Was it a huge shock to anyone that My Dad is Better Than Your Dad bombed?  I honestly think (and it’s probably true) that some major Hollywood players, like Mark Burnett, can pitch a show with the flimsiest and, to be honest, dumbest of concepts and get it picked up because that’s the person that’s making it.  This show just did absolutely nothing for me.  It was a stereotypical stunt show that seemed like a tamer version of American Gladiators with children thrown in.

I say it over and over: I really don’t like to complain about prizes, but seeing a show where people fight for $50,000 max after a show that gives away money like it’s nothing makes My Dad seem extremely cheap.  The Singing Bee could get away with it because it felt like a syndicated show that was placed in primetime television.  I don’t know where you’d throw My Dad is Better Than Your Dad, but it definitely felt completely wrong for a primetime show.

The show did nothing outright wrong, it just felt awkward to me.  The host, Dan Cortese, was annoying.  Just a regular talking head.  And not the good David Byrne type of Talking Head.  A good deal of the kids were annoying.  I think that word describes the show best: annoying.  I said the show was Double Dare taken too seriously and too far, and I was right on the money on that one.  Lighten it up, get a different host, put it on a channel like Nickelodeon or some other family oriented network and I think you could potentially, with work, have something.  It just felt completely wrong on primetime television.

And a good deal of America thought that too.  First off, Deal or No Deal had an unbelievably strong night with over 16 million viewers and a 10.0/16.  I tried dropping some hints before: executive producer Scott St. John said he’s not adding any more $1,000,000 cases after 13.  They didn’t say the mission was over.  Watch on Wednesday’s episode.  My Dad lost 48% of Deal’s audience; down to 5.3/8.  They should be happy that Hollywood is still recovering from the strike or it have been gone sooner than expected.  It still might be.