Archive for October, 2007

29
Oct

GSN Brings back “Feast of Favorites”

By Alex Davis 21 Comments
Categories: GSN and Schedule Change

Remember a few years back when GSN, under their old name Game Show Network which they seem to be using a lot more recently for some reason, had a Feast of Favorites? For those that don’t, it’s where people could go online and vote for the shows they want to see. GSN would do a countdown of what they said were people’s favorite game shows. A year ago it was rumored to be coming back but fell through. This year it’s official with GSN’s Viewer’s Choice Marathon.

There’s a long list of different shows the network can air. They range from classics such as Password and The Dating Game to newer shows like That’s The Question and Whammy!. People can vote once a day for the 14 days the voting takes place and the highest scorers will be slotted into the ten hour marathon on Friday, November 23rd, from 9AM ET to 7PM ET. Click the link below to go to the voting page. We’ll be sure to plug this again.

GSN VIEWER’S CHOICE MARATHON

29
Oct

New Canadian Game Show Channel Launches

By Alex Davis 25 Comments
Categories: Canada

First off, sorry for the lack of updates recently. I have some very exciting news regarding this site and future ventures with this brand. It’s a bit too early to say what, but I might be able to tell you guys next week.

Over the end of last week and weekend, Canada launched their first game show channel called Game TV. According to our source, Ryan Milhalus, the channel is sort of a GSN of the north. airing such shows as Love Handles, Game On, Acting Crazy, Time Chase, The Jokes On Us & Supermarket Sweep. The channel will also include some reality shows like The Mole and Last Comic Standing.

What they are doing is rather interesting. They seem to be doing the opposite of other game show channels like GSN and Challenge; they are starting out with a large reality presence from the start along with game shows. Do you think this move is good? I can see this working out much better than the rebranded channels. People will be used to those shows being around. They won’t have them suddenly thrown upon theme.

25
Oct

Dave Networks and Fremantle Launch “Price is Right” Official Site

By Alex Davis 18 Comments
Categories: CBS, Shameless Promotion and The Price is Right

First, I just want to go on record and saying how amazing Drew Carey is at hosting The Price is Right.  I’ve never been a fan of the show really, but I’m actually finding myself wanting to watch because of how fun the show is now.  Makes me wonder what we could have had for years if it wasn’t for Barker staying on for far too long.  I always felt he was unbelievably overrated.

Fremantle and Dave Networks have launched a brand new official The Price is Right site, which you can visit by clicking here.  You can also just go to PriceIsRight.com.  On the site, there are video clips, games, Drew’s video blog, and a social network to communicate with other Price fans.  It’s incredibly nice and a long time coming.  Be sure to check it out, it’s well worth your time.

By the way, I heard this through the grapevine during some chat with Drew Carey on a Price is Right fan site:

10/23/2007 20:43 mrbrown2195: Hi Drew! Tony (America’s self-declared ladies man) here from Baton Rouge, Louisiana… you’ve been doing a great job so far and I’ve been very impressed. My question for you is : Have you been reading reviews of your performance as “The Star of The Price is Right” on the Internet?
10/23/2007 20:43 DrewCarey: only the good ones. :)
10/23/2007 20:43 DrewCarey: actually, I’ve tried to skip reading anything positive or negative, although I did check out the boards here and on buzzerblog.

How cool is that?  We’ve been huge fans of Drew since his sitcom first started and even more with Whose Line is it Anyway, so we’re incredibly honored.  Thanks so much, Mr. Carey.

24
Oct

Debmar-Mercury to Remake “Trivial Pursuit”

By Alex Davis 7 Comments
Categories: Mini Buzz

Debmar-Mercury, who is currently handling Family Feud, is looking to revive Trivial Pursuit as Trivial Pursuit: America Plays in Fall 2008. What’s the America Plays part, you ask? Viewers will be able to send in their insanely anal trivia questions to the show in an attempt to get it read and possibly get some cash. “’Trivial Pursuit’ represents an incredible opportunity to leverage a brand that is extremely popular with multiple generations and combine it with interactive elements to bring a new and exciting concept to the game show genre,” said Mort Marcus, co-president of Debmar-Mercury.  Trivial Pursuit was most recently revived under ESPN, which I really enjoyed.  Was I the only one who thought ESPN Trivial Pursuit was fantastic?

24
Oct

“Millionaire” Celebrates 1,000th Show in a Big Way Next Week

By Alex Davis 9 Comments
Categories: Spoilers, Syndication and Who Wants to be a Millionaire?

Hard to believe that the little syndicated show that could, Who Wants to be a Millionaire, is going on its 1,000th episode in two weeks. Hosted by Meredith Vieira, the show has had over 1,800 contestants and has given away over $42,000,000. That total could be more but they haven’t given away a million for nearly five years. Admittedly they did make the show a lot harder after season one, but someone should be able to do it, right?

Next week they will be doing away with the first five questions and letting people be ten away from the million off the bat with $1,000 in their pockets. Personally, I’d be fine with this if they’d put the Fastest Finger back in. Just give that winner the $1,000 and let the group of ten stay for the entire week and weed through them all. I don’t expect them to do it, but just a thought. As long as we don’t become Dance Party Millionaire, but I trust Michael Davies enough to fight it. Also, if you registered in September you may be on your way to winning money, as 100 lucky home viewers will win $1,000 each.

