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The Game Show Forum => The Big Board => Topic started by: FlashStash on June 26, 2006, 08:20:10 AM
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From today's Cynopsis...
The TV Guide Channel will expand its programming to include the game show series Hollywood Showdown. The half-hour pop culture and entertainment contest was acquired by the network and will premiere today at 12p, airing every weekday. The show has previously aired on both GSN and PAX and is hosted by Todd Newton of Whammy! fame.
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As verified by TV Guide's website, it will be airing at 12pm and 5pm (EST) daily.
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Interesting.
Seems like they're worse than GSN when it comes to PR....did anyone know about this beforehand?
(It is reruns, I presume?)
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Actually, no. I searched every source I could online. Cynopsis was sent to me early the morning, and that's the first time I've heard about it. It's buried in VERY small print.
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I knew TV Guide channel would be airing a series CALLED "Hollywood Showdown" roughly two days ago, but without any other information, I'd assumed it was some entertainment info/gossip program or something...Not helping this is that all listings data I have has it airing as a 1 hour show, rather than as two 30 minute shows.
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[quote name=\'Seth Thrasher\' post=\'122533\' date=\'Jun 26 2006, 09:55 AM\']
I knew TV Guide channel would be airing a series CALLED "Hollywood Showdown" roughly two days ago, but without any other information, I'd assumed it was some entertainment info/gossip program or something...Not helping this is that all listings data I have has it airing as a 1 hour show, rather than as two 30 minute shows.
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I'm not sure what listings data you were using, but I just checked Zap2It and, while they have it listed as a 1-hour show, they have the following description listed:
Hollywood Showdown Contestants take part for a week in a quiz on popular culture and entertainment.
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Berman has a similar description in today's column. I'm assuming that it's repeats and not first-run shows, because if they were doing contestant searching, we would've heard about it by now.
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*Scratches head on the matter out of slight confusion as to why TVG would air it*
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[quote name=\'FOXSportsFan\' post=\'122543\' date=\'Jun 26 2006, 10:13 AM\']*Scratches head on the matter out of slight confusion as to why TVG would air it*[/quote]Because many of the questions pertained to television? Because it's just sitting in the vault not earning money for anyone? Because it was a mildly clever game? Yeah, those guys at TV Guide are a bunch of dumbasses for putting "Hollywood Showdown" on the air.
(The password for today is hyperbole)
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[quote name=\'TLEberle\' post=\'122544\' date=\'Jun 26 2006, 10:41 AM\']
Because many of the questions pertained to television? Because it's just sitting in the vault not earning money for anyone? Because it was a mildly clever game? Yeah, those guys at TV Guide are a bunch of dumbasses for putting "Hollywood Showdown" on the air.
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All true, but what's headscratching about it is that to the best of my knowledge TV Guide Channel isn't known for showing long-form programming...most of their stuff are those little blurbs about upcoming shows and what-not, aren't they?
I don't think Jim is curious as to why this show specifically is being pulled out of the mothballs; everyone seems to agree that it was pretty well done and fairly inoffensive. The question is why this PARTICULAR channel.
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Supposedly, TV Guide Channel has been trending away from the smaller blurbs about upcoming programming and such for a little while now, and is now heading towards longer-form programming. Hollywood Showdown is an entertaining and harmless little show, it's relevant to the focus of the network, and I'd say it was probably relatively cheap to come by.
Makes slightly more sense, I suppose.
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[quote name=\'Seth Thrasher\' post=\'122546\' date=\'Jun 26 2006, 01:08 PM\']
Supposedly, TV Guide Channel has been trending away from the smaller blurbs about upcoming programming and such for a little while now, and is now heading towards longer-form programming. Hollywood Showdown is an entertaining and harmless little show, it's relevant to the focus of the network, and I'd say it was probably relatively cheap to come by.
Makes slightly more sense, I suppose.
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That's exactly why they'd pick it up.
In case you've forgotten, the Rivers bi--uh, ladies are now doing live red carpet awards show coverage for TVGC--when they're allowed on the red carpet. :)
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Mr. Lemon is correct. I mean if the show is a dated show in some respects. I know it's entertainment based which is why the logic of it being on TVG* might make sense, but a lot of the questions are dated (of course fairly recently, but still ex post facto) for a channel dedicated to current programming.
I liked Showdown and all...Todd's best hosting job was done on showdown and all, just kinda surprised me a bit.
* - Horse racing fans, I'm aware there actually is another channel referred to as TVG...fun channel, live horse racing and so called handicappers making idiots out of themselves and such. Anytime I go tot he aunt's house, it's must see TV.
