19Oct2011
“Millionaire”, “Feud”, “Hole in the Wall” and “Price” Get Updated Video Games from Ludia
Ludia, the company which has been making video games based on popular Fremantle Media game show titles the past few years, is coming out with four brand new, updated games. It's a variety of different areas of game shows so whether you're a trivia, physical, or luck game fan there should be something for you. We've got information on the new Millionaire video game which is the first console game to feature the Super Mix format, Hole in the Wall: Deluxe Edition for Kinect for Xbox 360, Family Feud 2012, and The Price is Right: Decades which should be a massive treat for game show fans. Click here for detailed information on all the games and when and where to order them.
Read MoreView Comments (16)08Oct2011
UK Weekend Replay: Million Pound Drop Drama
Channel 4's The Million Pound Drop Live will wrap up their fifth series tonight. Over the course of the last six weekends, it has produced many high scoring payouts with couples winning £200,000 and more. Endemol and Channel 4 have given away more than £1 million throughout this series. More money than the last four series and Christmas specials added together. Today we have two clips from this series. The first clip was taken from 24th September and features comedian Jack Whitehall and his father, Michael Whitehall. Unlike other game shows, celebrity games are always slotted between regular games. The generation pair have reached question eight with a record £300,000. Watch the clip below to see them tackle the final 50/50 question. [st
Read MoreView Comments (20)17Aug2011
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.
Read MoreView Comments (18)15Aug2011
“Million Dollar Money Drop” Gets Facebook Adaptation
The timing of this is pretty funny. Fox's long cancelled quiz show Million Dollar Money Drop will be getting its own Facebook adaptation. It's in the programming phase right now so no word of impeding release. The company behind it is iWin, who did the good adaptations of Deal or No Deal, 1 VS 100, the upcoming $100,000 Pyramid, and the massively popular Family Feud. Click here for more information and to see what you can expect.
Read MoreView Comments (7)24Jun2011
“The Moment of Truth” Produces the Most Awkward Jackpot Win Ever
News of the impending and rumored syndicated revival of Fox's infamous game show, The Moment of Truth, have us looking at clips of the show on YouTube. The show taped a full third season but because ratings started to slide a little and there were no time slots available, the show just drifted away without anyone seeing anything from the third season. Until now. If you watched the show, you know how personal and uncomfortable the game can get quickly. Want to know what the final question, the 21st question, looks like? It happened during the third season, and you'll finally get to see it. Click here to see the unbelievable moment.
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“The Moment of Truth” Returns to Television
Another former primetime game show will be coming back to television soon. The love-to-hate former Fox game show The Moment of Truth will be returning to television at an undisclosed time for an undisclosed network. The show is currently casting with notices appearing from Pitman Casting. The game show, originally airing on Fox in 2008 and hosted by Mark Walberg., asked contestants a series of very personal, potentially embarrassing, and potentially devastating questions to win up to $500,000. The show reached some level of television infamy when a contestant, Laura Cleri, admitted an affair on national television and proceeded to win nothing. Click here for more information on the revival.
Read MoreView Comments (29)15Mar2011
News Flashes: “Millionaire”, “Million Dollar Drop”, and “Lingo”
A few quick things to start you off this morning. First, Who Wants to be a Millionaire will be getting its own Facebook app soon. The game will debut Monday, March 21st, on Millionaire's Facebook page. Next, the American version of Million Dollar Money Drop is still in limbo, but our way of doing the game is making its way around the world now. Australia is the first country to jump on the bandwagon. The now-titled The Million Dollar Drop will retain everything from the American version, including the rules, set, and presentation. And finally, Lingo is still casting for contestants. They are especially looking for fans of the show who know how to play the game, which should include a large number of you. Click here to get the full update on all these stories.
Read MoreView Comments (7)21Feb2011
Rumor Control: “Million Dollar Money Drop” Returns This Summer; Gets Board Game
Given the ratings and the overall reception the show got, as it got past its initial week-long event and sped the game up, this may not be a total surprise. An Endemol insider is telling readers, through Bother's Bar, that the Fox game show Million Dollar Money Drop will return this summer for a new series of episodes.
