GameTV - Canadian GS channel

[ChuckNet]

Looks like there's a section telling all the game shows which will be airing, complete w/airtimes...unfortunately, nothing beyond what was announced in the press release is mentioned, but still not a half-bad lineup:

GameTV's game shows

Chuck Donegan (The Illustrious "Chuckie Baby")

[JerrysFeudinAgain]

The Last Word? This isn't the Martindale version is it?

[Eric Paddon]

If "Pitfall" ever returned, you could construct a whole set of promos surrounding the truly DUMB people this show attracted.    Like Rod, the guy who first answers "London" in response to the question "What country would you be in, if you were attending Cambridge University?" and when Alex even tries to HELP him by giving him another chance and going "What COUNTRY?" dumb Rod, goes, "I don't know!"

[BrandonFG]

[quote name=\'Eric Paddon\' post=\'167996\' date=\'Oct 26 2007, 10:00 PM\']
If "Pitfall" ever returned, you could construct a whole set of promos surrounding the truly DUMB people this show attracted.    Like Rod, the guy who first answers "London" in response to the question "What country would you be in, if you were attending Cambridge University?" and when Alex even tries to HELP him by giving him another chance and going "What COUNTRY?" dumb Rod, goes, "I don't know!"
[/quote]
Somewhere around the Internet, there's a clip of Rosemary, where she takes several seconds, and runs into a similar question about Australia.

[Ian Wallis]

Looks like there's a section telling all the game shows which will be airing, complete w/airtimes...unfortunately, nothing beyond what was announced in the press release is mentioned, but still not a half-bad lineup:

There's always the hope that they'll pick up additional shows as they go along...like GSN sort of did.

[ChuckNet]

[quote name=\'fostergray82\' post=\'167997\' date=\'Oct 26 2007, 10:09 PM\']
[quote name=\'Eric Paddon\' post=\'167996\' date=\'Oct 26 2007, 10:00 PM\']
If "Pitfall" ever returned, you could construct a whole set of promos surrounding the truly DUMB people this show attracted.    Like Rod, the guy who first answers "London" in response to the question "What country would you be in, if you were attending Cambridge University?" and when Alex even tries to HELP him by giving him another chance and going "What COUNTRY?" dumb Rod, goes, "I don't know!"
[/quote]
Somewhere around the Internet, there's a clip of Rosemary, where she takes several seconds, and runs into a similar question about Australia.
[/quote]

Ah yes...not to mention her spending some 65(?) seconds in a pitfall after a string of incorrect answers, which proved the hit of GSC7 some 9 years ago. :-) Incidentally, her question was "The continent is Australia; how many countries are on it?", to which she answered "Five" (the answer: one...Australia!).

Chuck Donegan (The Illustrious "Chuckie Baby")

[Allstar87]

[quote name=\'JerrysFeudinAgain\' post=\'167995\' date=\'Oct 26 2007, 09:40 PM\']
The Last Word? This isn't the Martindale version is it?
[/quote]

I'd think so...it did indeed tape in Canada...but I don't see it listed among the game shows. That's the one I was really looking forward to seeing. (Well, looking forward to trading for, anyway.)

Perhaps it'll join the lineup later?

[Matt Ottinger]

Dust off Talkabout, and Michael Reagan's Lingo, and I might move up north!

/and where the heck is Definition?

[tvmitch]

Talkabout would be such a good (cheap) game to revive, too. I bet a revival would be a huge hit on GSN.

[tpirfan28]

[quote name=\'Matt Ottinger\' post=\'168016\' date=\'Oct 27 2007, 10:02 AM\']
Dust off Talkabout, and Michael Reagan's Lingo, and I might move up north!

/and where the heck is Definition?
[/quote]
I have a feeling Definition could have been a little too much license-wise to pick up right off the gun.

Where's Emmons and Edwards Chain Reaction?

/fuming that they get Supermarket Sweep, though

[Kniwt]

The channel's website is up, with an introductory video that has some clips:

http://www.igametv.com/

[tvmitch]

[quote name=\'Kniwt\' post=\'168024\' date=\'Oct 27 2007, 11:14 AM\']
The channel's website is up, with an introductory video that has some clips:

http://www.igametv.com/
[/quote]
Not a bad site, except that the person in charge of copy hasn't read up on their use of apostrophes in some time.

[vtown7]

Update for Canadians that have BellExpressVu:

I just got off the phone with a nice lady named Victoria at the call centre.  She had a hard time finding CGTV/GameTV/choose your name on channel 274 because although they say they offer it they couldn't find it in the system!  

What she said in the end is that she seems to think that it is a new channel that they've just picked up and will be broadcasting starting Monday.  No guarantees of course but that was the digging that she was able to do.  Also, she says if it's 274, that it will be part of the basic package.  Again, we'll see what comes of it.

Fingers crossed!

Ryan

[ChuckNet]

Not a bad site, except that the person in charge of copy hasn't read up on their use of apostrophes in some time.

I hate when that happen's. :-D

Anyway, they seem to have more in common w/Challenge, the UK's version of GSN, which also airs casino series and movies along those lines...however, what they do have in terms of traditional game shows def looks good, and hopefully they'll add some to the Mon-Thu lineup before too long, if it takes off (so far, they're only scheduled for Fri-Sun).

And yeah, once they get going, hopefully they'll add some more classic Canadian games like Definition or the late 80s USA originals.

Chuck Donegan (The Optimistic "Chuckie Baby")

[Blaq]

Wow. I read the posts, tuned to Rogers 288 and was rewarded with... The Mad Dash, and the first words I heard Pierre Lalonde say informed the contestant she could land on a square containing a typewriter!

Oh, the nostalgia!