14Sep2011
Morning Buzz for September 14, 2011
Good morning, everyone. Thanks for sticking with us yesterday during the lack of updates. It's incredibly busy around here and there wasn't anything giant. However, we've got a few small stories this morning to kick off your Wednesday. Updates this morning include a Meredith Vieira interview this morning, the return of the Millionaire Backstage Pass, updates for the season debut of Let's Make A Deal including information on their 500th episode, the announcement of live episodes of Channel 4's Deal or No Deal, a new on-location surprise MTV game show, and a new family game show casting. Click here for the full story on each.
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“Let’s Make A Deal” Holds National Casting Search
Sorry for the short notice on this. This was sudden. Let's Make A Deal, the popular CBS daytime game show, is starting a national casting search. Its sister show The Price is Right has been doing this for some time. It's a nice promotion for the show and it can greatly benefit some of you. Casting calls start this weekend in my home city of Pittsburgh, PA. There are other later dates around the country. Click here for the full list of locations and more information.
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Morning Buzz for August 17, 2011
Good morning. Slow Wednesday so far, but there are a few smaller notes of interest. Updates this morning include a sudden injury for Drew Carey, a possible tape date and casting information for the pilot of the revived former Fox game show The Moment of Truth, casting information for Speed's upcoming stunt game show Whipped, a surprise scheduling change on GSN for fans of game shows from the 70's, 80's, and 90's; and GSN's plans for upcoming interactive daytime programming. Click here for the full story on each item and let us know what you think.
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Morning Buzz for August 5, 2011
Good morning, everyone. We've been pretty busy around here recently, and couple that with lack of any remotely interesting news to make a pretty slow day or so. However, over the past day and a half, a few interesting stories. Not that much is going on in America right now, but collectively over the world we've found some interesting stories. Stories this morning include the return of a classic game show to GSN's weekend schedule, casting notices for a new New York-based quiz show and a Sky show in the UK, taping information for ITV's upcoming live Millionaire celebrity special, and a new version of The Cube is coming. Read about all the stories here.
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Morning Buzz for July 27, 2011
Good morning. Sorry about the lack of updates yesterday. I was gone for a majority of the day and didn't get a chance to check anything. However, we've got a few things of interest to tell you about to start off the day. Updates this morning include a little information about CBS's Secret Fortune, a new live celebrity edition of ITV's Who Wants to be a Millionaire?, BBC America picks up its first game show, and new US Millionaire tape dates. Click here for all the stories.
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Morning Buzz for July 22nd, 2011
Good Friday morning. The past few days have consisted of practically nothing of any use, so apologies for the lack of updates. We managed to find a few remotely interesting things. As we approach the Fall 2011 season, we'll have more interesting things to write about. Updates this morning include a foreign host of The Price is Right visiting the set and guest hosting a segment on an upcoming episode, a special salute episode of Price taping soon, and a funny and interesting clip from BBC's Pointless. Click here for all the updates.
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“The Price is Right” Holds Contestant Searches in San Francisco, Philadelphia, New York, and Pittsburgh
Can't make it to Los Angeles to see a taping of CBS's long running game show The Price is Right? You're still going to get a chance to appear on stage with Drew Carey and win cars, cash, and trips. Price will be traveling to four cities across the Summer and Fall giving people on both sides of the country the opportunity to come on down. The first open audition this weekend, July 23rd, in San Francisco, so be ready. The rest are spread through the year. Click here for a list of all the locations, dates, and times.
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Morning Buzz for July 18, 2011
We're back after a long weekend. Not a lot of big stuff going on right now, so here's a Morning Buzz update for you. Stories this morning include a fatal accident on the Canadian version of Cash Cab, how to get audience tickets to see Who Wants to be a Millionaire, and a look at this weekend's live edition of the British version of Millionaire. Click here for all the full stories.
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Morning Buzz for July 8, 2011
Good morning, everyone. I'm sure you're as happy as I am that it's Friday and the weekend is just around the corner. Let's start off the end of the week with some quick stories. Later today we'll give you a review of ABC's Take The Money and Run which I enjoy quite a bit. But for now, stories include an audience member's first-hand review of this season's The Price is Right, a picture from the set from host Drew Carey, more information on NBC's upcoming It's Worth What?, game show casting information, plus a look at a million euro question from this past weekend's Dutch Millionaire. Click here to read over all the stories.
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“Who Wants to be a Millionaire” Begins Auditions for Season Ten
UPDATE: Millionaire is having open auditions this week through Thursday. The auditions take place from 5:00PM ET to 7:00PM ET in New York City. If you get out of work and have a little free time, there are far worse ways to spend a half hour then taking a small test and potentially playing for a million dollars. I know I'd be auditioning if I was eligible. Click here to visit the show's open audition site, find out what you need, and find out where to go. Definitely head down, and good luck. Click here to learn more about how to audition for the show.
Read MoreView Comments (13)27Jun2011
“Millionaire” Announces July Road Auditions
North Hollywood native Courtney Foley, pictured to the side, won $100,000 this season on Who Wants to be a Millionaire. She got on the show the same way everyone else has to: the road auditions. If you don't live immediately in the New York City area your chance to be on stage and play for the million dollar top prize has come. Millionaire has announced a series of six road auditions during the month of July spanning the country looking for the show's next big winner. Click here to read all the dates, locations, and times.
Read MoreView Comments (4)24Jun2011
Morning Buzz for June 24, 2011
Good late morning to everyone. I hope you had a great week so far...I know I have. Here are a few smaller stories to end the week. Stories include pictures of Meredith Vieira at the Daytime Emmys for Who Wants to be a Millionaire, ratings for 101 Ways to Leave a Game Show and Wipeout, updated GSN schedules, casting notices, plus a new look at NBC's upcoming Who's Still Standing?. Click here for all the stories.
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“Secret Fortune”, “Family Game Night” and More Now Casting
A few game shows are casting and looking for audience members. There's something for people on either side of America so anyone can get involved. First, BBC's hit quiz show Secret Fortune is making its way to America. CBS optioned the format some time ago and they are now getting ready for a pilot. We've got casting information. Next, The Hub's Family Game Night is coming back for a second season. They are looking for families. And finally we've got audience information for the new Atlanta location of Family Feud. Click here for the casting information on each show.
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Morning Buzz for June 9, 2011
Good morning, everyone. It's a nice, sunny Thursday morning for us. We've got a few interesting things to show to you. Updates this morning include a big event on last night's Lingo, GSN looking for contestants for a demo of what they call the "game show of the future", a strange game show connection between IBM's Watson and Nintendo's new video game system Wii U, and American casting for French import Fort Boyard. Click here to read them all.
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NBC Reviving “Fear Factor”
This is somewhat shocking. Thanks to About.com for spotting this initially. NBC is apparently reviving their old popular stunt show Fear Factor. If one stunt show like Minute to Win It doesn't work out then you may as well bring the one that worked, involving eating bugs, back from the dead. The show has a casting website set up and you can look at applying by clicking here. The show asked groups of people to compete in somewhat dangerous and often gross stunts for a chance to win $50,000. The original version, hosted by Joe Rogan, ran from 2001 to 2006.
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