Family Feud news for the new season

[clemon79]

[quote name=\'Joe Mello\' post=\'217086\' date=\'Jun 1 2009, 01:12 PM\']Occam's Razor argument being that it's either $30K or $5/point in the endgame.[/quote]
Um, okay. One would think that the Occam's Razor argument would be "build your bank in Bullseye" what with the Twitter announcement, but whatever floats your boat...

[pacdude]

[quote name=\'clemon79\' post=\'217087\' date=\'Jun 1 2009, 04:17 PM\'][quote name=\'Joe Mello\' post=\'217086\' date=\'Jun 1 2009, 01:12 PM\']Occam's Razor argument being that it's either $30K or $5/point in the endgame.[/quote]
Um, okay. One would think that the Occam's Razor argument would be "build your bank in Bullseye" what with the Twitter announcement, but whatever floats your boat...
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Agreed. No one really needs to speculate anymore, since they clearly said, "Bullseye's coming back" and referred to it as "retro."

[Sodboy13]

[quote name=\'clemon79\' post=\'217077\' date=\'Jun 1 2009, 01:16 PM\'][quote name=\'tvwxman\' post=\'217065\' date=\'Jun 1 2009, 09:38 AM\']Win money right from the start![/quote]
If it plays like the old Bullseye round did, isn't this a little disingenuous?
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Hmm... well either it's a poor choice of words on Twitter (which would only be about the 81,245,179th time that's happened,) or maybe they're paying out $10K up-front for Bullseye, and another $20K in Fast Money, which would be kinda... odd.

[clemon79]

[quote name=\'Sodboy13\' post=\'217091\' date=\'Jun 1 2009, 01:21 PM\']Hmm... well either it's a poor choice of words on Twitter (which would only be about the 81,245,179th time that's happened,)[/quote]
Yeah, I suspect nobody's editing whoever is doing the Twittering for Fremantle, or they don't care.

[bandit_bobby]

I'm not really a fan of Bullseye coming back, but my brother Andrew probably would like that.

[Jeremy Nelson]

Well, I know there's only one small set change needed to accomodate Bullseye, and that's the podium scoreboards, but I wonder if anything else is gonna be added with it. Are they gonna change the podiums, just add a new scoreboard, EDIT or just use the space where the family name is located, like Bert's FF did?

[chad1m]

[quote name=\'rollercoaster87\' post=\'217101\' date=\'Jun 1 2009, 07:07 PM\']use the space where the family name is located, like Bert's FF did?[/quote]That seems sensible.

MOSHER
$22,000

[CJBojangles]

I'd much prefer to see a new scoreboard for Bullseye in place of those useless eggcrates displays.

Maybe then they could just take a shot of the main game scores on the big board like they did for 17 years.

[Jeremy Nelson]

[quote name=\'CJBojangles\' post=\'217104\' date=\'Jun 1 2009, 06:42 PM\']I'd much prefer to see a new scoreboard for Bullseye in place of those useless eggcrates displays.

Maybe then they could just take a shot of the main game scores on the big board like they did for 17 years.[/quote]
Oh, don't get me started on that issue- I was peeved when they re-added those scoreboards. Because there's more black in/on/around the set this season, they blend in a little better, but they still look out of place to me

[quote name=\'chad1m\' post=\'217103\' date=\'Jun 1 2009, 06:13 PM\'][quote name=\'rollercoaster87\' post=\'217101\' date=\'Jun 1 2009, 07:07 PM\']use the space where the family name is located, like Bert's FF did?[/quote]That seems sensible.

MOSHER
$22,000
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For Bullseye on Bert's FF, IIRC, they replaced the family names with the Bullseye banks. Since it was only used during celebrity games, though, it didn't matter, since you'd probably be able to identify the players' association without a moniker hanging above.

Loved the Aussie version of the show, but their implementation of Bullseye really did suck.

