31Jul2009
Celebrity Players Announced for “Who Wants to be a Millionaire”
We teased it this morning on our Twitter page, but here it is now: ABC has announced the celebrities that will take part in the 10th anniversary edition of Who Wants to be a Millionaire. Each celebrity will answer one question at the end of the show, able to use only one of the available lifelines. A right answer gives the celebrity $50,000 while a wrong answer is worth $25,000. Not bad either way. Here's the list. Who are you looking forward to? Lauren Conrad (“The Hills), playing for the M. Powerment Fund Rapper Snoop Dogg, playing for the Snoop Dogg Youth Football League Patricia Heaton (ABC’s new comedy, “The Middle”) playing for the Westside Pregnancy Clinic and Lighthouse Medical Missions Shawn Johnson, Olympic gold
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“Family Feud” Goes to San Francisco for Auditions
Do you live in the San Francisco area or are planning to visit there soon? I've got some good news for you. Family Feud, entering its eleventh season, is coming to your town and giving you and your family a chance to appear on the show. Feud comes to the City by the Bay on Saturday, August 1st, giving you a chance to win up to $150,000 and a brand new car. “The best contestants are families who are outgoing and engaging,” says executive producer Gaby Johnston. “’Family Feud’ is all about working together as a family, having fun, and pooling your knowledge to win cash and prizes. Trust me, our contestants have the time of their lives.” To audition, send an email to sanfrancisco@familytryouts.com or call the Family Feud contestant
Read MoreView Comments (8)28Jul2009
Greg Proops and Whoopi Goldberg Create Some “Head Games”
The Science Channel, which is currently showing one of my favorite shows ever (Junkyard Wars) will be debuting a new quiz show soon Head Games. The show is created and executive produced by Whoopi Goldberg and done through her production company Whoop Inc. The show involves videos of the craziest science riddles and questions. They're currently looking for people to send in, "Wow-I-Can’t-Believe-I-Just-Shot-That video moments," which seems to be the basis of the show. If you've got any, click here to email the producers. They are also looking for contestants. They say that you don't, "need to know Einstein’s Theories, or be a master at quantum physics. You only need to choose the right answer…..and have fun while you’re doing it."
Read MoreView Comments (1)27Jul2009
Details on ABC’s “Millionaire” 10th Anniversary
All the excitement of the 10th anniversary edition of Who Wants to be a Millionaire is getting close to the big payoff as Regis Philbin returns to the Hot Seat on August 9th at 8:00PM ET on ABC. As press releases are saying, this was truly a great year for the format. The movie Slumdog Millionaire, a movie essentially based around arguably the world's most popular quiz show, won the Oscar for Best Picture and the daytime edition of the show, hosted by Meredith Vieira, will be entering its eight season soon after a large number of changes to the format last year. The show's still standing very strong around the world, and ABC plans to celebrate the anniversary with style. As we've previously discussed, the format will largely be from
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Busy, Busy Embassy Row
Variety put out a nice little article about our friends at Embassy Row. It looks like they've got a ton of projects lined up on all sides of the coast on a multitude of different networks. Let's start with the obvious one first. As anyone who actually watches the show knows by now, GSN's Newlywed Game has been renewed for a second season after some good ratings for the network. 65 episodes are being produced this season and the show will move from New York to Glendale, California, for what we're being told from insiders is a wide variety of different reasons. Variety also says that Embassy Row is still waiting on the word from CBS if The ($1,000,000) Pyramid has been picked up for a series in daytime, replacing Guiding Light. The
Read MoreView Comments (48)24Jul2009
NBC Debuts Poker Game Show “Face the Ace” August 1st
Starting next weekend NBC will be putting another game show onto its lineup. This one's a new poker style game show called Face the Ace, from the people who do NBC's Poker After Dark. The whole poker trend died down recently. Really the only poker show that I know that still exists is GSN's pretty good High Stakes Poker which just got boring to me. We'll see if poker in this new game show set-up can attract some eyes. The rules are extremely simple. Four poker pros stand behind four smoked-glass doors. The contestant chooses one of the doors and plays a head-up (one on one) game of No Limit Texas Hold'em against that pro. If you beat the pro on the first game, you won $40,000. You then get to decide if you want to walk away with
Read MoreView Comments (44)24Jul2009
Find “GSN Radio” in Your Local Markets
For the millionth time, if you're not listening to GSN Radio you're really missing out. Bob Goen and Marianne Curan are fantastic and make the entire program, running at GSN.com/radio from 1:00PM ET to 5:00PM ET every weekday, unbelievably fun. It's one of the top things they've ever done. If you're reading this you should be listening. But if you can't, you may be able to find it on one of your local radio affiliates. Check out the list of all the affiliates given to us by the great crew. WNYM-AM-970 / Sundays 12pm-2pm (EST) http://am970theapple.townhall.com/ WOIC-AM-1230- Columbia, SC-Saturdays. 6-8pm (EST) http://www.woic.com/home.php CKTP-AM-95.7- New Bruinswick-CN.- Sundays,
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GSN Changes “Big Saturday Night” Again. Why Did it Go So Horribly Wrong?
