“Show Me the Money” Sinks Below Expectations

16 Nov

Posted by Alex Davis as ABC, Ratings

Two things:
1- It gives me great personal joy to report this
2- The ratings are inflated because of “Dancing With the Stars”

The “Sneak Preview” (AKA the series premiere) of “Show Me the Money” achieved an overall score of 8.3/13, over 50% less than “Dancing With the Stars”. The first half hour saw a 10.2/15. This high of a rating is most likely because of “Dancing With the Stars” rating of 18.0/26. Reminds you of “Unanimous”, doesn’t it. (I try to forget it so much).

The 10PM-11PM hour sunk even more to a 7.3/12, and I cannot wait to see how this does on Wednesday now. I can firmly say that I gave the show a shot, and while I appreciate them making the questions tougher at the end, they still completely butchered this format and I will not be tuning in ever again to this. Nice try guys, but if you want a trivia game, bring back “Millionaire”. If you want a luck game, at least try something semi-original. Don’t do a halfassed combination.

12 Responses

Donald
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November 16th, 2006 at 5:26 pm

Speaking of making new original games… I put this off for like a year and want to try to get it up and running again. Alex, or anyone else who does the blogging replies and such, could someone give some advice and/or tips on how to present a new game show idea? I’ve had this game show idea for 4 years now and I beleive I am ready to present it, but I don’t want to do it halfass or getting screwed by someone and steal my idea.

So any advice from anyone would be great. Reply on here or email me on my myspace. You can link to it by clicking on my name.
Alex Davis
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November 16th, 2006 at 6:13 pm

Advice would be to get “ins” with anyone you can, keep finetuning it, esting it out, get agents, and more. Really, I don’t know much more you can do. Just don’t get discouraged and don’t give up. People will try. Feel free to email me if you want to talk more.
Scott Meckley
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November 16th, 2006 at 6:40 pm

Im in the same boat as you donald I have ideas for game shows as a matter of fact I have 7 gameshow ideas that i would love to see on bascially either NBC, CBS or ABC. I dont want to put a gameshow on Fox because of the cancellations of Greed, It’s Your Chance Of a lifetime and The Rich List all three gameshows that i enjoyed. IF you have an idea for a gameshow Donald do what Im going to do get them copyrigyhted. if you have an agent I also heard that going to the game show congress and pitch your idea. i havent watched Show Me The Money yet so i can’t really critique it but am going to try and watch it next Wed to see if i would like it. It will be interesting for me to see if i will like it because its got William Shatner who i watched on Star Trek growing up. Shatner isnt the only reason i wanna watch this though. the million dollar dancers too would be another factor in why im going to try and watch this. If I like this and alot of other people like this show too then i hope they do what deal or no deal did and make a dvd game of this but that only if lots of people watch this which Im not sure that it will happen with american idol coming up soon.
Nick
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November 17th, 2006 at 6:38 am

It gives you “great personal joy” to report bad ratings for a show? For someone who supposedly has an “in” on the game show world, you’re acting like an asshat.

Point in case: If Game Show Marathon did worse than it did ratings-wise, would you call that the “end of the world?”

Every time you go drama queen on a post, an ounce of credibility of both your page and FlashGameshows goes out the window.
Brian Moore
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November 17th, 2006 at 11:40 am

Well Alex, I highly have doubts about Millionaire ever coming back to ABC primetime. But in the words of comedian Bill Engvall “hang on to that dream”. The alphabet net should have also went for PokerFace those chickens.
Wheelloon
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November 17th, 2006 at 12:31 pm

While the ratings posted a significant drop in its 2nd half hour, a 7.3 in its 2nd half, with an 8.3 average, is not too shabby. Hell, you know how the “Rich List,” did, and it got swiped (yes, I know what its competition was). Check the most recent ratings info on Deal or No Deal, 9.1 on 11/6, and you’ll see, an 8.3 average, on a show’s first night, is not bad in the least. It was just a “sneak preview,” supposedly, anyway.