Again, it’s been ages since the last Millionaire. I’m usually not a person who’s begging for tons of money left and right but come on. Surely someone can do this. Our good friend Ogi Ogas, one of the smartest people we know, almost did it in a heavily spoiled event last year. Disney-ABC Domestic Television may have done it again. Who knows?

Highlight below to read….

OK, for the rest of you. Yes, a million dollar question will be given next week but of course they won’t say when. We’ll have a clip up here as part of BuzzerVision next week. In Disney-ABC’s great stupidity to be like NBC, in the press release they sent they gave away the million dollar question and answer. But we aren’t that mean. You’re going to have to wait to see it. I will give you a slightly vulgar hint: It’s fucking hard. HARD.

Photo courtesy of Valleycrest Productions, Ltd.

Edit: Fixed a tiny error at the top.  It’s obviously already on its 6th season.  It’s going on its thousandth episode in two weeks.

23
Oct

“Name That Tune” Revived for MTV

By Alex Davis 11 Comments
Categories: Mini Buzz

Name That Tune will be revived after all, but not for CBS.  Each of the three MTV networks; MTV, VH1, and CMT; has picked up six episodes to air in the first quarter of 2008.  The show’s format will be the same across all three networks, but the music will change to fit its core audience.  When does VH1 do music anymore, anyway, or should we just be expecting some D-list celebrities to sing about the past week’s events in a humorous manner?  No word on hosts or formats yet.

22
Oct

GSN Hires New Executive of Development

By Alex Davis 8 Comments
Categories: GSN

GSN today announced a new executive director of development and good news for the game show fans: he has a long history in the genre. The new man is Joel McGee. McGee began his career working for Mark Goodson productions in 1994, working on such shows as The Price is Right, The New Price is Right, and Family Feud. He began a relationship with GSN back in 2002 while developing and producing Cram, which was (sorry to the nay-sayers) one of GSN’s most original and rather enjoyable concepts to date. Plus Icey was excessively hot. He was also a producer of the fan-favorite Dirty Rotten Cheater which just began a short revived run in England.

“Joel brings a considerable amount of development experience and insight with him to GSN, especially in the game show genre,” said Jamie Roberts, Senior Vice President of Programming at GSN, to whom he reports. “We’re fortunate to have found someone with his creative instincts and vision.”

Looks like GSN got someone who really knows the industry and what fans want. Hopefully we might be able to see a big boost in their original lineup soon. Despite how great That’s The Question is, their lineup is severely lacking. Just one relatively straight quiz show, please. There are enough word games for now.

21
Oct

Ratings Update

By Alex Davis 6 Comments
Categories: Mini Buzz

We have a bit of a ratings update on its page today.  Wheel was the only hugely positive story, as it shot up big time since last week.  The other major syndicated shows are up as well.  We also have more information on the two new ones.  Crosswords seems to be stable at 0.8 right now.  It’s not exactly hugely positive, but for how insanely cheap the show is I wouldn’t be shocked to see a second season.  Temptation, however, will be lucky to get a new season with it’s .4.  Deal or No Deal is staying alive as well.  I may be wrong; we may see another season.

20
Oct

“Duel” Rules and Information

By Alex Davis 16 Comments
Categories: ABC and Duel

We have some information on ABC’s new game show Duel thanks to the amazing people at Bother’s Bar. Specifically Tom H. who posted a preview of the British version. It looks like an extremely fun show, which is more than can be said for 75% of the shows recently. Take a look at Bother’s Bar or below.

More details leaking through on the particularities of the format of ITV1’s Duel (which will air on Saturday nights in the spring): pairs of players will face each other in a gladiatorial arena, separated by a partially-obscuring partition in the centre - each player is given 10 chips. They will then be given Millionaire-style ABCD multiple-choice questions, and must make sure they have their chip on the right answer (so if they don’t know, they have to place a chip on all four options). All chips on wrong answers are lost, so you’re at an obvious disadvantage if you don’t know the answers to questions - and one wrong answer eliminates you from the game. The winner chooses either to stay or to leave for a fee - five consecutive victories wins the jackpot of a base £100,000 but increases with each chip eliminated from the game, and has no ceiling.

What do you all think? Personally, I’m looking forward to the show more than I was before.

19
Oct

Contestant/Audience Call Update

By Alex Davis 1 Comment
Categories: Mini Buzz

Big update for the Contestant/Audience call page, mainly in the contestant area. We have casting calls for a new GSN show called How Much Is Enough?, Embassy Row’s The Dating Game and The Newlywed Game, and probably the one that will get more people excited: ABC’s Duel. They are actually stressing that they want smart people and not actors for this show, so that’s a plus. Also, it looks like it could be stretched out over a two week period, or maybe just taped in a two week period. Who knows. Could ABC finally understand how to do a game show again? It’s hard to tell after absolute disasters like Set For Life and Bingo Night.

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