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The Game Show Forum => The Big Board => Topic started by: rialtus on December 15, 2006, 04:28:26 PM
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TVWeek is reporting (http://\"http://www.tvweek.com/news.cms?newsId=11240\") that MyNetwork is looking to reduce the telenovelas and, perhaps, increase the game shows. Name-checked are "My Games Fever," "Catch Phrase," "Connections" and "Temptations".
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So every single show that was mentioned for syndication, with the exception of the Playmania clone, is a target for MyNetwork? Just stunning. If Temptations is the same as Temptation, this might not be good.
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[quote name=\'itiparanoid13\' post=\'140648\' date=\'Dec 15 2006, 04:47 PM\']
So every single show that was mentioned for syndication, with the exception of the Playmania clone, is a target for MyNetwork? Just stunning. If Temptations is the same as Temptation, this might not be good.
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I disagree...I think an 8PM Nightly outlet for a game show that rewards contestants for succeeding over a period of nights is exactly what MyNetwork could use. Ratings wise, it would almost certainly garner more interest than the campy soaps they've got now.
A nightly milliondollar giveawaymoneytobraindeadcontestantswhoarechosenfortheirstereotypicalqualitieslikeoneveryotherendemolshow would not work 5 nights a week. But who wants to bet that Fox thinks otherwise?
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Interesting ideas...I wonder how feasible THIS would be for daytime slots? Two hours of programming either in the mornings or early-afternoons.
It's not like they can do any worse than what they have with their soaps, oh excuse me, telenovelas.
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[quote name=\'tvwxman\' post=\'140650\' date=\'Dec 15 2006, 04:55 PM\']
A nightly milliondollar giveawaymoneytobraindeadcontestantswhoarechosenfortheirstereotypicalqualitieslikeoneveryotherendemols
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Be prepared for a reply from Iris Mason as you're now speaking his/her/its language. :)
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[quote name=\'itiparanoid13\' post=\'140648\' date=\'Dec 15 2006, 03:47 PM\']
So every single show that was mentioned for syndication, with the exception of the Playmania clone, is a target for MyNetwork? Just stunning. If Temptations is the same as Temptation, this might not be good.
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Most likely, TVWeek screwed up the title. It probably is "Temptation," especially if Fremantle's the packager.
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Oh you never know. I've heard things about the show. I know they are changing the Aussie gameplay a tiny bit, adding a bonus round (as far as the pilot went) and went for a completely new graphics package, so they very well may have changed the name to Temptations. But who knows. I'm actually more shocked MyNetwork isn't going for the proposed revival of Match Game.
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Another thought just hit me. Would it be feasible (economically or just by principle) for MNTV to drop the efforts to be the 6th network, and become a syndication entity through FOX? Considering their "lineup" is the same two shows, six days a week, I can see why they're not getting ratings or making money. At least if you vary the programming, maybe even expand to daytime, you can possibly capture a bigger audience.
/Primetime soaps are soooooo 1984!
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[quote name=\'itiparanoid13\' post=\'140658\' date=\'Dec 15 2006, 04:08 PM\']
Oh you never know. I've heard things about the show. I know they are changing the Aussie gameplay a tiny bit, adding a bonus round (as far as the pilot went) and went for a completely new graphics package, so they very well may have changed the name to Temptations. But who knows. I'm actually more shocked MyNetwork isn't going for the proposed revival of Match Game.
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Out of curiosity, could you (and anyone else that does this) stop gloom and dooming a show before it's come out?
Nitpick a show once you've seen it -- and save the fear of the unknown for something else.
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[quote name=\'tvwxman\' post=\'140650\' date=\'Dec 15 2006, 03:55 PM\']
A nightly milliondollar giveawaymoneytobraindeadcontestantswhoarechosenfortheirstereotypicalqualitieslikeoneveryotherendemolshow would not work 5 nights a week. [/quote]
I believe the Perfesser would tell you the correct term is bigmoneynightlygamecashgiveawayfirstnamesonlymentary.
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Pardon my ignorance, but what exactly is "MyNetwork"? Is it a American Spanish-Language Network, or is it a special broadcast network that I, somehow, haven't heard of, and obviously don't get? :-/
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"My Games Fever" has been on the air for the past week on KCOP, My TV 13, Los Angeles.
