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Game shows overdue for a remake
Neumms:
--- Quote from: clemon79 on September 12, 2024, 06:02:34 PM ---They already had it, although I thought ten seconds was a bit stiff. So do the Whew! thing and run off five, and the audience can count along. At the end of the five the next two letters pop in and play continues.
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I meant figuring out a fair penalty. I like yours better.
Otm Shank:
I was explaining to the kids about "Win Ben Stein's Money," and then 🤯 "hey, they should totally reboot that!"
I always thought that "The Challengers" would be a decent reboot for a cable news channel, but then that risks preemption too much.
Jeremy Nelson:
--- Quote from: TheInquisitiveOne on September 08, 2024, 01:29:22 AM ---I am of the thought that a case can be made for Scrabble. What would make it easy is that they could easily resort to the self-contained format NBC went with from 1985 onward. And if time is tight, resort to a best-of-3 format instead of a best-of-5.
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I think I've got a fix that eliminates the uneven round timing issue- just play the front game with three people.
Same format, just another person to go down the line. Scoring could stay the same or just play for the word's official Scrabble score since Hasbro seems to want to stick closer to the actual game. Play the crossword round for the first two segments, with the top two scorers moving on to the Sprint.
DoItRockapella:
--- Quote from: Otm Shank on September 20, 2024, 10:34:24 PM ---I was explaining to the kids about "Win Ben Stein's Money," and then 🤯 "hey, they should totally reboot that!"
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I'm going to repeat what I said in August in the "Great, but forgotten, long-running shows" thread:
--- Quote ---While I quite like WBSM, I don't think it could be revived, largely because it seems to me to be completely dependent on Ben Stein's persona. I doubt he would come back, and I also doubt the show would work if you swapped Ben out for a Jeopardy superchampion or whatever.
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As for my answer to the question which game show I think is overdue for a remake...I'm honestly having a hard time coming up with one, largely because in the revival boom of the past ~10 years, pretty much every game show I would want to see revived has been. I would go with my username and say WITWICS, but I honestly get the feeling a 21st century kid would just see that show as a 90s relic. It also doesn't help that the 2019 Carmen Sandiego cartoon on Netflix missed the point so completely that I've taken to calling it CASINO, for CArmen Sandiego In Name Only.
BrandonFG:
Dunno if I agree about it not working just because Ben is too dry. The Chase showed that you could have a charismatic nerd to root against, although I wasn’t a big fan of just how much they played up the villain role in the second season of the ABC version. You’re not supposed to like the Chaser obviously, but I felt The Beast and Ken/James/Brad had some charm to their cartoonish villainy.
There was also Win Beadle's Money in the UK. But for a US reboot, I always liked the idea of Neil Degrasse Tyson. Maybe Brad Rutter?
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