NBC has released the information for pretty much everything airing in February, including Deal or No Deal and 1 vs. 100. Here’s what’s you’ll see next month.
(All Lucky Case Games are $20k and all “You vs. 100″ games are $10k)
2/2 - 1VC: Mob has 100 kids, including a Jeopardy champion.
2/5 - DoND: Magic Johnson comes on the show, and HE gets surprised. Then, a $2 million game with the Italian host making a satellite appearance.
2/7 - DoND: Howie stops by a house to inform a single mom that she’s coming on the show. She’s also playing for $2 million.
2/9 - 1VC: LAST MAN STANDING!! Mob includes Annie Duke, Ken Jennings, Brad Rutter, and Nancy Christy and Kevin Olmstead (WWTBAM winners).
2/12 - DoND: A “red, white, and blue surprise,” Bobby from Bobby’s World makes an appearance, and the models dress in red for “Go Red For Women”.
2/14 - DoND: A shoe lover and what looks to be another “contestant straight from the audience.”
2/16 - 1VC: Nothing real special here. The mob includes IRS auditors and DMV employees.
2/18 - DoND: I’m surprised this Sunday episode isn’t instead airing the day after the Super Bowl. A Chi-town guy meets Dick Butkus (Bears) and Scottie Pippen (Bulls).
2/19 - DoND: A self-proclaimed “Korean Cowboy” tries to lasso $1 million.
2/21 - DoND: A Chicago woman with a really long last name and a South Carolina math teacher play for $1 million.
2/23 - 1VC: In the mob this time are Playboy Playmates and Dr. Ruth. Seems like a bad combination from the start.
2/26 - DoND: NY Yankees manager Joe Torre helps a fan out with his game.
2/28 - DoND: The Yankees fan returns, but this time, Jason Giambi joins the dugout.
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The child Jeopardy! champ on 1 vs. 100 this week is Maddie Suchard, who is no stranger to Game Show Congress attendees. She beat Burns Cameron in Jeopardy! in 2005 (good wagering on her part, bad on Burns’) and then won over $20K on Jeopardy! later that year during a “back to school” week.
Why couldn’t they have picked someone from the audience when I was at Deal? I could create a sob story in about 3 mins. :-P
I don’t know, seems like to me, DonD seems to be going down the “Extreme Makeover: Home Edition” road. If you don’t recall, that show did not start out as a “tearjerker story of the week” type of show, they were actually just fixing up homes of “average” people. Now they seemly try to one up themselves every week with sad sad stories.
I guess since the show is purely luck, it kind of makes sense, after awhile, you’ve seen all the permutations of the game, the people playing and their stories have to be the catalyst.
I’m guessing 1vs100 might inch down the same road. Yes it’s trivia, but, dangit, I’ve seen 3-4 episodes and I can’t think of more than 1-2 questions that I would have needed to go to the Mob for help with.
I’d prefer that they stop with this tearjerking crap. Save that garbage for Lifetime, this is a game show for god sakes. If they keep going down that road for their contestants, then I won’t even bother to try out if they ever return to New York for contestant searches…
Then again, I could portray myself as the modern-day Rocky Balboa…a potential boxer down on his luck wanting to win some money to start a career
Last Man Standing on 1 vs 100 is going to be awsome. Now this is the kind of special episode that we can all get into. A show that will focus on the abilities of the players, and only the BEST will win!
I kinda thought they would have little Bobby show up sometime. (And, okay…part of me thinks it could be cute…don’t hurt me.)
The other DoND themes….eh.
Last Man Standing on 1 vs 100 seems like a great idea though. I am looking forward to that.
DoND should forget all the special shows they do and concentrate on finding contestants that don’t irritate the crap out of me (NASCAR lady and the Spanker come immediately to mind…though the Spanker WAS very cute!)
Deal needs to ease up on the contestants. Although from watching the latest episodes, it seems that they want over the top contestants. Like myke25 said, NASCAR lady, the spanker chick and from last night, the homecoming king.
That gives me an idea to do my audition tape when I am drunk because I am a happy drunk and laugh all the time and all that good stuff.
I just hope 1vC doesn’t start to do that crap. Otherwise, the boring people are gonna be in the mob permanetly.
What’s the deal with sweeps? Why can’t they base the advertising spend on TV ratings the whole year round?
It’s a ridiculous system.
I am really curious to see how the “last man standing” ep of 1 vs 100 goes. Seems like that might actually be a more compelling game show format than the way it is now. It’s too bad Identity won’t be making a comeback during sweeps…
Last Man Standing will be fascinating. As for the other sweeps stunts, oh dear. And by $2m, you know they mean Double or Nothing, so treat those as $1m games.
Though thinking about it more carefully, surely every single Mobster is contravening the one-year rule by appearing in the Mob for the second time in a few months?
Deal’s producers: If you’re an average everyday person who just lives a regular life day-to-day, don’t even bother applying to be on our show.
The sad thing is, not only does it become difficult for me to root for these “characters”, but the other primetime shows are following this trend of casting contestants. I guess when there’s no real skills necessary (other than being able to count to 26), it doesn’t matter too much…
Thought tonight’s 1vsC was a good show. Raul Torres is a regular type guy. My hubby and I met him in line at the second cast call for last November. He racked up the $$$ on the show, but the mob prevailed! Anyway, maybe there’s hope for my hubby to get into the mob. Raul was a character. At least he got the ham sandwich the casting guy promised him…or did he?