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zachhoran:
Convy would probably have been a better host than Shafer was for MG90, but given the cooling in popularity of game shows around that time(all nine of the 1990-91 network and syndie season debuts died in a year or less), I doubt it would have lasted much longer with the Convy format. ABC did not premiere a game show lasting more than a year between Feud in 1976 and Millionaire in 1999.

ITSBRY:
Having recently seen the Convy pilot, all I have to say is wow!  He really would have been great.  It was somewhat surreal seeing Bert in this setting, but he did a fine job.  If Gene couldn't host, Convy was the next best thing.  His experience interacting with celebs made him really good with a format like MG...and I believe two or three pilots were made.  I'm pretty sure Bert made two.  The one I saw was the three round all celebs playing format with points awarded for matches.  It did seem to drag a little bit, but otherwise was a really well done pilot.  The set was pretty much identical to the Schaffer set, but one cool thing that didn't make it past the pilot was the \"flippy\" box thing that the celeb faces were shown in during the opening.  This was a real live rotating circle with red neon strips around the edges...just an update of the 70s device.  Really cool homage to MG 7X and it looked much less cheesey than that face scramble thing they used in the actual series.

I never thought Schaffer or what eventually became MG90 was bad at all, but it didn't compare to having a master like GR or BC at the helm.  Am I the only one in the world who LIKED match up?

ITSBRY
itsbry@juno.com

BrandonFG:
[quote name=\'ITSBRY\' date=\'Jun 18 2003, 11:36 PM\'] I never thought Schaffer or what eventually became MG90 was bad at all, but it didn't compare to having a master like GR or BC at the helm.  Am I the only one in the world who LIKED match up?

 [/quote]
 I thought it was cool, made for a decent time-killer. But someone made a good point about it at ATGS last year: You could go with the top choice the whole :30/:45 seconds, and still make with a decent score.

JMFabiano:
[quote name=\'ITSBRY\' date=\'Jun 18 2003, 11:36 PM\'] Having recently seen the Convy pilot, all I have to say is wow!  He really would have been great. [/quote]
 Wow indeed!  So, the Convy pilot is on the trade circuit?  

BTW, unspectacular as it is, this is my first post on the board.  Glad to be here!

J.

PeterMarshallFan:
[quote name=\'ITSBRY\' date=\'Jun 18 2003, 11:36 PM\'] This was a real live rotating circle with red neon strips around the edges...just an update of the 70s device.  Really cool homage to MG 7X and it looked much less cheesey than that face scramble thing they used in the actual series.

 [/quote]
 I guess it was simliar to the circle shown in the closing credits?



Damn....I wish GSN would air some more pilots.

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