[quote name=\'colonial\' post=\'183451\' date=\'Apr 7 2008, 08:38 AM\']-- It will be a 60-minute show
-- There will be a four team, single-elimination tournament in each game. The winners of the first two games will face off in the third game (he didn't provide specifics about # of rounds per game, # of Fast Moneys per show, etc.)
-- Teams will be made up of four players. He said the teams could consist of one celebrity and his/her family (such as what Game Show Marathon did), celebs who are friends in real life, casts members from films, current TV shows or classic TV shows.[/quote]
So it's going to be similar in format to the celeb editions that ran on ABC in prime time in the late '70s, except with the TV show cast angle excluded. Most of those casts were ABC casts -- because CBS's schedule was in flux and NBC didn't have enough hit shows with set casts to make it work. ("And now, the cast of
Supertrain! With Charlie Brill... no, wait a minute, Charlie, I just got a call from Fred Silverman...")
During the segment, co-host Natalie Morales mentioned that John O'Hurley currently hosted the daytime version. Ann Curry just kept asking Al if he would kiss the ladies like Richard Dawson.
"Why, no, Ann. Are you going to act like a moron like Julie Chen?"
