Who's your daddy? The new Fox Game show?

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[quote name=\'The Ol' Guy\' date=\'Dec 28 2004, 10:27 AM\'] After all, Match Game became What The Blank in Fox's hands. Does anyone know if the producers started out with that title and concept, or did Fox want an edgier name/concept?

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[/quote]See a pattern:

New Press Your Luck = Whammy!

Match Game = What the Blank

What next?

Come on Down = The All New Price is Right

[Jimmy Owen]

The reunion idea is not new. "Truth or Consequences" and "It Could Be You" did it years ago with decorum.

[uncamark]

[quote name=\'chris319\' date=\'Dec 28 2004, 01:14 AM\']

Fox really pushes buttons.

Think of it from the producer's perspective. If you came up with the idea for this show, which network would you pitch it to first? Hint: not CBS, not WB.

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I've heard that Darnell often comes up with a lot of these himself and then farms them out to his favored list of suppliers.  Sometimes I wonder what shows, if any, Rocket Science have actually come up with *themselves.*

Fremantle's not involved--and they've tended to come in to Fox in the past with something that Darnell didn't come up with ("The Swan" can be blamed totally at the feet of Nely Galan, who for one brief shining moment actually had a hit show in a stunningly mediocre career) or something that's already been done elsewhere ("Idol," "The Complex," "What the Blank?").

[Don Howard]

[quote name=\'The Ol' Guy\' date=\'Dec 28 2004, 10:27 AM\']Match Game became What The Blank in Fox's hands. Does anyone know if the producers started out with that title and concept, or did Fox want an edgier name/concept?

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I may have deduced why FOX never flew this flag. The pilot turned out to have better taste that they thought it would, so they passed on moving it along to series.
The foregoing is all Don Howard Theory--based entirely on conjecture.

[calliaume]

And as for the original Who's Your Daddy? concept, well, my wife and I did that nearly four years ago.

[sshuffield70]

The Great One did it again....

Do you have any more tricks up your sleeve, Curt?

[johnnya2k3]

[quote name=\'mmb5\' date=\'Dec 23 2004, 01:48 PM\']That's the worst that I could actually believe them doing.  Two others are so far beyond the pale that even I would be surprised:  One is basically Running Man;  the other has a bunch of people who need the same organ and are compatible for the same one.

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The Running Man? Hey, didn't the idea for "American Gladiators" come from that Schwarzenegger masterpiece?

[johnnya2k3]

[quote name=\'Craig Karlberg\' date=\'Dec 24 2004, 01:41 AM\']And just when you thought reality television has already scraped the bottom of the barrel & WHAM! this comes along.  I don't think Fox will ever learn that stuff like this appears to have run its course right now.  Three or four years ago, sure it was hip to do something like that.  Now, it's just more junk thrown at us.  PLEASE!  I'd rather watch Amazing Race than this.

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Or of course, the one, true, original reality television show that's still on the air after all these decades:

THE NEWS!!!!! (especially for much more on the tsunami aftermath in Asia)

[Dbacksfan12]

[quote name=\'johnnya2k3\' date=\'Dec 29 2004, 01:30 AM\']Or of course, the one, true, original reality television show that's still on the air after all these decades:
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I thought that would be "The Insider".
Who's a host of that show, again?

[clemon79]

[quote name=\'Dsmith\' date=\'Dec 28 2004, 11:57 PM\'][quote name=\'johnnya2k3\' date=\'Dec 29 2004, 01:30 AM\']Or of course, the one, true, original reality television show that's still on the air after all these decades:
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I thought that would be "The Insider".
Who's a host of that show, again?

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The name evades me, but damn, he's good.

[ChuckNet]

The name evades me, but damn, he's good.

I AGREE! :-D :-D :-D

Chuck Donegan (The Veering-Into-Dangerous-Territory "Chuckie Baby")

[DrBear]

[quote name=\'calliaume\' date=\'Dec 28 2004, 08:25 PM\']And as for the original Who's Your Daddy? concept, well, my wife and I did that nearly four years ago.

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Actually, I think it was done as the miniseries "Lace," with Phoebe Cates.
"Which one of you b*st*rds is my father?"
(and surprised Fox didn't borrow that to plug this series.)

[SplitSecond]

[quote name=\'calliaume\' date=\'Dec 28 2004, 07:25 PM\']And as for the original Who's Your Daddy? concept, well, my wife and I did that nearly four years ago.

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Let's count so far... Curt has come up with Who's Your Daddy?, accurately predicted what the end game for Balderdash would be if there was ever a TV adaptation... what else?

[GS Warehouse]

[quote name=\'DrBear\' date=\'Dec 29 2004, 07:35 PM\']... "Which one of you b*st*rds is my father?"
(and surprised Fox didn't borrow that to plug this series.)

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That plug would not sit well with the FCC.  Fox is already in their doghouse for that one ep of Married by America.

[quote name=\'SplitSecond\' date=\'Dec 29 2004, 10:17 PM\']Let's count so far... Curt has come up with Who's Your Daddy?, accurately predicted what the end game for Balderdash would be if there was ever a TV adaptation... what else?

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Curt, who's going to win the Super Bowl in February?

[sshuffield70]

Actually, Curt also predicted the Balderdash gameplay as well.

There's a reason he's known as The Great One.