It may be stretching things to call TLC's
Junkyard Mega-Wars a "game show," but the producers of it have a two-hour special titled "At the Movies" scheduled for airing at 8 P.M. Eastern Time on 2-22-2004. Here's the description of it from the show's website:
Three teams behind Hollywood's blockbuster special effects battle it out to build the ultimate fighting robot that must breathe fire, shoot bullets and save the world from an Alien Invasion. Rossi Morreale, Bobbi-Sue Luther and Robert Llewellyn host.
The show is intended to tie-in with the Acadamy Awards that are scheduled for broadcast on 2-29-2004 -- unless that broadcast gets postponed by some upsetting world event, of course!
Michael Brandenburg
(Of note: A similar challenge was among the ones during the last season of
Scrapheap Challenge, Junkyard Mega-Wars' sister show in the United Kingdom. The challenging teams in this one had to build remote-control robots that were supposed to deactivate small "nuclear bombs." TLC later aired that episode in the U.S. after "re-badging" it as a
Junkyard Mega-Wars episode, and I thought it was a blast!)