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[quote name=\'wheelloon\' post=\'140675\' date=\'Dec 15 2006, 06:15 PM\']
Pardon my ignorance, but what exactly is "MyNetwork"? Is it a American Spanish-Language Network, or is it a special broadcast network that I, somehow, haven't heard of, and obviously don't get? :-/
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It's what FOX started up after the CW and WB merged. It's considered the 6th network, and its programming is 13-week daily telenovelas.
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Out of curiosity, could you (and anyone else that does this) stop gloom and dooming a show before it's come out?
Nitpick a show once you've seen it -- and save the fear of the unknown for something else.
How is there doom and gloom? I don't even like Sale that much for one. I know people who worked on the pilot, and I've seen what stuff looks like/how stuff plays. I'm not nitpicking, and if it seemed like it I apologize. What I said was the truth, as far as pilots go, and not meant to seem like me bitching. I don't even know where the idea I was nitpicking would come from in my recent post.
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[quote name=\'itiparanoid13\' post=\'140658\' date=\'Dec 15 2006, 06:08 PM\']
I'm actually more shocked MyNetwork isn't going for the proposed revival of Match Game.
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Could it be that CBS may be holding some kind of rights/first right of refusal to a network version of Match Game as part of the deal with Fremantle when they did the Game Show Marathon?
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[quote name=\'itiparanoid13\' post=\'140679\' date=\'Dec 15 2006, 05:24 PM\']
How is there doom and gloom? I don't even like Sale that much for one.[/quote]
So you've already started with a negative label of Temptation.
I know people who worked on the pilot, and I've seen what stuff looks like/how stuff plays.
Funny -- I've seen screeners of other tv shows myself and I don't go all Chicken Little on the internet. Why? Because I'm not working for the company and things are always subject to change before they go on the air.
What I said was the truth, as far as pilots go, and not meant to seem like me bitching. I don't even know where the idea I was nitpicking would come from in my recent post.
So every single show that was mentioned for syndication, with the exception of the Playmania clone, is a target for MyNetwork? Just stunning. If Temptations is the same as Temptation, this might not be good.
(emphasis mine)
So you're upset that a Fox network is taking back shows that could be syndicated? Why? When I see "just stunning" and "this might not be good" above, that's doom and gloom. If it goes to MyNetwork, it goes to MyNetwork. Certain syndicated shows in the 100+ markets go to the CW+ group. It's business. Life goes on.
I'm not nitpicking, and if it seemed like it I apologize.
You're not, and I'll retract that part of my earlier post. However, you're still negative of a show that A) hasn't aired yet and B) you're going off of reports from other people.
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[quote name=\'chris319\' post=\'140677\' date=\'Dec 15 2006, 06:20 PM\']"My Games Fever" has been on the air for the past week on KCOP, My TV 13, Los Angeles.[/quote]Wow. Not that I regularly regularly watch the channel (sorry Chris), but I had no idea. I just hit it for the TiVo -- Monday at 1 pm.
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[quote name=\'wheelloon\' post=\'140675\' date=\'Dec 15 2006, 03:15 PM\']
that I, somehow, haven't heard of, and obviously don't get? :-/
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Ladies and gentlemen, I give you "irony".
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[quote name=\'clemon79\' post=\'140718\' date=\'Dec 16 2006, 05:36 AM\'] [quote name=\'wheelloon\' post=\'140675\' date=\'Dec 15 2006, 03:15 PM\']
that I, somehow, haven't heard of, and obviously don't get? :-/
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Ladies and gentlemen, I give you "irony". [/quote]
Now, to be fair:
1. MyNetwork is on some pretty obscure stations, and is on digital subcarriers in quite a few markets that don't have the requisite six stations, so if they aren't spending any money to advertise it, you could happily spend your life not knowing it's on. It's fairly likely he CAN'T get it if his market is small enough or he doesn't have cable or a digital tuner. Then again, I know it's on and don't care - watching Morgan Fairchild and Bo Derek chew scenery isn't high on my list of things to do.
2. Even if you know it's there, they do a lousy job of promoting it - I had no idea until this week they have dropped their original two shows and brought in two new ones. And I watch the local outlet for Simpsons reruns and college basketball.
