Syndie DOND on back burner

[entguy1]

So says NBC, who's plugging Jerry Springer's bodyguard:

http://www.broadcastingcable.com/article/C...y=Breaking+News

[tpirfan28]

Celebrity Jury?

The Jerry Springer Bodyguard Show?

Wow.

BUT....this is the most brilliant statment I've heard come out of Game Show Land in a VERY long time...

NBCU’s syndication plans for Deal were understood not to have been greeted warmly by NBC, which already carries the game multiple times per week. It feared that Deal could burn out like an over-exposed Who Wants to Be a Millionaire did on ABC in 1999-2000.

[MikeK]

[quote name=\'entguy1\' post=\'142754\' date=\'Jan 10 2007, 04:56 PM\']So says NBC, who's plugging Jerry Springer's bodyguard:

http://www.broadcastingcable.com/article/C...y=Breaking+News[/quote]
When this little venture goes the way of Megan Mullally et al., who wants to bet that NBC/Universal will do anything it can to get Deal into syndication by January '08?  When the syndie version of Weakest Link debuted in Jan. '02, did it replace a cancelled NBC syndicated show?

I think putting Deal on the backburner is indeed for the best.  I can't see a syndicated version of the US game working with lowered stakes, while fudging with the format or bringing in a foreign version's setup, specifically how it's done in the UK, would be too confusing for the home audience.  ("Where are the models?", "Why is Clem from Buttrash, Montana on for the 20th straight day?", etc.)

[uncamark]

[quote name=\'MikeK\' post=\'142766\' date=\'Jan 10 2007, 05:43 PM\']
[quote name=\'entguy1\' post=\'142754\' date=\'Jan 10 2007, 04:56 PM\']So says NBC, who's plugging Jerry Springer's bodyguard:

http://www.broadcastingcable.com/article/C...y=Breaking+News[/quote]
When this little venture goes the way of Megan Mullally et al., who wants to bet that NBC/Universal will do anything it can to get Deal into syndication by January '08?  When the syndie version of Weakest Link debuted in Jan. '02, did it replace a cancelled NBC syndicated show?[/quote]

IIRC, I don't think so, unless it was the Jane Pauley show, of which I can't remember the year that was on.

[BrandonFG]

[quote name=\'uncamark\' post=\'142810\' date=\'Jan 10 2007, 10:47 PM\']
IIRC, I don't think so, unless it was the Jane Pauley show, of which I can't remember the year that was on.
[/quote]
04-05

[NickS]

What I'm curious to see is if Roger King decides to bring out the Joker/Combination duo for NATPE or a little later after that now that this has been announced.

[Jimmy Owen]

Variety.com is reporting that Roger King has decided against bringing Joker/Lock to NATPE.

[BobbyLankford_83]

DAMN! I was expecting to see TJW/Combination Lock this fall. I guess better luck next time for those two shows.

I'd rather see those than that courtroom crap or Jerry Springer any day.

[tpirfan28]

[quote name=\'MikeK\' post=\'142766\' date=\'Jan 10 2007, 06:43 PM\']
I can't see a syndicated version of the US game working with lowered stakes, while fudging with the format or bringing in a foreign version's setup, specifically how it's done in the UK, would be too confusing for the home audience.  ("Where are the models?", "Why is Clem from Buttrash, Montana on for the 20th straight day?", etc.)
[/quote]
Simple...knock the number of cases down to 22, like UK Deal, but keep the models.

I don't remember if this happened or not, but was Meredith's syndie Millionaire ever on when Reege's original Millionaire was on?  That would have been overexposure.

OBFamily:  My sister was born on July 11, 2000.  Better known to this forum as David Goodman's $1M win, and the win that was the basis for the $2.18M jackpot.

/NOT irony, conicidence

[clemon79]

[quote name=\'Jimmy Owen\' post=\'142862\' date=\'Jan 11 2007, 06:48 AM\']
Variety.com is reporting that Roger King has decided against bringing Joker/Lock to NATPE.
[/quote]
I await comment.

I know I won't _see_ it, mind you, but I'll still await it.

[BrandonFG]

[quote name=\'tpirfan28\' post=\'142864\' date=\'Jan 11 2007, 10:09 AM\']
I don't remember if this happened or not, but was Meredith's syndie Millionaire ever on when Reege's original Millionaire was on?  That would have been overexposure.
[/quote]
No. Reege's version last aired in June 2002. Meredith debuted that September.

[uncamark]

Well, the Conventional Wisdom right now that there's room for only one new game show in syndication is still around and looks to be true.  But we all thought it was going to be "DOND."  Silly us.

[itiparanoid13]

I've been advised by someone "close to the show" that it's not dead and to wait for the real news, even though it's been posted in 2 different places now that it's gone.  So I had to not only make it a rumor control post but also remove all signs of it being dead.  So, again at the command of someone "close to the show", this is the new title.

Rumor Control: "The Joker's Wild"/"Combination Lock" Basically XXXX

At this point, it's not pissing me off if the show doesn't make it.

[Robert Hutchinson]

[quote name=\'itiparanoid13\' post=\'142941\' date=\'Jan 11 2007, 07:58 PM\']I've been advised by someone "close to the show" that it's not dead and to wait for the real news, even though it's been posted in 2 different places now that it's gone.  So I had to not only make it a rumor control post but also remove all signs of it being dead.[/quote]
I wouldn't dream of telling you how to edit your own blog posts or anything like that. But I still must question the strict validity of the word I bolded in your quote. I, personally, would add a statement about the "rebuttal" before the first paragraph of the content, and leave everything else be.

[itiparanoid13]

OK, I can say it like this.  This person didn't even bother to ask me to be aware there's still a chance.  He went to the people above me and bitched to them.  This is the 2nd time this has happened and I've had enough.