Variety Article about "The Wall"

[tvmitch]

Semi-interesting article about The Wall, with a buried lede, emphasis mine:

Though the French version lacks the outsize cash payout that heightens the drama on the U.S. series, it has proven to be a success as a five-day-a-week strip in daytime. That, Telegdy hopes, is a sign that the show can work elsewhere in first-run syndication as well as primetime.

“It’s ticking a number of very commercial boxes for us,” he says. “Not only is it a very valuable asset on NBC, it’s starting to look promising for us that it could work in first-run.”

http://variety.com/2017/tv/news/the-wall-nbc-endemol-shine-1202476293/

A daily version could still be compelling with just a tenth of the stakes.

[Jimmy Owen]

You mean like "Plinko"?

[mxc0427]

You mean like "Plinko"?

No, like Pachinko.

[Matt Ottinger]

You mean like "Plinko"?

For the 7,481st time, The Price Is Right did not invent this.

[TLEberle]

A daily version could still be compelling with just a tenth of the stakes.

I fervently disagree--the whole point is the giant wall and giant stakes--I think that a daily version would wear itself out very quickly.

[mxc0427]

You mean like "Plinko"?

For the 7,481st time, The Price Is Right did not invent this.

[Jimmy Owen]

I'm talking about as a television concept.

[Matt Ottinger]

I'm talking about as a television concept.

Don't particularly care.  It gets old.

[Peter Sarrett]

Tangentially related: Turing Tumble just got funded on Kickstarter.  Looking forward to playing it with my son.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/871405126/turing-tumble-gaming-on-a-mechanical-computer

[TLEberle]

That looks fantastic.