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3. Since MNT sells ad space on its shows by the week, rather than by the day, they therefore don't show up on any of the daily/weekly Nielsen ratings roundups.
Which is just as well when you get 1/3 the numbers of the CW and half those of Univision (not counting "La Fea Mas Bella").... and "i" is knocking on your back door with a primetime schedule of "Growing Pains" and "Mama's Family" reruns.
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[quote name=\'DrBear\' post=\'140723\' date=\'Dec 16 2006, 10:24 AM\']
[quote name=\'clemon79\' post=\'140718\' date=\'Dec 16 2006, 05:36 AM\'] [quote name=\'wheelloon\' post=\'140675\' date=\'Dec 15 2006, 03:15 PM\']
that I, somehow, haven't heard of, and obviously don't get? :-/
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Ladies and gentlemen, I give you "irony". [/quote]
Now, to be fair:
1. MyNetwork is on some pretty obscure stations, and is on digital subcarriers in quite a few markets that don't have the requisite six stations, so if they aren't spending any money to advertise it, you could happily spend your life not knowing it's on. It's fairly likely he CAN'T get it if his market is small enough or he doesn't have cable or a digital tuner. Then again, I know it's on and don't care - watching Morgan Fairchild and Bo Derek chew scenery isn't high on my list of things to do.
2. Even if you know it's there, they do a lousy job of promoting it - I had no idea until this week they have dropped their original two shows and brought in two new ones. And I watch the local outlet for Simpsons reruns and college basketball.
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MyNetworkTV was started, evidently, to try and keep a whole lotta primary stations that used to carry mainly UPN or WB from having to revert back to being the dreaded...independent stations! And I still don't find anything wrong with that. I'd much rather see old movies, locally-produced women's or discussion shows, and especially regional state or college sports events limited to carriage on OTA local stations without any network affiliation at all. I've already been dragged through decades of affiliate pre-emptions of network shows I'd have preferred to see; let's try to leave that era behind, shall we, network affiliates?
And even though there are a ton of cable channels now picking up off-network shows, there are still lots of others sitting in the vault gathering dust when they ought to have a look.
As for what channel occupies MyNetworkTV or an indie, it's too bad higher-numbered channels are still considered the less-desirable outlets in and out of the industry, after all those millions the FCC poured into UHF advancement long ago. Personally, if I had the chance to choose at 5 PM between Judge Judy on Channel 3, Extra on Channel 6, Dr. Keith Ablow on Channel 7 and a first-season rerun episode of The Good Guys on Channel 58, I'd change over to Channel 58 in a heartbeat.
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[quote name=\'DrBear\' post=\'140723\' date=\'Dec 16 2006, 09:24 AM\']
2. Even if you know it's there, they do a lousy job of promoting it - I had no idea until this week they have dropped their original two shows and brought in two new ones. [/quote]
Not necessarily...The original game plan for MNTV was to run the original two shows for 13 weeks, then intro 2 new ones....these shows were shot cheap and quick, even shooting in San Diego, to avoid union issues from what I hear (again, hearsay from a manager from my station)....
Here's the thing about MNTV...I work for an ABC affil that has a second station that , until this fall, was the UPN outlet. Managers say they were completely caught off guard , as was the industry, by the WB/UPN merger. Not surprised, mind you, just caught off guard. The announcement was made on the merger, IIRC, days before NATPE....
What to do to program 12 hours/week instantly? Enter Fox, with this idea, that they sold affiliates with, that you could have 12 hours/week of fresh material, NO RERUNS, 52 weeks a year. Cheap. Not a bad prospect, and for many, the only viable option on short notice. (Though Gawd I wish we had done what UPN21 in Dallas did, plug a 2 hour newscast into the mix. Damn these stupid managers for not embracing any more original broadcasting anymore).
I raised an issue back in Jan, and I raise it again for you. If the telenovela idea doesn't work (and I think it's safe to say it ain't working), when will Fox go to a more traditional plan and air 6 nights a week of different programming. And THEN, at what point will Fox develop their first 'hit' on MNTV, and then attempt to repurpose it on Fox ? Wait till that poostorm, kids. It will happen.
That's why I think "Temptation" could very well work 5 nights a week. Keep it fresh, keep it rerun-free, and give the audience a chance to root for a player who could stay on for a week or two...Ratings wise? It's not going to light up any Nielsen charts, but I'd wager dollars to donuts it won't do worse than a 0.7 Fashion House got.....
