For the most part, this sounds like they’ve stayed pretty true to the classic format. The 5 question/10 card format seems odd, but I assume that’s to take care of the straddling issue. And I wish they’d kept the push rule, but I get the whole budget constraint thing, plus it’s not like this is an entirely new change. So I have no real complaints at this stage.
A few questions for anyone who’s in the know...
— Is this still 2 out of 3 games? I’d assume so, as the Q&A discussion seemingly would have to be awfully stretched out for it to be a single game. But I wasn’t entirely clear on that from the Buzzerblog article.
— If it is 2 of 3, is the third game shortened as in the classic versions? Or is it still 5 questions/10 cards?
— What were the questions like, content-wise? Fairly close to the original (albeit with 21st century sensibilities)? Or did they go full-on Harvey Feud?
— I know it’s airing for an hour, but is it essentially 2 back-to-back episodes that could be stripped later, as most of the other ABC revivals have been? Or did they stretch out one entire match (+Money Cards) to an hour?