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The Game Show Forum => The Big Board => Topic started by: Shredder on June 08, 2006, 08:41:47 PM
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MUCH Better audience today for Press Your Luck. They where really getting into it..
If they re-arranged the CBS Daytime Schedule, and placed that Soap Opera before price someplace else, they could put Press Your Luck, amd Lets Make a Deal on! So much better TV than some Talk Show with the latest 'Lets talk about ME' celebirites.....or some news program...
Yeah, I know it'll never happen, but I can dream....
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[quote name=\'Shredder\' post=\'120745\' date=\'Jun 8 2006, 07:41 PM\']
If they re-arranged the CBS Daytime Schedule, and placed that Soap Opera before price someplace else, [/quote]
What soap opera?
In my area...the timeslot before Price is local station time.
Back home, it was Regis...not sure what they show down here.
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[quote name=\'Shredder\' post=\'120745\' date=\'Jun 8 2006, 07:41 PM\']
MUCH Better audience today for Press Your Luck. They where really getting into it..
If they re-arranged the CBS Daytime Schedule, and placed that Soap Opera before price someplace else, they could put Press Your Luck, amd Lets Make a Deal on! So much better TV than some Talk Show with the latest 'Lets talk about ME' celebirites.....or some news program...
Yeah, I know it'll never happen, but I can dream....
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Actually, I think PYL would work better as either a early prime show (against Jep and or Wheel in most markets), or even primetime. PYL can be made event based. I think if marketed right, it can be made apointment TV (unlike GSM).
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Well done show tonight. Complete with mentions of Michael and a In Memory of Peter graphic. Ricki seemed more into this one, and the set was well done. The prize slides did some weird things (is it just me, or did some of them look compressed for 16:9 or something?). It was complete with a tense final spin of the type that always made the end exciting. The show, with classic rules, still works in 2006. To the folks around here who were responsible for the prize images, a great job, as always.
I've heard some buzz that this is one of the shows on GSM in line for a possible revival, but who knows if CBS will be behind it.
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[quote name=\'nWo_Whammy\' post=\'120757\' date=\'Jun 8 2006, 06:15 PM\']
Well done show tonight. Complete with mentions of Michael
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Impressive, considering one of our number had it "on good authority" that the folks involved didn't know who Larson was.
So much for authority.
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[quote name=\'Modor\' post=\'120752\' date=\'Jun 8 2006, 08:08 PM\']
[quote name=\'Shredder\' post=\'120745\' date=\'Jun 8 2006, 07:41 PM\']
If they re-arranged the CBS Daytime Schedule, and placed that Soap Opera before price someplace else, [/quote]
What soap opera?
In my area...the timeslot before Price is local station time.
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In quite a few markets (New York and Chicago among them), GUIDING LIGHT airs right before TPiR.
Doug -- and the countdown to 2000 continues
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I thought this was the best of the bunch so far.
I loved the true intro, From Hollywood, from Television City...!
The set was stunning. The play was excellent, especially round 2.
This has to be made into a weekly primetime show or daily network. Yes, I agree, Whammy should have been made this way.
And kudos to the fast calculations!
My minute beefs:
Why Times Roman font for the answers? It was always Karrina font.
The sounds effects and Whammy sounds were too weak. Boost 'em!
Ricki did need to rotate the comments.
Overall, awesome and EMMY QUALIFICATIONS!
PS: Nice to see the rotating set
PS#2: Disappointed to not hear anything about the announcers. JOhnny O and Rod Roddy made TPIR and PYL energetic.
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Well done. I only saw the tail end of PYL and all was fantastic. Even if the original PYL started over 20 years ago, the format holds quite well in 2006 IMO. Nice touch with the Tomarken memory at the end as well.
What can I say, I'm hooked to watch the next episode of GSM. :)
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MUCH LATER EDIT: Didn't even pay attention to this until a recent search.
