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.
Here’s something many of you will love all thanks to our urge to really amp up the videos on the site. We have a preview of three of the games from the new season of American Gladiators exclusively for you. Two new events are shown, Vertigo and Rocket Ball. Also shown is Assault, but be happy that they simplified it this year. The layout and weapon design is still the same, but no more loading your weapons or finding arrows in sand pits or anything like that.
The second season of American Gladiators has been taping in the Los Angeles Memorial Sports Arena, and to say the set is larger this year is an understatement. It’s unbelievably massive. Sadly, though, there are not any gigantic pictures of the set, but we do have these shots of some of the events. Click them to expand the image. As you see in the first one, they put caps over the Powerball scoring zones so you can’t make a free throw anymore. One of the pictures is also of the new event Vertigo. It looks to be pretty exciting. All told we’re hearing there may be up to seven new events total this season so it seems they learned from some of their mistakes last time around. Enjoy!
You know NBC couldn’t go long without bringing the Million Dollar Mission back, didn’t you? Well, it’s not exactly like the mission. It actually makes it a hell of a lot easier to get more cases On the May 22nd episode of Deal or No Deal, a group of golden balls will be present. I chuckle at this because what are the odds that Endemol, the same company that makes Deal, have a popular British show called Golden Balls? I’m guessing the odds are pretty good. Anyway, the golden balls are going to literally determine the fate of the contestant’s board.
Each ball will add million dollar cases to the board, according to the description NBC gave us. The worst you can do is two additional $1,000,000 cases, making it three total. The best you can do is turning the entire right side of the board into million dollar cases, giving you up to thirteen. Doesn’t seem like there are any penalties involved either yet, so there you go. Honestly I don’t think many of us enjoy the Mission or anything remotely like this. However, it’s hard to deny that it was popular and brought about some big ratings to the show. If it’s a hit, they might as well do it again to bring up the numbers. And we might as well hope they give it away so they can stop thinking not giving away $1,000,000 is the end of the world.
Being the dirty dirty liberal that I am, I got a large chuckle out of this. As you may know, President Bush appeared on Deal or No Deal on Monday’s show, wishing a contestant luck. The contestant only wound up (prior to the Deal Wheel) with $26,000 so that’s some luck there. But that’s not the fun part. The fun part is Bush’s appearance fell in the show that had the lowest Monday rating in the history of the program. Yeah, the show’s been down this season a bit, but Monday’s show was down 27% from its prior season average. Pretty staggering. Of course we can’t come right out and say that people are so repulsed by Bush that they turned it off. It’s a fun thought in my mind, but we can’t really say. You can watch his shameless appearance on the show here. Did he really think appearing would make him more popular?
I was at a party on Wednesday and not feeling too well on Thursday. I took some NyQuil to hopefully feel better and I thought it was working. I realized it wasn’t working as well as it should when I saw that the current president, George W. Bush, is going to make a taped appearance on NBC’s Deal or No Deal. He’ll show up when army transport officer Captain Joseph Kobes plays for $1,000,000 which may pay for five gallons of gas by the time his show airs on Monday. An ABC report about this is stating that the president will be sending him good luck on the show. If the Captain gets the same good luck from Bush that we got the past few years, he’s screwed.
According to the ABC news report, President Bush has taped the video thanking Kobes for his service in Iraq and wishing him good luck on the program that offers the potential to win $1 million if he chooses the correct briefcase. The video clip will be shown on the show on Monday night. The show’s producers had contacted the White House to let them know that Kobes thought of Bush as “one of his heroes.”
We’ve got two items of news about NBC’s Deal or No Deal for you today. First, let’s talk about the world tour which has the potential to be fantastic. They will be traveling, on May 5th, to Estonia, to play for $1,000,000. Next on May 7th will be the Philippines and finally on the 14th is South Africa. Yes, every one of those countries has a US looking set. I really think they missed a golden opportunity to go to France or Netherlands (British set is probably too small) and do one of the daytime editions, like what our syndicated format would be. I would have figured it would have been a nice way to test the water and see what people think of the new format.
Deal is also bringing back something remotely similar to the Lucky Case game after an absence due to a law suit, and they are doing it in a creative way. Starting on April 21th, three different potential briefcase models will be presented. People at home can text in their choice. The person with the most votes moves on in the competition to be the newest model, and an at-home player can win $10,000 in the process. NBC’s pretty tricky, aren’t they?
One of our readers has found some episodes of American Gladiators on iTunes. In addition to NBC season one, there are six-packs of classic episodes from seasons one and two and from three and four. The NBC season costs $14.99, while the classic six-packs are $9.99. Individual episodes from either set are $1.99 each.
