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The Game Show Forum => The Big Board => Topic started by: Bob Zager on July 28, 2007, 12:57:48 PM
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Harper Collins publishing is now showing some information, including the cover art (unless just a prototype), for Stan Blits' book on TPIR, as well as a countdown timer to the release, slated for Sept. 4 (the show's actual premiere date, 35 years ago!)
http://www.harpercollins.com/books/9780061...Down/index.aspx (http://\"http://www.harpercollins.com/books/9780061350115/Come_On_Down/index.aspx\")
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[quote name=\'Bob Zager\' post=\'158918\' date=\'Jul 28 2007, 11:57 AM\']
Harper Collins publishing is now showing some information, including the cover art (unless just a prototype), for Stan Blits' book on TPIR, as well as a countdown timer to the release, slated for Sept. 4 (the show's actual premiere date, 35 years ago!)
http://www.harpercollins.com/books/9780061...Down/index.aspx (http://\"http://www.harpercollins.com/books/9780061350115/Come_On_Down/index.aspx\")
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Amazon's got the same cover... and a $5 cheaper price!
http://www.amazon.com/Come-Down-Behind-Doo...1131&sr=8-1 (http://\"http://www.amazon.com/Come-Down-Behind-Doors-Price/dp/0061350117/ref=pd_bbs_1/102-4319507-8068908?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1185651131&sr=8-1\")
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[quote name=\'mcsittel\' post=\'158928\' date=\'Jul 28 2007, 12:33 PM\']
Amazon's got the same cover... and a $5 cheaper price!
http://www.amazon.com/Come-Down-Behind-Doo...1131&sr=8-1 (http://\"http://www.amazon.com/Come-Down-Behind-Doors-Price/dp/0061350117/ref=pd_bbs_1/102-4319507-8068908?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1185651131&sr=8-1\")
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In looking at this, and briefly surfing through the "You Might Also Like..." section, I came across the PYL DVD game. In the ad copy:
hosted by veteran television personality, Todd Newton
I lol'd.
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Funny. I didn't know Todd Newton served in the Armed Forces!
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[quote name=\'Bob Zager\' post=\'158918\' date=\'Jul 28 2007, 12:57 PM\']
Harper Collins publishing is now showing some information, including the cover art (unless just a prototype), for Stan Blits' book on TPIR, as well as a countdown timer to the release, slated for Sept. 4 (the show's actual premiere date, 35 years ago!)
http://www.harpercollins.com/books/9780061...Down/index.aspx (http://\"http://www.harpercollins.com/books/9780061350115/Come_On_Down/index.aspx\")
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What caught my eye is that on the bottom of the harpercollins description page that the book is for ages 18 and up!!!
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That's imaginative cover art:
http://www.amazon.com/Come-Down-Game-Show-...9634&sr=1-3 (http://\"http://www.amazon.com/Come-Down-Game-Show-Book/dp/0896597946/ref=sr_1_3/002-5827663-2628054?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1185669634&sr=1-3\")
Take your pick of Barker's hair color.
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[quote name=\'chris319\' post=\'158955\' date=\'Jul 28 2007, 07:41 PM\']
That's imaginative cover art:
http://www.amazon.com/Come-Down-Game-Show-...9634&sr=1-3 (http://\"http://www.amazon.com/Come-Down-Game-Show-Book/dp/0896597946/ref=sr_1_3/002-5827663-2628054?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1185669634&sr=1-3\")
Take your pick of Barker's hair color.
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You beat me to that one :)
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The "Come on Down" cited by Chris was one of the first widely distributed book about game shows, including an early GS encyclopedia in 1986. I should know this as I made it part of a college paper in 1989. As for the new "Come on Down" book, we'll have to see what kind of interesting tidbits Stan can tell us.
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Harper Collins is starting off on the wrong foot:
http://www.harpercollins.com/books/9780061...Down/index.aspx (http://\"http://www.harpercollins.com/books/9780061350115/Come_On_Down/index.aspx\")
Once again, Stan is NOT the show's music director. He is the music supervisor. Any production assistant can do Stan's job; in fact that is how Stan got his job. He does not compose, arrange, conduct, produce, record or perform any of the show's music, which a real music director would (e.g. Paul Shaffer or Edd Kalehoff).
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[quote name=\'chris319\' post=\'158977\' date=\'Jul 29 2007, 08:20 AM\']
Once again, Stan is NOT the show's music director. He is the music supervisor. Any production assistant can do Stan's job; in fact that is how Stan got his job. He does not compose, arrange, conduct, produce, record or perform any of the show's music, which a real music director would (e.g. Paul Shaffer or Edd Kalehoff).
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I don't blame Harper Collins for that though...I remember seeing him credited on the show as such. Seems Fremantle needs to correct that one.
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[quote name=\'chris319\' post=\'158955\' date=\'Jul 28 2007, 08:41 PM\']
That's imaginative cover art:
http://www.amazon.com/Come-Down-Game-Show-...9634&sr=1-3 (http://\"http://www.amazon.com/Come-Down-Game-Show-Book/dp/0896597946/ref=sr_1_3/002-5827663-2628054?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1185669634&sr=1-3\")
Take your pick of Barker's hair color.
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Gotta love the Dunkin' Donuts font used. They even got the colors right.
https://www.dunkindonuts.com/images/global/logo_main.gif (http://\"https://www.dunkindonuts.com/images/global/logo_main.gif\")
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[quote name=\'fostergray82\' post=\'158990\' date=\'Jul 29 2007, 01:58 PM\']
[quote name=\'chris319\' post=\'158977\' date=\'Jul 29 2007, 08:20 AM\']
Once again, Stan is NOT the show's music director. He is the music supervisor. Any production assistant can do Stan's job; in fact that is how Stan got his job. He does not compose, arrange, conduct, produce, record or perform any of the show's music, which a real music director would (e.g. Paul Shaffer or Edd Kalehoff).
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I don't blame Harper Collins for that though...I remember seeing him credited on the show as such. Seems Fremantle needs to correct that one.
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And for those asking from the bio, this year they started including directors and writers in the Emmy listings for series (dropping the game show director category and seemingly renaming the talk show writing category "Special Class"--that used to be where they put game show writers), so in the nominations, Stan was listed as a "writer," along with Adam Sandler--although in the actual Emmy listing for winning, the only names listed are Barker, Roger (as "producer/writer") and Bart--which would seem to indicate that those three were the only ones who actually received statues.
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daytime reality TV
Is that what they call it now?
Even in a climate where game shows are running rampant in primetime again, is "game show" still a bad title?