Author Topic: Not if anyone outside Ohio cares.... (Read 4695 times)

urbanpreppie05 · « **on:** June 21, 2007, 02:50:40 PM »

Make me Famous, Make me Rich; the show that replaced the long-running Cash Explosion, is being replaced by...Cash Explosion.

clemon79 · « **Reply #1 on:** June 21, 2007, 02:53:53 PM »

[quote name=\'urbanpreppie05\' post=\'155766\' date=\'Jun 21 2007, 11:50 AM\']
Make me Famous, the show that replaced the long-running Cash Explosion, is being replaced by...Cash Explosion.
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And if you saw Make Me Famous, you're not surprised in the least. My Gawd that show was Grade-A crappe.

urbanpreppie05 · « **Reply #2 on:** June 21, 2007, 02:55:25 PM »

[quote name=\'clemon79\' post=\'155767\' date=\'Jun 21 2007, 02:53 PM\']
[quote name=\'urbanpreppie05\' post=\'155766\' date=\'Jun 21 2007, 11:50 AM\']
Make me Famous, the show that replaced the long-running Cash Explosion, is being replaced by...Cash Explosion.
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And if you saw Make Me Famous, you're not surprised in the least. My Gawd that show was Grade-A crappe.
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I did. And that's why I live in Pittsburgh now. :-)

tpirfan28 · « **Reply #3 on:** June 21, 2007, 03:07:34 PM »

Ok...for anyone who lives in OH, has the show gotten ANY better since the first episodes?

urbanpreppie05 · « **Reply #4 on:** June 21, 2007, 03:14:02 PM »

[quote name=\'tpirfan28\' post=\'155769\' date=\'Jun 21 2007, 03:07 PM\']
Ok...for anyone who lives in OH, has the show gotten ANY better since the first episodes?
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No.

(I just moved to PA less than two weeks ago)

TimK2003 · « **Reply #5 on:** June 21, 2007, 04:07:58 PM »

[quote name=\'urbanpreppie05\' post=\'155766\' date=\'Jun 21 2007, 02:50 PM\']
Make me Famous, Make me Rich; the show that replaced the long-running Cash Explosion, is being replaced by...Cash Explosion.
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Interesting that this news item appeared on the WKYC/Channel 3 website, while the show itself (and all live lottery drawings) appear on their competitor, WEWS/Channel 5. But I assume that the national wire stories automatically get placed on the WKYC site.

Ever since the Ohio Lottery switched marketing firms a couple of years ago and the weekly lottery shows moved to Columbus (the live nightly draws still occur in Cleveland), the quality of the shows had dropped faster than "Show Me The Money"'s ratings. (although the last Cash Explosion set was a lot nicer than the sets used on the older CE shows).

toddyo · « **Reply #6 on:** June 21, 2007, 06:00:56 PM »

MMF, MMR is still as horrible as when it started.

The best thing that the Ohio Lottery could do is to get rid of their marketing/production contractor and have the show go back to its Paul Tapie/Sharon Bicknell days. He knew how to build suspense and actually have a 2-way conversation without requiring cue cards.

The last version of CEDP was a joke but not as bad as MMF,MMR. This program is still heavily (and poorly) edited, to the point of all game action is joined in progress (YES, even at the BEGINNING of the show). Poor backtiming!

Plus...the contestants weren't getting the $$$$ payouts like the former show did. Cheap!

MikeK · « **Reply #7 on:** June 21, 2007, 06:01:07 PM »

The Ohio Lottery press release

Hallelujah. The only facet of Make Me Famous, Make Me Rich that I liked was that 30 new people played every week, versus 8 on Cash Explosion. The odds go from "snowball's chance in hell" to "a 275% better chance than a snowball's chance in hell". I should send in the MMF,MMR entry ticket which has been sitting on my bookcase since well before Christmas into the lottery soon...

