As always thank you for the quick, courteous and very complete response! It is frustrating to somebody like me and I'm certain many others on this board, who have genuinely good and workable ideas or concepts for game shows, but have no idea how to advance it to the next level. Furthermore, it seems most people "in charge" of networks now prefer the not so sublime to the almost completely ridiculous.
I too tried to watch "Minute To Win It". It was a glorified version of "Beat the Clock", and it didn't really do anything for me. Even shows like "Million Dollar Password" were too fast paced and frenetic to me, and veered off too much from the original premise and spirit of the game itself.
There are many talented people out there who have great ideas and concepts for ideas, but no connections or no way to get their proverbial foot in the door. It continues to amaze and astound me the lack of quality programming that is aired. I mean, somebody in charge has to "okay" these shows still, do they not?
Just yesterday I watched a 3 minute segment of "1 vs. 100". The question dealt with the inventor of the ballpoint pen. The solo player wasn't sure if the answer was "The Write Brothers". Clearly that was a very bad play on words, and I instantly knew to eliminate that answer. One person in the mob thought that was the correct answer however. This person is a school teacher. That just really frightened me as well as disheartened me.
There are talented people out there, sadly, the powers that be seem to be unable, unwilling and/or unavailable to ever listen to any ideas, and those who are in said position to provide new ideas, seem to be providing ideas that are very fleeting and unentertaining, or have the limiting belief that in order for it to succeed, it has to have a massive payoff dollar amount associated with it.
Thank you again Norm for gracing our board with your presence. Some of these people I began to communicate with indirectly via message boards like this back in 1995, and it's a real pleasure to still have a medium such as this one in which to share ideas and to gain valuable insights from experienced and talented individuals such as yourself.