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The Game Show Forum => The Big Board => Topic started by: Skynet74 on September 09, 2003, 07:03:57 PM
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Nice Lights on the Wheel. I also really like the Puzzle Board, but it looks like it needs something else on top. It's almost like it's missing something. Pretty cool overall though.
John
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Yeah, it's kind of spartan. But it looks nice IMO.
Brandon Brooks
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I was a little disappointed, especially after reading the article on the show's web page. Although the new set looks great, the article led me to think the money they spent on the technology used to give the show its new appearance would make it look vastly different. Overall, a very nice, clean look.
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the wheel's lights at the beginning of the show remind me of the whammy set.
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Does anybody miss the \"eggcrate\" score displays - or are you happy with the new readouts?
Personally, I'd grown accustomed to the eggcrates!
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[quote name=\'Ian Wallis\' date=\'Sep 10 2003, 11:06 AM\'] Does anybody miss the "eggcrate" score displays - or are you happy with the new readouts?
Personally, I'd grown accustomed to the eggcrates! [/quote]
Eggcrates are nice, but I guess they're unfortunately dated(though TPIR and the current Feud still use them)
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[quote name=\'Ian Wallis\' date=\'Sep 10 2003, 11:06 AM\'] Does anybody miss the "eggcrate" score displays - or are you happy with the new readouts?
Personally, I'd grown accustomed to the eggcrates! [/quote]
The hard red, yellow, blue color of the monitor borders don't go with the pastel-like red, yellow, and blue pointers on the wheel. The colors on the monitors themselves do go with the wheel at all.
Other than that, I'm actually surprised that I've grown accustomed to the monitors.
Brandon Brooks
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[quote name=\'Ian Wallis\' date=\'Sep 10 2003, 11:06 AM\'] Does anybody miss the "eggcrate" score displays - or are you happy with the new readouts?
Personally, I'd grown accustomed to the eggcrates! [/quote]
I sort of miss the egg crates, too, although WoF's never looked as good as other shows'. They always seemed crooked and burned out, at least in years past. The monitors would be better if they could come up with a simpler, more elegant way for the scores to change. It looks like they picked whichever trick was on the demo.
The truly lousy displays are on \"Jeopardy!\" I thought the digital ones were stylish, nothing wrong with them. On the monitors, the font they picked for the numbers is terrible--an ugly face to begin with, then overly manipulated and poorly kerned. They need a new art director in the worst way.
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[quote name=\'Neumms\' date=\'Sep 10 2003, 11:58 AM\'] The truly lousy displays are on "Jeopardy!" I thought the digital ones were stylish, nothing wrong with them. On the monitors, the font they picked for the numbers is terrible--an ugly face to begin with, then overly manipulated and poorly kerned. They need a new art director in the worst way. [/quote]
Now, I definitely agree with this. I haven't seen a new season episode yet, but the font face is really not that good at all; it's too narrow. However, the whole set is beginning to fall out of favor with me; it's too busy. That MDM's set would be awesome as J!'s new set, minus the torch.
Brandon Brooks
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i think my favorite J! set of all time would have to be te one used before thesushi bar set. with the grids in the background, the flashing JEOPARDY! lights, and the black marble floor. it always seemed very stylish to me.
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[quote name=\'whoserman\' date=\'Sep 10 2003, 08:41 PM\'] i think my favorite J! set of all time would have to be te one used before thesushi bar set. with the grids in the background, the flashing JEOPARDY! lights, and the black marble floor. it always seemed very stylish to me. [/quote]
Wasn't marble, just a black floor like WoF's. The sushi bar set had a marble floor.
That was my favorite as well.
Brandon Brooks
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[quote name=\'whoserman\' date=\'Sep 10 2003, 08:41 PM\'] i think my favorite J! set of all time would have to be te one used before thesushi bar set. with the grids in the background, the flashing JEOPARDY! lights, and the black marble floor. it always seemed very stylish to me. [/quote]
Go figure: that was the set Ed Flesh designed. BTW, did anyone see who designed the current set?
1984-91 - Bob Rang
1991-96 - Ed Flesh
1996-2002 (\"Sushi bar\") - Naomi Slodki
2002-present - ???
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[quote name=\'GS Warehouse\' date=\'Sep 10 2003, 10:01 PM\'][Go figure: that was the set Ed Flesh designed. BTW, did anyone see who designed the current set?
1984-91 - Bob Rang
1991-96 - Ed Flesh
1996-2002 (\"Sushi bar\") - Naomi Slodki
2002-present - ???[/quote]
According to the web site, it's Naomi (who also did the remote sets).
Also, a couple of \"Wheel\" people are now working on the \"J!\" side (not surprising with Friedman running both shops)--Christina Grabig's the production accountant and Tony Pandolfo's a contestant assistant. Otherwise, all of the writers are the familiars (as of last year, Billy Weisse became the material supervisor with Gary Johnson's promotion to producer), Suzanne Stone leads a mostly-new group of fact checkers and Suzanne Thurber still is the queen of contestants--and anyone who's worked in television is always thankful to have a job that's lasted as long as these have.
