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The Mint is a live, late night, interactive quiz show with celebrity guests and live studio contestants filmed in a large extravagant set designed to look like the inside of a mansion. The program, which has been dogged by criticism that its questions are ambiguous and arbitrary, airs on ITV1, ITV2 and ITV Play, Sunday to Wednesday. Image File history File links The_mint_logo. ...
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Overview
The Mint is one of the main programmes showing nightly on the recently launched ITV Play. Viewers are encouraged to phone a premium-rate number in order to provide answers to various quiz questions in an attempt to win money. One of the criticisms levelled against the show's makers ITV, is that the presenters create an illusion that the lines are "open" for calls when in fact the show continues to take vast numbers of calls from so-called contestants. This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ...
Cash prizes on offer are usually bigger than other current British phone-in quiz shows and the show gives away large sums of money (usually £10,000-£30,000 for top answers depending on the bonuses they are doing at the time eg. Top money - £10,000 but on quadruple money it would be £40,000).
The programme was first shown early in the morning on Saturday 1st April 2006 (Late Friday night). The show typically lasts anything from 2 hours to 4 hours, depending on ITV scheduling. In order to win money, viewers must either call in at a cost of 75p (previously 60p) from a BT landline, text the word 'MINT' to a special number or enter through the ITV website, and if selected, will be issued a freephone number and PIN valid for one entry. If they are successful they will be placed on hold, then if the computer selects them (at random), they will be transferred live to The Mint mansion, where they go on to give their answer to the current question. (Redirected from 1st April) April 1 is the 91st day of the year (92nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar, with 274 days remaining. ...
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The Mint The titular 'Mint' is a large vault situated at the back of the themed set and inside is a £100,000 prize. £1 is added to the £100,000 jackpot for every minute the show is on air without finding a winner. The chance at the jackpot is given to winners of the regular games whenever a correct answer is given and the jackpot prize is rewarded if players can guess the 4-digit code that opens The Mint. This code is locked in the computer and only changes when someone has won the prize. No-one in the studio or on the production team knows what the code is. After a number of wrong guesses the producers will reveal the first number and later, the second, leaving viewers having to guess the remaining digits.
On 12th of May 2006, the last two numbers were guessed and over £108,000 was won. The Mint's first jackpot winning player was Diane Baylis and she guessed the correct code of '8648'.
On 20th October 2006 at about 2.15am, The Mint's second jackpot was given away totalling just over £130,721. The winning code was '7012' and was given via a general knowledge question to caller Keith. The question was given by special guest Nicholas Owen. Nicholas Owen is a newsreader for the ITV1 Lunchtime news. ...
The Mint Mansion The Mint Mansion isn't referred to as a 'set' and the presenters play along with the fact that they are all friends who live in The Mint mansion. The other presenters who aren't working on a particular night are said to be "upstairs sleeping". Some of the presenters occasionally slip up and call the mansion a set or mention that a certain other presenter isn't in that day; where they normally correct themselves and try to maintain the illusion.
When the presenters need to refer to the producer/director (and other people who normally reside in the gallery of such TV shows) they call them "people in the Utility Room". The camera men are referred to as 'the window cleaner' (due to them looking in on the proceedings).
When celebrity guests are about to appear, a doorbell sound effect is played and when their time on the show is up, a distant car horn sound effect is played (this is supposed to be the guest's cab home).
Segments are linked by canned footage of (supposedly) the mansion and its grounds with Securicor style security guards standing outside the front door. Group 4 Securicor, formed in July 2004 from the merger of Securicor and the security businesses of Group 4 Falck, is a multinational corporation based in Crawley, UK. Group 4 Securicor is the second largest security guard service provider on Earth. ...
Presenters Image File history File links The_mint_tv. ...
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Kat Shoob presenting The Mint Katharine Elizabeth Shoob was born on November 8, 1983 in Rochford, Essex. ...
Brian Dowling (born 13th June 1978) was the winner of the second series of the British reality TV show Big Brother in 2001 and has since gone on to become a television presenter. ...
Brian Dowling (born 13th June 1978) was the winner of the second series of the British reality TV show Big Brother in 2001 and has since gone on to become a television presenter. ...
