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BrandonFG

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Re: "$100,000 Pyramid" primetime this summer on ABC
« Reply #135 on: April 19, 2016, 11:05:01 PM »
As for the topic at hand, I'm looking forward to more Pyramid, but I absolutely agree that if ABC waited almost a year to schedule To Tell The Truth, it doesn't bode well.
I thought summer replacement was always the intent for TTTT?

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Re: "$100,000 Pyramid" primetime this summer on ABC
« Reply #136 on: April 20, 2016, 12:10:53 AM »
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Re: "$100,000 Pyramid" primetime this summer on ABC
« Reply #137 on: April 20, 2016, 12:18:01 AM »
https://youtube.com/watch?v=se-eXJPu8_c
What a load of garbage. The "Secret Cube" element is totally a golden snitch mechanic.
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Re: "$100,000 Pyramid" primetime this summer on ABC
« Reply #139 on: April 20, 2016, 01:02:29 AM »
Five Escudos to Kevin for reminding me about that. I did like that they kept to the color scheme, and I think I would wear that jacket unironically.
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Re: "$100,000 Pyramid" primetime this summer on ABC
« Reply #140 on: April 20, 2016, 08:09:00 AM »
Any GSFers going to be at today's 7pm taping?
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Re: "$100,000 Pyramid" primetime this summer on ABC
« Reply #141 on: April 20, 2016, 05:16:37 PM »
I'm not sure what to do other then link to this page, which I first came across years ago - http://www.jrjgames.com/rubiks/.

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Re: "$100,000 Pyramid" primetime this summer on ABC
« Reply #142 on: April 20, 2016, 05:31:01 PM »
Since I'm not a lawyer:

If you buy the rights to a property such as "TV version of something," for how long does that last? Even though it looks for all the world like an abandoned page it has all of the boilerplate language which makes me think that John Ricci Rich still has the rights to a TV version of a property that is now over 40 years old. Are those rights transferrable from John to whoever couldn't get the title deed to the Brooklyn Bridge or do they have to revert to Dr. Erno first?
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Re: "$100,000 Pyramid" primetime this summer on ABC
« Reply #143 on: April 20, 2016, 06:04:20 PM »
On my mobile device, that looked like "Dr. Emo" to me. Therefore...



...would be more fun to watch than a Rubik's Cube gameshow.

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Re: "$100,000 Pyramid" primetime this summer on ABC
« Reply #144 on: April 20, 2016, 08:02:58 PM »
I absolutely agree that if ABC waited almost a year to schedule To Tell The Truth, it doesn't bode well.
Didn't they go the same route with Million-Dollar Mind Game as well?
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Re: "$100,000 Pyramid" primetime this summer on ABC
« Reply #145 on: April 20, 2016, 10:32:22 PM »
I absolutely agree that if ABC waited almost a year to schedule To Tell The Truth, it doesn't bode well.
Didn't they go the same route with Million-Dollar Mind Game as well?

 Sorta. It would have probably stayed in the can if the NBA had not suffered a labor strike.
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Re: "$100,000 Pyramid" primetime this summer on ABC
« Reply #146 on: April 20, 2016, 11:01:51 PM »
Regarding contestants - before the first show was taped, they had name tags that were quite colorful. Right before they were about to tape, someone in the control room said over the P.A. system "Lose the name tags." The contestants are referred to by first name only, so they've taken a page from the GSN playbook. The first show taped had someone named Victor, so watch for him. The celebs on the shows I saw were on ABC shows. They were good and seemed evenly matched.

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Re: "$100,000 Pyramid" primetime this summer on ABC
« Reply #147 on: April 20, 2016, 11:41:00 PM »
The contestants are referred to by first name only, so they've taken a page from the GSN playbook.
Other than their very brief introduction, I don't recall any other version of Pyramid using the contestant's full name or wearing name tag, so I'm not quite sure what you're mean by the show "taking a page from the GSN playbook."
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Re: "$100,000 Pyramid" primetime this summer on ABC
« Reply #148 on: April 21, 2016, 12:39:29 AM »
Dick would routinely refer to contestants by their full name, especially when it was during a recap of the previous round. GSN of late does not do that, referring to contestants by just their first name.
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Re: "$100,000 Pyramid" primetime this summer on ABC
« Reply #149 on: April 21, 2016, 02:31:57 AM »
In defense of the inflated money today's $25k episode had Florence Henderson committing a foul on the $250 box in an otherwise flawless summit attempt that the contestant had no control over. With the current money paradigm it would be $12,500 instead of $50k or $100k with no chance to come back the next day to try again, as opposed to $800 and a likely return trip the next day.
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