Here are some pictures for you to enjoy. These are three pictures from the upcoming “Celebrity” Lingo games and also, as a bonus treat, the box cover for the Jeopardy! DVD. Enjoy!
Archive for August, 2005
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Aug
Photo Gallery!
I don’t know how this one flew under our radar. Situation: Comedy, the show where aspiring sitcom writers get to have their shot at a pilot, suffered the cruel fate of switching time slots and it’s barely visible. However, we at Buzzer want to try to get the word out for this one. Episode 107 will be airing Friday at 7PM ET, what a great time for a show, eh? According to the site, over 10,000 scripts were turned in, and there are only two left. One of the two is The Sperm Donor from Mark Treitel, who will be interviewed in the podcast released tonight, along with his comedy partner Shoe Schuster.
Producers and show runners from Roseanne and Gilmore narrowed the field down to what we see on TV today. Fifteen minute pilots were shot of each of the two final shows by directors Fred Savage and, my personal favorite TV neighbor, Amanda Bearse, AKA Marcy from Married With Children. You can vote at The Situation: Comedy AOL Polling Booth
and see that your favorite show wins (AKA The Sperm Donor for me.) Please be sure to tune in Friday at 7PM on Bravo to see and please VOTE!
And of course, please visit Mark Treitel’s website by clicking this big ass link.
His writing partner’s, Shoe Schuster, website can be found at this other big ass link.
As most networks and game shows, GSN has planned four episodes this season. Well, one “celebrity” edition and four GSN themed editions. And please hold on to something when I read off the final one. The celebrity edition will feature George Wallace, Trista Sutter, George Wendt, and Rachel Hunter. Then, they will do four GSN themed episodes, promoting the different shows on their network. First will be the Extreme Dodgeball edition of Lingo. This will feature teams of Zach Selwyn and the mascot Dodgy facing off against Bil Dwyer and Michele Merkin. Next is BallBreakers edition. This will have $20,000 winners Ty Yapelli and Laurie Wagner going against the hosts of BallBreakers, Sal Masekala and Ewa, the Striking Viking, Mataya Lawrence. Next will be Poker Royale edition, featuring such poker players as Kathy Leibert and Kenna James facing off against hosts Lisa Dergan and John Ahlers. Finally, and please hold on to your nearest blunt object to possibly beat yourself with, GSN will be doing a Kenny VS Spenny edition, where each moron will be partnered with a poor, helpless contestant trying to win. No airdate has been set for any of these, nor have the top prizes been announced, but keep watching!
Over 3 months, 11 cities and states, and it call came down to one vocabulary game for $25,000. GSN’s Get Schooled mall tour, originally based off the Game Show Network show “WinTuition”, this past year reformatted into a word game. Eleven people won $10,000, but only one won the $25,000. GSN plans to show you the exciting moments of this national tour on the documentary on Saturday, September 10th at 8PM ET/PT.
The tour, hosted by American Idol finalist Kimberly Locke, crowned winners as young as 16 years old. Here are the list of finalists.
Bill Medina: Albuquerque, New Mexico
Jennifer Robinson: Dallas, Texas
Chris Reilly: Sacramento, California
Casey Butterfield: San Francisco, California
Dallin Merrill: Salt Lake City, Utah
Jim Wagner: Chicago, Illinois
Cary West: Nashville, Tennessee
Greg Stone: San Antonio, Texas
Mary Ann Doering: Marietta Georgia
William Andrew Babb: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Arthur Kurts: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Touching stories, such as Casey Butterball’s rejection of getting a scholarship and Dallin Merrill’s wish to go to law school being taken away by not enough money, the documentary will be filled with stories by the contestants along with the final game for an additional $25,000 plus the $10,000 they received for being in the finals. Vice President of Marketing, Dena Kaplan, stated “We are pleased to present a first of its kind documentary about a high-stakes vocabulary competition. This story captures the personal journeys of the contestants from all over the country in pursuit of linguistic excellence and to win money towards the dream of a college education.” Watch the Word Slam! documentary on Saturday, September 10th at 8PM ET/PT only on GSN: The Network for Games. Sponsored by Bank of America.
