“Bingo Night” Bombs
We might be on the road to our second one-and-gone game show of the season. National Bingo Night scored a 3.7/7 on its debut. That’s about a point to a point and a half worse than Show Me the Money‘s final episode. If the show survives another episode or two I will be amazed. They will do better with a rerun of Grey’s Anatomy reruns, and I can’t even stand the show. You know, I won’t gloat about how I and others were right about this show’s failure, but did ABC actually think Bingo would be popular? We expect a cancelation notice within the next few days. If not, I’ll be utterly shocked.
I know people have to get angry with me constantly mentioning this, but I will just never understand why they won’t bring back Super Millionaire. They apparently want a game show. Every single Deal or No Deal clone has bombed. Millionaire wasn’t blowing the socks off of the ratings when it came back three years ago, but it easily helds its own and would probably do better before 10PM ET. There’s a reason 1 VS 100 and Fifth Grader have been successful: they are rather different from each other. If TV executives haven’t realized it yet, I’ll say it loudly: THE CLONES AREN’T WORKING. They should have learned during the Millionaire era. If they need a game show, bring back the most reliably high rated game show around. You’ll get more praise than hell from people, trust me.
Well, it serves ABC right. I had some kind of hope for this show. If this record keeps up, nobody’s going to want to bring another game show concept to the Alphabet network again. This show was meant for daytime, not primetime.
ABC needs me to write gameshows bad. Some of my games can’t be any worse than the ones they’ve had lately.
Say, that’s not a bad idea. It’ll be like “The Producers”. We make game shows, they flop, we get the profits and run. Of course, you’ll have your shows and I’ll have mine. Maybe we’ll both get rich!
OK, maybe it’s not such a good idea, but we’ll have to consider ABC’s record.
Amen! I watched 5 minutes of “Bingo” and then turned off the TV. “Super Millionaire” was fun, the questions were challenging, and the phone game was the greatest invention in the history of game shows.
Bring Back Super Millonaire!
I won $5 and a CD. I liked that part of it.
CAESAR SAYS STOP.
Two questions regarding your idea to bring back Super Millionaire?
Is Regis feeling better? Do you think he would be up to it?
Do you think one provision of Regis not returning to NBC’s America’s Got No Talent was that he would not relaunch Millionaire? (This wouldn’t surprise me).
Remind me, Alex. Which was the first (and apparently only other) one-and-gone show? By my count, this is actually much more than just the second one.
Hang in there, everyone. There are much better shows on the horizon.
Well there maybe a better show coming out, but it surely won’t be on ABC. They haven’t been able to keep a good gameshow since millionaire. and I think before then, maybe Feud before CBS took it over.
The first show to be “one-and-gone” was You’re in the Picture, starring Jackie Gleason. The 2nd episode of that show was an apology. The other “one-and-gone” show was The Rich List.
As the old saying goes, there’s always room for improvement…
They should bring Larry Thompson fraom American Gladiators to referee in place of that persian gas station guy and have Stuart Scott host this thing.
There, fixed the post at the beginning to be as specific as possible so we can’t have any misunderstandings now. Hopefully that suits you. I meant the of this season and figured it was inferred but apparently not. Minor mistake.
Yeah! Larry Thompson! I have a better idea. Let’s bring back Mike Adamle and Larry Csonka to host this show.
ABC is still pissed that Celador wouldn’t sell them the worldwide Millionaire rights cheap. This is why ABC chucked their rights and show attractions at the theme parks in the first place.
Even though, all they have to do is buy (or license) them from that dutch company that secured them and their are back in business.
persian gas station guy… come on now. They should have picked another referee for sure, but thats just a bit much. The problem with this show is the loud host whose comments seemed to be just cut and paste into the show a lot of the time.. which usually had something to do with America trying to win something,except a tiny fraction of America was even watching at all… let alone playing the game with cards. The only beneficial thing coming from this show is that very small crowd at home who were rewarded with gift cards in return for watching this crap!
