Inspiration From/for Other Shows
During November and December 1999, the show included a segment titled "Someone's Going To Be A Millionaire!", inspired by the ITV game show Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? (which would not have its first million pound winner until November 2000). TFI Friday paid out the promised £1 million jackpot on 24 December 1999, becoming the first British TV show to do so. Although the winner was unemployed, while deciding to boast about this, it did not stop the show from becoming one of Britain's breakthrough TV programmes, in which after it ended, inspired a genre of Friday night entertainment shows to fill the void, which however never managed to emulate the success of TFI Friday. The show also was known for hosting many British rock bands from the "Britrock" stable at the time, including being able to successfully invite American bands onto the show while touring in the country.
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