Return
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, and hosted by its most ubiquitous presenters of recent years. This show had Carol Vorderman and Vernon Kay playing for charity along with their own families, with Vorderman eventually winning.
Subsequently, Family Fortunes returned (as All Star Family Fortunes) for a full series that started on 28 October 2006, with Vernon Kay as its host, and celebrities and their families playing the game, hoping to win either £10,000 or £30,000 for a charity of their choice. A significant change from the old series, was 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 & 1988. Another significant (and rather odd) change is that whilst there are still 5 family members for each team, only 4 of them get "their own round", this despite the program being a 45 minute production now instead of the original 30 minute slot.
A second All Star Family Fortunes series began on 27 October 2007, lasting 10 weeks and the third series began on 13 September 2008, running for 13 episodes. The fourth series (17 episodes, including a Christmas Special) began on 20 September 2009.
Series 5 began taping on 3 September 2010 for a 15 episode run. The show began airing on 11 September 2010 This was also the first series of the show to be filmed and broadcast in high definition on ITV1 HD (also STV HD and UTV HD).
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