24Jul2010
Holy Crap of the Week: Team Plays For $500,000 on “Minute to Win It”
know I said I wouldn't write about Minute to Win It, but when something like this happens it's just wrong to ignore it. I've got issues with things regarding the show, but they've got an addicting game once they stick to it. It had, without a doubt, its most exciting moment this past Wednesday and one of the more exciting moments of the year. In a couples edition, Kim Fox and Aaron Hedrick breezed past essentially the entire game, winning $250,000 without using a single life. They went further than any other regular contestant has before. They played an extremely hard game for $500,000 called Extreme Nutstacker and burned two lives during it. With one chance left, it came down to the buzzer. Check out if they won it after the break.
Read MoreView Comments (13)02Jun2010
“Price is Right” Gets New Pricing Game: Rat Race
The Price is Right is adding yet another pricing game to its large library of them. This one's interesting because it not only is the first game in a long time but it's the first game apparently made in some part by host Drew Carey. The new game is called Rat Race, and it looks to be incredibly entertaining. It's also for a car, along with two other prizes.
Read MoreView Comments (25)27May2010
Night Four of “Million Pound Drop” Tonight; Recap of Night Three
Last night's episode of The Million Pound Drop proved to be, easily, the most exciting and memorable game show moment of the year. The first team of the night, Will and Gemma, was the first group to reach the final question with a massive £525,000 remaining. The final question only has two choices and one of the Drop Zones must be left open, making it a 50/50 shot.
Read MoreView Comments (4)26May2010
Night Three of “The Million Pound Drop” Play Along Live Anywhere in the World
The Million Pound Drop, 4's new quiz show, has been pulling respectable numbers so far in its 10:00PM slot on Monday or Tuesday. Last night's episode showed massive improvement. The pace of the show increased, it wasn't so dragged out, contestants worked better, the audience finally got some energy and cheered people on...it was just all-around better.
Read MoreView Comments (3)15May2010
“Price is Right” Crowns Second Double Showcase Winner of Season
Just about the best you can do on The Price is Right is come within $250 of the actual retail price of your Showcase without going over. Doing that makes you a Double Showcase Winner and you win both showcases, and these days that tends to total well over the $40,000 to $50,000 range. We've only had one so far, and that was on the St. Patrick's Day season.
Read MoreView Comments (8)10May2010
“Minute to Win It”: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly
If you read this site you're well aware that I was a bit hard on Minute to Win It at first because it was so unrelentingly a clone of the ITV game show The Cube. It hasn't stopped me from watching occasionally, though; and the more I watch the more the show seems to be trying to distance itself from The Cube and become it's own product.
Read MoreView Comments (15)08May2010
Michael McKean Wins “Jeopardy!” Million Dollar Celebrity Invitational Tournament
Today was the final day of Jeopardy!'s special Million Dollar Celebrity Invitational tournament. The championship games, played over Thursday and Friday, were between three comedy actors: Cheech Marin, Jane Curtin, and Michael McKean. Incidentally they crushed all the CNN anchors. But I digress.
Read MoreView Comments (11)07May2010
Intense Mother’s Day Edition of “The Price is Right”
Today, The Price is Right had a special Mother's Day edition. It was another of their popular couple's shows, where mothers and the children played together. The show typically puts out their best and most exciting episodes during these specials, and today was no exception. In particular, the game Cover Up was a nail biter.
Read MoreView Comments (20)21Apr2010
“Price is Right” Offers Vintage Bentley
Without a doubt some of the coolest, if not the coolest, prizes that The Price is Right has offered since Drew Carey took over are the vintage cars. We got another one offered today, and this may be the most impressive of them all thus far. In the game Hole in One, a vintage 1964 Bentley was offered to a lucky contestant. You can't get much cooler than that on the show. Beyond the excitement for the prize, it was far and away one of the most exciting moments the show has had since the now infamous Double Overbid for a Porsche. Take a look below. Keep up these kind of cool prizes. They are great and get a fantastic reaction. Tomorrow is another cool car day as well for the Earth Day special. Edit: Fixed the name of the car.
