With the second season of “American Gladiators” on the horizon, I figure it’s time we see how it’s done somewhere else. The Australian version has already had a gladiator ejected from a show. See the incident below:
Here’s something many of you will love all thanks to our urge to really amp up the videos on the site. We have a preview of three of the games from the new season of American Gladiators exclusively for you. Two new events are shown, Vertigo and Rocket Ball. Also shown is Assault, but be happy that they simplified it this year. The layout and weapon design is still the same, but no more loading your weapons or finding arrows in sand pits or anything like that.
I’m telling you, we can’t seem to get any new ideas out there that connect with people anymore. But this revival definitely has the potential to be awesome. According to Cynopsis, where we seem to get just about everything, Nick at Nite is bringing back the popular sports competition show GUTS for families under the title My Family’s Got GUTS. No word yet on when this primetime original will see the light of day.
The original ran from 1992 to 1995 on Nickelodeon and was hosted by sitcom actor Mike O’Malley and refereed by Moira Quirk. If you haven’t seen it, the show can basically be described as a kids version of American Gladiators of sorts. Three kids went against each other in physical games to see which one would have the most points and win for the day. It was a pretty cool show for its time and really still held up very nicely in reruns ten years later. Let’s see how Nick at Night revives this one.
Just as in movies, it seems game shows are being taken over by revivals today. Password is coming back soon, GSN has a revival of sorts of Gambit, TBS has Match Game, we have The Newlywed Game and The Dating Game from Embassy Row, there’s a few more in the wings, and now we can add another to the list. Cynopsis announced that Comedy Central has revived The Gong Show, a popular 70’s variety/game show, and is currently casting.
The old version was hosted by Chuck Barris and featured some bizarre and impressive acts trying to avoid getting the “Gong” from a celebrity panel who just had enough of an act. The show was revived by GSN ages ago in the form called Extreme Gong, hosted by the fantastic George Gray. In that version, people at home could call in and say when they had enough of an act. I also seem to remember something called the “Dame of the Game”, but who knows. I was probably too distracted by the dame to remember. This version will be hosted by Dave Attell of the former popular Comedy Central show Insomniac and is currently casting to be taped in either Los Angeles or New York. If you have an act you want to try on the show, click here to send a link of your video taped act to a casting director.
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May
Weekend Replay: “Gambit”
We have a new name which makes it special in some bizarre way I suppose. Anyway, this one came from a great suggestion from reader Travis E. who runs a website which features a page showing nearly every game show contestant who has won at least $100,000. Take a look here. I’ve talked about how GSN’s new game show Catch-21 and I’ve said it’s basically a retooled revival of Gambit with a new end game, but I never showed anything about Gambit. I don’t know classics really, and I’ve never seen the show, so I figured today would be a good day to show you a clip of Gambit. Enjoy.
GSN has an interesting Mother’s Day marathon this year: it’s Whammy!. Featured in the marathon from 9AM ET to 4PM ET on Sunday, May 11th, will be the special all-celebrity mother edition of Whammy! from season one. This will be on at noon. Also, host of Whammy! Todd Newton will stop by GSN Live on Friday, May 9th, to talk about his experiences on the show. And remember, Bingo America doubles the at-home top prize to $100 all week long. As a little preview, here’s a clip of the celebrity Whammy! episode courtesy of GSN.
The second season of American Gladiators has been taping in the Los Angeles Memorial Sports Arena, and to say the set is larger this year is an understatement. It’s unbelievably massive. Sadly, though, there are not any gigantic pictures of the set, but we do have these shots of some of the events. Click them to expand the image. As you see in the first one, they put caps over the Powerball scoring zones so you can’t make a free throw anymore. One of the pictures is also of the new event Vertigo. It looks to be pretty exciting. All told we’re hearing there may be up to seven new events total this season so it seems they learned from some of their mistakes last time around. Enjoy!
You know NBC couldn’t go long without bringing the Million Dollar Mission back, didn’t you? Well, it’s not exactly like the mission. It actually makes it a hell of a lot easier to get more cases On the May 22nd episode of Deal or No Deal, a group of golden balls will be present. I chuckle at this because what are the odds that Endemol, the same company that makes Deal, have a popular British show called Golden Balls? I’m guessing the odds are pretty good. Anyway, the golden balls are going to literally determine the fate of the contestant’s board.
Each ball will add million dollar cases to the board, according to the description NBC gave us. The worst you can do is two additional $1,000,000 cases, making it three total. The best you can do is turning the entire right side of the board into million dollar cases, giving you up to thirteen. Doesn’t seem like there are any penalties involved either yet, so there you go. Honestly I don’t think many of us enjoy the Mission or anything remotely like this. However, it’s hard to deny that it was popular and brought about some big ratings to the show. If it’s a hit, they might as well do it again to bring up the numbers. And we might as well hope they give it away so they can stop thinking not giving away $1,000,000 is the end of the world.
GSN’s giving Bingo America viewing mothers and more a nice surprise for entire week of Mother’s Day. GSN’s popular bingo participation game show is doubling the at-home payout from $50 to $100 for each verified Bingo during this week alone. As part of GSN’s weeklong celebration of the most important women in our lives, the series is giving its audience a chance to win a little extra money for mom all week with $100 pay outs for every verified “Bingo.” From May 5 through May 9, BINGO AMERICA’s at-home audience can tune in to win twice the dough per show and give mom a Mother’s Day she’ll never forget.
You can download ten sets of cards, print them off, and play along as studio contestants answering questions, hoping to spell B-I-N-G-O and win the game’s jackpot. On the bottom of cards are two numbers. If the studio player picks both of those numbers on the Bonus Board, you also win another $100 while the contestant in the studio could win up to $100,000. Home audience players can receive two additional pairs of “Bingo Bonus Numbers” by simply texting BINGO to 94949 on their mobile phones or by downloading them directly from www.GSN.com/bingo.
Seems like the shows we rumored about ages ago are coming to reality. Our good friends at Embassy Row asked us to put some notices about casting for The Dating Game and The Newlywed Game, revivals of two popular classic game shows. These shows were rumored to be on Lifetime, but no official word just yet. If you want to apply for either of the shows, click here for Newlywed Game, here for Dating Game, or visit our casting page for these two in addition to other new shows like GSN’s Catch-21.
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