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I'm assuming that it's repeats and not first-run shows, because if they were doing contestant searching, we would've heard about it by now.
It will be interesting to see if they eventually air the third season that we heard might have been taped, but was never shown on GSN.
I liked Showdown and all
I did too. I thought it was a pretty decent show and GSN's best original to that point.
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I caught the first half of the 5 PM show. The show was from 2000.
Good heavens, TV Guide Channel did a horrible job slicing up the show so you get the aforementioned 4 minutes of programming to 6 minutes of commercials ratio. Right after someone bombed at the Box Office round, Todd went to a new round...but TVG cut him off mid-sentence with a commercial break, prefaced by the Hollywood Showdown logo and a 3 second snippet of the theme.
Another bonus with these reruns is we get to hear the dulcet voice of Randy West.
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[quote name=\'Ian Wallis\' post=\'122558\' date=\'Jun 26 2006, 01:09 PM\']It will be interesting to see if they eventually air the third season that we heard might have been taped, but was never shown on GSN.
[/quote]The third season won't air because it never taped. There were 100 episodes taped in early 2000 for season 1, and 65 episodes taped in late 2000 for season 2.
[quote name=\'hmtriplecrown\' post=\'122568\' date=\'Jun 26 2006, 02:51 PM\']Another bonus with these reruns is we get to hear the dulcet voice of Randy West.
[/quote]Thanks! But warning: two episodes back-to-back may induce diabetic coma. Use as directed ;-)
Randy
tvrandywest.com
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[quote name=\'Seth Thrasher\' post=\'122546\' date=\'Jun 26 2006, 02:08 PM\']
Supposedly, TV Guide Channel has been trending away from the smaller blurbs about upcoming programming[/quote]
Oh, so it's exactly like what they did to the magazine.....
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If Hollywood Showdown works for TVGC, perhaps other "Pop Culture TV/Movie" shows could resurface:
Couch Potatoes (A perfect fit) , Remote Control (likewise, but doubtful that MTV would go for it), and Reel To Reel Picture Show (could help pay for part of Peter's Salary that is still due to him).
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[quote name=\'tvwxman\' post=\'122587\' date=\'Jun 26 2006, 08:48 PM\']
Oh, so it's exactly like what they did to the magazine.....
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Yeah, except one could argue the channel's better now. :)
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I don't seek out the TV Guide Channel very often, but on my visit to NYC I was surprised by two things. One, the network appears on the local NYC basic cable on THREE DIFFERENT CHANNELS. Any native here who can tell me why that is?
But secondly, yeah, a lot of the time -- in fact, just about every time I can remember going by -- they were airing some preposterously inexpensive but legit half-hour program. A lot of it was shows-about-shows, of course. The most interesting would seem to be something called InFANity, if you happen to be a fan of the particular show they're profiling. My wife and I stopped and watched one about Scrubs that actually gave us a bunch of information we didn't know.
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[quote name=\'Matt Ottinger\' post=\'122660\' date=\'Jun 27 2006, 10:18 PM\']I don't seek out the TV Guide Channel very often, but on my visit to NYC I was surprised by two things. One, the network appears on the local NYC basic cable on THREE DIFFERENT CHANNELS. Any native here who can tell me why that is?[/quote]
I can't answer that, but my cable provider does the same. Two of the three TVG channels had been designated for governmental or educational use since at least 2000, but have never been used. Maybe it's an Adelphia thing? *shrug*
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[quote name=\'hmtriplecrown\' post=\'122664\' date=\'Jun 27 2006, 10:52 PM\']
[quote name=\'Matt Ottinger\' post=\'122660\' date=\'Jun 27 2006, 10:18 PM\']I don't seek out the TV Guide Channel very often, but on my visit to NYC I was surprised by two things. One, the network appears on the local NYC basic cable on THREE DIFFERENT CHANNELS. Any native here who can tell me why that is?[/quote]
I can't answer that, but my cable provider does the same. Two of the three TVG channels had been designated for governmental or educational use since at least 2000, but have never been used. Maybe it's an Adelphia thing? *shrug*[/quote]
Well, that actually makes a little bit of sense. Cable providers are required by local franchise agreements to provide a certain number of "access channels" for government, educational and public use. (Here in our community we are blessed with an overabundance of them, which is why I have a job.) If the local municipality isn't using them, but wanted to keep them "just in case," they may have agreed to let the cable company run their channel listings as a placeholder. Maybe that's the deal in NYC as well.