Old Shows still work :) - GSM

[Shredder]

[quote name=\'clemon79\' post=\'120859\' date=\'Jun 9 2006, 12:49 PM\']
[quote name=\'Shredder\' post=\'120855\' date=\'Jun 9 2006, 09:45 AM\']
I'm going to try and get a CBS/GameShow Marathon Rep on the phone and ask him some questions...
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I bet THAT will be an interesting phone call.
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Insert funny rebuke here......

anyone have one to insert?

[Shredder]

If it's one thing I hate, it's human spell checkers..I graduated Highschool in 97... I shouldn't have a teacher checking my work now.  Granted, I wouldn't pass HS if I went now...but that's a whole nother story

Reinstalled Firefox Spell Checker on reformated computer

[SRIV94]

[quote name=\'Shredder\' post=\'120873\' date=\'Jun 9 2006, 12:16 PM\']
Reinstalled Firefox Spell Checker on reformated computer
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And it still didn't work.  :-D

Doug -- and the countdown to 2000 continues

[Casey]

[quote name=\'Shredder\' post=\'120873\' date=\'Jun 9 2006, 12:16 PM\']
If it's one thing I hate, it's human spell checkers..I graduated Highschool in 97... I shouldn't have a teacher checking my work now.  Granted, I wouldn't pass HS if I went now...but that's a whole nother story
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See, the problem is... If you want to make a point, and you want people to take you seriously, expressing yourself with correct spelling goes a long way to achieving that.

[JohnHolder]

I enjoyed last night's PYL, too.

Unfortunately, I don't think there's room on any network's daytime schedule for a new game show.  CBS and ABC are both successful enough with their current lineups that they wouldn't cancel anything, NBC is down to two hours of network daytime (not counting the third hour of the Today show, which airs during what used to be local stations' time), and the others don't do any network daytime at all.  Anything that comes back would undoubtedly be in syndication (like Millionaire, FF, etc.)

Who owns the current rights to LMaD?  As far as I know, Hatos-Hall is out of business.  Dick Clark Productions did the 1990 version with Bob Hilton (and later Monty), but I don't know who did the (very) limited NBC prime-time run with Billy Bush a couple of years ago.  

I read somewhere, I think on this board, that "one" of these shows was being considered for a revival, and the appearance on GSM was essentially a test of it.  Which one?  Obviously it's not TPiR or FF, which are in production now, and the others have all had unsuccessful revivals within the last few years.  But it's been long enough since the Burger MG and the Bullard CS that maybe those would be candidates; FF was only off the air for three years between the Dawson and Combs versions, and four between Dawson's return season and Anderson's show.

And I'm unclear on this: if two celebrities will play in each of the remaining games, who will be the "families" in FF and the panelists in MG?  Thanks!

John

[aaron sica]

[quote name=\'JohnHolder\' post=\'120942\' date=\'Jun 9 2006, 10:01 PM\']
And I'm unclear on this: if two celebrities will play in each of the remaining games, who will be the "families" in FF and the panelists in MG?  Thanks!

John
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I'll answer your questions in order

For the "families" in FF, it will be the families of the two finalists and for the panelists in MG it's going to other celebrities...I remember seeing George Foreman on some of the promos...

[Steve Gavazzi]

[quote name=\'Shredder\' post=\'120873\' date=\'Jun 9 2006, 01:16 PM\']
If it's one thing I hate, it's human spell checkers..I graduated Highschool in 97... I shouldn't have a teacher checking my work now.[/quote]

Then don't do things that make you look like an idiot, such as misspelling both "college" and "high school" or saying that you're going to have a conversation with a network executive about changing the daytime lineup.

(And yes, I know you shouldn't start a sentence with a conjunction.  Shut uppa you face. :-)

[MikeK]

[quote name=\'aaron sica\' post=\'120945\' date=\'Jun 9 2006, 10:22 PM\']
[quote name=\'JohnHolder\' post=\'120942\' date=\'Jun 9 2006, 10:01 PM\']
And I'm unclear on this: if two celebrities will play in each of the remaining games, who will be the "families" in FF and the panelists in MG?  Thanks![/quote]
...and for the panelists in MG it's going to other celebrities...I remember seeing George Foreman on some of the promos...[/quote]
From a promo I saw a few days ago--George Foreman, Betty White, Bruce Vilanch, Adrienne Curry, Adam Carolla, and Kathy Griffin.

[JohnHolder]

[quote name=\'hmtriplecrown\' post=\'120947\' date=\'Jun 9 2006, 10:38 PM\']
[quote name=\'aaron sica\' post=\'120945\' date=\'Jun 9 2006, 10:22 PM\']
[quote name=\'JohnHolder\' post=\'120942\' date=\'Jun 9 2006, 10:01 PM\']
And I'm unclear on this: if two celebrities will play in each of the remaining games, who will be the "families" in FF and the panelists in MG?  Thanks![/quote]
...and for the panelists in MG it's going to other celebrities...I remember seeing George Foreman on some of the promos...[/quote]
From a promo I saw a few days ago--George Foreman, Betty White, Bruce Vilanch, Adrienne Curry, Adam Carolla, and Kathy Griffin.
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Aha.  That explains why I noticed George, Betty, Bruce and Adam in the studio audience.

John

[Shredder]

Then don't do things that make you look like an idiot, such as misspelling both "college" and "high school" or saying that you're going to have a conversation with a network executive about changing the daytime lineup.>>>

Most are typo's that I just don't care enough to catch, such as college.  And maybe I should have rephaaasssseed thaaati.

I wanted to talk to him/her about where they would put these shows, if any of them where revived, and SUGGEST that they be put in the morning lineup before Price .

[Dbacksfan12]

[quote name=\'Shredder\' post=\'120996\' date=\'Jun 10 2006, 06:46 PM\']
Most are typo's that I just don't care enough to catch, such as college.  And maybe I should have rephaaasssseed thaaati.
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Translation: You're lazy, and don't mind when people think you're a moron.

I wanted to talk to him/her about where they would put these shows, if any of them where revived, and SUGGEST that they be put in the morning lineup before Price .

What makes you think they'd even want to talk to you in the first place?

[clemon79]

[quote name=\'Shredder\' post=\'120996\' date=\'Jun 10 2006, 04:46 PM\']
Most are typo's that I just don't care enough to catch, such as college.  
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And, in an effort to be polite, I shall bring up the same point I always bring up when someone goes to this well:

If you don't care enough about your posts to make an effort to catch these mistakes, why should we care enough to read them?

Or do you care if we read them?

[J.R.]

How about we drop this Great Spelling Controversy? It's not that big of a deal.

That being said, I always go over my spelling with the Google Spellchecker before I post, it takes seconds to do.

-Joe R.

[clemon79]

[quote name=\'JRaygor\' post=\'121009\' date=\'Jun 10 2006, 06:25 PM\']
How about we drop this Great Spelling Controversy? It's not that big of a deal.
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I'd agree, until someone cops a 'tude about being called on it.

That being said, I always go over my spelling with the Google Spellchecker before I post, it takes seconds to do.

Proving the point all the more.

[uncamark]

Monty Hall Enterprises owns "LMAD" and licensed it out to Renegade (the people behind "Blind Date") for the brief prime time revival--and to Fremantle and Granada for "GSM."