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The amount of promotion for My seems to depend on the market. In New York, Richard Huff of the NY Daily News has consistently criticized WNYW, the Fox flagship, for constant cross-promotion of My (on Fox-owned sister WWOR in New York) on their newscasts, and on the "Good Day NY" morning show in particular (including having one of the novela cast members as a guest host for a week). "GDNY" was competitive with the network morning shows, although I assume less now with Jim Ryan gone as the front man.
If it's any indication, in Chicago WPWR's billboard campaign has seemed to focus more on the daytime talk shows (Tyra, Dr. Keith and Montel lauded as "THE BEST TALK IN CHICAGO!" and Jerry Springer not even brought up) and less on the prime time novelas.
However, since I don't listen to terrestrial radio at work anymore, I don't know what sort of radio campaigns Chicago stations do. During sweeps, half the stop sets on most Chicago radio stations seem to have TV station or network ads on them. Perhaps WPWR was plugging the My novelas on their radio spots.
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[quote name=\'clemon79\' post=\'140718\' date=\'Dec 16 2006, 06:36 AM\']
[quote name=\'wheelloon\' post=\'140675\' date=\'Dec 15 2006, 03:15 PM\']
that I, somehow, haven't heard of, and obviously don't get? :-/
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Ladies and gentlemen, I give you "irony".
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Glad I could entertain ya today Chris. I hope you get much enjoyment out of my seemingly random musings in the future... :)
As for the info given about MyNetwork, thank you very much! After doing quite a bit of searching, I found I don't get MyNetwork, at all, under the current cable plan. The closest station is in Baltimore, WDCA, whereas all the stations we get are now based in Salisbury, MD or Dover, DE. The NBC's and a CBS are the only exceptions...
In the end, I'd just rather the shows enter syndication, that way, at least, the shows have the potential to reach a bigger audience than I'd believe MyNetwork could provide right now (and of course, I could see them!)...
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[quote name=\'DrBear\' post=\'140723\' date=\'Dec 16 2006, 06:24 AM\']2. Even if you know it's there, they do a lousy job of promoting it - I had no idea until this week they have dropped their original two shows and brought in two new ones. And I watch the local outlet for Simpsons reruns and college basketball.
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Interestingly enough, my local MNTV affiliate, KPDX-49 (http://\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KPDX\"), is one of the few that doesn't use the "My" branding; it calls itself "PDX49", which it adopted a few months after The CW announcement.
In fact, their website barely promotes MNTV at all, except for a small banner ad for one of the two network shows.
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I wish we had done what UPN21 in Dallas did, plug a 2 hour newscast into the mix
It wouldn't work in L.A. with KCAL doing news three hours of news per night. In San Francisco, Young-owned KRON actually gave up two hours of local news for My Network.
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[quote name=\'chris319\' post=\'140778\' date=\'Dec 16 2006, 02:45 PM\']
In San Francisco, Young-owned KRON actually gave up two hours of local news for My Network.
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KRON is the My-channel up there? Wow. How the mighty have fallen.
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When MyNetwork was created, our then-UPN affilliate was required to use the official MyNetwork logo on all station IDs -- and if you wanted your channel number and/or station name included with/within the logo, it had to be first approved by Murdoch's clan. (I wonder how KPDX got away without using the official branding and logo) by King Rupert.
Since our MyNetwork station is low-power to begin with, we didn't even bother with adding a channel number to the logo ID.
The only promotional blitz Murdoch did with MyNetwork was right before it started back in September, and for all the commercials which played here on the radio, the cable stations and the UPN and FOX affiliates, I thought they were serious in getting this network going the way FOX began way back when. When the second semester of telenovelas started, there was *no* fanfare at all.
2007 may be a great year for "i -- the station formerly known as PAX", if they can create some additional programming, whether it be old reruns of shows, or more shows like "Doc", "Sue Thomas FB Eye" or "Candid Camera" which were done specifically for PAX, then maybe some of these MyNetwork stations might jump ship for i for their better programming.
/Wow, never thought I'd ever say "i" and "better programming" in the same sentence!
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Well...here's what happened in my necks of the woods with the whole MyNetwork situation.
