All Star Family Fortunes
| All Star Family Fortunes | |
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| Presented by | Vernon Kay |
| Country of origin | United Kingdom |
| Original language(s) | English |
| No. of series | 12 |
| No. of episodes | 126 (as of 14 June 2015 inc. 1 special) |
| Production | |
| Location(s) | The London Studios |
| Running time | 45 minutes (2006–10, 2013–2014) 60 minutes (2011–12, 2015) |
| Production company(s) |
Thames (2012–15) Talkback Thames (2006–2011) |
| Distributor | FremantleMedia |
| Release | |
| Original network | ITV |
| Picture format |
16:9: SDTV (2006–10) 16:9: HDTV (2010–15) |
| Original release | 28 October 2006 – 14 June 2015 |
| Chronology | |
| Related shows |
Family Fortunes Family Feud |
All Star Family Fortunes is a British television game show broadcast on ITV and presented by Vernon Kay which began airing on 28 October 2006. It is a celebrity revival of the original Family Fortunes that aired from 6 January 1980 until 6 December 2002, based on the American game show Family Feud.
On 9 June 2015, ITV announced that the programme would be rested temporarily and may return as late as 2017.
On 29 October 2005, Family Fortunes returned as the "grand final" of Ant & Dec's Gameshow Marathon, a series of revivals of former popular ITV game shows shown to mark the channel's 50th anniversary, hosted by its most ubiquitous presenters of recent years. The show had Carol Vorderman and Vernon Kay playing for charity with their families with Vorderman eventually winning.
In 2006, the show was revived as All Star Family Fortunes with Kay as presenter. Each team consists of a celebrity and four family members. The show was transmitted back to peak time for a full series that started on 28 October 2006. Celebrities and their families play, hoping to win up to £30,000 for a charity of their choice. A significant change from the old series is the use of a multi-coloured computerised scoreboard in place of the classic yellow-and-black LED version – the only other time a colour scoreboard was used was briefly in 1987 and 1988. Another significant (and rather odd) change is that while there are still five family members for each team, sometimes only four participate in the face-off with a member of the opposition team, despite the programme now being a 45-minute production instead of the original 30 minute slot.
A second series began on 27 October 2007, lasting for 10 weeks, and the third series began on 13 September 2008, running for 13 episodes. The fourth series, the longest series to date (17 episodes, including a Christmas Special), began on 20 September 2009. Series 5 began taping on 3 September 2010 for a 15 episode run. It began airing on 11 September 2010 and was the first series of the show to be filmed and broadcast in high definition on ITV HD (also STV HD and UTV HD). Series 6 aired from 20 August to 25 December 2011.
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