In the category of news that basically everyone knows by now but I was really busy yesterday, Al Roker has been announced as the host of NBC’s primetime celebrity run of the hit syndicated game show Family Feud. The announcement was made on Monday’s Today show to make for some nice cross promotion there. John O’Hurley will still host the syndicated run.
The basics of the game appear to be the same. However, thankfully, they won’t stretch one game to an hour. Three games will apparently be played. The winner of game one will face off against the winner of game two in a final match for money. Celebrity teams will consist of a celebrity and his or her family, or perhaps a TV family. However, these celebrities have not been announced yet.
Al’s recently guest hosted Who Wants to be a Millionaire?, that of which he didn’t do badly at, but I always felt he would be more suited for something like this. Of course this does mean we don’t get who I truly feel is the Feud’s best host since Richard Dawson, John O’Hurley. He seems to be very busy though. I can see Roker doing very well though. More specifics of the show will hopefully be announced soon.
NBC announced their Fall 2008 primetime schedule far in advance, as well as their Winter 2009 and Summer 2009. They are getting rid of a vast majority of their game shows and sticking with scripted which I suppose is good. I’m a gigantic 30 Rock fan so I’m glad to see it’s sticking around for a third season. However, we do have a casualty which was definitely a fan favorite. 1 VS 100 appears no where on any schedule which makes it either a last minute addition out of desperation or it’s canceled. It’s looking like the latter for now.
Deal or No Deal, NBC’s only shining spot at this point, is going to air Wednesdays at Fridays at 9:00PM ET. You know, Deal has always done strongly on Mondays at 8:00PM ET. I understand they are trying to do more scripted, but why you don’t put, admittedly, your biggest show in the slot in which it does the best confuses me. We’ll have the syndicated version which I have high hopes for at least. No other game show appears anywhere, so there we go. It’s truly a shame about 1 VS 100. It went from being an OK show to a great show to “eh” very quickly. Four different scoring formats and dumbing down the show drastically really hurt. I’d love to see it in syndication, but I won’t hold my breath. However, I wouldn’t put it past GSN picking up the reruns for the show which would not be a bad acquisition at all.
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Here’s a comment box to discuss the season debut of American Gladiators today at 8:00PM ET on NBC.
You know NBC couldn’t go long without bringing the Million Dollar Mission back, didn’t you? Well, it’s not exactly like the mission. It actually makes it a hell of a lot easier to get more cases On the May 22nd episode of Deal or No Deal, a group of golden balls will be present. I chuckle at this because what are the odds that Endemol, the same company that makes Deal, have a popular British show called Golden Balls? I’m guessing the odds are pretty good. Anyway, the golden balls are going to literally determine the fate of the contestant’s board.
I was at a party on Wednesday and not feeling too well on Thursday. I took some NyQuil to hopefully feel better and I thought it was working. I realized it wasn’t working as well as it should when I saw that the current president, George W. Bush, is going to make a taped appearance on NBC’s Deal or No Deal. He’ll show up when army transport officer Captain Joseph Kobes plays for $1,000,000 which may pay for five gallons of gas by the time his show airs on Monday. An ABC report about this is stating that the president will be sending him good luck on the show. If the Captain gets the same good luck from Bush that we got the past few years, he’s screwed.
We’ve got two items of news about NBC’s Deal or No Deal for you today. First, let’s talk about the world tour which has the potential to be fantastic. They will be traveling, on May 5th, to Estonia, to play for $1,000,000. Next on May 7th will be the Philippines and finally on the 14th is South Africa. Yes, every one of those countries has a US looking set. I really think they missed a golden opportunity to go to France or Netherlands (British set is probably too small) and do one of the daytime editions, like what our syndicated format would be. I would have figured it would have been a nice way to test the water and see what people think of the new format.
In the category of news that basically everyone knows by now but I was really busy yesterday, Al Roker has been announced as the host of NBC’s primetime celebrity run of the hit syndicated game show Family Feud. The announcement was made on Monday’s Today show to make for some nice cross promotion there. John O’Hurley will still host the syndicated run.
NBC announced their Fall 2008 primetime schedule far in advance, as well as their Winter 2009 and Summer 2009. They are getting rid of a vast majority of their game shows and sticking with scripted which I suppose is good. I’m a gigantic 30 Rock fan so I’m glad to see it’s sticking around for a third season. However, we do have a casualty which was definitely a fan favorite. 1 VS 100 appears no where on any schedule which makes it either a last minute addition out of desperation or it’s canceled. It’s looking like the latter for now.
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