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The Game Show Forum => The Big Board => Topic started by: thgames65 on October 11, 2006, 06:57:34 PM
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Freemantle reviving "Child's Play" (http://\"http://losangeles.craigslist.org/lac/tfr/219248198.html\") according to this craigslist casting call for little tykes.
Tim H.
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What the.....
First, a possible revivial of Sale of the Century, now Child's Play? This is getting too good to believe. What's next, Match Game and The (correctly done) $100,000 Pyramid?
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[quote name=\'tpirfan28\' post=\'134189\' date=\'Oct 11 2006, 06:23 PM\']
What the.....
First, a possible revivial of Sale of the Century, now Child's Play? This is getting too good to believe. What's next, Match Game and The (correctly done) $100,000 Pyramid?
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$otC might be comming back?! Where did you read that?
-Joe R.
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[quote name=\'thgames65\' post=\'134188\' date=\'Oct 11 2006, 06:57 PM\']
Freemantle reviving "Child's Play" (http://\"http://losangeles.craigslist.org/lac/tfr/219248198.html\") according to this craigslist casting call for little tykes.
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Neat! Can't wait to see it.
I wonder if GSN knew about this when they decided to put the old version on their schedule...
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[quote name=\'thgames65\' post=\'134188\' date=\'Oct 11 2006, 06:57 PM\']
Freemantle reviving "Child's Play" (http://\"http://losangeles.craigslist.org/lac/tfr/219248198.html\") according to this craigslist casting call for little tykes.
Tim H.
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It surprises me. I would've thought Trivia Trap would be revived before this. I'm not knocking Child's Play. CBS wasn't impressed with how the show did in the early 80s, but Fremantle obviously was. At least this time, they'll know to beware of the Whammy. ;-)
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I'LL knock Child's Play. Loved Bill, and the kids were cute and funny, but it was missing . . . what do you call it? . . . oh, yeah, a game.
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[quote name=\'JRaygor\' post=\'134191\' date=\'Oct 11 2006, 07:38 PM\']
[quote name=\'tpirfan28\' post=\'134189\' date=\'Oct 11 2006, 06:23 PM\']
What the.....
First, a possible revivial of Sale of the Century, now Child's Play? This is getting too good to believe. What's next, Match Game and The (correctly done) $100,000 Pyramid?
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$otC might be comming back?! Where did you read that?
-Joe R.
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It was on Craigslist a while ago, and I think Buzzer reported a possible revival attempt. I can't find any mention of it. Maybe if Alex is around he can confirm that it actually existed....
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It existed, and when more information is able to be revealed, I will be glad to spill it. But I do confirm that there was a posting on Craigslist that was similar to Temptation. Is it? Isn't it? You be the judge.
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[quote name=\'Robert Hutchinson\' post=\'134204\' date=\'Oct 11 2006, 07:28 PM\']
I'LL knock Child's Play. Loved Bill, and the kids were cute and funny, but it was missing . . . what do you call it? . . . oh, yeah, a game.
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I'll gently remind you that Deal Or No Deal is one of the most popular prime-time programs airing on NBC.
(Damning with faint praise, I know.)
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So, does anyone want to put a wager on this being a GSN show? I just find it a bit odd that this was announced and Child's Play is joining the GSN lineup for no reason at all just suddenly.
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From what I've heard, this was not a cheap show to produce as it was so production-intensive. Plus, it only ran for about a year on CBS daytime. The concept is OK but not inspired. Of all of the formats Fremantle owns, I can't imagine why they would choose this one for a revival. It would make much more sense to bring Blockbusters back -- it is cheaper and simpler to produce (= higher profit margin).
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[quote name=\'chris319\' post=\'134230\' date=\'Oct 12 2006, 03:01 AM\']
From what I've heard, this was not a cheap show to produce as it was so production-intensive. Plus, it only ran for about a year on CBS daytime. The concept is OK but not inspired. Of all of the formats Fremantle owns, I can't imagine why they would choose this one for a revival. It would make much more sense to bring Blockbusters back -- it is cheaper and simpler to produce (= higher profit margin).
