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PYLW

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« on: October 10, 2007, 11:11:57 PM »
The Password is "Missing"...

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« Reply #1 on: October 10, 2007, 11:12:52 PM »
Not sure what happened to my post:

No joke: Variety is reporting CBS has picked up Million Dollar Password for a six episode run later this season.  Regis Philbin is hosting.

http://www.variety.com/article/VR111797382...l?categoryid=14
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« Reply #2 on: October 10, 2007, 11:14:44 PM »
I personally wonder if Josef Adalian would make the cut as a contestant, since the show probably won't feature words like "skein".

As far as the show goes, I'll wait to see some of it before passing judgment. Surely they can't screw this one up, can they?

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« Reply #3 on: October 10, 2007, 11:23:01 PM »
[quote name=\'Modor\' post=\'166231\' date=\'Oct 10 2007, 11:14 PM\']
I personally wonder if Josef Adalian would make the cut as a contestant.
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I can see it now...

Variety writer: Reps.
Partner: ...what?

Variety writer: Ankled.
Partner: ...what?

Variety writer: Prexy.
Partner: ...the hell?

Variety writer: Skein.
Partner: GIVE ME A NEW %$*&@% PARTNER!!!!!

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« Reply #4 on: October 10, 2007, 11:24:21 PM »
[quote name=\'Modor\' post=\'166231\' date=\'Oct 10 2007, 11:14 PM\']
Surely they can't screw this one up, can they?[/quote]
I'm usually one to urge withholding judgment, so I'm sorry I'm doing this.

But if that's really the title, they already have.
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« Reply #5 on: October 10, 2007, 11:27:27 PM »
Fremantle probably doesn't realize the almost-must-have-Betty-White factor, do they?

PYLW

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« Reply #6 on: October 10, 2007, 11:30:11 PM »
I just wonder how they'll do it. Classic Password the whole time? Or will they add a lame new bonus round?

/Yeah, they'll add the lame new bonus round...

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« Reply #7 on: October 10, 2007, 11:33:18 PM »
[quote name=\'PYLW\' post=\'166237\' date=\'Oct 10 2007, 11:30 PM\']
Or will they add a lame new bonus round?[/quote]

The bonus round could just be Alphabetics on steroids, you never know.

Oh, yeah. Wish in one hand. Right.

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« Reply #8 on: October 10, 2007, 11:38:03 PM »
[quote name=\'chad1m\' post=\'166239\' date=\'Oct 10 2007, 11:33 PM\'] [quote name=\'PYLW\' post=\'166237\' date=\'Oct 10 2007, 11:30 PM\']
Or will they add a lame new bonus round?[/quote]

The bonus round could just be Alphabetics on steroids, you never know.
[/quote]

Yeah, I thought that, too. But I'm just too used to crud like the 2001 version of Card Sharks...

I'd love to be proven wrong, but I think they're going to make a new one. They probably think Alphabetics was too simple...
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« Reply #9 on: October 10, 2007, 11:49:12 PM »
Classic Password: 10 minutes.

Bloated Bonus Round with Money Tree, Lifelines, and Family Members: 50 minutes.

Man, I hope I'm kidding.
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« Reply #10 on: October 10, 2007, 11:55:45 PM »
It said 'risk their winnings for a chance at $1,000,000 in the Bonus Round' or something like that.  I'd think Alphabetics would be too easy for that, and I doubt they'd try to put it on steroids.  Maybe a regular Alphabetics after the main game, and THEN another bonus round?  I dunno.

/Oh, and did anyone else read it as Million Dollar Pyramid?
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« Reply #11 on: October 11, 2007, 12:25:06 AM »
[quote name=\'Matt Ottinger\' post=\'166233\' date=\'Oct 10 2007, 11:24 PM\']I'm usually one to urge withholding judgment, so I'm sorry I'm doing this.

But if that's really the title, they already have.[/quote]
Really . . . before today, wouldn't most of our reactions to the phrase "Million Dollar Password" be "punchline"?

Oh, and was this really a pilot, or did the planets just (mis)align?
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« Reply #12 on: October 11, 2007, 12:27:10 AM »
[quote name=\'Robert Hutchinson\' post=\'166257\' date=\'Oct 10 2007, 09:25 PM\']Oh, and was this really a pilot, or did the planets just (mis)align?
[/quote]Merely wishful thinking on my part. I wish I could claim that level of prescience.
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« Reply #13 on: October 11, 2007, 12:35:44 AM »
[quote name=\'Mr. Armadillo\' post=\'166249\' date=\'Oct 10 2007, 11:55 PM\']
/Oh, and did anyone else read it as Million Dollar Pyramid?
//Because we all know it's coming. [/quote]
Well, that seems conceivably easy to do, although not necessarily in limited-series form.  Just add a zero to the tournament top prize and there you have it.

Still holding cautious optimism, as the article seems to imply some sort of front game.
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« Reply #14 on: October 11, 2007, 12:45:15 AM »
Finally... something I haven't seen for a long time,  a prime-time game show that features more than 1 contestant.  What took so long?