The Final Truth

[The Pyramids]

Revivals in '80, '90,'00 but not '10. Do you think we will ever see another 'To Tell the Truth' or will Freemantle have the attitude of 'we've done it once and it wasn't sucessful'.

[BrandonFG]

Seems that panel shows have either fallen out of favor in this fast-paced world, or the right producer just hasn't figured out how to do one. With the oddball news stories out there, I could see it working. Then again, with sites like Youtube making people "celebrities" (see Dodson, Antoine and Crocker, Chris), it might make for quite a few disqualified panelists. ;-)

I've Got a Secret was tried twice in the last decade, and neither caught on. I thought the GSN version was pretty decent, but I think it tried to reach too far with the retro kitsch.

Then again, I'm surprised The Newlywed Game has made it in the 2000s. Maybe GSN could try a new TTTT, in the same vein as IGAS, but drop the kitsch.

[TLEberle]

[quote name=\'fostergray82\' post=\'246518\' date=\'Aug 29 2010, 11:19 AM\']Seems that panel shows have either fallen out of favor in this fast-paced world, or the right producer just hasn't figured out how to do one. With the oddball news stories out there, I could see it working. Then again, with sites like Youtube making people "celebrities" (see Dodson, Antoine and Crocker, Chris), it might make for quite a few disqualified panelists. ;-)[/quote]What does it mean?

[BillCullen1]

A big challenge for a panel show today is to find celebs who can ask halfway decent questions as panelists. Paula Poundstone didn't cut it on TTTT 2000. If it's going to be people like Kathy Griffin asking the questions. I'd rather just have the memories of the old TTTT.

In a somewhat related area, Kitty Carlisle would have been 100 this September.

[J.R.]

[quote name=\'BillCullen1\' post=\'246527\' date=\'Aug 29 2010, 07:47 PM\']Paula Poundstone didn't cut it on TTTT 2000.[/quote]
She alone made TTTT2000 unwatchable for me.

/The overly sexed-up Springer-esque topics didn't help.