At home, via South Bend, Indiana, before this mess, there was a WB station, a UPN station, and a local independent station. The WB and UPN stations were on local cable, while the independent was not. After the merger, our WB station took on the CW affliation, the UPN station rebranded themselves as SBT2 (after WSBT, the local CBS affliate, whom had control of the UPN station to begin with), and the independent became the MyNetwork affliate. Confused yet?
And here's the Killer Card (too soon?)...through my research of cable stuff...you can't get the station via cable at all. You have to get it over-the-air via antenna. Unless things have changed really recently....
At college, via Indianapolis affiliations, you can receive both CW and MyNetwork channels though cable.
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Well from living in NYC all my life and knowing our MyNetwork being Channel 9 aka the former WOR which I share fond memories of long running and short running game shows (TJW, TTT, Play the Percentages, MG, Pyramid) I think for this channel it's just the shot in the arm the network needs to go back in the right direction, even when in the late 80s they had 1,000,000 Chance of a Lifetime on. It might have been not the greatest game show but it kept the idea that a game show in prime time could still be somewhat watchable so I look forward to these 4, especially the return of Catch Phrase which I had a lot of fun with in the mid 80s on WCBS blocked with the dreaded Rayburn/Farago Break the Bank (which got relegated with Strike It Rich to the wee hours of the night like other game shows at that time).
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My Network in Cleveland helped to ruin a great Independent station in WUAB-43..Now aside from WOIO-19 produced 10:00 news and a few Cavaliers games (simulcast on Fox Sports Ohio), the station seems like its nothing but hours of informercials outside of Ny Network programming. Theyll lose the Cavs games after next season..This from what had been one of the leading independent stations in the USA.
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In some markets (I siad this in another post) like KC, MNTV gets UNDER 1 share. They're getting whipped with reruns of Mama's Family and Diagnosis Murder on PAX/i!!!!!!!!!!
This means Rupert and Co have to do something fast or some of those indies will bolt for infomercials or reruns, anything that gets a rating.
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[quote name=\'Tim L\' post=\'140864\' date=\'Dec 18 2006, 12:56 AM\']
My Network in Cleveland helped to ruin a great Independent station in WUAB-43..Now aside from WOIO-19 produced 10:00 news and a few Cavaliers games (simulcast on Fox Sports Ohio), the station seems like its nothing but hours of informercials outside of Ny Network programming. Theyll lose the Cavs games after next season..This from what had been one of the leading independent stations in the USA.
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In WUAB's better era beginning in the mid-60s, it was owned/affiliated with 2 strong companies -- Gaylord Broadcasting (which later went on to create The Nashville Network) and United Artists (the UA in WUAB), which during the early 70s unleashed its library onto Channel 43 (Gilligan's Island, Patty Duke Show, Johnny Socko & Ultraman,...).
In the mid 80's, Stephen J Cannell bought the station (Cannell Communications), and filled many of the timeslots with reruns of his programming (Magnum PI, Hardcastle & McCormick,...)
Once Cannell sold to their current owner, Alabama-based Raycom (no relation to Ray Combs), that was the end.
Pretty much what I'm alluding to is that if a company who buys a station/network has prior involvement in TV shows, they should be using those shows to create a good part of their schedule if they need some decent programming.
What Murdoch needs to do is to open up his 20th Century Fox/FOX archives and make them more readily available or available at a discount to his MyNetwork affiliates, even if they go all the way back to reruns of Dobie Gillis or airing everything that FX currently airs -- at least he'd be getting a little more money by getting advertisers during those FOX-owned shows.
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[quote name=\'TimK2003\' post=\'140877\' date=\'Dec 18 2006, 11:04 AM\']
What Murdoch needs to do is to open up his 20th Century Fox/FOX archives and make them more readily available or available at a discount to his MyNetwork affiliates, even if they go all the way back to reruns of Dobie Gillis or airing everything that FX currently airs -- at least he'd be getting a little more money by getting advertisers during those FOX-owned shows.
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This was tried with fX. Murdoch sold reruns of MASH to fX for considerably less than he could have gotten on the open market, and Alan Alda among others sued. (NYPD Blue and X-Files this also happened with) As a result, FOX agreed to offer those reruns out to the open market and hence that's why you see COPS on 5 or 6 cable channels, as well as MASH making the rounds of Hallmark and TV Land.
