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aaron sica

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The Wheel's never spun in primetime...
« on: February 03, 2016, 10:01:53 AM »
TPiR has had its share of primetime runs over the years..The Feud is back in primetime again after many years..Jeopardy even had a primetime run back in 1990, and now Pyramid's going to primetime.

How come Wheel never got a chance?





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Re: The Wheel's never spun in primetime...
« Reply #1 on: February 03, 2016, 10:58:59 AM »
I don't mean this to sound snarky, but what would be its gimmick?
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Re: The Wheel's never spun in primetime...
« Reply #2 on: February 03, 2016, 11:11:38 AM »
I don't mean this to sound snarky, but what would be its gimmick?

No snarkiness came across to me. :) Well, Family Feud's primetime "pull" has always been celebrities...I would imagine that would work for Wheel as well. Have 3 celebrities play, and perhaps the winning celebrities would come back for a tournament..

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Re: The Wheel's never spun in primetime...
« Reply #3 on: February 03, 2016, 01:24:59 PM »
I don't mean this to sound snarky, but what would be its gimmick?

No snarkiness came across to me. :) Well, Family Feud's primetime "pull" has always been celebrities...I would imagine that would work for Wheel as well. Have 3 celebrities play, and perhaps the winning celebrities would come back for a tournament..

I would watch a longer Wheel episode with three comedians playing strictly for laughs, the way they do 8 Out Of 10 Cats Does Countdown in the UK.
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aaron sica

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Re: The Wheel's never spun in primetime...
« Reply #4 on: February 03, 2016, 01:32:05 PM »
I would watch a longer Wheel episode with three comedians playing strictly for laughs, the way they do 8 Out Of 10 Cats Does Countdown in the UK.

I don't think it would be too complicated to stretch a game out to an hour - perhaps bring back the "turn your backs" for a commercial break.

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Re: The Wheel's never spun in primetime...
« Reply #5 on: February 03, 2016, 01:36:59 PM »
I could see it being cast members of whatever network show, or simply a cast member from three different shows. I'm thinking of how a tournament format could work over the course of an hour, maybe do two separate games per half hour and have the two winners face off in a special two-player speed round.
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Re: The Wheel's never spun in primetime...
« Reply #6 on: February 03, 2016, 03:03:39 PM »
I don't mean this to sound snarky, but what would be its gimmick?
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Re: The Wheel's never spun in primetime...
« Reply #7 on: February 03, 2016, 03:15:59 PM »
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Re: The Wheel's never spun in primetime...
« Reply #8 on: February 03, 2016, 05:37:33 PM »
New consonants.

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Re: The Wheel's never spun in primetime...
« Reply #9 on: February 03, 2016, 05:55:54 PM »
..Jeopardy even had a primetime run back in 1990...
Good thread to ask a question I've wondered about.  Was Super Jeopardy! brought about to prop up Monopoly, or was it already a "stand-alone" series?

If it wasn't already a firmly-cemented part of the regular series, a Celebrity Wheel/Celebrity Jeopardy hour in summer primetime I could see working well.
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Re: The Wheel's never spun in primetime...
« Reply #10 on: February 03, 2016, 06:00:59 PM »
Good thread to ask a question I've wondered about.  Was Super Jeopardy! brought about to prop up Monopoly, or was it already a "stand-alone" series?

If it wasn't already a firmly-cemented part of the regular series, a Celebrity Wheel/Celebrity Jeopardy hour in summer primetime I could see working well.
A chapter of Inside Jeopardy goes into this. My memory (and I'll check when I get home tonight, because it's a single dedicated chapter that covers summer 1990 and thus easy to track down) is that the sale of Monopoly to ABC was either contingent upon or leavened with the Super Jeopardy tournament, and that SJ wouldn't have existed in that form at that time without the pairing.
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Re: The Wheel's never spun in primetime...
« Reply #11 on: February 03, 2016, 06:39:38 PM »
I don't mean this to sound snarky, but what would be its gimmick?
Perhaps the show could incorporate some of these suggestions (NSFW).

It would certainly liven up the "What Are You Doing?" category.

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Re: The Wheel's never spun in primetime...
« Reply #12 on: February 03, 2016, 07:16:41 PM »
TPiR has had its share of primetime runs over the years..The Feud is back in primetime again after many years..Jeopardy even had a primetime run back in 1990, and now Pyramid's going to primetime.

How come Wheel never got a chance?
I'm guessing because, unlike the shows listed above, Wheel 's syndicated edition has always been exclusively in early access (7:00 PM - 8:00 PM Eastern, your time may vary), so it might not have been appealing to any of the networks to put another version of it almost immediately thereafter.

Note Super Jeopardy! ran on Saturday evenings - I don't know if that was to avoid bumping up against the syndicated edition or not.  Jeopardy! isn't locked into early access, however.

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Re: The Wheel's never spun in primetime...
« Reply #13 on: February 03, 2016, 09:09:41 PM »
... - perhaps bring back the "turn your backs" for a commercial break.

99.68% of the viewers: "What the hell are they doing? That's stupid."
00.32% of the viewers: "Heh. They used to do that on the game a long time ago."


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Re: The Wheel's never spun in primetime...
« Reply #14 on: February 03, 2016, 09:28:33 PM »
99.68% of the viewers: "What the hell are they doing? That's stupid."
00.32% of the viewers: "Heh. They used to do that on the game a long time ago."
The reason to have people turn away from the board is so that during a stop down they don't see something inadvertently. Jeopardy does it too. I don't think the show gains anything by placing a commercial break in a place where it hasn't been for about thirty years, even though they probably could wipe the board and bring it up again coming back from the ads.
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