One of GSN’s highest rated shows ever, Who Wants to be a Millionaire, is getting it’s own sweepstakes in partnership with Fashion Bug. SVP of Marketing Dena Kaplan announed “Live Like a Millionaire” today, Halloween day. “We are thrilled to partner with Fashion Bug stores during the busy holiday season to promote Who Wants To Be A Millionaire on GSN. Not only is “Live Like a Millionaire Sweepstakes” the perfect promotion to generate renewed excitement for Who Wants To Be A Millionaire, it will also remind people that Millionaire is on GSN every night,” she stated.
How do you win? All you have to do is visit www.gsn.com or www.fashionbug.com to sign up. This will last from November 1st through December 31st. Also, Fashion Bug will be promoting to watch Who Wants to be a Millionaire every night at 8PM ET/PT. The top prize is two deluxe trips to Los Angeles and luxurious accommodations at the Peninsula Hotel in Beverly Hills along with a “millionaire makeover”. Winners will also get a VIP trip around Sony Pictures Studios and dinner for two and two hot spots. Also, the winner will get a $1,000 shopping spree to Fashion bug, which totals to around $1,000. Tune into Millionaire every day and sign up to win!
What’s this? NBC giving ACTUAL NEWS about Deal or No Deal? An NBC spokesperson stated that comedian Howie Mandel will host the newest entry into the primetime million dollar game show genre. Mandel makes frequent appearances on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno and also had his own show, Hidden Howie, most recently on Bravo along with being featured on St. Elswhere for 6 years. Deal or No Deal will start production this week, although no air date has been set. However, rumors, and I stress rumors, from people close to the network have said that this will be a midseason replacement. (Make that your rumor control for the day)
Indonesia’s former dictator, Suharto, known for supposedly amassing billions of dollars during his rule, is apparently addicted to Indonesia’s “Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?”
According to Suharto’s granddaughter, Gendis Siti Hatmanti, “Grandfather often watches ‘Who Wants to Be a Millionaire,’ that is his favorite show.”
Suharto, who the Transparancy International group considers the most corrupt leader ever, has suffered two strokes, of which doctors have claimed caused brain damage. This has prevented him from standing trial for allegedly gathering anywhere between 15 and 35 billion dollars for himself and his family.
[source - AFP via Yahoo!]
Sorry for the extremely delay in this. The snowstorm hit my area directly and I just got power back today. Civil Rights icon, Rosa Parks, regretfully passed away this Monday at the age of 92. To honor her, GSN will be airing two special shows this Friday, AKA tomorrow, during the Men of GSN morning classic game show block. At 9:30AM ET, GSN will air an episode of “To Tell the Truth”, hosted by Robin Ward, featuring Parks as the celebrity guest. 12PM will show Rosa Parks being the question to an answer read by Martin Luther King III.
Poker, like many “sports,” is ever-evolving. The elements of style and play are always changing. The “Young Bloods,” as the wily old vets like to call the under-30 crowd, has a different, rogue style of play. GSN is capitalizing on this strategic kind of play with Poker Royale: Battle of the Ages, premiering with two back-to-back episodes on Friday, November 4 at 10:00PM ET/PT.
Representing the poker masters are TJ Cloutier (six World Series of Poker bracelets), Dan Harrington (appeared at back-to-back final tables at the 2003 and 2004 World Series of Poker where he won over $2,000,000), “Miami” John Cernuto (three World Series of Poker bracelets), Barbara Enright (best all around 2002 Legends of Poker), Maureen Feduniak (1st Place 2003 World Poker Tour Ladies Night Main Event) and Wendeen Eolis (first woman to finish in the money at the World Series of Poker, 4th place at the World Poker Tour Ladies Night II Invitational).
Playing for the young poker stars are Michael “The Kid” Gracz (1st place 2005 World Poker Tour Party Poker.com IV and World Series of Poker bracelet winner), Dutch Boyd (tied for 11th place in the 2003 World Series of Poker main event), Erin Ness (second highest female in the 2004 World Series of Poker and 2nd place in POKER ROYALE: YOUNG BLOODS), Evelyn Ng (2nd Place World Poker Tour Ladies Night), Jennifer Leigh (22 year-old who has won five multi-tournaments), Kasey Thompson (Associate Publisher of All In Magazine).
Our lovely host will be John Ahlers, and he will be joined in the booth by professional poker player Robert Williamson III and sideline reporting by Lisa Dergan. This is the seventh edition of the Poker Royale series, and it’s looking to be a good one.
Evelyn Ng = TEH HOT.
CableWorld published GSN’s ratings: a .3 with a 198,000 household count. This is the lowest since the changeover from Game Show Network to GSN. However, this isn’t stopping them from debuting a new poker show that will hopefully lift the spirits of the TV poker industry. The new 13 episode show, “High Stakes Poker” (No, it’s not Poker Royale), will be a game where each player has to pay their way to play.
Each person pays $100,000 just to enter, and each player can continue digging money out of their own wallets to continue playing. CEO Rich Cronin stated “The difference between tournament poker-even the World Series of Poker, with a $10,000 buy-in-and a cash game where a player can lose several hundred thousand dollars of their own money will be dynamic.” Ian Valentine also said “They’re playing with their own money and lots of it. This is real poker, and we will also capture the rarified milieu in which the high rollers live and play.”
Now we are doing a new podcast and REALLY would love your input to this, so please email me at itiparanoid13@gmail.com or reply to this post. GSN’s new .3 is one of the lowest they’ve had in a long long long time. What do you think is the reason for this? What do you all think could they do to improve this? I’ll voice my opinion during the podcast.
Source: GSNN and TVWeek
Yes, you heard it right. GSN’s original card series from the transformation, World Series of Blackjack, will answer the calls of hundreds of thousands of fans and have a 3rd season. According to a source in Washington, “I was riding the bus, and there was an advertisement for the WSOBJ at the Lucky Eagle Casino in Seattle WA. Complete with the GSN Logo.” Even more, there is a website with it…
World Series of Blackjack 3 Qualifier
This season will have 40 people battling each other to take a share of $1,000,000. The entry fee is $85, but if you live around there, you could win $5,000 and a shot at possibly a hell of a lot more. Stay tuned to here for more info.
Wheel of Fortune is once again available to play in your home, this time in a seperate plug-and-play console. TV Games will be releasing the game that supports up to three players and also includes a single player mode for those lonely times. The controller contains a knob which will represent the wheel the players will spin. It is expected to be available at toy stores soon, and will cost US$19.99.
[source: thetoyguy.com]
As we’ve been covering, GSN is testing out a revival of the classic panel game show I’ve Got a Secret. We have recently learned that the host of the pilot will be Bil Dwyer, also known for his color commentary work on Extreme Dodgeball, the host of the PAX game show Dirty Rotten Cheater, and the Comedy Central robot-fighting series Battlebots. It is not known at this point if Dwyer will be the main host of the show if it is picked up. We will report any more details about the pilot as we get them.
Wow, we’ve been full of GSN news recently. The “ALL GAY game show WANTS YOU”, as they say. Want to see a taping of a show that’s hopefully like the 50s version? Well here’s your chance. If you live in LA, call the ticket hotline at 1-323-957-3928. Invite your friends and family, or even total strangers if that’s your thing, to go to The Production Group (address at the bottom) on November 5th at 2PM and enjoy TV’s most recent game show revival.
The Production Group
1330 Vine Street
Hollywood, CA 90028
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