Viacom has this problem as well with TV Land. All the A-list reruns were Viacom product and as a result, TVL ran more or less Viacom product for a long time.
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[quote name=\'rialtus\' post=\'140701\' date=\'Dec 15 2006, 10:54 PM\'][quote name=\'chris319\' post=\'140677\' date=\'Dec 15 2006, 06:20 PM\']"My Games Fever" has been on the air for the past week on KCOP, My TV 13, Los Angeles.[/quote]Wow. Not that I regularly regularly watch the channel (sorry Chris), but I had no idea. I just hit it for the TiVo -- Monday at 1 pm.[/quote]I'm five minutes in to watching this, and I can feel my brain cells committing suicide already.
/Daisy, Daisy...
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[quote name=\'rialtus\' post=\'140932\' date=\'Dec 18 2006, 07:46 PM\']
[quote name=\'rialtus\' post=\'140701\' date=\'Dec 15 2006, 10:54 PM\'][quote name=\'chris319\' post=\'140677\' date=\'Dec 15 2006, 06:20 PM\']"My Games Fever" has been on the air for the past week on KCOP, My TV 13, Los Angeles.[/quote]Wow. Not that I regularly regularly watch the channel (sorry Chris), but I had no idea. I just hit it for the TiVo -- Monday at 1 pm.[/quote]I'm five minutes in to watching this, and I can feel my brain cells committing suicide already.
/Daisy, Daisy...
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Haven't seen it yet (don't consider it DVR fodder) but if it is like "PlayMania" and that TBS abortion (and I'm sure it is), if Roger Ailes tries to put it in prime time, I hope that Murdoch beats the crap out of him. I don't care if Fox News Channel is so profitable.
If you're going to put call-in-and-lose shows on the air (and we can even debate that), at least put them in low-visibility time periods. To put them in prime time is stupid, especially on a distinguished station like WWOR (yes, even Joe Franklin is distinguished). If Ailes tries to pull this, I would hope that he would get the treatment that Mike Darnell should've gotten for that O.J. show.
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It would be like the Ohio Lottery's gameshow, where they have now started JOINING the two games IN PROGRESS. Two rounds with a bonus round and they JIP (for at least the three last shows). This last episode, they started the FIRST game in progress. Pathetic!
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[quote name=\'toddyo\' post=\'141008\' date=\'Dec 19 2006, 01:07 PM\']
It would be like the Ohio Lottery's gameshow. . . Pathetic!
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Behold the glory of paraphrasing. :)
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[quote name=\'Joe Mello\' post=\'141021\' date=\'Dec 19 2006, 03:23 PM\']
[quote name=\'toddyo\' post=\'141008\' date=\'Dec 19 2006, 01:07 PM\']
It would be like the Ohio Lottery's gameshows. . . Pathetic!
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Behold the glory of paraphrasing. :)
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There, fixed that for ya. :-)
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And now WGN Superstaion has a direct ripoff of Playmania on the air with much lower production values.
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[quote name=\'Terry K\' post=\'141145\' date=\'Dec 20 2006, 11:27 PM\']
And now WGN Superstaion has a direct ripoff of Playmania on the air with much lower production values.
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Safe to say it's the same one they were doing on TNT, yes?
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[quote name=\'clemon79\' post=\'141147\' date=\'Dec 21 2006, 02:35 AM\']
[quote name=\'Terry K\' post=\'141145\' date=\'Dec 20 2006, 11:27 PM\']
And now WGN Superstaion has a direct ripoff of Playmania on the air with much lower production values.
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Safe to say it's the same one they were doing on TNT, yes?
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Naw, this is a third one...Terry's right in his assessment tho. It made the one from TBS (Midnight Money Madness or something like that) look like Jeopardy, in terms of easiness and execution.
Besides, a show with a chroma-key set immediately screams cheap IMO. It wouldn't be so bad for a local show, but for it to be a national show that airs for several hours, it just looks tacky.
