Fremantle launching game show digital channel

[clemon79]

For doing nothing.

Producing the content (unless you aren't counting that because Goodson/Todman, but hey, they got bought up) isn't "nothing."

[BrandonFG]

I think Jay is referring to the fact that Fremantle still pulls 30M just off of the illegally uploaded content. Yes, it's their material, but in a way, they still inadvertently make bank without even having to distribute anything.

Almost icing on the cake for them, with this network coming up.

[clemon79]

I think Jay is referring to the fact that Fremantle still pulls 30M just off of the illegally uploaded content.

He may be, and I'm pointing out that the reason they are the ones getting paid is because they (in whatever incarnation of "they" did it at the time) are the ones who made it in the first place.

[MSTieScott]

The YouTube channel will include a new version of “Celebrity Name Game”

Well thank goodness -- I was wondering when they'd get around to updating that show, it had been on the air for so long...

[Matt Ottinger]

The YouTube channel will include a new version of “Celebrity Name Game”

Well thank goodness -- I was wondering when they'd get around to updating that show, it had been on the air for so long...

I saw that too, and I wonder if there's a mistake somehow.  Name Game isn't even a Fremantle property, is it?

[gamed121683]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but we have all of those G/T YouTube super fans that put "no copyright infringement intended" on their vids to thank for Buzzr?

As for "Celebrity Name Game" being a Fremantle property, this headline should answer your query: http://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/2015/01/08/celebrity-name-game-renewed-for-season-2-by-fremantle-debmar-mercury/347801/

[Matt Ottinger]

As for "Celebrity Name Game" being a Fremantle property, this headline should answer your query: http://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/2015/01/08/celebrity-name-game-renewed-for-season-2-by-fremantle-debmar-mercury/347801/

OK, that gets us back to Scott's amused point.  What purpose is served by a second, internet-only version featuring YouTube "celebrities" anybody over forty has never heard of?

[TLEberle]

My question is this: if they're making millions of dollars on old product because a few thousand of us are watching thirty-year-old game show episodes, why are they making new ones that are just annoying?

[Matt Ottinger]

My question is this: if they're making millions of dollars on old product because a few thousand of us are watching thirty-year-old game show episodes, why are they making new ones that are just annoying?

In fairness to Fremantle, episode one of Buzzr Password has about 90,000 views in about a month, many of them presumably that young, hip crowd they're trying to find.  The most hits I could find for a classic Password was a Betty White/Jack Paar segment that had about 68,000 and had been up for six years.

[Tony Peters]

My question is this: if they're making millions of dollars on old product because a few thousand of us are watching thirty-year-old game show episodes, why are they making new ones that are just annoying?

I'd just chalk it up to a generational divide (I'm not too far from 40 myself).  Based on that, I would think that the classic G-T (or Grundy or Hatos-Hall or what-have-you) style of production may be as foreign/strange/off-putting to most under-30s as today's production style of game shows (both TV and online) is to most of us.

[aaron sica]

A list (which hopefully in time will grow) of the stations carrying Buzzr:

http://rabbitears.info/search.php?request=network_search&network=Buzzr+TV

[johnnya2k3]

A list (which hopefully in time will grow) of the stations carrying Buzzr:

http://rabbitears.info/search.php?request=network_search&network=Buzzr+TV

No Boston and Memphis on there; they sold WFXT and WHBQ to Cox  -- making them sister stations to WSB here in Atlanta -- in exchange for KTVU.