Kat Shoob presenting The Mint Katharine Elizabeth Shoob was born on November 8, 1983 in Rochford, Essex. ...
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Cat Porter Catherine Jane Porter (born 20 December 1979 in Pembury, Kent) is a British model and television presenter. ...
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Other Presenters Unlike most other phone-in quiz shows, The Mint is presented by two presenters at a time. The presenters get time alone for certain games and segments but the second presenter is always around and may be called on for 'Turbo Rounds' - where callers are put through to the mansion much more frequently than usual. When each night's celebrity guest has left the two presenters share much of the remaining screen-time, normally sitting on sofas in the seating area, and chatting with one another about various topics amidst talking about the game and taking calls. Mark Rumble is a British television presenter. ...
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On one occasion, The Mint was presented by three people simultaneously. Brian Dowling, Kat Shoob and Craig Stevens were on hand to make sure the jackpot of over £108,000 was won on the night of 12th May 2006. On another occasion Beverley French presented the show alone (due to Craig Stevens ringing in sick (or otherwise engaged) at short notice).
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Guests The Mint features a different "celebrity" guest each night (sometimes more than one). The guests sit across from the presenter in the mansion's living room or bar area and discuss their career, tell stories and interact with the current game (normally during the 'Famous Sevens' game). They also answer calls from time to time.
List of guests so far
Previous big winners (phone-in callers) are also occasionally invited to the studio where they collect a novelty cheque, chat with the presenters and have a chance at opening The Mint. Chris Tarrant presenting Who Wants to be a Millionaire? Christopher John Tarrant, OBE (born October 10, 1946, Reading, Berkshire) is an English radio broadcaster and television presenter, now best known for hosting the TV game show Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? // Tarrant was educated at the Kings School...
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Every so often, there is a special event in the studio that determines when calls are taken. These often involve the special guests. Some examples have been Britain's champion plate spinner Andrew Van Buren (http://www.vanburen.co.uk) (calls are taken when one of his plates drops) and a game where comedian Mick Miller played 'keepy uppy' with a football (calls were taken every time he dropped the ball).
Games
5 Rings The first game often played each night on The Mint features 5 red phones (props) on a desk in front of The Mint (vault). Viewers must answer a simple question (duplicate answers do not count as correct answers). If a viewer answers the current question correctly, they will win a guaranteed sum of money (usually £500) and get a chance at unlocking The Mint by guessing a 4-digit pin code. Questions involve on-screen words that fit into a particular category (often celebrities' names) with the vowels missing. The answers are made even easier to find due to the presenters also giving out clues as to who or what the question refers. After 5 calls have been taken, the game ends.
Famous Sevens/Famous Sixes/Famous Fives These are similar to other phone-in quiz shows' ladder/tower games where viewers must come up with answers to fit into a specific category, for example, 'Name sitcoms' or 'Name famous blond(e)s'. The game is made much more difficult as viewers tuning in later often give duplicate answers. If the games go on too long, the presenters have to give out clues to try and finish off the game. The ladder games usually happen during the time that a special guest is being interviewed on the sofa. These games usually have some relevance to the guest. For example, naming children's TV shows when Geoffrey from 'Rainbow' was on. The presenter interviews the guest between talking to callers and taking their answers. The guest occasionally answers calls. The cash values on 'Famous Sevens' normally start at £500 or £1000 and the top answer is worth £10,000.
Treasure Island In this game viewers first have to answer a simple question that has numerous possible answers. An example of one of these questions would be "Name a US State" (duplicate answers are disallowed). Contestants giving correct answers will have a go at picking a number on the Treasure Island board. The board has a photograph of an island printed on it and has 36 square panels. Behind each panel hides a sum of money. There are 10 lots of £100, 10 lots of £200, 10 £250s, 4 lots of £500, one £1000 and one £2000 square to be uncovered. The highest sums of money (£500, £1000 and £2000) also give the winner a chance at unlocking The Mint. This game also involves a group of 5 live contestants that differ each night (for example, 5 male lifeguards or 5 hairdressers). After a few phone contestants have had a go at the Treasure Island board, the contestants in the studio have to answer the same question and guess a number from 1-36 on the board. These live guests can win money and also have the chance of unlocking The Mint if they win one of the higher amounts. Clues are also given in this game after a while, such as "Think South" meaning to pick numbers on the lower half of the board. Once the £2000 has been uncovered the game ends. If this doesn't happen for a set-time, the game ends after a certain number of calls have been taken (normally between 10-14 calls). Often when Brian Dowling and Beverley French present this game, it is renamed "Dowling Island" with a makeshift sign. Brian Dowling (born 13th June 1978) was the winner of the second series of the British reality TV show Big Brother in 2001 and has since gone on to become a television presenter. ...
