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BillCullen1

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New GSN Show - Lie Detectors starts April 20
« on: March 17, 2015, 11:09:05 AM »
GSN has started to air promos for this. Audience members try to guess which of the three comics is lying. More info at buzzerblog.com   

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Re: New GSN Show - Lie Detectors starts April 20
« Reply #1 on: March 17, 2015, 10:18:59 PM »
So... Baloney, basically?

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Re: New GSN Show - Lie Detectors starts April 20
« Reply #2 on: March 17, 2015, 11:37:43 PM »
So... Baloney, basically?

As Mike wrote in the first line of the page you linked, that set-up is hardly unique to Baloney either.
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Re: New GSN Show - Lie Detectors starts April 20
« Reply #3 on: March 18, 2015, 12:14:53 AM »
...wow, I really dropped the ball there. 

Point is, it's not the first, it's probably not going to be the last.   Nothing we haven't seen before here.

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Re: New GSN Show - Lie Detectors starts April 20
« Reply #4 on: March 18, 2015, 08:35:51 AM »
For verification - there are three comics. Two are lying. Audience member must choose the one telling the truth to win a prize.

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Re: New GSN Show - Lie Detectors starts April 20
« Reply #5 on: March 18, 2015, 08:42:08 AM »
Sandy Frank had a show with the same name back in the '80s.  Sandy is very protective of his properties.  I'm sure GSN asked Sandy for use of the title before going into production or maybe it's no big deal, :)
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Re: New GSN Show - Lie Detectors starts April 20
« Reply #6 on: March 18, 2015, 10:00:18 AM »
Sandy Frank had a show with the same name back in the '80s.  Sandy is very protective of his properties.

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Re: New GSN Show - Lie Detectors starts April 20
« Reply #7 on: March 18, 2015, 12:08:12 PM »
Sandy Frank had a show with the same name back in the '80s.  Sandy is very protective of his properties.  I'm sure GSN asked Sandy for use of the title before going into production or maybe it's no big deal, :)
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Re: New GSN Show - Lie Detectors starts April 20
« Reply #8 on: March 18, 2015, 12:56:05 PM »
B.  The early 80s show, at least the one I remember, was Lie Detector, singular.

If it did go before a judge, I'm pretty sure plural v. singular wouldn't be enough to get the case thrown out.
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Re: New GSN Show - Lie Detectors starts April 20
« Reply #9 on: March 18, 2015, 03:53:41 PM »
Sandy Frank had a show with the same name back in the '80s.  Sandy is very protective of his properties.  I'm sure GSN asked Sandy for use of the title before going into production or maybe it's no big deal, :)
I can think of two shoes called Lie Detector - the ABC game show with Jim Peck, and the syndicated show with F. Lee Bailey (probably the most famous "contestant" was Evel Knievel, who passed when he said that he wasn't responsible for the parachute deploying early in his Snake River Canyon jump attempt) - and I don't remember either one using the plural in the title.

It also sounds like the BBC radio series Hoax, except that in that one, two of the panelists are telling the truth and one is lying.

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Re: New GSN Show - Lie Detectors starts April 20
« Reply #10 on: March 18, 2015, 05:07:23 PM »
As Mike wrote in the first line of the page you linked, that set-up is hardly unique to Baloney either.
This reveals a hole in my knowledge space, but what shows had done that before? And if they're going to do this why not bring the foul-mouthed boozing puppets out of storage?
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Re: New GSN Show - Lie Detectors starts April 20
« Reply #11 on: March 18, 2015, 05:09:32 PM »
Sandy Frank had a show with the same name back in the '80s.  Sandy is very protective of his properties.  I'm sure GSN asked Sandy for use of the title before going into production or maybe it's no big deal, :)
I can think of two shoes called Lie Detector - the ABC game show with Jim Peck
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Re: New GSN Show - Lie Detectors starts April 20
« Reply #12 on: March 18, 2015, 06:16:19 PM »
As Mike wrote in the first line of the page you linked, that set-up is hardly unique to Baloney either.
This reveals a hole in my knowledge space, but what shows had done that before? And if they're going to do this why not bring the foul-mouthed boozing puppets out of storage?

In the general category of "which celeb is telling the truth?", I offhand had the aforementioned puppets, Trust Me, I'm a Game Show Host, Liars Club and Wordplay.  I'm sure there are others I'm not remembering.  Don mentioned the BBC radio show Hoax, and certainly there's a similar round in Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me.

Broadly speaking, it's also the device that drives the action in games like Battlestars, Break the Bank and shows of that type.
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Re: New GSN Show - Lie Detectors starts April 20
« Reply #13 on: March 18, 2015, 06:44:44 PM »
As Mike wrote in the first line of the page you linked, that set-up is hardly unique to Baloney either.
And if they're going to do this why not bring the foul-mouthed boozing puppets out of storage?
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Re: New GSN Show - Lie Detectors starts April 20
« Reply #14 on: March 18, 2015, 07:13:25 PM »
A thousand pardons; it is the puppets of Avenue Q who are foul-mouthed, the puppets from Late Night Liars were merely lubricated.
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