Read MoreView Comments (22)19Apr2010
“Price is Right” and “Let’s Make A Deal” Host Giant Earth Day Specials
We've teased it a lot on Facebook and Twitter, but we'll finally let you know more. CBS has announced the annual The Price is Right Earth Day special on Thursday, April 22nd. Its companion show Let's Make A Deal is getting in on the act as well. This year, Price will probably have its most exciting episode of the season on Earth Day. The show will be giving away eco-friendly items like cell phones and wallets from recycled materials, wind turbines, and more like that. The biggest part of the show will come in the first game. Price will give away its most expensive prize ever offered. It's a car that has a value of more than $100,000. One contestant will be playing for this car: a Tesla Electric Roadster. When I was first told
Read MoreView Comments (26)01Apr2010
April Fools “Jeopardy!”, “Wheel”, “Price”, Or Why Can’t Games Be Fun?
Lots of game shows today had an April Fool's Day special. We've got a recap of some, and more will be flowing in as time progresses and video becomes available, along with more information. First off is, of course, The Price is Right. They somehow topped last year's special and made an unbelievably great, funny, and enjoyable special. It was one of the best episodes of the season for sure. Take a look below. The highlights of the Price episode were the opening and the Showcases. Kudos to Drew, Rich, Mike, and the rest of the crew.
Read MoreView Comments (77)17Mar2010
“Price is Right” Gives Away First Double Showcase of the Season
It's always exciting to see someone come within the $250 range in the showcases on The Price is Right, winning them both. It hasn't happened yet, and frankly despite the complaints it should be really hard to win. They're giving away a ton of cash and prizes with that. You don't want to see it go away too often. You want to build anticipation. The months of anticipation and several extremely close overbids (one yesterday) finally came to a close. Contestant Kendra Cross, a Marine from Dallas, was the first person this season to win the lot. She won cash, a Mini Cooper Convertible, a few trips including one to Ireland for the St. Patrick's Day special, and more. It's great to see these rare giant wins on the show. Enjoy
Read MoreView Comments (20)10Nov2009
“Millionaire”’s Tournament of Ten Day Two: Tony Westmoreland
We'll be covering the Tournament of Ten on Millionaire each day far after it's finished airing and when ABC gives us the clear. Just be warned that further down we will reveal spoilers about if a contestant gets a right answer. We will not reveal who wins the million because, frankly, I don't even know. The first edition of Who Wants to be a Millionaire's Tournament of Ten has completed. Contestant Alex Ortiz from Stamford Connecticut faced this question to be in the running for $1,000,000: “Which First Lady was a ninth-generation descendant of Pocahontas? A: Helen Taft, B: Edith Wilson, C: Bess Truman, D: Mamie Eisenhower.” Alex did not want to risk her previous show's winnings of $50,000 and potentially drop to $25,000 with
Read MoreView Comments (13)12Oct2009
Jehan Shamsid-Deen Leaves “Millionaire” with $250,000 in Most Exciting Finish in Years
I don't think it's a big surprise to anyone (nor is it bad to admit it) that the daytime Who Wants to be a Millionaire hasn't had a lot of really exciting moments in the past two or three years. We had a few big thrills in primetime but nothing has really created an incredibly tense exciting atmosphere in a very long time, which is a huge reason why the show is a success. Thankfully today's carryover contestant, Jehan Shamsid-Deen, changed that. Jehan started the show with $250,000 and no lifelines going for $500,000. Her question was: The only woman ever to be awarded the Medal of Honor received it for her service in what war? A: Iraq War B: Vietnam War C: World War I D: U.S. Civil War I won't put the video on
Read MoreView Comments (14)22Sep2009
Nobel Prize Winner George Smoot Wins “5th Grader”. Way to Go?
On Friday's series finale of Are You Smarter Than a Fifth Grader, George Smoot became the second person to win the million dollar top prize, and the first man to do so. So congratulations for knowing more than a ten year old. Of course all of this is taken down so many notches after you remember he's a Nobel Prize winner. He helped with the big bang theory. Not the show, the actual thing. And people are amazed and want me to throw tons of praise his way? Give me a break? I mean be honest: was anyone stunned he won? If he didn't get to the 10th question and $500,000 it would have been an embarrassment. If he didn't answer the million dollar question correctly it would have sucked a bit. The only tough decision he had was if he
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