"$100,000 Pyramid" primetime this summer on ABC

[Kevin Prather]

There are no returning champions, I'm assuming? If all players are one-and-done (or two-and-done as the case may be), then upping the consolation prizes isn't such a bad idea.

[Jeremy Nelson]

Wow. The top box is as much as the top prize was for the first successful try at the WC on $50K Pyramid.

Even I will allow that there's gonna be SOME inflation over 36 years, but yeah, the potential for walking away with $15,500 for losing (most of the time gonna be closer to $11,500, but stay with me here) seems a little high.

There's no front game money to be won, there's no returning champions, players still have to earn it (unlike a show like Deal or No Deal), and it's in primetime. I'm fine with a contestant who wins both games but loses the Winner's Circle leaving with $10K plus.

[TLEberle]

A contestant who wins both halves and gets everything but the tippy-top box in both halves would win $23,000. That is indeed a good day out, especially since no parting gifts and paying your own way and all those other paradigm shifts mentioned. Back in 2002 someone who did the same thing would win $2,400.

[bscripps]

Speaking of social media, enjoy a look into the control room as posted by the show's technical director on Instagram.

I don't usually have a lot of actual information to contribute around these parts, so I always feel like I should when there's something I actually know:

If anyone's wondering, the switcher is a 4 M/E Snell Kahuna.  The (slightly) bigger version of my 3 M/E baby at work.

[byrd62]

And no sooner was Michael Strahan already in the middle of taping Pyramid than ABC News just announced that he will join Good Morning America full-time this fall, thus leaving his role as Kelly Ripa's co-host, but still finding time to work on the Fox NFL Sunday pregame show.

http://ftw.usatoday.com/2016/04/michael-strahan-good-morning-america

[golden-road]

And as per Variety, we've got a start date of June 26th. http://variety.com/2016/tv/news/uncle-buck-to-tell-the-truth-premiere-dates-abc-summer-1201757030/

[TLEberle]

Notwithstanding that Variety has a hallowed place on the medal podium of loathsome publications, Uncle Buck is one of the last properties I can think of that deserved a TV deal in the first place, certainly not twice.

[ChrisLambert!]

I'm assuming TTTT is an hour-long show, because otherwise they'd be burning 2/3 of their available inventory on premiere night.

[colonial]

Looking at that summer schedule, it appears ABC has zero confidence in "TTTT".  Bad time slot with a potentially cringe-worthy lead-in.

Celebrity Feud was able to beat Big Brother head-to-head last season, so this is a good vote of confidence for Pyramid.


JD

[JasonA1]

I'm assuming TTTT is an hour-long show, because otherwise they'd be burning 2/3 of their available inventory on premiere night.

Yes; hour show.

-Jason

[BrandonFG]

Seeing game shows at 10 p.m. just sounds odd to me, even with the success of Hollywood Game Night. I get that Blackish airs on Tuesdays, and even the reruns make a nice lead-in for TTTT. But I'd think you have a nice setup with three hours of games on Sunday night.

/Travis made my point about a second Uncle Buck sitcom
//Never mind the fact that it's been 27 years since the movie
///What next? A TV show based on the 1998 movie Rush Hour?

[MSTieScott]

Looking at that summer schedule, it appears ABC has zero confidence in "TTTT".  Bad time slot with a potentially cringe-worthy lead-in.

Plus the fact that they waited approximately a full year to air it.

I get that Blackish airs on Tuesdays, and even the reruns make a nice lead-in for TTTT.

"Black-ish" is a Wednesday show. It looks like ABC wants "Uncle Buck" to be the lead-in for each week.


(That promotional picture for "Uncle Buck" at the top of the Variety article pretty much tells me everything I need to know about whether I'll want to watch it.)

[clemon79]

///What next? A TV show based on the 1998 movie Rush Hour?

A game show based on Rubik's Cube.

[DoItRockapella]

///What next? A TV show based on the 1998 movie Rush Hour?

A game show based on Rubik's Cube.

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/.

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.

[TLEberle]

The next two things he should look into licensing are Tamagotchi and, well, nothing faddish from the 2000s springs to mind right now.