GSN Needs Contestants for New Game Show

19 Oct

Posted by Alex Davis as GSN, How Much is Enough?, New Show

(My spelling error to the right is fixed. I’m apparently drunk, sorry) With shows like Chain Reaction and Camouflage not looking like they are returning, GSN’s jumping back into the original bandwagon with a new show either called Nerve Center or How Much is Enough?. It’s called How Much Is Enough? on an email we were provided, so we’ll go with that for now. Though, to be honest, I much prefer Nerve Center. One of the biggest issues I’ve had with recent GSN shows is that they don’t follow the current trend in popular shows like Deal or No Deal. There’s something to be said that they’ve tried some decent brainy shows and different ideas, but you have to conform a tiny bit to get some of those viewers in. GSN’s finally doing that in this show which professes you need no knowledge or skill to win. I love quizzers like That’s The Question, but one Deal ripoff can get some viewers back. We still fully suggest Take It or Leave It, but this may do just fine. Here’s the posting.

The Game Show Network, and BBC Worldwide the Producers of “Dancing With the Stars”, and “Grease: You’re The One That I Want” bring the new game show How Much Is Enough.

Do you have what it takes to psych out the competition and walk away victorious? Do you know just the right time to push for more and when to play it safe? –

How Much Is Enough is the new game show that tests a contestant’s ability to determine how much is enough, and when do you keep pushing for more? Four contestants are placed against one another in a high stakes game if chicken. There is no trivia or skill involved at all!

The winner will go home with the cold hard cash!

To audition for How Much is Enough you must:

• Be over 18 yrs old
• Live in Southern California, or able to get to Los Angeles for an audition and taping day.
• Send your picture, brief bio and contact info to: Howmuchisenoughcasting@gmail.com
• If you have appeared on other game shows please do not submit

If chosen for an audition, casting will contact you directly to schedule an interview.

8 Responses

Xavier
1
October 19th, 2007 at 11:07 pm

So Lingo might not come back? But I am happy to hear that Camouflage might come back. It is a fun show that needed a little fixing to, but the show almost got it.
Darren
2
October 19th, 2007 at 11:21 pm

(Psst, Alex: The first time you have “Nerve Center” in this article, it came out “Never Center”, which is either the game where four contestants cling to a railing to avoid being drawn in by a gigantic electromagnet in the middle of the stage, or where they try to keep their chakras misaligned for as long as possible.)
Mike B.
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October 19th, 2007 at 11:43 pm

Xavier: I think Alex meant to say that CR and [i]Camouflage[/i] are [i]not[/i] (as opposed to “now”) likely to return.

I’m not crazy about the description, but maybe a high stakes/low skill game show is just what the doctor ordered as far as ratings go. Then again, ABC struck out trying to milk this formula three times, and one of those three shows bombed even worse when GSN reran it.
Scott Meckley
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October 20th, 2007 at 2:53 am

im only curious to find out what the top prize will be. I’m surprised that ABC didn’t try a week long event of any of the gameshows they’ve had not sure if any of them would have done well there but who knows. I can’t see the top prize being very high considering it’s GSN but maybe they will have it $100,000 like russian roulette.
David Howell
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October 20th, 2007 at 6:08 am

Another typo I’ve spotted: ‘need to knowledge or skill’ not ‘need no knowledge or skill’.

I guess the reason GSN haven’t done luck games is because they are more dependent upon big money. I’m intrigued to see what wrinkles distinguish this from DoND, and hope that this might be the start of a budget boost for GSN. I guess they got haunted by the spectacular ticker flashing ‘$5000′ :p

And TIOLI is two or three rule changes from greatness, but is pretty rubbish without them.
Marc Power
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October 20th, 2007 at 10:32 am

I dunno, I’m thinking if GSN goes to a more contemporary route they risk losing the hardcore fans which is most of their audience, remeber the switch to GSN with reality shows that near-killed the franchise. They can have one or two games like this but not too many.

As far as this game iotself, it sounds like a ripoff of the main game from pepsi’s play for a billion, which was boring mostly becuase they were only offering puny sums of money to quit (puny in comaprison to the $1B) and it became obvious after a while the second show, that no one would take the money (I never saw the first one with Drew Carey, I’m referring to the second one with Tom Bergeron).

If I were running GSN’s I’d buy a lower-staked version of PokerFace with a top prize of say $250,000. remember that PokerFace was turned down by ABC. becuase it seems ABC has a knack for making bad decisions (Set For Life, National Bingo Night, rejected Deal or No Deal) so if they rejected PokerFace, it’s gotta be a hit. lol
lobster
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October 22nd, 2007 at 5:20 am

heh its so funny to me when i see these new shows’ efforts in their calls for auditions.. using a gmail email address and saying stuff like “If you have appeared on other game shows please do not submit” .. really? so if you appeared on, say, Family Double Dare in 1988 you wouldn’t qualify? bah… marketing firms :p
Greg
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October 22nd, 2007 at 12:06 pm

Reminds me of “Play for a Billion”. The first one with Drew Carey basically had the same rules.