New game shows coming...?

[rialtus]

TVWeek is reporting that MyNetwork is looking to reduce the telenovelas and, perhaps, increase the game shows. Name-checked are "My Games Fever," "Catch Phrase," "Connections" and "Temptations".

[itiparanoid13]

So every single show that was mentioned for syndication, with the exception of the Playmania clone, is a target for MyNetwork?  Just stunning.  If Temptations is the same as Temptation, this might not be good.

[tvwxman]

[quote name=\'itiparanoid13\' post=\'140648\' date=\'Dec 15 2006, 04:47 PM\']
So every single show that was mentioned for syndication, with the exception of the Playmania clone, is a target for MyNetwork?  Just stunning.  If Temptations is the same as Temptation, this might not be good.
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I disagree...I think an 8PM Nightly outlet for a game show that rewards contestants for succeeding over a period of nights is exactly what MyNetwork could use. Ratings wise, it would almost certainly garner more interest than the campy soaps they've got now.

A nightly milliondollar giveawaymoneytobraindeadcontestantswhoarechosenfortheirstereotypicalqualitieslikeoneveryotherendemolshow would not work 5 nights a week. But who wants to bet that Fox thinks otherwise?

[BrandonFG]

Interesting ideas...I wonder how feasible THIS would be for daytime slots? Two hours of programming either in the mornings or early-afternoons.

It's not like they can do any worse than what they have with their soaps, oh excuse me, telenovelas.

[aaron sica]

[quote name=\'tvwxman\' post=\'140650\' date=\'Dec 15 2006, 04:55 PM\']
A nightly milliondollar giveawaymoneytobraindeadcontestantswhoarechosenfortheirstereotypicalqualitieslikeoneveryotherendemols
[/quote]

Be prepared for a reply from Iris Mason as you're now speaking his/her/its language.

[uncamark]

[quote name=\'itiparanoid13\' post=\'140648\' date=\'Dec 15 2006, 03:47 PM\']
So every single show that was mentioned for syndication, with the exception of the Playmania clone, is a target for MyNetwork?  Just stunning.  If Temptations is the same as Temptation, this might not be good.
[/quote]

Most likely, TVWeek screwed up the title.  It probably is "Temptation," especially if Fremantle's the packager.

[itiparanoid13]

Oh you never know.  I've heard things about the show.  I know they are changing the Aussie gameplay a tiny bit, adding a bonus round (as far as the pilot went) and went for a completely new graphics package, so they very well may have changed the name to Temptations.  But who knows.  I'm actually more shocked MyNetwork isn't going for the proposed revival of Match Game.

[BrandonFG]

Another thought just hit me. Would it be feasible (economically or just by principle) for MNTV to drop the efforts to be the 6th network, and become a syndication entity through FOX? Considering their "lineup" is the same two shows, six days a week, I can see why they're not getting ratings or making money. At least if you vary the programming, maybe even expand to daytime, you can possibly capture a bigger audience.

/Primetime soaps are soooooo 1984!

[NickS]

[quote name=\'itiparanoid13\' post=\'140658\' date=\'Dec 15 2006, 04:08 PM\']
Oh you never know.  I've heard things about the show.  I know they are changing the Aussie gameplay a tiny bit, adding a bonus round (as far as the pilot went) and went for a completely new graphics package, so they very well may have changed the name to Temptations.  But who knows.  I'm actually more shocked MyNetwork isn't going for the proposed revival of Match Game.
[/quote]

Out of curiosity, could you (and anyone else that does this) stop gloom and dooming a show before it's come out?

Nitpick a show once you've seen it -- and save the fear of the unknown for something else.

[DrBear]

[quote name=\'tvwxman\' post=\'140650\' date=\'Dec 15 2006, 03:55 PM\']
A nightly milliondollar giveawaymoneytobraindeadcontestantswhoarechosenfortheirstereotypicalqualitieslikeoneveryotherendemolshow would not work 5 nights a week. [/quote]
I believe the Perfesser would tell you the correct term is bigmoneynightlygamecashgiveawayfirstnamesonlymentary.

[wheelloon]

Pardon my ignorance, but what exactly is "MyNetwork"? Is it a American Spanish-Language Network, or is it a special broadcast network that I, somehow, haven't heard of, and obviously don't get? :-/

[chris319]

"My Games Fever" has been on the air for the past week on KCOP, My TV 13, Los Angeles.

[BrandonFG]

[quote name=\'wheelloon\' post=\'140675\' date=\'Dec 15 2006, 06:15 PM\']
Pardon my ignorance, but what exactly is "MyNetwork"? Is it a American Spanish-Language Network, or is it a special broadcast network that I, somehow, haven't heard of, and obviously don't get? :-/
[/quote]
It's what FOX started up after the CW and WB merged. It's considered the 6th network, and its programming is 13-week daily telenovelas.

[itiparanoid13]

Out of curiosity, could you (and anyone else that does this) stop gloom and dooming a show before it's come out?

Nitpick a show once you've seen it -- and save the fear of the unknown for something else.

How is there doom and gloom?  I don't even like Sale that much for one.  I know people who worked on the pilot, and I've seen what stuff looks like/how stuff plays.  I'm not nitpicking, and if it seemed like it I apologize.  What I said was the truth, as far as pilots go, and not meant to seem like me bitching.  I don't even know where the idea I was nitpicking would come from in my recent post.

[TimK2003]

[quote name=\'itiparanoid13\' post=\'140658\' date=\'Dec 15 2006, 06:08 PM\']
I'm actually more shocked MyNetwork isn't going for the proposed revival of Match Game.
[/quote]

Could it be that CBS may be holding some kind of rights/first right of refusal to a network version of Match Game as part of the deal with Fremantle when they did the Game Show Marathon?