I was flipping through the channels on Sunday (3pmET) and came across the show \"Can You Tell\" on the Oxygen Channel. I didn't see the whole thing, so I don't even know who the host is, but the DirecTV on screen guide implied it was a new show, the date given as this past June (which would imply it's been on for about three weeks now). If anybody else has seen the show, feel free to provide more info or their own review.
Premise: Almost a rip-off of the \"final\" round on TTTT90, in which one civilian was brought out with two possible premises, one of which was true and the other false. On \"Can You Tell\", there were two civilians and two premises (related from a language sense), with each premise matching one of the civilians. On the episode I saw, there were: a \"mother of five\" and a \"Mother Superior\", and a segment with a \"personal trainer\" and an \"animal trainer\". The panel (apparently celebs since they weren't wearing nametags) asked questions of the civilians and at the end had to guess which civilian fit which premise. Everybody seemed to get a flat $500 regardless of how many celebs guessed wrong.
Review: I'd have to watch a complete episode or two give it a full review, but the format seems to have a few problems the TTTT90 format didn't have. Since as far as I could tell, everybody had to tell the truth, it seems as if there'd have to be more judgment on the part of the host as to disallowing certain questions -- you can't just ask a contestant, \"Are you the Mother Superior?\". On TTTT, you could do this simply because the civilian was expected to lie about the false premise, as well as imposters in the regular game. If they were regularly to get celebs interested in playing the game and not promoting themselves, I don't think it would be any worse than a lot of other latter-day game shows.