Hopefully the powers that be can get some tolerable hosts, unlike the last talentless duo which hosted Cash Explosion or the Dylan Lane wannabe who hosts MMF,MMR.

sshuffield70 · « **Reply #8 on:** June 21, 2007, 06:45:00 PM »

I will agree about David McCreary being a Dylan Lane clone. That, and the still random luck of the game (even though the players have to choose "safe money" or "risk", and it majority rules) make it a bad format. Then again, I think the only good lottery based show I've seen is "Illinois Instant Riches".

And the Make Me Famous part didn't really take effect this season. It looks like they were going to start that in the fall. As for Make Me Rich (?), considering the average champion was winning about $60,000 a show, and maybe making a few appearances, I can't call it rich.

tpirfan28 · « **Reply #9 on:** June 21, 2007, 06:58:07 PM »

I, right now, will be opening myself up for endless ridicule from the members of this board. I...

a) live in Indiana
b) watched "Hoosier Millionaire".

Hoosier Millionaire in its original form was decent. The eleventy billion makeovers of the show toward the end turned me off, but MMF, MMR was worse. But all is moot when compared to Illinois Instant Riches.

/someone needs to post an episode of IIR
//perty-please?

Speedy G · « **Reply #10 on:** June 21, 2007, 07:44:03 PM »

[quote name=\'tpirfan28\' post=\'155769\' date=\'Jun 21 2007, 03:07 PM\']
Ok...for anyone who lives in OH, has the show gotten ANY better since the first episodes?
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If I'm being objective, they tweaked the dollar amounts so that the safe board was actually a choice to consider, and they've tried to fit in as much camera time for the contestants as possible. On the other hand, they completely gave up on even showing round one of each semifinal game, starting each game in progress, and the host never wavered from being a complete tool.

It sure as hell didn't get better, but it didn't get worse either. Hard to get much worse than that, really.

But you don't have to take my word for it!

Don Howard · « **Reply #11 on:** June 21, 2007, 08:22:18 PM »

Oh, bless the stars and bars. That show was an excremental electronic mortal sin.
As for a Cash Explosion host, I wonder if Don Webster can be talked into coming out of retirement.

clemon79 · « **Reply #12 on:** June 21, 2007, 08:40:51 PM »

[quote name=\'tpirfan28\' post=\'155798\' date=\'Jun 21 2007, 03:58 PM\']
a) live in Indiana
b) watched "Hoosier Millionaire".

Hoosier Millionaire in its original form was decent.
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Did it still have the "leaderboard" That's what made the show suck and worthy of destruction to me. The idea of keeping a leaderboard of People Who Pick Numbers Randomly Better is just about the most brain-dead moronic concept I can think of.

tpirfan28 · « **Reply #13 on:** June 21, 2007, 08:53:09 PM »

[quote name=\'clemon79\' post=\'155807\' date=\'Jun 21 2007, 08:40 PM\']
Did it still have the "leaderboard" That's what made the show suck and worthy of destruction to me. The idea of keeping a leaderboard of People Who Pick Numbers Randomly Better is just about the most brain-dead moronic concept I can think of.
[/quote]The earliest concept of the game that I could remember was as follows...

- all six contestants play three rounds on a thirty-number trillion board
- there were three 'bonuses', a trip (usually sponsored by ATA), set of lottery tickets, and a doubler (doubles next pick)
- highest score after all three rounds wins and plays the bonus game
- bonus game was four numbers, with prizes of $50,000, $100,000, $1M, and a stopper
- contestant could continue after any pick (think 'Pass the Buck' on TPiR, stopper ended game

This is from a hazy memory of 1996. This format beats the hell out of the most recent generation of the show, with its anti-climatic third round.

I think there was at least one time where the final pick caused a tie, and in tie-breaking rounds, succeeded to use up the rest of the numbers.

No fear, Henke will come back and correct everything I've said.

clemon79 · « **Reply #14 on:** June 21, 2007, 10:21:38 PM »

[quote name=\'tpirfan28\' post=\'155809\' date=\'Jun 21 2007, 05:53 PM\']
No fear, Henke will come back and correct everything I've said.
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That is, in fact, exactly my fear.