Comments on: NBC Picks Up “Child’s Play”

By: SuperMatch2007

SuperMatch2007 — Tue, 19 Dec 2006 21:37:01 +0000

High Rollers would sound really good. After the trinwreck of 2001, i think we won’t see a Card Sharks revival. Sale will be revived, ut iwill be on NotMyNetworkTV. I think H2 lost its momentum after it has gone off air in 2004. Also, Iwould like NBC (or anyo ther of the three major broadcast networks to revive:

Blockbusters
Bullseye
Tic Tac Dough
Russian Roulette
Now You See It
Scrabble

It will be intersting to see the fate of Child’s play in the future.

By: Scott Meckley

Scott Meckley — Sat, 28 Oct 2006 01:10:22 +0000

it was an alright show although I think that if NBC wants to revive a show how about any of these shows

Jackpot
High Rollers
Hollywood Squares
Concentration
Sale Of The Century
Super Password (maybe call it Extreme Password)
Card Sharks
Hot Potato

By: Alex Davis

Alex Davis — Thu, 26 Oct 2006 23:33:36 +0000

Whoops, I didn’t mean to leave that in there. That’s before I rewrote the article a bit after remembering the entire Craigslist thing, my mistake. And just because I write about game shows doesn’t mean I have to like them all. NBC is going really overboard, and if Child’s Play is a success, I will be 100% shocked. NBC needs a mix, and they seem to go for any game show available now. A movie critic doesn’t have to like every movie. I don’t have to like every show, and from what I’ve seen of the original version of Child’s Play, it looks like it blows.

By: Scott

Scott — Thu, 26 Oct 2006 23:32:19 +0000

What do you think the chances are that NBC is looking to bring Game Shows back to daytime with all these shows in the works?

Just a thought..:-)

By: Mark

Mark — Thu, 26 Oct 2006 23:25:44 +0000

True; it has a fine-text tag of “rumor control”, but why is it then that you say “Click it if you want **proof** that it’s going to NBC as well”?

By: Nick

Nick — Thu, 26 Oct 2006 23:24:06 +0000

“Hence why it is under rumor control.”

Even though you’re speculating on how it will be taped. For a blog about game shows, you sure do like to piss and moan about the amount of them that could be on the landscape.

By: Alex Davis

Alex Davis — Thu, 26 Oct 2006 20:06:50 +0000

Hence why it is under rumor control.

By: Matt Scott

Matt Scott — Thu, 26 Oct 2006 19:05:49 +0000

I’ve posted here before, saying that you can’t trust Craigslist to be right when a show casting lists a network affiliation. UNLESS you have NBC saying ‘We’ve Bought Childs Play’, don’t trust an overzealous contestant coordinator/booker who’s posting a free ad.

By: Mark

Mark — Thu, 26 Oct 2006 18:58:11 +0000

Did you catch an episode of Heist, Kidnapped, Joey, Friday Night Lights, or The Law Firm? Going for a bunch of game shows surely isn’t going to hurt the quality of their programming…

By: James

James — Thu, 26 Oct 2006 17:35:54 +0000

Keep in mind that NBC is looking for programming this summer. The only fresh programming they have for Summer 2007 is *Last Comic Standing 5*.

*Treasure Hunters* and *Windfall* aren’t coming back, and *America’s Got Talent* has been “promoted”, so to say. So you have at least three spots open for slots on the summer schedule.

The *Grease* reality show will likely get one of the slots, unless NBC gives it a spring run. The Peacock also announced a “real-life” *Wedding Crashers* series with Ashton Kutcher a while back, but I haven’t heard a thing about it in some time. Nevertheless, that may also get a summer slot.

You’re now left with at least 1 slot for the summer. Perhaps NBC will experiment with a night of game shows?