Yes, we’ve finally updating the ratings page. Honestly, a few weeks ago, there turned out to be so many shows and ratings coming in, and I was always gone and so busy, that it was impossible for me to keep up. But we seem to have slowed down a bit and we’ll try to keep it up to date. We restarted to trim the page down, and right now showing is the sadly low rated (because of competition) debut of American Gladiators along with a lot of syndicated ratings.
Archive for May, 2008
14
May
The Ratings are Updated!
This clip came from a few weeks ago. Seeing all the worldwide Deal or No Deal clips really makes me wonder how NBC thinks offering massive, sometimes over the mean, offers will get anyone to play on. Look at most versions of the show who have had jackpot winners (except the first Australian one) and you see one common theme: if you want someone to win, you cannot offer anything close to the mean as it’s too much to turn down. That’s the issue when our version offers a $500,000+ bank offer for a board of $1,000,000 and $100. No one will ever turn that down. They’ve slightly hinted this season at getting evil offers, and they finally fully implemented it recently. It’s honestly the best moment the show’s ever had and it shows that you don’t need an ungodly amount of $1,000,000 cases to give away the million. You need to make offers tempting enough that people will think about gambling it all away for seven figures.
There’s a very small schedule change on GSN soon. Starting on May 27th, a Tuesday, Card Sharks (Perry) will air at 1:00PM ET daily and Match Game will be at 1:30PM ET. It was the other way around before.
The lack of news had me wondering if NBC’s celebrity primetime series of Family Feud was going to happen, but apparently it’s going ahead. Tickets to see the show are available for May 31st, June 1st, and June 7th. This is part of NBC’s All American Summer. Click here to get tickets. Speaking of the All American Summer, American Gladiators is on its last legs. It only got a 2.9/5 in its highly publicized debut last night.
Quick update on the show Opportunity Knocks that was discussed a little bit ago. ABC announced it will officially be part of their Fall 2008 schedule. It will air Tuesdays at 8:00PM ET.
12
May
American Gladiators
Here’s a comment box to discuss the season debut of American Gladiators today at 8:00PM ET on NBC.
Network: NBC
Airings: Mondays at 8:00PM ET
Host(s): Hulk Hogan and Leila Ali
Vote for how many stars you think the show deserves to the right, and then leave a comment!
American Gladiators is the ultimate televised extreme sports competition. Two men and two women face off against each other and the Gladiators in events of athletic prowess, skill, and determination. By the end of the regular events, each point the leader has equals a half-second lead in the final event: the Eliminator. Whoever crosses the finish line first wins and continues on through the tournament. The grand champions of the season wins $100,000 and a new car.
The first season admittedly had a lot of issues. They tried to reinvent the wheel a bit too much. They made some events too easy (see Power Ball and Hang Tough) or they made them far too hard and complex (see Assault and Eliminator). As season two news came in, we were told they made a lot of changes for the better, and it seems that they did.
Instead of making two different posts about shows we don’t know a lot about, why not make one large post putting them together? Two new game shows were recently announced, one for ABC who never seems to give up and one for MTV.
The ABC game show is called Opportunity Knocks which is from both Katalyst and 3 Ball Productions. The show, as Cynopsis tells us, is very similar to the old after show audience game from Let’s Make A Deal. Hosts on the show travel from house to house asking people questions for cash if they give a right answer. ABC ordered 13 episodes which will probably debut in the Fall. We’ve really fully come to an age where two-minute segments on shows are the entire program, haven’t we?
The other show, for MTV, is called The Phone which is being produced by Justin Timberlake and Fremantle who everyone seems to love so much. They are really making sure to call the show “genre-busting”, but it’s basically a stereotypical competition show. Two people pick up phones at different ends of a busy city. They have five seconds to decide to take the challenge, which could net them a large cash prize, or back down. If they accept, the guide on the phone gives them a mission to complete before time runs out. If they do, they win the cash.
Any early thoughts on these? Opportunity Knocks sounds kind of lame, but The Phone sounds interesting, almost The Mole- like to a certain degree.
We couldn’t possibly end our custom Deal or No Deal world tour without going to where it all started, The Netherlands. It’s arguably the most unique version of the show still existing and one of the few primetime versions of the shows not to sell out to the American way completely. The reason why their show is so amazing is because of the gigantic spectacle it is. A 500 person audience is narrowed down to six through an extensive quiz. The six come on stage and play another buzzer oriented trivia game which narrows it to two. The two have to fight over a buy-out to leave the game or play one final question. The sole survivor of the audience plays for 5,000,000 euro. The most money won was around 1.25 million euro, which I saw and was one of the most thrilling events I’ve seen on television. It’s my personal favorite version of the show and the most amazing game show I’ve ever seen because the cases part of the show seems like what it should, a bonus game. The entire show is made into an event-like program, and it’s scheduled only six episodes every few months which gives it off well. Plus, again, they have the best music package for the show out of any country, plus one of the better hosts: Linda DeMol. Take a look. Later we will have one final Deal video: what our show should be like all the time.
In our on-going weekend series, the second stop on what NBC’s Deal or No Deal world tour should have been is the Australian version. The show began in 2003 as a primetime series with a top prize of $2,000,000. The next year the show was reformatted to a half hour daily edition for $200,000. It follows the same format as ours except it’s a lot more brighter, a lot more high energy, and contestants hold the cases as they do basically everywhere else on the planet. Take a look at some videos from the Australian take on the show.
If you’re a fan of Shokus Internet Radio and the Shu Shostak show, you might know he often has famous classic game show personalities. On Wednesday, May 14th, Tom Kennedy, host of Split Second, Name That Tune, and You Don’t Say among others, will be stopping by at 4:00PM PT. Stu will be talking with Tom about his career as well as taking questions from callers and emails. Click here to listen.
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