All Star Family Fortunes

All Star Family Fortunes
Presented by	Vernon Kay
Country of origin	United Kingdom
Original language(s)	English
No. of series	12
No. of episodes	127 (as of 14 June 2015 inc. 1 special)
Production
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 (2006–11)
Distributor	FremantleMedia
Release
Original network	ITV
Picture format	16:9: SDTV (2006–10) 16:9: HDTV (2010–15)
Original release	28 October 2006 (2006-10-28) – 14 June 2015 (2015-06-14)
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 and ended on 14 June 2015 after its twelfth series. It is a celebrity revival of the original Family Fortunes that aired from 6 January 1980 until 6 December 2002, which is based in turn on the American game show Family Feud.

History

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 other 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).^[1] Series 6 aired from 20 August to 25 December 2011.

The seventh and eighth series aired back-to-back (series 7 aired for seven episodes and series 8 for eight episodes) from 11 February to 13 May 2012, followed by a Text Santa special on 21 December and a Christmas special on 27 December. Series 9 consisted of nine episodes, which aired from 6 January to 3 March 2013, followed by a six-part tenth series in the summer airing between 29 June and 3 August 2013. Series 11 began with a Christmas special on 29 December 2013, followed by ten episodes from 5 January to 2 March 2014, making this series the longest since series 6.

Christmas editions of the show often air during the festive period, which see two teams from different television programmes (for example Coronation Street, This Morning, Dancing on Ice and Emmerdale), playing to win £30,000 for their chosen charity.

Announcers

Lisa I'Anson was the announcer for the first series of All Star Family Fortunes in 2006, before Peter Dickson took over in the second series.

Format

The show features two teams of five contestants, each consisting of a celebrity and their families who are trying to win money for a charity of their choice. The two families are asked to guess the results of surveys, in which 100 people were asked a series of open-ended questions (e.g. "Name something associated with the country Wales" or "Name a bird with a long neck").

Transmissions

Episode guide

International versions

Country	Local name	Host	Network	Air date
Australia	All Star Family Feud	Grant Denyer	Network Ten	2016
Belgium	Familieraad (2014)	Chris Van den Durpel	vtm	2014
Indonesia	New Famili 100	Tukul Arwana	Indosiar	2013
Germany	Familien-Duell - Prominenten-Special	Daniel Hartwich	RTL	2013
United States	Celebrity Family Feud	Al Roker Steve Harvey	NBC ABC	2008 2015

References

External links

• All Star Family Fortunes at itv.com
• All Star Family Fortunes at UKGameshows.com
• All Star Family Fortunes on IMDb
• Create and play your own Family Fortunes games online