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It was reported by Beverley French that Dowling Island is currently closed for renovation over the winter period.
Wordsearch A six by six square word search is displayed on the LCD TV screen facing the viewers and words that fit into a specific category (such as 'Snow White's Dwarves' or 'Human Emotions') must be found. There are usually four to six words to find (worth £100 each). During The Wicked Wordsearch on Extra Mint, the last word to be found became the 'Golden Word' and was worth more money. A word search, word seek or word sleuth puzzle is a generic word game that consists of seemingly random letters arranged in a square or rectangular grid. ...
Retail Therapy Either the guest or presenter has supposedly been out shopping and viewers have to guess what they have in their shopping bag. The viewers can ask the guest/presenter a simple question where they must answer with either 'yes' or 'no'. After the contestant has asked one question, they get the chance to guess what the item is. This game is very different from anything else seen on a phone-in quiz show, but the presenters sometimes have trouble with the callers who find it difficult to speak in sentences (in every other game, viewers only have to give their name and their answer). Due to the problem this caused, the presenters give out clues at specified intervals and contestants are now only asked guess what they think the item is.
Chinese Takeaway This is essentially a matching pairs game. A board is displayed (similar to the one used in 'Treasure Island') with numbered panels marked '1' to '25'. Behind each of these panels are different pictures of either a roast duck, a bowl of rice or a golden version of each of these. Contestants calling the show don't answer a question but give the presenter two numbers. The aim of this is to reveal a picture and then match it with the opposite dish. A 'duck' and a 'rice' makes a meal and awards the contestant with £250. When contestants make a mismatch the two panels are turned back around; future callers must memorise their positions. Whenever a golden panel is found this is also turned back around (even if it was successfully matched with an opposite dish). If the contestant manages to reveal the 2 golden pictures, they win the top prize of £2000 (and a chance at opening The Mint) and the game ends.
Instant Cash (alternate jackpot game) At a determined interval in the show, a winning contestant will be given the choice between attempting to guess the 4-digit code that unlocks The Mint, or playing 'Instant Cash'. In this alternate jackpot game the player chooses from 8 tea pot lids (changed from bowler hats and pan lids after the first couple of episodes) which are labelled from numbers 1 to 8. Under each lid is a letter that form the word The Mint. The aim is to choose tea pot lids that spell out The Mint in order to win the prize amount of £5000. However, if the player is unsuccessful, they may still win amounts of money if they are able to spell another word that is in the dictionary (for example the word 'hint' can be spelled using the letters that spell The Mint). A variation of this game has 5 large bottles filled with different amounts of green liquid. The contestant must choose 3 bottles to use to fill an over-sized cocktail glass. The glass has marked levels on the side and depending on how high up the liquid comes, the contestant wins varying sums of money. The maximum win on this game is £1000.
Snake Words A board with 9 letters appear on the screen and the viewer must figure out a word from the scrambled letters however the words aren't jumbled up they go in a sequence.
Missing Link Two words are given with a space in the middle. Viewers have to correctly guess the missing link. For example Big ______ Pie with the link being 'Apple' so the completed format would be Big Apple Pie. The screen is usually filled with 6 questions and the viewer can decide which one they want to attempt.
Complete the word A four letter word appears on screen with the latter half blanked out. Viewers have to guess which remaining two letters complete the word. There are often a large number of possibilities as to what the word is. If they get it right an envelope (that is present on-screen throughout the entire game to prove there was no underhand trickery) containing the answer is opened and shown to the viewer. An example of a word once played; SA__, the answer being SAGE. Once, the prize offered for this was even larger than the Mint jackpot at a staggering £140,000. This jackpot was never won and the offered prize hasn't reappeared since, despite mention that it would again be up for grabs at a later date.
