SPEED has ordered a trio of new shows as part of its next slate of lifestyle programming including the trivia show Pumped! hosted by comedian Greg Fitzsimmons.Pumped!, which has been picked up for 20 half-hour episodes, is an ambush-style quiz show set at gas stations where customers will compete for a cash prize by answering automotive and pop culture questions. The series is set to premiere in November.
Relevant portion from a Broadcasting and Cable article:QuoteSPEED has ordered a trio of new shows as part of its next slate of lifestyle programming including the trivia show Pumped! hosted by comedian Greg Fitzsimmons.Pumped!, which has been picked up for 20 half-hour episodes, is an ambush-style quiz show set at gas stations where customers will compete for a cash prize by answering automotive and pop culture questions. The series is set to premiere in November.
Dennis James mentioned on the Mike Douglas show in '75 of a game show he hosted early in his career called "Beep Stakes" which was set at a gas station. It must have been a local show; there is no mention of it in the Encyclopedia.
Everything was visual about Beepstakes, but the quiz, which goes to show that nobody stops to find out what the other fellow discovered years ago. The contestants (4) were seated behind futuristic autos; the mounting prize dough was indicated by a city-to-city race across the nation, shown visually on the map, and Dennis James, the quizmaster, wore a woodsman's shirt. But the one thing that the audience in the home wants, visual questions, was entirely nil--except one droopy handie.James oozed enough energy to wear out any viewer, and he carried the show on his back with corny humor and plenty of talking direct to the set owners, but even he couldn't make anyone believe this was television.
