The Game Show Forum
The Game Show Forum => The Big Board => Topic started by: tvrandywest on June 05, 2012, 10:41:31 PM
-
Just had a conversation with one of the VPs at GSN who says he and the network are proud of the tribute they've put together. "We had the time to do it right," "True to our roots" and "respectful to the family" are among the phrases he shared in describing something I feared might have been little more than a throwaway.
Here's hoping!
Randy
tvrandywest.com
-
Fingers crossed! Thanks for the news Randy.
-John
-
Very rarely do I play the role of a pessimist, and I'll definitely be tuning in for this tomorrow night but I can't help notifcing that GSN only goes "above and beyond" when someone dies..Look at what they did for the Merv Griffin tribute, and now for Richard Dawson....
-
Very rarely do I play the role of a pessimist, and I'll definitely be tuning in for this tomorrow night but I can't help notifcing that GSN only goes "above and beyond" when someone dies..Look at what they did for the Merv Griffin tribute, and now for Richard Dawson....
It would be way easier to plan for and program this sort of thing if there was a way to know when a celebrity was going to die. Given that is generally not the case, we take what we can get and say thanks.
(I'd like to make the point that since I like and respect Aaron, I was being gentle. :) )
-
It is extremely easy to plan, the AP does it all the time and that is why we sometimes see reports of a celebrity's death along with a full obituary and review of their life prematurely.
-
That's a really fair point. You'd think GSN could be putting together the Barker tribute for when the day comes.
/you know, for karma
-
At St. Martin's in the 1990s, we acquired biographies about celebrities that we assumed would die shortly, so that we could release them days after they died. This practice lasted for only two celebrities: Frank Sinatra, whose book didn't sell well (mostly because it wasn't very good), and Katharine Hepburn, who didn't have the courtesy to die a few months after we bought the rights to it, but waited five years (we finally threw in the towel and published it in 2000; I suspect it was on the remainder tables when she finally passed).
I'm pretty sure GSN made some plans for this.
-
Dick Clark's tribute was lacking compared to this.
-
You'd think GSN could be putting together the Barker tribute for when the day comes.
This got me thinking: when that day comes, what the hell could/would GSN do for a tribute?
-
This got me thinking: when that day comes, what the hell could/would GSN do for a tribute?
Offhand, if they really, truly weren't going to be able to show Price, they have Match Game, Tattletales, I've Got a Secret and Family Feud episodes that feature Bob.
-
Dick Clark's tribute was lacking compared to this.
That's an understatement.
-
Offhand, if they really, truly weren't going to be able to show Price
I'll point out that's the same Price that they blew off in the Top Fitty Shows Evar thing.
-
This got me thinking: when that day comes, what the hell could/would GSN do for a tribute?
Air TPIR or never be taken seriously again.
Throw some cash in T-Bills or a CD or something. Save up so you can do four hours of that. And buy extra bandwidth for the website.
-
Air TPIR or never be taken seriously again.
I'll point out that some people said this during the Nifty Fifty as well. :)
-
In re: Barker...The Family Game or bust.
-
And here's the line-up:
7:00 pm ET Family Feud 78-070: Richard’s son Gary is on the show because he has won an acting award
7:30 pm ET Match Game 259 TM: Contestant wins matching Richard; she kisses him, McLean Stevenson kisses Richard
8:00 pm ET Family Feud 80-189 TM: Well known and beloved “September” episode
8:30 pm ET Match Game 236 TM: Gene & Richard get into a fight on Loretta Swift’s behalf
9:00 pm ET Family Feud 81-073 TM: Richard meets 2nd wife Gretchen, who is a contestant on the show
9:30 pm ET Family Feud 80-226 TM: Taped on Richard’s birthday, his two sons are on the show
10:00 pm ET Family Feud 001: (60 minutes) Richard returns to Family Feud after 9 years
Randy
tvrandywest.com
-
I would like to write and produce the tribute to Barker. Really I would. I also have some friends who will help me. Oh yes they will. One of them lives out in Palm Desert.
The first few episodes will each feature a fur, and every episode will have Dian, Janice and Holly. The ladies will be awash in residuals. Oh yes they will. After a few fur episodes we will air some episodes with an on-camera appearance by Rod Roddy. Then we'll have an interview with Nick Alden.
Oh yes we will.
-
Don't forget to include the episodes in which Bob messes up the game play, and then says, "aw, hell...just give 'em the damn prize!!!". :)
-
I watched the '94 episode, and honestly, speaking for myself, I didn't find Dawson hard to understand, like Howard Felsher said he was, in the 2002 E! True Hollywood Story episode of Family Feud.
-
In re: Barker...The Family Game or bust.
For Barker, I think eps of T or C would be appropriate. Anyway . . .
I thought the Dawson tribute was good. I never saw the full hour of FF '94, I've also come to accept that "glitches" are just part of programming at GSN.
-
Throw some cash in T-Bills or a CD or something.
At today's rates? I'd rather air Studs. ;)