Don't worry, Doug. No plonk for you. ;)
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[quote name=\'Shredder\' post=\'120745\' date=\'Jun 8 2006, 08:41 PM\']
MUCH Better audience today for Press Your Luck. They where really getting into it..
If they re-arranged the CBS Daytime Schedule, and placed that Soap Opera before price someplace else, they could put Press Your Luck, amd Lets Make a Deal on! So much better TV than some Talk Show with the latest 'Lets talk about ME' celebirites.....or some news program...
Yeah, I know it'll never happen, but I can dream....
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Heck, even if they can't do that, I'm sure that a daytime game show block would help the new CW Network (co-owned by CBS) get a good start. That's just as much wishful thinking as you said, but at least PYL and LMAD could wipe Springer out of the morning timeslot on CW 11 WPIX here.
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[quote name=\'PYLdude\' post=\'120791\' date=\'Jun 8 2006, 11:38 PM\']
[quote name=\'Modor\' post=\'120752\' date=\'Jun 8 2006, 09:08 PM\']
[quote name=\'Shredder\' post=\'120745\' date=\'Jun 8 2006, 07:41 PM\']
If they re-arranged the CBS Daytime Schedule, and placed that Soap Opera before price someplace else, [/quote]
What soap opera?
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Guiding Light. In more than a few markets it airs at 10 AM, including the NYC area (the rest, of course, air it at 3 PM, where it's supposed to be).
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What am I--chopped liver? Answered two posts above yours:
[quote name=\'SRIV94\' post=\'120760\' date=\'Jun 8 2006, 08:26 PM\']
In quite a few markets (New York and Chicago among them), GUIDING LIGHT airs right before TPiR.
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Unless you're telling me I'm on your plonk list. :)
Doug -- and the countdown to 2000 continues
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PYL was pretty good. Game play was good, and the set was extremely well done.
A few things that I was sad to see was the audience, the stars and the incorrect information for the biography of the show. Again, as stated on the board, the audience is almost not even there. Most of the time the camera pans through and you see how NOT interested they are to be there. Also, the stars playing the games i'm guessing are not given the rules before they play. Seemd that even after Ricki explained what to do, they didn't know what it meant to get a whammy or how many spins they had left.
Ricki is great as host it seems. She trys to bring as much excitement to the whole thing as she can, without going overboard like some of the celebrities.
Also, the incorrect statement in the biography of the show, where Rich states, that PYL debuted on CBS in 1981. To me this seems to be lack of interest in the whole thing. Basically, just tell people some date and they'll be ok with it. Also, on the CBS.com video clip of Rich he states that Plinko has been seen on TPIR for 34 years. I'm guessing this happens too on other specials when the people involved are not interest in the history of their shows.
Bit surprised at why they made a new opening riff from where they go into the main theme though. Doesnt match the bass line of the original, but atleast they kept the theme.
All in all, would love to see it come back next season. I could see it be a half hour show, once a week. Just get an audience that wants to be there, or just not show the audience at all, and maybe less edits.
Mark
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Finally watched all of PYL GSM...
Definetly the best out of the ones I've seen so far, and I missed price. The Tension was there when they reminded everyone that the celebs where playing for someone at home, so the celebs actually had some tension in them as well. It was great to see them decide on strategy rather than just randomly having fun and throwing around passes... Who knew PYL would work in an hour format?
I'm going to try and get a CBS/GameShow Marathon Rep on the phone and ask him some questions...If TPIR could get some decent gameshow leadins like this, they could have a great morning lineup, and colledges around the world would be seeing massic student sick ins :). Now if only we could convince them to show 'hipper' and less depressing commercials reminding us when we are going to die if we don't get the latest medication :)..
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[quote name=\'Shredder\' post=\'120855\' date=\'Jun 9 2006, 09:45 AM\']
I'm going to try and get a CBS/GameShow Marathon Rep on the phone and ask him some questions...
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I bet THAT will be an interesting phone call.
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[quote name=\'Shredder\' post=\'120855\' date=\'Jun 9 2006, 11:45 AM\']
colledges around the world would be seeing massic student sick ins :)[/quote]
Hopefully, you're not one of them...as the first step to attending college is spelling it correctly.
