[quote name=\'dzinkin\' date=\'Jul 25 2005, 02:01 PM\']While I was searching in vain for anything on the planned mid-to-late '80s revival of MG, I found an interesting article on international game shows. I can't reprint the whole article here for obvious reasons, but there's a reference to a French game show whose title when translated to English is "The Club of the Gay and Clever," and some information on Reg Grundy Productions and Fremantle. In particular, this quote caught my eye:
Says French journalist Bruno Silvestre, who could be speaking for much of the world: "We don't have quite the idiocy of American game shows, but we're catching up fast."
Thoughts? :-)
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Not to engage in any broad country-bashing, but this is the country that created the show that "Countdown" was based on, "Les Chiffres et les Lettres," a program that when viewed can easily be seen why the Brits added a punning host, a celeb judge, catchy think music and eye candy who could do math problems in her head.
Speaking of Carol Vorderman, last week the NY Times had an article on Danica McKellar, who most of you know as Winnie on "The Wonder Years" (and is now grown up on "The West Wing"), but is also a math prodigy who even had a proof named after her during her time away from acting. (She also does math tutoring on her
web site--I didn't include a link to the article since it's about to expire and you have to be registered for the Times, anyway.) All I could think when I read the article was, "Well, if we ever do an American version of 'Countdown'..."