show good, so removing it is a big drawback for the show. Hopefully there is such games in the future that involve running about and some team work otherwise the series won't go past this one in my opinion.

I still favour the whole concept but the whole D.A.V.E. thing is still rubbish, and I actually think the show would do better without Ant and Dec, they have never been bad presenters but this style just doesn't suit them as much as SNTW.

Good Concept, Poor Execution Overall.