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The Game Show Forum => The Big Board => Topic started by: MikeK on April 01, 2011, 06:06:11 PM

Title: CBS piloting Secret Fortune
Post by: MikeK on April 01, 2011, 06:06:11 PM

http://www.deadline.com/2011/03/cbs-orders-nigel-lythgoe-produced-game-show-pilot/

I have seen each episode thanks to the wonderful world of torrents.  I would like to see this show succeed here.  Unfortunately, if The Cube couldn't get past pilot stage here, I don't think Secret Fortune will fare much better...

Title: CBS piloting Secret Fortune
Post by: Neumms on April 03, 2011, 12:46:07 PM

Quote from: MikeK on April 01, 2011, 06:06:11 PM

http://www.deadline.com/2011/03/cbs-orders-nigel-lythgoe-produced-game-show-pilot/

One of the comments explains the game in greater detail than the story. Sounds like a pretty good idea. Interesting note from that commenter: "In practice the rankings are so close it involves guesswork as much as skill." In a TV world where programmers are terribly put off by actual skill or knowledge, that's the vein to strike. It's why TPIR works in ways LMAD doesn't.