Source: GSN
This is Tanja. She’s 27, living in the Dutch city of Gronengen, aspires to study law someday, and she’s seven months pregnant.
Her connection to our blog? She’s also a contestant on the newest version of the Dutch reality show Big Brother, the origin of the American version of the same name.
By doing simple math and a quickie course in basic high school sex education, it’s likely that if Tanja stays in the game for long enough, she’ll give birth on national television.
Despite Dutch laws on sex and nudity being fairly wink-wink nudge-nudge say no more, the government is debating whether to issue a permit to the newborn baby permitting it to appear on TV, since the infant will effectively be a child actor.
The Dutch laws on child actors state that a child may only appear on television four times before they are seven, and that the appearances cannot be longer than four hours. They can only be filmed during daylight hours, and not be the center of the program.
Producers of the show say that they have spoken with medical authorities, and they have determined that if proper medical standards were observed, the baby would not be affected spending time in the Big Brother house.
The Dutch version of Big Brother is essentially a popularity contest, with viewers voting off contestants. You may recall that this was tried in the first season of the American version, and viewers quickly voted out all the controversial players, leaving a bland household. The second season featured the current voting system, with players evicting other players.
By the voting system in place, Tanja might last the two months necessarily to bring her to her due date. However, she did shock houseguests by smoking several cigarettes, which is not something you should ideally do if you’ve got a baby in ya.
(photo courtesy of the Associated Press)
(source article)
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Aug
Bravo Plans “Top Chef”
What a shock, another TV station will be ripping off a show from a rival network. But this part confuses me, FOX isn’t doing the ripping off. FOX actually originated the show. Bravo will be searching for the best cook in America on their new original series “Top Chef”. Applications for the show are being accepted now. They are looking for “trained and self-taught chefs as well as non-professional cooks.” Top Chef will be done by the producers of Project Greenlight, Situation Comedy, and Last Comic Standing. If you like to cook, here’s the link to sign up.
All of a sudden and without any hints at all, ABC has greenlit a remake of the popular old show “This is Your Life”. The original creator, Ralph Edwards, will be involved. According to Broadcasting & Cable, no airdate has been set, but 6 episodes is expected.
27
Aug
WOF Changes Part 3
According to recent reports, there is one more change for the wheel. Instead of a $10,000 prize in the Mystery Round, sometimes (or maybe all of the time), it’ll be $10,000 cash. Also, according to someone who attended a taping, even though they want more puzzles in the show, it only averages around 8 still. Be sure to check out the season premiere of WOF in September!
The Prime Minister of Thailand has been criticized for his recent press conference in which he used buzzers and game show signs to rate questions from reporters.
Whenever Thaksin Shinawatra recieved a question he did not like, he raised a sign with a blue X on it and sounded a buzzer. He also obtained a sign with a red circle on it for questions he would respond to. On his weekly radio program, Thaksin talked about the inaugural “meet the press” conference.
I bought those signs from a Japanese game show in order to reduce pressure during the first press conference and make fun, but the media, columnists and press associations are not in the mood for fun and considered that it was inappropriate.
Shinawatra has a history of conflicts with the media after his 2001 election, including firing 21 journalists working at a television station he owned for unfavorably covering him during the election.
(photo courtesy AFP)
(source article)
NBC is casting for another non-quiz competition program. “Treasure Hunters”, which will find teams on a global hunt for the one spot of a treasure, is looking for contestants at….
This show will find teams solving a giant worldwide puzzle, completing several challenges, and more in order to find the local of the treasure and win the grand prize.
EDIT: We’re sorry about this one. We didn’t realize this ended in May (contestant search). We at Buzzer take full blame for not looking close enough at this and posting this information when it wasn’t really needed. We’ll leave this here for the news, but don’t apply for this. Again, I appologize for not looking at the page close enough. Thank you for your understanding.
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