Abc's new game show "Duel" looking for contestants

[TimK2003]

[quote name=\'mcsittel\' post=\'167709\' date=\'Oct 23 2007, 05:48 PM\']
My favorite is "Tell us something about yourself you don't want us to know."
[/quote]


My response would be:  "That I feel that this question, along with the 700 other senseless questions on this 30 page application should, by no means, be relevant to the actual audition process.  Therefore, by telling you what I don't want you to know, you should not count this particular smarmy question against me because you shouldn't  have known about it in the first place, but you had asked."

/What do you think you thought I said?

[clemon79]

[quote name=\'TimK2003\' post=\'167726\' date=\'Oct 23 2007, 08:13 PM\']
/What do you think you thought I said?
[/quote]
"I'm not interested in being a contestant on your show."

[That Don Guy]

Say what you want about the questionnaire, but it beats the one for Are You Smarter Than A Fifth Grader:

"What college did you attend?"

"Did you attend an Ivy League college?" (You would think they would be able to answer that one themselves from the previous response)

"Do you know of any Ivy League alumni in the Los Angeles area that you think would make good contestants, and if so, how can we contact them?"

-- Don

[uncamark]

And the application Goodson-Todman used was one good-sized piece of cardboard that asked your name, address, phone number(s), age, Social Security number, occupation, hobbies, whether you'd ever been on any TV game shows and what they were and when if you had, if you were a performing union member and if you were an employee or family member of an employee of the network and/or syndicator.  They didn't even ask if you were running for office, which is the other big potential problem for contestant bookers.  In the upper right hand corner, they'd attach the black-and-white Polaroid they'd take of you.

Times have changed.

[Peter Sarrett]

[quote name=\'That Don Guy\' post=\'167764\' date=\'Oct 24 2007, 12:37 PM\']
"Did you attend an Ivy League college?" [/quote]

There is only one Ivy League college (Dartmouth).  All the rest are universities.

[clemon79]

[quote name=\'Peter Sarrett\' post=\'167797\' date=\'Oct 24 2007, 04:18 PM\']
There is only one Ivy League college (Dartmouth).  All the rest are universities.
[/quote]
For a brief moment I thought that was gonna be an Ivy-league-rivalry joke, in the same vein as when Cal students refer to "Stanfurd, that junior college down the peninsula."

/they both suck
//Fight on for dear old San Jose State
///those are the only words to the fight song anyone knows

[leszekp]

There's one additional restriction that isn't in the eligibility rules on the website, but which has been publicized elsewhere: You can't have been on any other game show within the past five years.

[MyronMMeyer]

[quote name=\'leszekp\' post=\'167822\' date=\'Oct 24 2007, 10:31 PM\']
There's one additional restriction that isn't in the eligibility rules on the website, but which has been publicized elsewhere: You can't have been on any other game show within the past five years.
[/quote]

Hmmmm.  Maybe that wasn't me on Crosswords yesterday.

-M

[colonial]

[quote name=\'leszekp\' post=\'167822\' date=\'Oct 24 2007, 10:31 PM\']
There's one additional restriction that isn't in the eligibility rules on the website, but which has been publicized elsewhere: You can't have been on any other game show within the past five years.
[/quote]


Actually, I don't believe the restriction is set in stone yet.  

This is part of a post from Holland Striplin, whose apparently the casting director for the show, on a quizbowl message board.  Said post was made last week...



If you have appeared on a gameshow and won money or were featured on the show within the last 6 years then you are not eligible. However, if you were on a show such as 1 vs. 100 and were part of the mob then you may still be eligible.
 

I should also note that when I called the casting department and mentioned I was on WWTBAM in 2001, I was told that I should be eligible for the show (I was on both WWTBAM and 2MD just over six years ago).  Granted, these things change, so who knows anymore?  

James

[Fedya]

colonial wrote:

(I was on both WWTBAM and 2MD just over six years ago)

2MD?  Dos Mexicanos Dijeron?

(Sorry to be dense, but I don't remember "2MD".)

[BrandonFG]

[quote name=\'Fedya\' post=\'167901\' date=\'Oct 25 2007, 03:48 PM\']
(Sorry to be dense, but I don't remember "2MD".)
[/quote]
2 Minute Drill...ESPN show.

[Neumms]

[quote name=\'clemon79\' post=\'167798\' date=\'Oct 24 2007, 06:24 PM\']
For a brief moment I thought that was gonna be an Ivy-league-rivalry joke, in the same vein as when Cal students refer to "Stanfurd, that junior college down the peninsula."
[/quote]

Is that because it really is named for Leland Stanford Jr.? A friend of mine went there and often--quite often--wore the sweatshirt home--really all too often--and the seal said "Leland Stanford Junior College." I'm gratified to know I'm not the only one making fun of it.

[clemon79]

[quote name=\'Neumms\' post=\'167977\' date=\'Oct 26 2007, 11:04 AM\']
Is that because it really is named for Leland Stanford Jr.?
[/quote]
Actually, no, it's because Cal students really hate Stanford.

/SJ
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///SU
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