ABC's Wipeout-will a lawsuit wipe it out?

[clemon79]

[quote name=\'Fedya\' post=\'199225\' date=\'Oct 8 2008, 06:12 AM\']
What makes this any more original than the photos viewers sent in to Real People?[/quote]
I don't remember the photos on Real People being of people getting hit in the nuts.

[TimK2003]

[quote name=\'clemon79\' post=\'199234\' date=\'Oct 8 2008, 11:48 AM\']
[quote name=\'Fedya\' post=\'199225\' date=\'Oct 8 2008, 06:12 AM\']
What makes this any more original than the photos viewers sent in to Real People?[/quote]
I don't remember the photos on Real People being of people getting hit in the nuts.
[/quote]

That's why they brought on Skip Stephenson...

/May explain why he always had a dorky look on his face.
//OB Game Shows:  John Barbour, Bill Rafferty and Sarah Purcell all became game show emcees, on pilots or series shows.

[Jimmy Owen]

[quote name=\'TimK2003\' post=\'199279\' date=\'Oct 8 2008, 08:22 PM\']
[quote name=\'clemon79\' post=\'199234\' date=\'Oct 8 2008, 11:48 AM\']
[quote name=\'Fedya\' post=\'199225\' date=\'Oct 8 2008, 06:12 AM\']
What makes this any more original than the photos viewers sent in to Real People?[/quote]
I don't remember the photos on Real People being of people getting hit in the nuts.
[/quote]

That's why they brought on Skip Stephenson...

/May explain why he always had a dorky look on his face.
//OB Game Shows:  John Barbour, Bill Rafferty and Sarah Purcell all became game show emcees, on pilots or series shows.
[/quote]

From what I understand, Mark Goodson was trying to get Mark Russell to host a game show, but Russell wasn't interested.

[Mr. Bill]

[quote name=\'TimK2003\' post=\'199279\' date=\'Oct 8 2008, 08:22 PM\']
[quote name=\'clemon79\' post=\'199234\' date=\'Oct 8 2008, 11:48 AM\']
[quote name=\'Fedya\' post=\'199225\' date=\'Oct 8 2008, 06:12 AM\']
What makes this any more original than the photos viewers sent in to Real People?[/quote]
I don't remember the photos on Real People being of people getting hit in the nuts.
[/quote]

That's why they brought on Skip Stephenson...

/May explain why he always had a dorky look on his face.
//OB Game Shows:  John Barbour, Bill Rafferty and Sarah Purcell all became game show emcees, on pilots or series shows.
[/quote]
///Additional OB Game Shows:  So did Skip Stephenson -- for The Playboy Channel!  

[uncamark]

[quote name=\'chris319\' post=\'199218\' date=\'Oct 8 2008, 02:12 AM\']

For almost 20 years, ABC has been paying TBS a license fee for the use on a series they've always owned of the premise (along initially with some actual material) of a segment of the long-defunct variety show "Fun TV with Kato-chan and Ken-chan"--a segment showing funny home videos sent in by viewers.

How do you know ABC is paying the license fee and not Vin Di Bona Productions?
[/quote]

Copyright is in ABC's name and has always been in ABC's name.  But I did see a Wikipedia entry saying that DiBona licenses the foreign versions of "AFV," so you could have a point--but it is Wikipedia.

[chris319]

I never paid much attention to the copyright notice on AFV, but I still question who actually owns the show and pays the license fee.

It is highly ironic to be paying (the other) TBS a license fee in light of this:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0056794/