Coming soon to GSN: Billiards

[thgames65]

Grand prize of $20K

http://losangeles.craigslist.org/tfr/58976243.html



Tim H.

[Don Howard]

Sweet Jesus! Hope saying that on Ash Wednesday doesn't get me excommunicated.
Can All-Star Tiddlywinks and Extreme Voice Of The Mummy be far behind?

[tyshaun1]

[quote name=\'Don Howard\' date=\'Feb 9 2005, 04:37 PM\']Can All-Star Tiddlywinks and Extreme Voice Of The Mummy be far behind?

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Personally, I'm waiting for All-Star Parcheesi and The $1,000,000 Pokemon Card Game.

Tyshaun

[sshuffield70]

I dunno....that Hollywood Connect Four is becoming more and more real every day.

[Chief-O]

Not to mention, it probably won't be too long before we hear about a pilot for "All-Star Go Fish".

[byrd62]

[quote name=\'Chief-O\' date=\'Feb 9 2005, 08:31 PM\']Not to mention, it probably won't be too long before we hear about a pilot for "All-Star Go Fish".

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Or maybe "Live Action Yu-Gi-Oh!"?  [The Japanese animated adventure card game cartoon becomes a game played by real people]

[The Ol' Guy]

Celebrity Bingo.  Coolio and 24 other great stars. Live from Burbank Moose Lodge #652. Now there's a paint-dryer...

[johnnya2k3]

Or even the Scrabble Masters Tournament...oh wait, it was aired once before on ESPN.

Jonathan Allen, hoping "UNO Card Sharks" doesn't go forward

[BrandonFG]

[quote name=\'The Ol' Guy\' date=\'Feb 9 2005, 09:45 PM\']Celebrity Bingo.  Coolio and 24 other great stars. Live from Burbank Moose Lodge #652.

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The moose lodge joke is enough to make this a Line Of The Day. Whether it's a diagonal, vertical, or horizontal line is up to you.

I'm waiting for The $50,000 Sleeper myself. The host is everyone's favorite sleeper, Paris Hilton. The more articles of clothing removed, the less money you get. Anyone smart enough to take off the blindfold first wins the $50,000.

This game requires common sense, so recruiting will start at the Wheel Of Fortune contestant offices.

[reason1024]

Ah, come on... it's not as bad as all that!  9-Ball is an established feature on ESPN (well, ESPN2, mostly) -- where are the posters yelling "Wait until it actually airs!"?

[Dbacksfan12]

[quote name=\'reason1024\' date=\'Feb 9 2005, 11:26 PM\']Ah, come on... it's not as bad as all that!  9-Ball is an established feature on ESPN (well, ESPN2, mostly)
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Or even the Scrabble Masters Tournament...oh wait, it was aired once before on ESPN.

All this does is show the sad state of ESPN.

[dmota104]

All this does is show the sad state of ESPN.

Granted, ESPN hasn't been quite the same the last few years.  But, billiards has always been at the very least a timekiller -- either on ESPN or ESPN2.

I can remember watching part of a billiards tourney in the late '80s.

[zachhoran]

[quote name=\'dmota104\' date=\'Feb 10 2005, 06:50 AM\']

All this does is show the sad state of ESPN.

Granted, ESPN hasn't been quite the same the last few years.  But, billiards has always been at the very least a timekiller -- either on ESPN or ESPN2.

I can remember watching part of a billiards tourney in the late '80s.

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ESPN2 does do several hours of coverage of the National Spelling Bee on day two of the finals in late May/early June. I give them credit for airing something like that.

[Ian Wallis]

Personally, I'm waiting for All-Star Parcheesi and The $1,000,000 Pokemon Card Game.

What about "Celebrity Dominoes".  No wait....that's already been tried on Canadian television!

[PYLdude]

[quote name=\'zachhoran\' date=\'Feb 10 2005, 08:53 AM\']ESPN2 does do several hours of coverage of the National Spelling Bee on day two of the finals in late May/early June.

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No foolin'? Wow. I didn't know that.

[quote name=\'zachhoran\' date=\'Feb 10 2005, 08:53 AM\']I give them credit for airing something like that.

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I can't understand what is going on with ESPN having pool, chess, checkers, Scrabble and spelling bees. They're a sports network! That's one of the main problems I've got with that (SPELLING IS NOT A SPORT!). Stick to sports (though keep the World Series of Poker).

I can't honestly see why someone would make a show out of billiards, but the truth is, it is GSN after all, and look at what they've become over the span of a year and change.

Such is life...next thing you know, they'll have Championship Magic: The Gathering, followed by Extreme D&D and Celebrity Risk.