23Feb2012

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“Jeopardy!” Goes to Washington, D.C., in May for “Power Players Week”

The syndicated quiz show Jeopardy! is traveling back to Washington, D.C., to, yet again, put some of the nation's most influential people under the intellectual ringer. Jeopardy! will be holding another "Power Players Week" in May, with the taping happening at the end of April. For the third time in the show's 28 year history, major figures in the Washington scene will compete for a guaranteed $50,000 for charity. Past players include Al Franken, Ari Fleischer and Bob Woodward. Who will pop up this year? Click here to learn more about the week, including how to get tickets.

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Alex Davis

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Baggage, Channel 4

Channel 4 Orders Pilot of GSN Dating Show “Baggage”

GSN's most popular show in close to a decade, Baggage, is making a jump to the United Kingdom. Channel 4, home of Deal or No Deal and The Million Pound Drop, has ordered a pilot of the Jerry Springer hosted dating show. Baggage is a unique dating game show which puts the ugliness of each dater out in the open to start. One person vies for a date with one of three people, but each of the three has bought various forms of "baggage", from small and innocent to huge and jaw dropping. The tables are turned in the finale when the winner sees the main contestant's baggage. Can he or she accept it, or is it just too much to handle? Click here to learn more and to see a clip from the show.

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Alex Davis

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Family Feud, Video

What’s the Best “Family Feud” Answer that Steve Harvey Has Ever Heard?

Over the course of two seasons, since the tone of Family Feud has changed to more comedic and risque (to great success), Steve Harvey has heard a lot of bizarre answers. From the nonsensical to the dirty, Steve has nearly heard it all. So we come to a new family of champions playing Fast Money for $20,000. A simple question: "Name a job that's dirty, but someone's got to do it." It's hard to make this one off the wall unless your mind is not there at the moment. The show isn't leading you into any answers. Trust me, what the contestant says...not a single other person ever thought to say it. It certainly threw me off. Click here to watch the very, very funny moment.

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Alex Davis

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Baggage, New Show, Newlywed Game

“Baggage” and “The Newlywed Game” Return to GSN in March; Jumps to 12th Season of “Dancing With the Stars”

GSN is providing viewers with a number of new shows to watch in March. It all starts on Saturday, March 10th, with the debut of the 12th series of Dancing With the Stars. The network has jumped from the fourth season, which aired in Spring 2007, to the 12th which aired in Spring 2011. GSN's two original series are returning to finish airing the remaining episodes in their current season. The Newlywed Game and Baggage are coming back the week of March 12th with all new episodes. Click here to learn about all the changes.

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Alex Davis

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BuzzerVision, Spoilers, The Chase

Anne Hegerty Versus Two for £50,000 on “The Chase”

If you missed yesterday's episode of The Chase, you missed one hell of an episode. Two contestants made it to the Final Chase round, having beaten The Chaser in head-to-head trivia battles. They managed to take £50,000 back home. THey both face off against The Chaser, Anne Hegerty, to split the £50,000 and win £25,000 each. The team has two minutes to answer as many questions as they can, and then The Chaser gets two minutes to do the same. If the Chaser catches them, the team leaves with nothing. However, if they win, they'll both take home £25,000 which is the highest amount ever won per-contestant in the civilian series. Can the team take down Anne and be the biggest civilian winners in the show's history? Click here to check it out.

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Alex Davis

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FOX, New Show, UK

Fox Picks Up “Take Me Out” from ITV

Fox is getting back into the game show world with a new one, and it's pretty good. The network famous for American Idol and Are You Smarter Than a Fifth Grader has picked up ITV's hit dating show Take Me Out. Sources are saying that Fox is looking at a summer launch. Take Me Out was previously piloted by ABC before Fox took it over. Take Me Out is a unique show that mixes The Dating Game with 1 VS 100. Thirty single ladies appear each show. One man tries to win the women over through a series of rounds. If a lady is not interested she can hit a button on her podium to knock herself out. One lady may ultimately be left to go on a date with the man, or the man may go home alone. It's a unique, funny, and entertaining show hosted by Paddy McGuiness who does as well as you could possibly hope for. It will be a challenge to replace him for an American audience, if they do. Click here to learn more about the show, read our opinion of it, and to check out some clips from it.

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Alex Davis

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Pointless

“Pointless Celebrities” Begins Saturday, February 25th on BBC One

The popular BBC One daytime quiz show Pointless is making a special jump to primetime. The Alexander Armstrong and Richard Osman hosted show, from Endemol, is coming to primetime on BBC One with Pointless Celebrities. This special series starts Saturday, February 25th. Some of the United Kingdom's most popular personalities will play the game for thousands of pounds for charity. All each team has to do is find an answer to a question that a panel of 100 people before the show couldn't think of. The fewest points wins the game and plays the Pointless Final where finding just one more pointless answer wins the cash. Click here to learn who's playing and to see some of a previous episode.

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Alex Davis

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Australia, Rumor Control, The Price is Right

Australia’s Seven Looks to Revive “The Price is Right”

We're starting this week's updates with a story from Australia. MediaSpy is reporting that Seven's now-canceled popular game show The Price is Right (obviously based on the American version) is being eyed up for a revival. Seven currently airs the long running daily version of Deal or No Deal hosted by Andrew O'Keefe, but its ratings have been shrinking for years. It is now losing to competing daily game show Millionaire: Hot Seat. These shows are important to the networks because they provide the lead-in to their 6:00PM news. They are weighing the options of a primetime version or another daily edition. Click here to read more about the Australian version of the show, and to see some clips from it.