The short and sweet of “National Bingo Night”…
NOOOOOOOOOOOO FUTURE!
QUOTE: If they need a game show, bring back the most reliably high rated game show around. You’ll get more praise than hell from people, trust me.
Agreed, I enjoyed Super Millionaire more than the original Millionaire to be quite honest, and of the 3 versions (original, super, and syndie), it’s my favorite. The questions were tougher, the sound effects and lighting (though just external) were gorgeous, and if a person won a half million dollars, to me, it felt like they deserved it.
However, this comment has the biased side of me thinking again. If your theory is correct Alex (and I’d be willing to bet it has some foundation), why not have NBC, or ABC, or whoever wants to, do a once a week special edition (or maybe a two-week at a time thing like Millionaire) of Wheel or Jeopardy (or both)?
Potentially, they could do Wheel like they did when it was an hour in the 70′s, (or do two 3 person games, a speed-up round with the winners of both, and the bonus round to whoever wins that) and Jeopardy like what was done with Super Jeopardy (or similar to WOF, with the two regular game winners going to Final J!).
The stakes could be raised of course, if really needed, but with WOF and J! getting at least 10 and 8 million viewers, respectively, every show, what could they possibly get in a one-time special in primetime (case in point, TPIR specials last week got about 14 million viewers, and it only gets about 5 million a daytime episode)?
And if this is too biased of me, go easy plz… :)
I wish they would just bring back Super Millionaire. That show was a definite success. Wheelloon, you’re right on the Super Jeopardy part. They did Super Jeopardy in 1990 and I did watch it when I was about 6.
Sorry to say this, but it might be too late for ABC. What would happen if they did bring back Super Millionaire? History would repeat itself.
I wonder if they’ll have any former Barker’s Beauties next month. I’d love to see Claudia or even Holly (assuming they give her a total body makeover) play Bingo.
Yes they need to bring back Super Millionaire or even the original verson just update the money values. And bring it back with regis!
National Bingo night suck the host was unknown constuction worker from extreme makeover. Maybe i can get a show if i stand on the door steps of abc
Where are the good american born game shows? All the good shows nowadays are all international Imports.
Just like Saturday morning cartoons.
Bingo Night went down… Like 0-69.. Bad pun.. lol
Might have had some success in daytime, though. Just rework the format, and get somebody respectable to host (like Wink or Chuck). It might make The Price is Right look good again.
To Eric who commented on here if I had the money right now i would get my games copyrighted and pitched to the networks. ABC needs me to write gameshows more than ever altough these days if you want a good gameshow I say NBC has them right now DOND and 1 vs 100 the two hits. Identity bombed but it wasn’t that great but two out of three so far isn’t that bad. I also think that maybe ABC needs to do a week long event if bringing back a gameshow and then dropped to once or twice a week after that. I will give one thing i did like about this bingo show though people kept standing up when they were one away from a bingo that was a tension grabber having me on the edge of my seat. ABC hasn’t had a good show since Millionaire. I never got to see The Chair but read about it and it seemed exciting.
To quote Alex from a post about a month ago:
“I’m wondering how long until we start to say “Wow, remember ‘Show Me the Money?’ That was a pretty good show.”
Said time is upon us…
I’d like to see them bring back Rock ‘N Roll Jeopardy (that was such a cool show) as well as shows like Greed, Twenty-one & the Weakest Link. I’m getting pretty tired of “Deal or No Deal.” The contestants are so over the top fake and hyperkinetic. It’s annoying and I don’t watch it anymore. I watched the first episode of “National Bingo Night.” Overall it’s a weak show with virtually no skill involved, but I did like that the studio as well as at home viewer audience had a chance to win prizes. They also have done a decent job with casting so far. The contestants have been pretty fun, compelling and interesting. I have to admit it was disappointing to see the first African-Amerian guy get so close and lose the jackpot when an audience member had Bingo after he hit is target number. Somehow that didn’t come across as being fair.