No "Super Millionaire" Again

[uncamark]

The NBC Universal press release:

http://nbcumv.com/release_detail.nbc/enter...5winning32.html

"America's Got Talent" premieres June 21 and there'll probably be a promo with Reege on "DOND" tonight.

And speaking of "DOND":

http://nbcumv.com/release_detail.nbc/enter...32listings.html

Gosh, I wonder what else Howie and Reege will talk about Monday night?

[weaklink75]

Simon Cowell and Regis Philbin on the same project..who'd thunk it....

[cmjb13]

According to NBC.com, Jay Leno also makes an appearance on Monday's show.

[Matt Ottinger]

[quote name=\'uncamark\' post=\'118142\' date=\'May 10 2006, 03:09 PM\']
And speaking of "DOND":

http://nbcumv.com/release_detail.nbc/enter...32listings.html
[/quote]
Were we really dying to meet some of the past $10,000 Lucky Case Game winners?

Two hours is a long, long time to be playing Deal or No Deal, and I'm not sure filler like this helps.

[TV Favorites]

Speaking of Reege, whatever happened to "This is Your Life"?

[SRIV94]

[quote name=\'Matt Ottinger\' post=\'118146\' date=\'May 10 2006, 02:28 PM\']
Were we really dying to meet some of the past $10,000 Lucky Case Game winners?

Two hours is a long, long time to be playing Deal or No Deal, and I'm not sure filler like this helps.
[/quote]
True that, but with the penultimate ep of 24 and the first hour of the GREY'S ANATOMY finale as competition, give a few points to NBC for not conceding.

Doug

[uncamark]

[quote name=\'Matt Ottinger\' post=\'118146\' date=\'May 10 2006, 02:28 PM\']
[quote name=\'uncamark\' post=\'118142\' date=\'May 10 2006, 03:09 PM\']
And speaking of "DOND":

http://nbcumv.com/release_detail.nbc/enter...32listings.html
[/quote]
Were we really dying to meet some of the past $10,000 Lucky Case Game winners?

Two hours is a long, long time to be playing Deal or No Deal, and I'm not sure filler like this helps.
[/quote]

Well, they've got three contestants in the two hours, which is about par for the course in two episodes (which what I suspect it might be is just two eps cobbled together).

Besides, they can get lots of shots of people jumping up and down and screaming, which we all know is good television.  

I wonder if NBC's going to do a $10,000 text message game for "America's Got Talent"--have someone who voted for the top vote-getter win the money or something like that?  (I'm assuming that the structure will be a lot like "Idol" and "American Inventor," meaning several audition shows in the beginning.)

[TLEberle]

[quote name=\'Matt Ottinger\' post=\'118146\' date=\'May 10 2006, 12:28 PM\']Two hours is a long, long time to be playing Deal or No Deal, and I'm not sure filler like this helps.[/quote]ONE hour is a long time for Deal. I could barely sit through the two hour show. Thanks for the heads up.


[quote name=\'uncamark\' post=\'118152\' date=\'May 10 2006, 12:49 PM\']I wonder if NBC's going to do a $10,000 text message game for "America's Got Talent"[/quote]I would bet that it's a virtual certainty. If they're getting 99 cents a throw for Deal or No Deal and The Apprentice, and paying out $10,000 per show, that's a huge amount of money being liberated from people's pockets. There's no way they let that go.

[GS Warehouse]

[quote name=\'TV Favorites\' post=\'118149\' date=\'May 10 2006, 03:38 PM\']Speaking of Reege, whatever happened to "This is Your Life"?[/quote]
The Yahoo! article on Philbin's hiring says This is Your Life is still in the development stages.  I wouldn't look for it until next midseason at earliest.

And although I agree is pushing their luck with DoND, Doug's right.  The scheduling just screams desperation, because they are a desperate network.  In fact, NBC is exactly where ABC was when Millionaire burned out.

Speaking of desperate, things would be a lot different of DoND was on ABC, American Idol was on NBC, and Desperate Housewives was on Lifetime.  (These networks all passed on those respective shows.)  OTOH, there's no way Teri Hatcher and company could draw 22 million viewers a week to Lifetime.

ObGS: David Ruprecht certainly didn't.

[tvwxman]

[quote name=\'GS Warehouse\' post=\'118215\' date=\'May 11 2006, 01:47 PM\']
The Yahoo! article on Philbin's hiring says This is Your Life is still in the development stages.  I wouldn't look for it until next midseason at earliest.
[/quote]

Ask any comic waiting for a sitcom what "in development" means.....it's the television equivalent of purgatory.

If it's still in "development", I'd be surprised if it ever sees the light of day, which is too bad, because it could very well work in today's "people must know every f'n detail about their favorite celebrity" culture.

[uncamark]

[quote name=\'TLEberle\' post=\'118156\' date=\'May 10 2006, 04:28 PM\'][quote name=\'uncamark\' post=\'118152\' date=\'May 10 2006, 12:49 PM\']I wonder if NBC's going to do a $10,000 text message game for "America's Got Talent"[/quote]I would bet that it's a virtual certainty. If they're getting 99 cents a throw for Deal or No Deal and The Apprentice, and paying out $10,000 per show, that's a huge amount of money being liberated from people's pockets. There's no way they let that go.
[/quote]

And after I posted it, I saw an article stating that Dougie Zucker wants *every* Network of NBC show to have some interactivity:

http://www.usatoday.com/printedition/money...front10.art.htm

Also, I saw that as of April "DOND" had received over 30 million total calls on the Lucky Case game.  Do the math.

[weaklink75]

Well on the East Coast, it looks like we're going to be getting "Deport or No Deport" instead of Regis Monday (President Bush has scheduled an address on immigration for 8pm Eastern Monday)

EDIT: Well there must be a lot of filler...they're cutting the ep to 90 minutes according to NBC...