31Aug2005
Photo Gallery!
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!
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Situation: Comedy ; How did it go under the radar?
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
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GSN Plans 5 “Celebrity” Lingo Episodes
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
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GSN Airs Word Slam! Mall Tour Documentary
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
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Dutch BB may show live birth
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 actor
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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. Top Chef Contestants
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Breaking News: ABC Greenlights “This Is Your Life”
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. Source Site
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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!
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Thai Prime Minister “buzzes” the media
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 th
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NBC Casts “Treasure Hunters”
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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FoodTV Winner Battles Stomach Cancer
According to a source from Georgia, Hans Rueffert, who finished 3rd in The Next Food Network Star, is in the hospital because of stomach cancer. He is in critical condition as of right now, and he has an LJ where he and his wife, Amy, are posting updates. His LiveJournal is... http://www.livejournal.com/~hansrue Please send your support to these people. Our thoughts and prayers are with them.
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Jeopardy DVD Release Information
Buzzer reported ages ago that Jeopardy would be one of the few game shows released on DVD, and the first current game show on DVD in the USA, but we FINALLY have more information for you guys. According to Variety, the DVD will be released on November 8th. It will include many memorable episodes, including Alex Trebek's first episode more than 20 years ago along with several of Jennings's run and also the Ultimate Tournament of Champions. This DVD will include special features such as viewing the show in 5 different camera angles, 21 Years of Questions and Answers, along with more. Be sure to pick it up and further more game show DVDs in the future.
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Jeopardy Summer Scheduling Note
Sorry for the lack of updates, we've been really busy with school starting. For all Jeopardy fans, they have a treat for you coming after the College ToC. When this series ends, they are going to run the best of Ken Jennings, his 5 milestone episodes. If you didn't get to see some of them or didn't get to record, this might be your last moment for a while. Also, after that, Jeopardy will be running 5 episodes of the Ultimate ToC, including all 3 episodes of the finals which were played for $2,000,000.
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New Distraction Coming Rather Soon
Buzzer was the first place on the net, besides Craigslist, to announce the new season of the hit game show, Distraction, to Comedy Central. Per various sources, CC released more information for the fans. The season will be 14 episodes, Jimmy Carr will return as host (thank Jesus), and it will begin to air as a midseason show, in Q1 of 2006. New distractions will be tattooing, finding answers on nudists, being pecked by geese, "electrocution" (term used very loosely), and food/object catapults. Returning ones will be hot sauce shots, clothes pins, wrestlers, and more. Hopefully we'll get some new bonus rounds also. Now if only NBC would release info like this so quickly for Deal or No Deal.....
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It’s a Worldwide Deal………….or No Deal
Deal or No Deal is suddenly traveling the world by storm. Channel 4 in the UK, which is responsible for Countdown and Distraction, has signed on for the big money game show. Early indications show that the top prize will be £100,000 and minimum is 1P, the show will be late afternoon, tape at Endemol's studios in the UK, and could be on TV by the end of the year. No start date has been set. Also, no start date has been set for the NBC version either.
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