Would TPIR be any different...

[cmjb13]

Without a sunken audience (for example, bleachers like Tattletales), or would it not make a difference?

[Steve_Bier]

Yes, and I can tell you why (although it may sound like a lame reason).

If the audience were set up bleacher-style (a' la Tattletales), there is a strong possibility that when Johnny (or Rod/Burton/Randy) called someone to \"C'mon Down\", they could, in all their excitement, fall down the bleachers and get severly injured.

At least, with a sunken audience, the contestant is running down a ramp of sorts, and not stairs. It is enevitably (sp?) safer.

[GS Warehouse]

[quote name=\'Steve_Bier\' date=\'Aug 21 2003, 06:39 PM\'] ... enevitably (sp?) ... [/quote]
 I never thought I'd miss ezBoard.  I kind of wish we had spell-check here.

[Kevin Prather]

inevitably.

[Steve_Bier]

Thanks!

[Gus]

Aren't there foreign versions of TPIR that use bleacher-seating?

[bricon]

When I worked at Paramount studios in the late 1980's, I asked our facility manager if any game shows had been done there - at that time he could only recall the Wipeout pilot and series, but he did say that several years earlier, TPIR had investigated moving the show to Paramount.  He didn't give any reasoning for the possible move, but he did say they would have shot the show on stage 31, and would have used an adjoining stage for prize/set storage.  He said that Paramount would have had a bit of trouble accomodating all the audience process and parking during the week, and that weekend tapings would have been more feasible on the studio's end.  I would speculate that is one reason the whole thing went away.

To tie it in to the original question, had it shot on stage 31 it would have been a raised bleacher setup.

[ChuckNet]

I never thought I'd miss ezBoard. I kind of wish we had spell-check here.

Yeah, that'd be a nie fwature. :-)

Chuck Donegan (The Comedic \"Chuckie Baby\")

[PeterMarshallFan]

[quote name=\'ChuckNet\' date=\'Aug 22 2003, 06:30 PM\']

I never thought I'd miss ezBoard. I kind of wish we had spell-check here.

Yeah, that'd be a nie fwature. :-)

Chuck Donegan (The Comedic "Chuckie Baby") [/quote]
 yu aint kiding chuk.

[Kevin Prather]

spel chek wud be NU! NU! N....sorry.

[Casey Buck]

[quote name=\'whoserman\' date=\'Aug 22 2003, 03:58 PM\'] spel chek wud be NU! NU! N....sorry. [/quote]
 *tosses 3 dozen two-week-old Krispy Kreme donuts at whoserman*

[Kevin Prather]

sorry. i couldn't resist.

[rugrats1]

When I worked at Paramount studios in the late 1980's, I asked our facility manager if any game shows had been done there ... he did say that several years earlier, TPIR had investigated moving the show to Paramount.

I wonder if this led to Paramount's distribution of Doug Davidson's TPIR in 1994-1995 (which was taped at Studio 33 at Television City, like the daytime show)?