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They list that POS as being on both CW11 (WPIX) and Superstation WGN..
http://www.playtowin.tv/ (http://\"http://www.playtowin.tv/\") (which right now comes up to a blank screen)
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[quote name=\'Terry K\' post=\'141153\' date=\'Dec 21 2006, 09:09 AM\']
They list that POS as being on both CW11 (WPIX) and Superstation WGN..
http://www.playtowin.tv/ (http://\"http://www.playtowin.tv/\") (which right now comes up to a blank screen)
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I wondered if the shows were regional; nope. Same show playing on both stations, and as said before, looks hella cheap and like a red-headed stepchild of PlayMania.
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Somebody should've spell checked the FAQ page, because I've never heard of a state called "New Yersey".
James
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[quote name=\'fostergray82\' post=\'141149\' date=\'Dec 21 2006, 01:57 AM\']
Naw, this is a third one...Terry's right in his assessment tho. It made the one from TBS (Midnight Money Madness or something like that) look like Jeopardy, in terms of easiness and execution.
Besides, a show with a chroma-key set immediately screams cheap IMO. It wouldn't be so bad for a local show, but for it to be a national show that airs for several hours, it just looks tacky.
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Sounds like I'm lucky--those of me in Chicago don't get the WGN Superstation feed, so I'm spared. :)
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[quote name=\'SRIV94\' post=\'141169\' date=\'Dec 21 2006, 12:09 PM\']
[quote name=\'fostergray82\' post=\'141149\' date=\'Dec 21 2006, 01:57 AM\']
Naw, this is a third one...Terry's right in his assessment tho. It made the one from TBS (Midnight Money Madness or something like that) look like Jeopardy, in terms of easiness and execution.
Besides, a show with a chroma-key set immediately screams cheap IMO. It wouldn't be so bad for a local show, but for it to be a national show that airs for several hours, it just looks tacky.
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Sounds like I'm lucky--those of me in Chicago don't get the WGN Superstation feed, so I'm spared. :)
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I'm thankful we endure a double dose of "Who's the Daddy" (or Maury) in the Chicago-only feed than what the superstation is spitting out.
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In Grand Rapids, My Network has been slapped on the low-power Lin Broadcasting station, WXSP, which is on a number of cable systems. Plenty of programs that have run their course on WOOD and WUHQ-TV (Cosby Show, Home Improvement), Springer and Maury in the morning, a few UPN shows (One on One), court shows from noon til 4, some Canadian imports (Cold Squad), and sports shows (Oak Ridge Outdoors) and teams (Pistons, Tigers - W-XtraSPorts)...along with it being a third outlet for WOOD-TV newscasts. Not bad programming. Some new game shows somewhere on the network would make a nice addition, so here's hoping along with you My Net picks some up.
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[quote name=\'The Ol' Guy\' post=\'141174\' date=\'Dec 21 2006, 11:16 AM\']
In Grand Rapids, My Network has been slapped on the low-power Lin Broadcasting station,
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I read this as "Lin Bolen station". Then I blanched.
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Can't blame ya, Chris. Everyone would have to have their hair permed and wear open collared shirts.
Shudder!
and Merry Christmas, by the way.
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Best comments so far about these call-in-and-lose shows came courtesy of one of my co-workers this afternoon, as MyGames Fever played on one of the TVs on mute (mercifully):
"What is this that's on... and why is it on?"
And so I explained the premise to the best of my ability, and she summed it up better than I ever could:
"Oh, so it's like a carnival game, only more annoying."
Bingo.
/not At Home
//is that how these slashy things work?
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Kimmel just made fun of it during his monologue, and mentions how "challenging" the games are. I want that minute and thirty seconds of my life back.
And by "challenging", I mean LEM BIGSON. Unscramble the name for an actor.
/Makes D/ND look difficult.
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[quote name=\'fostergray82\' post=\'141736\' date=\'Dec 29 2006, 11:21 PM\']
LEM BIGSON. Unscramble the name for an actor.
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Elm Bosing! :-P
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[quote name=\'Seth Thrasher\' post=\'141737\' date=\'Dec 30 2006, 12:28 AM\']
[quote name=\'fostergray82\' post=\'141736\' date=\'Dec 29 2006, 11:21 PM\']
LEM BIGSON. Unscramble the name for an actor.
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Elm Bosing! :-P
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Otm Shank (http://\"http://www.snpp.com/episodes/DABF05\").
(He's India's answer to Brian Dennehy.)