Wild Bingo Basically, a memory game that was only played on the afternoon Extra Mint shows. The viewer is shown a board of numbers and has to memorize where they are. The numbers are then replaced with letters. The presenter draws a ball from a machine and the viewer has to say where the two numbers on the ball are situated on the board to win the cash sum offered.
Add the numbers This was a game that remained unsolved for many months. The basic premise of the game was extremely simple but as usual, the solution was much more involved.
The game appeared onscreen as follows:
NINETEEN MINUS FIVE =
4 + 3 X 2 =
6 - 5 =
After many weeks and hundreds of different answers, the correct answer was revealed to be 2106. Although there was no official explanation as to how this answer had been arrived at, a plausible explanation involving the use of Roman numerals has been suggested. Roman numerals are a numeral system originating in ancient Rome, adapted from Etruscan numerals. ...
The £36,000 winner made an appearance on the show on the night of 5th October and drank champagne with Beverley French.
Champagne bottle In addition to the clock that all other phone-in game shows use to spur callers on (and get them waiting on the phone lines), The Mint also uses a large animated graphic of a champagne bottle in the lower portion of the screen. This will pop (accompanied by a sound effect and relevant animation) at a random moment signifying when a caller will be plucked from the lines and come through to the studio. Some of the presenters make gags about this bottle "popping its cork" and they often pretend to interact with it, in a variety of ways, this is especially true of Brian Dowling.
Added incentives to play - Bonus amount of cash for a limited time (e.g. extra £2000, sometimes the top answer increases to £15,000 and even £30,000)
- Turbo Round (Back-to-back calls taking only callers names and answers. The presenters occasionally play their own game of trying to take as many calls as possible in the five allotted minutes. The current record stands at 54 callers)
- Chance at The Mint (Chance to guess The Mint's 4 digit combination, potentially winning over £100,000)
- Added money each time a wrong answer is received (prize money on offer grows)
- Double money, Triple Money, Quadruple Money, Quintuple Money or Hextuple Money
- Caller gets 2 guesses at the current puzzle
- Occasionally special prizes are offered instead of cash prizes.
Prizes so far have included a brand-new Mini and a holiday to Canada.
Caller selection When a caller has been successfully selected (which occurs at random through computer selection), a message is played out to them over the phone saying that the computer will try to connect the call through to the studio. However, not everyone goes immediately through to the studio. Calls are not vetted so when the contestants get through they can say anything (even swearing from time to time and even at one point presenter Brian was called a homophobic name). Some contestants have to wait around 5 minutes (still only charged one flat rate of 75p) waiting to be randomly selected. Due to this, some may hang up the phone believing they were unsuccessful. When the computer eventually selects them, viewers and the presenter(s) may hear a dead tone, to which the presenter either immediately tries for another caller, or counts down from 3 to enable anyone on another line to respond.
Music An excerpt from Celebration by Kool & The Gang used to be played whenever a contestant won money. Celebration is a song released in 1980 by Kool & the Gang from their album Celebrate!. The song dominated the radio for nearly the entire year, and is still heard today at weddings and parties. ...
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Associated catchphrases - "Get Minted!"
- "Get yourself Minted!"
- "You've just been Minted!"
- "The Mint? My arse! Ha ha haaah!" (said by former guest Ricky Tomlinson)
- "The Mint? Where's the money?! Where's the money?! Ho ho hooooo!" (said by former guest Ricky Tomlinson)
- "A warning! You are seriously in danger of being Minted..." (said by upcoming guest Chris Tarrant)
- "Play The Mint for real money. Look at what ya coulda won.....Jim Bowen, News At Ten, piss off!" (Said by former guest Jim Bowen)
- "You'll be minted in a matter of moments!"
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Chris Tarrant presenting Who Wants to be a Millionaire? Christopher John Tarrant, OBE (born October 10, 1946, Reading, Berkshire) is an English radio broadcaster and television presenter, now best known for hosting the TV game show Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? // Tarrant was educated at the Kings School...
