NBC announces "The Wall"

[Matt Ottinger]

A Plinko diagram once showed that dropping the chip from the middle not surprisingly gives you a better chance of hitting the middle slot,

The underlying mathematical exercise is named for a guy who lived in the 17th century, and people were studying this concept centuries before him.  Believe me when I say there's a body of work that predates 1983.

[CJBojangles]

Cripes, is it possible to have one new show that isn't filled with "COMING UP..." bumpers before every break? It's very tiresome to have to look away from and/or mute the TV so the remainder isn't completely spoiled. Are those teases really what are keeping people tuned in the full hour?

[The Ol' Guy]

That's part of the big problem - full hour. Anything that can eat up minutes is thrown our way when, as others have said, you toss a 10-minute game into an hour slot. At least TPIR has dozens of different mini-games, and, whether one likes it or not, Brady and crew are being told to "make the show their own" by stretching out of the classic game show host mold, as per that recent interview. If you can't make every minute potentially entertaining in one way or another, can the crap. You're wasting our time. You bring up a good point. Imagine NCIS or Criminal Minds doing a potentially spoiling "coming up" before each commercial break. 

[clemon79]

If trivia determined the color of more of the balls, it would add skill and give them more game to fill out the hour.

It also randomizes the potential payouts that much more, which is not desirable from a host of different financial standpoints, chief of which being: the more random your payouts, the higher premium you pay insuring against said payouts, and that's sunk cost regardless of what you actually end up paying out.

[BrandonFG]

Cripes, is it possible to have one new show that isn't filled with "COMING UP..." bumpers before every break? It's very tiresome to have to look away from and/or mute the TV so the remainder isn't completely spoiled. Are those teases really what are keeping people tuned in the full hour?

This reminds me of a question that I had...do they suddenly cut to commercial in the middle of a drop?

[colonial]

I don't think they went to commercial mid-drop in the premiere, but we still have several episodes to go.

[Loogaroo]

Just posted my opinion of the show, for anyone interested.

Honestly, there wasn't anything about the show that was aggressively bad. It just went in my brain and went right back out without really hitting anything. I'll probably watch the shows in January if nothing else is going on, but it's hardly appointment TV.

[Matt Ottinger]

I finally remembered what this show reminded me of, flaws and all, though the "game" of it couldn't be any different.  This crowd (and pretty much ONLY this crowd) will remember the blink-and-you-missed-it You Deserve It.  There are a lot of similarities, primarily the casting of uplifting stories rather than contestants, and the inherent flaw of your jackpot going down rather than up.  I happened to like the earlier one a lot more because I enjoyed the playalong value of the puzzles, and of course the reveal to someone who doesn't even know what's happening is a lot better than the artificiality of The Wall's final act.  But both were/are badly flawed.

[SuperSweeper]

My brother and I considered auditioning for this one, as they had A TON (a dozen?) of auditions in the Akron/Cleveland area, but we never followed through.

Having seen the show, I don't think we would have had a compelling enough story to make it.

[TimK2003]

And if you were wondering when Monday Night's winners got paid, it was today:

[cyclone45]

Wait, they got hard CASH?? You'd think they'd get a check.

[Jimmy Owen]

Wait, they got hard CASH?? You'd think they'd get a check.

LeBron had the cash on him, soo.....

[parliboy]

So, I finally sat down and watched this, and I do have a question:

If the contestants are fully apprised of the rules, then they knew how much was being added to the guarantee for each right answer.  In which case, what's with this horseshit they were throwing around that he thought he only got two correct?

Rigged, no.  Dramatized like hell, yes.

[TLEberle]

So, I finally sat down and watched this, and I do have a question:

If the contestants are fully apprised of the rules, then they knew how much was being added to the guarantee for each right answer.  In which case, what's with this horseshit they were throwing around that he thought he only got two correct?

Rigged, no.  Dramatized like hell, yes.

It's very possible that they aren't completely apprised of the rules. Which also means that if this somehow makes it to another series that everyone else will know the dilemma.

Not for nothing, but a pair of contestants vaulted to #9 on the all-time winnings list for answering a handful of cake-easy quiz questions and being a bit fortunate.

[Chuck Sutton]

As I understood while watching he did not know the final amount of the guarantee.

He knew it was the originial amount plus the amounts for right answers.   He had to estimate the final amount and did not think he added much .