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[quote name=\'uncamark\' date=\'Sep 11 2003, 01:55 PM\']
Also, a couple of "Wheel" people are now working on the "J!" side (not surprising with Friedman running both shops)--Christina Grabig's the production accountant and Tony Pandolfo's a contestant assistant [/quote]
Tony Pandolfo of course is a veteran of Bob Stewart Productions as a contestant coordinator and other capacities. Tony is friends and poker buddies with Stewart, Betty WHite, and Henry Polic II(they appeared with Carol Burnett and her kids on a week of Dawson's Feud in 1994-95)
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Tony's been at J! since at least the latter stages of last season...he ran the contestant tryout in Culver City this past April (Susanne wasn't there). He mentioned some of the other shows he had worked on, but managed to avoid name-dropping Henry Polic II.
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[quote name=\'zachhoran\' date=\'Sep 11 2003, 06:53 PM\'] Tony is friends and poker buddies with Stewart, Betty WHite, and Henry Polic II(they appeared with Carol Burnett and her kids on a week of Dawson's Feud in 1994-95) [/quote]
Going OT here, but wasn't that week the uncerimonius final week of Feud 94 ?
-Joe R.
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[quote name=\'JRaygor\' date=\'Sep 11 2003, 10:25 PM\'] [quote name=\'zachhoran\' date=\'Sep 11 2003, 06:53 PM\'] Tony is friends and poker buddies with Stewart, Betty WHite, and Henry Polic II(they appeared with Carol Burnett and her kids on a week of Dawson's Feud in 1994-95) [/quote]
Going OT here, but wasn't that week the uncerimonius final week of Feud 94 ?
-Joe R. [/quote]
The last first run shows I remember seeing was a week of the LAPD and the LAFD.
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The last first run shows I remember seeing was a week of the LAPD and the LAFD.
That was the one...although it was never mentioned on air, Richard behaved on the Fri show as if it were the last one.
Chuck Donegan (The Illustrious \"Chuckie Baby\")
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[quote name=\'Skynet74\' date=\'Sep 9 2003, 07:03 PM\'] Nice Lights on the Wheel. I also really like the Puzzle Board, but it looks like it needs something else on top. It's almost like it's missing something. Pretty cool overall though.
John [/quote]
Yeah, that background is gonna get old unless they can change the camera shot to compensate for the blank space.
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[quote name=\'zachhoran\' date=\'Sep 10 2003, 12:10 PM\'] [quote name=\'Ian Wallis\' date=\'Sep 10 2003, 11:06 AM\'] Does anybody miss the "eggcrate" score displays - or are you happy with the new readouts?
Personally, I'd grown accustomed to the eggcrates! [/quote]
Eggcrates are nice, but I guess they're unfortunately dated(though TPIR and the current Feud still use them) [/quote]
Don't give FreChuckle any ideas about changing the eggcrates :D
I watched the Sat. WOF's and yeah, I kinda miss the eggcrates, they do seem easier to read. But, now, you will have to watch for them on GSN. Wheel just started running season 20 shows tonight(was from March, the Big Money week).
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Don't give FreChuckle any ideas about changing the eggcrates :D
The thing is.... I WANT THEM TO UPDATE TPIR! Heck, get rid of the eggcrates, if one must (However, technically the IUFB displays aren't eggcrate). I think a set looking like Bruce's TPIR (but maybe a tad bigger) would be very welcome. Heck, I thought TNPIR '94 looked like a really nice update.
Brandon Brooks
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[quote name=\'Brandon Brooks\' date=\'Sep 13 2003, 09:50 PM\']
Don't give FreChuckle any ideas about changing the eggcrates :D
The thing is.... I WANT THEM TO UPDATE TPIR! Heck, get rid of the eggcrates, if one must (However, technically the IUFB displays aren't eggcrate). I think a set looking like Bruce's TPIR (but maybe a tad bigger) would be very welcome. Heck, I thought TNPIR '94 looked like a really nice update.[/quote]
Of course, that's the one thing that they'll be least likely to change, since Barker in particular seems to believe that the low-tech 70s look is part of the appeal--at least until maintenance costs become prohibitive (if that ever happens).
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I dont mind updated scoreboards and displays, but why not just have a computerized version of eggcrates. just because they are new computerized displays doesnt mean they have to look different, they just run differently technically, which would probably please a lot of staff.
Also, dunno why WoF set has to be soo BIG, and the audience has to be so large. TPIR has been in studio 33 since 72. Yes they often add a bit more seating in the little stage in the back of the audience, but thast about it. plus if they had a larger audience, they would probbaly have to edit CoDs like they did on the vegas special. I know not that drastic but still. I mean years ago u couldnt get people to be in the audience of WoF. Some episodes sounded as if they had 5 or 6 people there, and the audience track was way too low. Also, the nbc set was way too small for what they had, but now, the new set is too big for what they have. Maybe 4 or 5 top prizes and a bit widescreen.
If TPIR, and H2 can do with the size of the set they have, why does WoF need a huge set, either that or it just feels huge.
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Thanks
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WOF's set is actually quite small. I was amazed to see it yesterday. The puzzleboard especially is tiny compared to how it looks on TV.
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All sets are like that. Hollywoood Squares' set looks humungous in TV, and it's not really that cramped in person, it just looks smaller. For those who don't know, TPIR and HSq tape in the same studio. I think it is just the cameras that do wonders on how show's look on TV.
Brandon Brooks