This September, a new lottery game show appeared on French-Canadian airwaves. I never bothered reviewing it because it was so awful. It involved two days, three teams, five guest stars humorously answering "useless knowledge" questions. (This being a lottery show, it had to be fairly random, thus the obscure questions. Most anyone on this board, including yours truly, would actually have known a lot of the answers!)
It was like Hollywood Squares without the mind-taxing grid aspect. (smirk) It was horrible, especially the host, a bug-eyed standup comic with a speech impediment who clearly thought himself much funnier than he was.
Even the addition of a mascot, a hamster in a rolling plexiglass sphere named "Random", didn't save the show. Astounding, eh? (Bonus question: had the hamster episode of Malcolm in the Middle aired in French yet?)
Anyway, lottery ticket sales were so poor that the show wasn't even renewed for the second half of the season. That made everybody a winner.