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[quote name=\'clemon79\' post=\'120859\' date=\'Jun 9 2006, 12:49 PM\']
[quote name=\'Shredder\' post=\'120855\' date=\'Jun 9 2006, 09:45 AM\']
I'm going to try and get a CBS/GameShow Marathon Rep on the phone and ask him some questions...
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I bet THAT will be an interesting phone call.
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Insert funny rebuke here......
anyone have one to insert? :)
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If it's one thing I hate, it's human spell checkers..I graduated Highschool in 97... I shouldn't have a teacher checking my work now. Granted, I wouldn't pass HS if I went now...but that's a whole nother story :)
Reinstalled Firefox Spell Checker on reformated computer
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[quote name=\'Shredder\' post=\'120873\' date=\'Jun 9 2006, 12:16 PM\']
Reinstalled Firefox Spell Checker on reformated computer
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And it still didn't work. :-D
Doug -- and the countdown to 2000 continues
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[quote name=\'Shredder\' post=\'120873\' date=\'Jun 9 2006, 12:16 PM\']
If it's one thing I hate, it's human spell checkers..I graduated Highschool in 97... I shouldn't have a teacher checking my work now. Granted, I wouldn't pass HS if I went now...but that's a whole nother story :)
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See, the problem is... If you want to make a point, and you want people to take you seriously, expressing yourself with correct spelling goes a long way to achieving that.
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I enjoyed last night's PYL, too.
Unfortunately, I don't think there's room on any network's daytime schedule for a new game show. CBS and ABC are both successful enough with their current lineups that they wouldn't cancel anything, NBC is down to two hours of network daytime (not counting the third hour of the Today show, which airs during what used to be local stations' time), and the others don't do any network daytime at all. Anything that comes back would undoubtedly be in syndication (like Millionaire, FF, etc.)
Who owns the current rights to LMaD? As far as I know, Hatos-Hall is out of business. Dick Clark Productions did the 1990 version with Bob Hilton (and later Monty), but I don't know who did the (very) limited NBC prime-time run with Billy Bush a couple of years ago.
I read somewhere, I think on this board, that "one" of these shows was being considered for a revival, and the appearance on GSM was essentially a test of it. Which one? Obviously it's not TPiR or FF, which are in production now, and the others have all had unsuccessful revivals within the last few years. But it's been long enough since the Burger MG and the Bullard CS that maybe those would be candidates; FF was only off the air for three years between the Dawson and Combs versions, and four between Dawson's return season and Anderson's show.
And I'm unclear on this: if two celebrities will play in each of the remaining games, who will be the "families" in FF and the panelists in MG? Thanks!
John
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[quote name=\'JohnHolder\' post=\'120942\' date=\'Jun 9 2006, 10:01 PM\']
And I'm unclear on this: if two celebrities will play in each of the remaining games, who will be the "families" in FF and the panelists in MG? Thanks!
John
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I'll answer your questions in order :)
For the "families" in FF, it will be the families of the two finalists and for the panelists in MG it's going to other celebrities...I remember seeing George Foreman on some of the promos...
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[quote name=\'Shredder\' post=\'120873\' date=\'Jun 9 2006, 01:16 PM\']
If it's one thing I hate, it's human spell checkers..I graduated Highschool in 97... I shouldn't have a teacher checking my work now.[/quote]
Then don't do things that make you look like an idiot, such as misspelling both "college" and "high school" or saying that you're going to have a conversation with a network executive about changing the daytime lineup.
(And yes, I know you shouldn't start a sentence with a conjunction. Shut uppa you face. :-)
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[quote name=\'aaron sica\' post=\'120945\' date=\'Jun 9 2006, 10:22 PM\']
[quote name=\'JohnHolder\' post=\'120942\' date=\'Jun 9 2006, 10:01 PM\']
And I'm unclear on this: if two celebrities will play in each of the remaining games, who will be the "families" in FF and the panelists in MG? Thanks![/quote]
...and for the panelists in MG it's going to other celebrities...I remember seeing George Foreman on some of the promos...[/quote]
From a promo I saw a few days ago--George Foreman, Betty White, Bruce Vilanch, Adrienne Curry, Adam Carolla, and Kathy Griffin.