I’ll reserve my final opinion on the show, itself, when I see it in its entirety next week. I’m pretty sure it’ll be back for at least 1 more episode, if not more. Ratings like SMtM’s first night do not constitute a failure in anyway. Your bias was getting in the way of your reporting Alex…
Alex Davis
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November 17th, 2006 at 2:22 pm

The site is a blog. It’s a news site, yes. It’s also a blog. Read most blogs. They are biased.
Alex Davis
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November 17th, 2006 at 2:39 pm

Now that I have time to write more. this is a blog. A blog generally has opinions. Therefore, expect opinions on this page. I personally think SMTM is an absolutely awful show, and if it tanks, it will not bug me whatsoever. I don’t ever expect Millionaire back in primetime, but they are attempting a Millionaire like difficulty scale with a paychain that is absolutely insane, and it will not work. Wednesday will be the judge. If it’s a success, I will gladly place foot in mouth. In due time, I will firmly stand by SMTM followed Dancing With the Stars and swallowed up their crowd. I never called anything the end of the world. I personally think GSM sucked if you ask me. Yes, I have an in. I’m allowed to dislike shows believe it or not. I’m trying to be nice about this, but people need to remember the site is BuzzerBLOG.com. I’m laying off the opinions for a bit for damage control, but they will stay like it or not.
Wheelloon
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November 17th, 2006 at 2:52 pm

Speaking for myself, and ONLY myself, I’m not saying that I have a problem with you posting your opinions on here. I know that bloggers have opinions, LOL, it’s the internet, and on the internet, where freedom of speech is rule one, ALL have their opinions, and will usually express them. That’s part of the system, take it or leave it. Honestly, I’ve actually agreed with most of the opinions you’ve posted on here.

The only point I was trying to make was, considering how much I’ve seen fellow GS fans have bashed the show’s execution, making it sound like the show shouldn’t have supposedly “graced” our TV sets at all, the show did do alright, ratings-wise, for its initial outing. It was not the bomb that it was made out to be. It’s numbers were just less than 1 point off of Deal or No Deal’s, which most TV fans still consider a “big hit.” Wednesday’s numbers WILL be the telltale sign of the show’s fate, there is no doubt, but the show’s falling off the deep end is not assured, yet…
Alex Davis
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November 17th, 2006 at 4:47 pm

OK, I completly understand and agree. I will be sure to watch that. Again, I think it was my like for the foreign versions that got me mad that we took the cheap way out. I gave it a shot, and I’ll give it a shot on Wednesday too. Thank you for understanding, and I apologize for my remarks.
Jack
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November 18th, 2006 at 10:26 am

I believe you said that Network people read this site. If you automacially bash a show before seeing an actual full episode, how are they supposed to take you seriously?

A few weeks ago, you allowed us to make suggestion for Chain Reaction and published the suggestions on the site for Network people to read. In the suggestions someone wrote get rid of CR and bring back IGAS. Clearly Network people are not gonna take you seriously.
Alex Davis
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November 18th, 2006 at 10:55 am

And if you think I submitted that to people, you need to get a bit wiser. While GSN checks the site, they don’t read gigantic posts such as that. And they have a sense of humor also. Now on to SMTM. I bashed the show after seeing what is the show: answering a question and picking a random scroll. I took back what I said about easy questions, and that is it. The show is awful, and I officially declared that after I saw it. Network people take criticism all the time. I had a screener copy of the show. Press gets screener copies. It was of one of the games. I saw the game, I knew how it was going to go. I didn’t like it. I don’t need lectured, because I can openly say something is bad and still keep a nice relationship with people. It’s called working in entertainment. I’m trying to be nice about this, but I’m being attacked now for no reason whatsoever. I saw the game. I didn’t like it. I agreed that I got a bit carried away with my statements before. I’m giving the show another shot on Wednesday, and who knows, maybe it’ll improve. If it does and the ratings are big, I gladly place foot in mouth, as I said before. Until then, the show is boring, slow, flawed, with too much needless stuff. I’m not saying other stuff is better, because 1vs100 is incredibly flawed, but it’s something we don’t have: a straight trivia game. The Rich List was boring, slow, and the bonus was screwed up. DoND gets screwed around with too much. SMTM is just, in my mind, the worst of the show, and if ABC or anyone called me up, I’d gladly tell them and they would accept it. It’s show business.

By the way, Best Week Ever made fun of SMTM, as did The Soup. I guarantee all the episodes will be aired. It doesn’t change my opinion that the show sucks, and if ABC doesn’t agree, that’s a shame. If everyone agreed on everything, we’d have no progress.