We'll update the PDFs later this afternoon but yet again GSN is changing the Big Saturday Night schedule and reworking the show. I can't even fully remember how many times this has been. This has to have been the fourth or fifth change to the program. They are essentially waving the white flag. 20Q will air at 8:00PM ET yet again, in its original hour-long state. Now Deal or No Deal will be pushed into the 9:00PM ET slot. Poor poor Money List takes up the 10:00PM ET hour. No BSN segments will air here apparently. BSN actually starts as a half-hour program at 11:00PM ET. It's followed by The Newlywed Game, which will very likely get better ratings, at 11:30PM ET. So, as the title said, why did it go so horribly wrong? I think
Read MoreView Comments (34)22Jul2009
GSN’s “The Newlywed Game” Looking for Contestants For Season Two
It's official: GSN's revival of The Newlywed Game is coming back. The show's moving to Los Angeles for season two, and they're currently looking for contestants. Here's the notice. Good luck! The Newlywed Game: Casting Season 2 in CA Now! SEASON 2 OF THE NEWLYWED IS NOW CASTING IN CALIFORNIA!!! CASTING PRODUCERS ARE LOOKING FOR COUPLES WHO ARE MARRIED LESS THAN 2 YEARS. TO APPLY, EMAIL US AT THENEWLYWEDGAME@EMBASSYROW.COM INCLUDE THE FOLLOWING: YOUR NAME YOUR SPOUSES NAME AGES WHERE YOU ARE FROM PHONE EMAIL **BE SURE TO INCLUDE A RECENT PICTURE OF YOU AND YOUR SPOUSE (MAKE SURE WE CAN SEE YOUR FACES, DO NOT SEND PHOTOS WEARING HATS OR SUNGLASSES)
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“The $1,000,000 Pyramid” Applications Being Sent. Hmm…
UPDATE: Craigslist now has the casting notice. Click here for the casting notice on Craigslist, or just read it below. CASTING PRODUCERS ARE LOOKING FOR OUTGOING MEN AND WOMEN 18+ IN THE TRI-STATE AREA FOR THE GAME SHOW PYRAMID!!! TO APPLY, EMAIL US AT: PYRAMID@EMBASSYROW.COM INCLUDE THE FOLLOWING: NAME AGE WHERE YOU ARE FROM PHONE EMAIL **BE SURE TO INCLUDE A RECENT PICTURE OF YOURSELF (Please DO NOT send photos wearing hats and/or sunglasses) ** THANKS AND GOOD LUCK! I think you all may have your answer as to what is the future of daytime game shows with CBS. We're hearing that people are being sent applications for The $1,000,000 Pyramid right now and its asking that the form is return as soon as
Read MoreView Comments (77)20Jul2009
Video: Family Feud’s Bullseye Round
As we have reported before, Family Feud is bringing back the Bullseye round for its record-breaking 11th season. But now, we finally get to see this round in action with O'Hurley. The car, the other new addition this season, gets plenty of camera time, too. I've been reading some of the comments and I'm a bit stunned. Are we that set in our ways that if a round doesn't use a "ding" sound effect and instead uses a "whoosh" people go apeshit? It's no offense to the commenters that feel this way, but you'll be the only ones who notice. Feud goes to millions of people each day. If they make a few people mad by not using a bell sound effect, sobeit. The absolutely only thing that matters is that it plays well and it doesn't drag
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ABC Orders “Shaq Vs.”
ABC has ordered the new series Shaq Vs. from Dick Clark Productions and Media Rights Capital. The show sees basketball legend Shaquille O'Neal playing against a different sports figure in their native game. It ranges from playing football against Ben Roethlisberger to tennis against Serena Williams. The show debuts August 18th at 9:00PM ET. ABC's been getting some really entertaining unscripted programming recently. This looks like another fun
Read MoreView Comments (14)20Jul2009
A Look at ABC’s “Shark Tank”
We've been talking a lot about Who Wants to be a Millionaire's return on August 9th, but there's another show airing after that which deserves to be discussed. It's a Japanese/British import called Shark Tank. If you get BBC America you may have seen it on there before as Dragon's Den. I really don't know what to describe this show. It's not really a complete game show, it's not really a complete reality show, it's not really a complete drama. It's definitely unscripted. It's just a mix of all of them. I wasn't a fan of Dragon's Den for some reason. I don't think it was converting it to American so I can relate more or maybe it's because I didn't give Dragon's Den enough of a chance (I'm leaning towards this option), but I actually
Read MoreView Comments (16)19Jul2009
The British Might Be Better Than Us: The Fuse (Part 4)
The final part of The Fuse, answering any six questions within 70 seconds. [stream flv=x:/www..flashgameshows.com/wordpress/videos/Fuse4.flv width=630 height=343 bandwidth=med
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The British Might Be Better Than Us: The Fuse (Part 3)
Finally, something different. Let's start eliminating contestants, sort of like how Grand Slam did it! [stream flv=x:/www.flashgameshows.com/wordpress/videos/Fuse3.flv width=630 height=343 bandwidth=med
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