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Alex Davis

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Review, The Bank Job

Weekend Replay: Series Two of “The Bank Job”

I feel extremely conflicted about Channel 4's The Bank Job, which came back for a second series this past Friday. It seems like it should be a lot better than it is. There's a good game in here. It just feels like they took so many poor production decisions that it's hurting the final product. For those that don't remember the first series, four people play a game of knowledge, nerves, and luck in an actual bank. There's a board of 25 safes. Get a question right and you get to choose one and take what's in it. You can then elect to stay in the vault and keep playing or exit with what you have, but be careful because the lowest score at the end of the round is gone. The winner keeps his or her cash and comes back next show. Click here to read our review, what changes are going on, and to watch some of the most recent episode.

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Alex Davis

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Jeopardy

“Jeopardy!” Airing Second Annual Teacher’s Tournament Through February 28th

Regular Jeopardy! viewers have noticed a tournament currently going on. The syndicated quiz show is saluting the nation's teachers with its second annual "Teachers Tournament." The tournament features 15 of the nation's top kindergarten through 12th grade teachers competing for a $100,000 prize and a guaranteed spot in the next Tournament of Champions, where the winner will get $250,000. Second place will receive $50,000 and third gets $25,000. The championship game airs on February 28th, but be sure to check out the entire lead-up to that show for the next two weeks. Click here to see a list of everyone playing, quotes from Harry Friedman (executive producer) and Alex Trebek, and some footage of last year's tournament.

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Alex Davis

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Millionaire

“Millionaire” Leads to the Oscars With Annual “Million Dollar Movie Week”

Who Wants to be a Millionaire's most popular themed week is back. The annual "Million Dollar Movie Week" returns on February 20th through the 24th. This leads up to Oscar Sunday on ABC, on Sunday, February 26th. Movie buffs from around the country put their film knowledge to the test. You usually see a six figure win during these weeks so it's always a nice treat for those wanting to see some serious money flying. How do you think you'd do at "Million Dollar Movie Week", though? Millionaire supplied us with ten sample questions. Could you take on the game for a million dollars? What the answers? Click here to see the questions and check if you're smart enough to be a millionaire.

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Alex Davis

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Returning Show, The Bank Job

“The Bank Job” Returns This Friday, February 16th, with Updated Format

Channel 4's live quiz show The Bank Job is already coming back for a second series. The first series aired as a six episode strip across one week. It culminated in a Prisoner's Dilema game where two contestants shafted each other out of close to £500,000, awarding the prize to three runners-up, on January 7th. The new series will begin on February 16th, Friday, on Channel 4, and will run each Friday and Saturday live. The format has been updated. The Prisoner's Dilema end game and the tournament format will not return. Click here to learn what's changed from the previous series and to see a big moment from last series.

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Alex Davis

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Millionaire, Spoilers

Dan Goldman Goes for $250,000 Today on “Millionaire”

It's "Double Money" week all this week on Who Wants to be a Millionaire and one contestant is going for the big bucks today. Dan Goldman, an executive assistant from Teaneck, NJ, beat round one and entered Classic Millionaire on Tuesday's episode. Dan lucked out by having $25,000 behind his Double Money question, asking what Native American tribe is a member of the Oklahoma Indian Gaming Association. He correctly answered Comanche and scored $50,000 on his ninth question of the game. Dan passed round one with a massive $93,500 and two lifelines, Ask the Audience and Jump the Question left. Click here to find out what happened on Tuesday, and to see an exclusive preview of what Dan's $250,000 question is.

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Alex Davis

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Family Feud, Jeopardy, Millionaire, Ratings, Wheel of Fortune

Ratings Report: Only “Family Feud” Grows

The newest ratings release is in for syndicated game shows. The continuing power of Family Feud has been proven week in and week out over the course of the last two seasons. Whenever a show performs a host change, if we see an uptick in ratings we typically wait for the inevitable downfall because curiosity has to wear off eventually. Feud seems to be the exception to the rule and, unlike nearly anything I've seen before, just keeps getting bigger. The rest of the syndicated shows either stayed level or went down, but it was pretty steady for everyone regardless. Click here to see the numbers of all the shows, plus a new funny clip from Family Feud.

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Alex Davis

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Countdown, Ratings

Big Ratings Boost for “Countdown” with New Host Nick Hewer

The Apprentice star Nick Hewer seems to be making Channel 4 happy (so far) as the new host of the long running letters-and-numbers game Countdown. Hewer, who replaced Jeff Stelling this year, has helped the nearly 30 year old show see a nice increase in ratings. Channel 4 reports that Countdown has grown 22% from the show's average audience in 2011. This current series is seeing 860,000 viewers and a 10.7% share. In 2011 the figures were 703,000 and a 9.2% share. Nick is new, though, and as always we'll see what happens when initial curiosity wears off. However, for now, Channel 4 has to be pretty please. Click here to see Nick hosting the show, if you haven't seen him yet, and let us know what you think by commenting.

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