Author Topic: ABC greenights This is Your Life (Read 5666 times)

goongas · « **on:** August 28, 2005, 08:19:00 PM »

Kevin Prather · « **Reply #1 on:** August 28, 2005, 08:44:21 PM »

Hmm... Uh-HMM...This could be pretty good if they don't screw it up...

Maybe it WILL be okay. After all, it looks as if Ralph Edwards will be taking part in it. We'll just have to see.

Matt Ottinger · « **Reply #2 on:** August 28, 2005, 09:56:45 PM »

Slightly longer article.

Based on the information I've gotten from the last two Game Show Congresses, it seems very, very unlikely that Ralph Edwards is going to have any direct involvement with the new project whatsoever. When the family uses the phrase "resting comfortably" a lot, you don't expect very many more TV appearances.

calliaume · « **Reply #3 on:** August 28, 2005, 11:08:59 PM »

Ralph Edwards is now 92, per IMDB - I can't imagine he'd have much involvement, nor should anyone expect him to.

It's not that hard a show to do - as far as ABC's concerned, it's a cross between Biography and Extreme Makeover: Home Edition. It's also not a game show, for that matter.

chris319 · « **Reply #4 on:** August 29, 2005, 12:12:53 AM »

Fox is producing this for ABC? Huh?

Hope that the spots don't turn out like this:

(INSERT NAME), you were on Saturday Night Live. Then you made dozens of truly forgettable motion pictures. (INSERT NAME), shallow though it may be, This Is Your Life! We'll be right back after these messages.

sshuffield70 · « **Reply #5 on:** August 29, 2005, 08:57:55 AM »

[quote name=\'chris319\' date=\'Aug 28 2005, 11:12 PM\']Fox is producing this for ABC? Huh?

Hope that the spots don't turn out like this:

(INSERT NAME), you were on Saturday Night Live. Then you made dozens of truly forgettable motion pictures. (INSERT NAME), shallow though it may be, This Is Your Life! We'll be right back after these messages.

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"We'll be back with your life........after the break"

chris319 · « **Reply #6 on:** August 29, 2005, 03:03:31 PM »

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"We'll be back with your life........after the break"

Well, no. See, my point was that the subject's life and career could be summed up in about two or three sentences, then the spot is over and it's time for a commercial.

sshuffield70 · « **Reply #7 on:** August 29, 2005, 11:05:33 PM »

[quote name=\'chris319\' date=\'Aug 29 2005, 02:03 PM\']

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"We'll be back with your life........after the break"

Well, no. See, my point was that the subject's life and career could be summed up in about two or three sentences, then the spot is over and it's time for a commercial.

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Got what you said. I just did something equally ridiculous.

Neumms · « **Reply #8 on:** August 29, 2005, 11:08:25 PM »

Instead of the handsome leather volume Ralph Edwards carried around, perhaps the new host could walk around with a leaflet.

Don Howard · « **Reply #9 on:** August 29, 2005, 11:14:42 PM »

[quote name=\'Neumms\' date=\'Aug 29 2005, 10:08 PM\']Instead of the handsome leather volume Ralph Edwards carried around, perhaps the new host could walk around with a leaflet.

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Oh, the leather volume will be needed to read the subject's rap sheet:
"And here's Officer Malloy, who along with Officer Reed, who you took a shot at and is still in recovery, pulled you over on your fourth drinking and driving offense".

TimK2003 · « **Reply #10 on:** August 31, 2005, 07:34:05 PM »

[quote name=\'chris319\' date=\'Aug 29 2005, 02:03 PM\']

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"We'll be back with your life........after the break"

Well, no. See, my point was that the subject's life and career could be summed up in about two or three sentences, then the spot is over and it's time for a commercial.

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Then in that case, they should have Elmer Fudd as the host and call the show, "This...is a Life!?!?"

(Those who used to faithfully watch Bugs Bunny on Saturday Mornings would get this one).

"And so, Diddy, nee P. Diddy, nee Puff Daddy, nee whatever the hell else you have called yourself in the past, These Are Your Lives..."

Kevin Prather · « **Reply #11 on:** August 31, 2005, 07:39:15 PM »

[quote name=\'TimK2003\' date=\'Aug 31 2005, 04:34 PM\']Then in that case, they should have Elmer Fudd as the host and call the show, "This...is a Life!?!?"

(Those who used to faithfully watch Bugs Bunny on Saturday Mornings would get this one).
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"Let's start in the early years. The big bang happened, mountains and oceans were created, and in a pond lay two tiny amoebas..."