The show averaged around five and a half million viewers generally during its first run, nearly identical to what Minute to Win It got during its initial run this time last year (and still gets). And as we say constantly, Money Drop is cheap in broadcast network terms, it's good time filler, and it did well enough to deserve another season. Click here to read more, and for some facts backing this up.
02Feb2011
Ratings Report: “Money Drop” Finishes Where it Started
Million Dollar Money Drop had its season finale last night and it doesn't seem to be able to gain or lose viewers. It finished pretty close to where it's been the entire time: a 3.3/5 rating. I've got no idea if it's coming back or not. It needed to get closer to a 4.0 rating last night to seem likely to me, but it's in the in-between world right now. I've said it repeatedly, though, Minute to Win It gets hailed as some sort of phenomenon and it doesn't do any better than Money Drop, so I won't be shocked to see it come back. Syndication didn't have the best week on record, either. Click here to read all the ratings.
Read MoreView Comments (8)28Jan2011
“Million Dollar Money Drop” Adds Interactive Game for Season Finale
We've had a lot of criticism regarding the Americanization of Million Dollar Money Drop, but at least they seem to be seeing complaints, seeing how the more popular versions of the show do their games, and bringing in elements to improve. Many shows say, "Screw it," but they aren't yet at least. They've already sped up the game considerably which has helped it tremendously. Now the Fox game show will be adding an interactive game. You'll now be able to place your virtual million dollars on the drops and play along with the contestants. Click here to learn about the game and find out how to play it today live.
Read MoreView Comments (20)19Jan2011
Ratings Report: “Money Drop” Stabilizes
We're now completely out of any form of 2010 ratings for syndication. Updates for both last night's Million Dollar Money Drop and all of syndication for the week ending January 9th are in. There's some relatively decent news for Money Drop. Its ratings seemed to have stabilized and the viewers who like it are sticking with it. Last night's show, with a record $300,000 win, got a 3.4/5 rating. On the surface, yeah, it's not the greatest rating on the planet, but it's pretty close to Minute to Win It which gets touted as the greatest thing to ever happen to game shows, and Money Drop is cheap enough. Click here to read more about the ratings for network and syndication game shows.
Read MoreView Comments (10)13Jan2011
Casting Call for the Week of January 10th
We constantly get emails and Tweets from people who want to win big money on game shows. A few casting notices for big network or smaller cable games have gone out recently and I wanted to be sure to cover. Luckily there are a few shows out there for kids to enter as well, so the entire family can get in on it. Click here to learn how to apply for the new season of The Newlywed Game along with other new shows on NBC and ABC, new kids shows like Brainsurge and Hole in the Wall and more.
Read MoreView Comments (6)13Jan2011
Ratings Report: “Family Feud” Hits Another High; “Baggage” Debuts OK
The ratings for the week ending January 2nd, the final week of 2010 before the new year, are out. For the holidays, fans of Family Feud should have been sending cards and presents to host Steve Harvey for saving the show. It's becoming a recurring theme around here, but yet again Family Feud hit a season high. The rest of the syndicated shows, except for one, also saw an increase. Next, GSN's Baggage entered a ten market test run this past Monday. The ratings are out for the first two days and while it's not lighting the world on fire, in the grand scheme of things it's doing fine. We've also got the ratings for Million Dollar Money Drop, with more to come. Click here to read about all the ratings and what they mean.
Read MoreView Comments (1)12Jan2011
It Finally Happened on Last Night’s “Million Dollar Money Drop”
Fox's Million Dollar Money Drop is still airing on Tuesdays at 9:00PM (and this Thursday at 8:00PM) in case you've missed it. Last night's episode scored a 3.3/5 rating, for what it's worth. Some more people stuck around this Tuesday than last Tuesday's episode, and maybe it was because of what happened in the first few minutes. Click to read more and see what happened.
Read MoreView Comments (26)07Jan2011
Ratings Report: “Wipeout” Sees Series High; “Million Dollar Money Drop” Doesn’t
This is a pretty good week for game shows on broadcast television. Million Dollar Money Drop on Fox, Minute to Win It on NBC, and Wipeout on ABC are all active. Some look alive and some...not so much. THURSDAY UPDATE: Million Dollar Money Drop and Wipeout both aired episodes on Thursday at 8:00PM ET. One did great and the other didn't. I'm sure you can guess which one did what. Click here to find out all the ratings.
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