Wink hosts a new show

[TLEberle]

[quote name=\'Jimmy Owen\' post=\'234080\' date=\'Jan 10 2010, 08:13 PM\']"Thread Killers: The All-New the Last Word!"[/quote]I dunno, I thought this one perished on the operating table. But bonus points for finding one of the remaining Wink shows that hadn't been used.

[Mr. Bill]

[quote name=\'MikeK\' post=\'234056\' date=\'Jan 10 2010, 08:12 PM\'][quote name=\'Modor\' post=\'234048\' date=\'Jan 10 2010, 06:32 PM\']I like sauerkraut.[/quote]
Don't stir the sauerkraut.
[/quote]
Don't step on the sauerkraut.  You really wouldn't like him when he's angry!

[rwalker]

Maybe The Wink bumped Mike Sexton from "Shuffle Up and Deal"?

[dazztardly]

[quote name=\'rwalker\' post=\'234311\' date=\'Jan 13 2010, 08:57 PM\']Maybe The Wink bumped Mike Sexton from "Shuffle Up and Deal"?[/quote]

Negative.

-Dan Berger

[tvrandywest]

Well, I didn't think it would take a month before I could pay-off the tease, but Wink e-mailed me the "go ahead" last night:

He's hosting "INSTANT RECALL" on GSN starting Thursday, March 4th.  To oversimplify, it's "Punked" meets - oh, maybe -"Hit Man".

The show first tests players’ patience, then tests their memory as unsuspecting participants are caught on hidden camera in unbelievable situations—and are then quizzed on the experience for cash and prizes. Each episode features two games. In each, an unsuspecting “mark” finds himself in an outrageous situation, and is then tested on the details of the event that just occurred. The more correct answers, the more cash and prizes. The magic moment (for me) is when Wink makes a dramatic and funny entrance as the show turns from the candid camera ruse to the quiz.

If there's no official announcement in a few days, I'll post more.

Congrats to the Winker - a guy who has always been very kind to me. Good luck on series #20!!


Randy
tvrandywest.com

[TLEberle]

Did Wink keep any of the hats that he'd show off each Friday? If so, he just needs to pester Don Cherry for a coat and it'll be like going back to 1984. Good times.

/how many stations can you GET on that thing.
//always happy to hear about good things happening to good people.

[Matt Ottinger]

[quote name=\'TLEberle\' post=\'235434\' date=\'Feb 4 2010, 09:53 PM\']Did Wink keep any of the hats that he'd show off each Friday?[/quote]
As I recall, he was asked that very question at one of the Game Show Congressesses a few years back, and he admitted that no, he no longer had them.

[TLEberle]

[quote name=\'Matt Ottinger\' post=\'235436\' date=\'Feb 4 2010, 07:21 PM\']As I recall, he was asked that very question at one of the Game Show Congressesses a few years back, and he admitted that no, he no longer had them.[/quote]I was half-kidding, but I never thought to ask "What happens when the family brings Richard a shirt or plaque or key to the city?" or any gift. They all have to go somewhere after leaving the set.

[davemackey]

[quote name=\'TLEberle\' post=\'235444\' date=\'Feb 4 2010, 11:10 PM\'][quote name=\'Matt Ottinger\' post=\'235436\' date=\'Feb 4 2010, 07:21 PM\']As I recall, he was asked that very question at one of the Game Show Congressesses a few years back, and he admitted that no, he no longer had them.[/quote]I was half-kidding, but I never thought to ask "What happens when the family brings Richard a shirt or plaque or key to the city?" or any gift. They all have to go somewhere after leaving the set.
[/quote]
Part of me wants to think he still has that flag from Monmouth County, NJ somewhere.