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Extra Mint & The Mint Extra An early evening version of The Mint was developed and was shown on ITV's newly launched ITV Play channel. Extra Mint was presented by one presenter and gave away much smaller sums of money to winners. It featured very different games than the late-night edition. Understandably, there was no Mint to be opened in this version of the show and the vault was covered up by a false wall with a painting hung on it.
At a defined point in Extra Mint players had have a chance to win a 'VIP pass'. This VIP pass was used to get a free chance at opening the mint when the 'proper' version of the show aired later that evening. This basically meant they get a call from the show and are put straight though to the studio where they were to give the presenters their code.
One of the presenters from The Mint hosted Extra Mint for the full three hours without the assistance of a second presenter. They work on a rota and their schedule normally correlated with the days that their late-night shifts fell on.
On the 14th of May 2006 the last episode of the Extra Mint was shown, and was replaced at the time by, Friends Reunited: The Common Room."
However, a similar show, The Mint Extra, has been airing on weekends since 9th September 2006. The Mint Extra is also going to be showing on selected weekdays in the future between 20:00-22:00, however will be known as Mini-Mint (will follow same format). September 9 is the 252nd day of the year (253rd in leap years). ...
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As pointed out by presenters on the show, it is now called The Mint Extra and not Extra Mint (like the cancelled previous show was).
Mint Extra Presenters - Yiolanda Koppel - Since starting on The Mint Extra, Yolly has also started presenting on The Mint.
- Alex Elliott
- Milo McCabe
- Lesley Collier - Stood in for Mark Rumble (one shift only) on 30 September 2006.
- Keith Price - Started on 29 October 2006.
- Some regular presenters from the main programme also present the 'The Mint Extra'.
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'Mint Tea Jackpot' With there being no vault to open a different jackpot game is played which offers viewers the chance to win the show's top prize of £5000. This is an alternate version of the late-night Mint's Instant Cash game (see above for full details). In this version there are seven teapot lids to be overturned. The player turns them over and tries to spell as long a word as possible, with the ultimate aim being to spell the words 'Mint Tea'. The player receives £50 for every letter they use to spell a legitimate word (of which there are 64 possible combinations with these particular letters). If the player can't spell a word from the initial letters they have chosen, the game is over.
Mr. and Mrs. Mint Towards the end of November 2006, The Mint started a search for Mr. and Mrs. Mint, the presenters asked viewers to submit pictures of themselves via E-mail. On Monday 27 November presenters Beverley French and Mark Rumble unveiled the top 3 females , the night after (28 November), Beverley French and Brian Dowling unveiled the top 3 males. Look up November in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ...
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The 6 finalists were live in the studio on the night of the final (29 November), they were: November 29 is the 333rd (in leap years the 334th) day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ...
Female Finalists - Ria, a former child model.
- Adele, self-proclaimed vegan warrior princess.
- Erin, a barmaid.
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Celebrity Judges On Wednesday 29 November, 3 celebrity judges joined presenters Yiolanda Koppel, Craig Stevens and the 6 finalists in the Mint Mansion to ask the finalists questions and then cast the final vote on who should become Mr. or Mrs. Mint. November 29 is the 333rd (in leap years the 334th) day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ...
- Rob a Fitness Instructor.
- Page 3 model Leilani Dowding.
- Actor Simon Cole who played Jeremy Peterson in British soap opera, Hollyoaks.
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Result After questioning all of the contestants the judges were sent away to make their desicion. They were recalled towards the end of the show to give their scores, each judge having to mark the contestant on a scale of 1-10, then the 3 judges scores being added together to give the final result. | # | Rob | Leilani | Simon | Total | | Ria | 8 | 9 | 8 | 25 | | Adele | 9 | 8 | 9 | 26 [Mrs. Mint] | | Erin | 8 | 8 | 8 | 24 | | Adam | 8 | 8 | 9 | 25 | | Andrew | 8 | 9 | 9 | 26 [Mr. Mint] | | Jay | 8 | 8 | 8 | 24 | The winners were given £5,000 each and the runners up a bottle of champagne.
The Mint will be ending on 14th February 2007 For a long break, but will come back some time..
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External links - ITV Play - The Mint at itv.com
- The Mint - Free Web Entry
- BBC News: Treasury Reviews TV Quiz Channels 19 Apr 06
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