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It seems to me that the format has been licensed elsewhere around the world. Whether to any great success, I don't know, but perhaps there is enough that Fremantle thinks that it could be tried again. (And perhaps the comedic element is on its side.)
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Well, really, you're turning "Kids Say The Darndest Things" into a game show, right? That's the premise. And it's pretty much evergreen; there's always been a market for that sort of oh-that's-adorable entertainment, so I can totally see them trying to revive it.
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As long as it's not anything like Small Talk, or whatever that Family Channel show was called that aired after Shopping Spree or Wait Till You Have Kids...
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[quote name=\'mitchgroff\' post=\'134267\' date=\'Oct 12 2006, 01:13 PM\']
As long as it's not anything like Small Talk, or whatever that Family Channel show was called that aired after Shopping Spree or Wait Till You Have Kids...
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It was Small Talk...made watching paint dry look compelling by comparison.
I also think it was the first game show to use its logo as a bug in the lower corner.
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[quote name=\'uncamark\' post=\'134261\' date=\'Oct 12 2006, 09:41 AM\']
[quote name=\'chris319\' post=\'134230\' date=\'Oct 12 2006, 03:01 AM\']
From what I've heard, this was not a cheap show to produce as it was so production-intensive. Plus, it only ran for about a year on CBS daytime. The concept is OK but not inspired. Of all of the formats Fremantle owns, I can't imagine why they would choose this one for a revival. It would make much more sense to bring Blockbusters back -- it is cheaper and simpler to produce (= higher profit margin).
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It seems to me that the format has been licensed elsewhere around the world. Whether to any great success, I don't know, but perhaps there is enough that Fremantle thinks that it could be tried again. (And perhaps the comedic element is on its side.)
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Well, really, you're turning "Kids Say The Darndest Things" into a game show, right? That's the premise. And it's pretty much evergreen; there's always been a market for that sort of oh-that's-adorable entertainment, so I can totally see them trying to revive it.
Blockbusters has been licensed abroad as well, with much greater success.
With Child's Play you start with a list of words to be defined, go out and shoot the kids defining them (requiring the use of a crew), come back and cut them down to a series of playable definitions (requiring the use of an editor), repeat. It would be a little easier and cheaper to do today with a non-union crew and a non-linear editing system, but in 1982 they had to use union crews and editors from CBS (the kids were probably shot on 3/4"). They had probably been using 1" tape at TV City for only a year or two. On a conventional game show the writers write the questions, they are fact-checked and arranged into matches. No union crew or editor is involved in pre-production.
As successful as these two shows may or may not be abroad, I highly doubt Mimi O'Brien will see one red cent for legitimately creating Child's Play, nor Steve Ryan for Blockbusters.
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They could go cheap and have the schools themselves submit tapes of kids defining the words, (maybe in exchange for playground equipment or some such items) something that could not be done in 82.
From reading the casting call, though, it sounds like the kids are going to be more in-studio. One problem with that is they might have more inadvertent reveals of the words (which was covered up by "oops" on the tapes.) When the original show went to the "Turnabout" round, I think, at times, it was too much pressure to put on the kids.
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[quote name=\'Jimmy Owen\' post=\'134280\' date=\'Oct 12 2006, 03:15 PM\']
When the original show went to the "Turnabout" round, I think, at times, it was too much pressure to put on the kids.
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Not to mention when $5,000 was won, the contestant would sometimes hug the kids; I seem to remember some of those kids looking kinda scared at that. :)
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From reading the casting call, though, it sounds like the kids are going to be more in-studio.
The only way that would work is to write out exactly what the kids are supposed to say and have them read off of cards, otherwise the producers have very little control over what the kids will say.
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[quote name=\'fostergray82\' post=\'134270\' date=\'Oct 12 2006, 01:28 PM\']
[quote name=\'mitchgroff\' post=\'134267\' date=\'Oct 12 2006, 01:13 PM\']
As long as it's not anything like Small Talk, or whatever that Family Channel show was called that aired after Shopping Spree or Wait Till You Have Kids...[/quote]It was Small Talk...made watching paint dry look compelling by comparison. [/quote]
Be careful what you wish for. Guess who owns the rights to Small Talk.