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[quote name=\'hmtriplecrown\' post=\'120947\' date=\'Jun 9 2006, 10:38 PM\']
[quote name=\'aaron sica\' post=\'120945\' date=\'Jun 9 2006, 10:22 PM\']
[quote name=\'JohnHolder\' post=\'120942\' date=\'Jun 9 2006, 10:01 PM\']
And I'm unclear on this: if two celebrities will play in each of the remaining games, who will be the "families" in FF and the panelists in MG? Thanks![/quote]
...and for the panelists in MG it's going to other celebrities...I remember seeing George Foreman on some of the promos...[/quote]
From a promo I saw a few days ago--George Foreman, Betty White, Bruce Vilanch, Adrienne Curry, Adam Carolla, and Kathy Griffin.
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Aha. That explains why I noticed George, Betty, Bruce and Adam in the studio audience. :)
John
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Then don't do things that make you look like an idiot, such as misspelling both "college" and "high school" or saying that you're going to have a conversation with a network executive about changing the daytime lineup.>>>
Most are typo's that I just don't care enough to catch, such as college. And maybe I should have rephaaasssseed thaaati.
I wanted to talk to him/her about where they would put these shows, if any of them where revived, and SUGGEST that they be put in the morning lineup before Price :).
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[quote name=\'Shredder\' post=\'120996\' date=\'Jun 10 2006, 06:46 PM\']
Most are typo's that I just don't care enough to catch, such as college. And maybe I should have rephaaasssseed thaaati.
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Translation: You're lazy, and don't mind when people think you're a moron.
I wanted to talk to him/her about where they would put these shows, if any of them where revived, and SUGGEST that they be put in the morning lineup before Price :).
What makes you think they'd even want to talk to you in the first place?
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[quote name=\'Shredder\' post=\'120996\' date=\'Jun 10 2006, 04:46 PM\']
Most are typo's that I just don't care enough to catch, such as college.
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And, in an effort to be polite, I shall bring up the same point I always bring up when someone goes to this well:
If you don't care enough about your posts to make an effort to catch these mistakes, why should we care enough to read them?
Or do you care if we read them?
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How about we drop this Great Spelling Controversy? It's not that big of a deal.
That being said, I always go over my spelling with the Google Spellchecker before I post, it takes seconds to do.
-Joe R.
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[quote name=\'JRaygor\' post=\'121009\' date=\'Jun 10 2006, 06:25 PM\']
How about we drop this Great Spelling Controversy? It's not that big of a deal.
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I'd agree, until someone cops a 'tude about being called on it.
That being said, I always go over my spelling with the Google Spellchecker before I post, it takes seconds to do.
Proving the point all the more.
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Monty Hall Enterprises owns "LMAD" and licensed it out to Renegade (the people behind "Blind Date") for the brief prime time revival--and to Fremantle and Granada for "GSM."
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[quote name=\'uncamark\' post=\'121168\' date=\'Jun 12 2006, 12:53 PM\']
Monty Hall Enterprises owns "LMAD" and licensed it out to Renegade (the people behind "Blind Date") for the brief prime time revival[/quote]
No wonder the one minute of it that I saw involved a contestant attempting to win a prize by reaching inside the right Scotsman's kilt.
John
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[quote name=\'JohnHolder\' post=\'121177\' date=\'Jun 12 2006, 02:16 PM\']
No wonder the one minute of it that I saw involved a contestant attempting to win a prize by reaching inside the right Scotsman's kilt.
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That simply goes to show you, anywhere in life, not only in game show television productions or in job interviews...
...first impressions are always lasting.
Too bad for that prime-time revival.