GSN Ramps Up “Lingo” Promotion with Two New Clips and Online Game
GSN’s Lingo, a revival of the network’s former top rated original show, begins Monday. The new version is hosted by Bill Engvall and stays true to the most part. New additions include clues to the word in the form of jokes and a new end game where answering five words correctly in 90 seconds for $100,000. With the show starting Monday at 8:00PM ET, GSN is going, for lack of a better phrase or joke, balls to the wall with promotions. We already shows off one clip of the show. GSN released two new clips showing off the way the clues and the new edgy humor of the show works. I’m really curious to see what you think of them.
Also, GSN released a new online game version of it, which seems just like a modified version of their old one. Not knocking it at all with that comparison. Click here to play it.
This show looks absolutely terrible. It doesn’t even look or feel like Lingo. Seems to focus so much on using words like “Bitch”, “Penis”, or “Balls” hoping that a younger audience will find it hilarious. News Flash: It’s not funny. Also with these clues, it seems like they always get the word in 3 or less tries. It really simply doesn’t look good, and I don’t think GSN’s audience will accept it. Viewers are used to laid-back Chuck & Shandi Lingo in the afternoons.
I am curious to see if the noon hour of Chuck’s Lingo will have better ratings than this new version. Also I hope 1 vs 100 does good in the afternoons so it can possibly get renewed.
I am quite surprised that the producers were able to get away with that word on the actual show. You know that they woulden’t do it if Chuck was still hosting. But I will be definatley watching this season.
Yep, clues pretty much ruin the whole game.
It’s a bit awkward and uncomfortable seeing a swear word like that as a Lingo puzzle on what was once a family-oriented game show. Coming from a family who doesn’t use profanity, I usually prefer tv networks censoring out the swear words with “bleep” sound effects.
Also, it took me a while to figure out what “Beers” had to do with making ladies appear more attractive, until I realized it. I don’t drink alcohol, so I don’t know these things.
As I said before, I’ll watch it, but it doesn’t seem like the audience in the studio is laughing that loudly – more like forced humor if anything else. Plus, I wasn’t laughing either at these two clips, so I’m not sure how it’ll play out when I start watching it on Monday.
And as I mentioned, I hope there’s some sort of low-key background music while the contestants are guessing the words, because yet again, I didn’t hear any in these clips. And it seems very dry to watch without that music.
I’m going to hazard a guess that there are either zero women on the writing staff, or zero women in the promo department.
THe online game isn’t the Lingo PLus game they had in 2007, which had two players competing against each other through fifteen words.
I played the online game and it’s really hard. It has the same theme music from the old Lingo. Hopefully it will be good. Monday night at 8pm! I still really wish it would be on at an earlier time.
Even with all the clips I had seen before, I was still holding out hope for this new version of Lingo. That first clip effectively killed off any hope I had. That crap would’ve NEVER flown on Chuck’s version.
Edginess and profanity works on Baggage. It is horribly out-of-place on Lingo. This looks to be yet another game show remake that’s lousy. L-O-U-S-Y.
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Do. Not. Like.
I usually give new game show about two or three weeks to decide whether I like them or not. By then, things have started to settle down. All the horrendous mistake have been corrected, and the show starts to find its groove. I have no such confidence in this show, and I’m tempted to save myself the irritation by simply not partaking, because I don’t see the same show that lasted for six years because of its solid premise and unpredictable game play. I see something I’d expect from Spike, frankly, sandwiched between Blue Mountain State and 1000 Ways to Die.
LINGO is a family show. This is not a family show. This is not LINGO.
Another in a long line of bizarre decisions by GSN. I don’t mind all the swearing and innuendo, but I’m pretty sure I’m not representative of their main audience. Regardless of whether I end up liking it or not, I’m hoping that it will be successful enough to spark a series of revivals of GSN’s other shows of the time (specifically Russian Roulette, of course).
While it is a noble thought, I’m not sure if GSN reviving their older shows would be a good thing at this time.
Would I like to see Russian Roulette return? Yep.
Would I like to see Russian Roulette return with a wonky format and sexual references crammed into the questions? Not particularly.
I’m literally left speechless by this. This already looks like the Card Sharks 2001 moment for this show…
I concur with the previous posts. This show isn’t family oriented anymore. I don’t see how they’ll ever be able to show these clips in the afternoon a year or two from now. Therefore, the longevity of this show could be in trouble.
Potty humor has a time and a place…but, this isn’t it.
In my opinion, revamping Lingo sounded like a good idea at first. But, if all they’re gonna do is go for the quick dirty joke, it’s a lost cause.
Neither the contestants nor the audience are doing anything more than a forced laugh at Bill’s jokes. Not surprising, frankly.
That’s exactly what I noticed. If I was the only person not laughing at the jokes, then I’d most likely be the odd one out. But if you listen carefully to the clips, even the members in the audience aren’t really laughing. It kind of reminds me of a bad joke and then seeing a “Laugh” sign light up in front of the audience, forcing them to laugh even though it’s not funny.
I didn’t even think “baulk” was a real word. But I looked it up. It’s an alternate spelling of “balk”, which means “to stop short, esp. suddenly or unexpectedly.”
I know people will agree with me with this to say… I love the Chuck Woolery version better.
I only have one thing to say to GSN about this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wjLgekyOZA0#t=0m46
The show is both incredibly not funny and impossible to win. The 90 seconds for five word for $100,000 is virtually impossible to attain. The producers have no reason to be concerned about their budget. They dont give anything away. I give it two months tops. Great move GSN. Get Engvall back on the stage telling jokes where he belongs.
I like chucks version better too. the clues make it more like scrabble but guessing five letter words. I wish they would have just renewed Chuck’s version and let it gone to a 7th season, 8th season, 9th season. Although I would rather watch this than Love Triangle I hate that show.