[Sodboy13]

[quote name=\'rollercoaster87\' post=\'217121\' date=\'Jun 1 2009, 11:54 PM\']Loved the Aussie version of the show, but their implementation of Bullseye really did suck.[/quote]

Just read up on how they did it - yowza.  "So in short, as long as your first player gets at least one top answer in Fast Money, this will all have been an incredibly pointless exercise."

[SRIV94]

[quote name=\'CJBojangles\' post=\'217104\' date=\'Jun 1 2009, 06:42 PM\']I'd much prefer to see a new scoreboard for Bullseye in place of those useless eggcrates displays.[/quote]
Or better yet, dump the eggcrates and go back to the Ferranti displays.

[Sodboy13]

[quote name=\'SRIV94\' post=\'217137\' date=\'Jun 2 2009, 11:41 AM\'][quote name=\'CJBojangles\' post=\'217104\' date=\'Jun 1 2009, 06:42 PM\']I'd much prefer to see a new scoreboard for Bullseye in place of those useless eggcrates displays.[/quote]
Or better yet, dump the eggcrates and go back to the Ferranti displays.
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Meh.  Nostalgia is what it is and all, but everything on that set is lit up and decidedly non-dot-matrix.  The old-time displays would be just as much of a sore thumb, if not moreso.  Just put another flat-panel monitor in there so everything matches.

I thought I had read here previously that the proportions of the current set are different from the '76-'94 sets, so the camera angles involved in displaying the teams' scores on the back wall just aren't doable.  Thus, the decision a few episodes into the O'Hurley era to shove the eggcrates into the family desks.

/First person to suggest switching the survey board to Solari panels gets a prize!
//It's a brand new punch in the face.

[SRIV94]

[quote name=\'Sodboy13\' post=\'217139\' date=\'Jun 2 2009, 12:53 PM\'][quote name=\'SRIV94\' post=\'217137\' date=\'Jun 2 2009, 11:41 AM\'][quote name=\'CJBojangles\' post=\'217104\' date=\'Jun 1 2009, 06:42 PM\']I'd much prefer to see a new scoreboard for Bullseye in place of those useless eggcrates displays.[/quote]
Or better yet, dump the eggcrates and go back to the Ferranti displays.
[/quote]

Meh.  Nostalgia is what it is and all, but everything on that set is lit up and decidedly non-dot-matrix.  The old-time displays would be just as much of a sore thumb, if not moreso.  Just put another flat-panel monitor in there so everything matches.
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Wasn't looking at it so much from the nostalgia standpoint--I just prefer the way the Ferranti displays look compared to the Eggcrates.

/Oh, and nice work Sunday.

[Ian Wallis]

Wasn't looking at it so much from the nostalgia standpoint--I just prefer the way the Ferranti displays look compared to the Eggcrates.

Put me down for a couple of eggs...er...eggcrates.  After seeing them on game shows practically my whole life, I'd miss them if they weren't there!  It's disappointing to me that shows like Wheel of Fortune stopped using them - there aren't too many shows around now that still use them.

[Jeremy Nelson]

[quote name=\'Sodboy13\' post=\'217122\' date=\'Jun 2 2009, 12:11 AM\'][quote name=\'rollercoaster87\' post=\'217121\' date=\'Jun 1 2009, 11:54 PM\']Loved the Aussie version of the show, but their implementation of Bullseye really did suck.[/quote]

Just read up on how they did it - yowza.  "So in short, as long as your first player gets at least one top answer in Fast Money, this will all have been an incredibly pointless exercise."
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Exactly- it would have been better if they had just added the Bullseye bank to the final fast money total.

I thought I had read here previously that the proportions of the current set are different from the '76-'94 sets, so the camera angles involved in displaying the teams' scores on the back wall just aren't doable.  Thus, the decision a few episodes into the O'Hurley era to shove the eggcrates into the family desks.

My only big gripe with it was the fact that they used such out of place scoreboards.....they could have used flat panel screens and it would have been fine- at least those would have matched the set.

BTW, I went back a few tweets on the Feud page, and it says they start taping on June 7th, so hopefully we get a sneak preview on Youtube soon!