CBS Makes a 'Deal' to Replace 'Guiding Light'

[TimK2003]

[quote name=\'chad1m\' post=\'221839\' date=\'Aug 3 2009, 04:47 PM\'][quote name=\'Don Howard\' post=\'221834\' date=\'Aug 3 2009, 04:21 PM\']Now, who's the fellow that will be the announcer for this?[/quote]Hollywood Junket reported that the host/sidekick during the pilot was Jonathan Mangum, who most notably had a recurring role in the later years of The Drew Carey Show as Scott.
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I nominate a certain GSF member who should've gotten another announcer/sidekick gig a few years back on the same network...

...This provided he passes the mandatory physical and how he looks in a baby's outfit.

[aaron sica]

For those in the Harrisburg-Lebanon-Lancaster-York market, I emailed WHP's programming department and got a vacation message. I shall actually try the old fashioned way of telephone tomorrow.

[gsgalaxy82]

I think it's safe to say it'll run in the same place as GL in most places (I know, stating the obvious). But not all markets run GL in the 9 am/10 am slot. Here in Seattle, I'm guessing KIRO will run LMAD at 2 pm, meaning TPIR and LMAD won't air back to back, unless KIRO does some "shuffling" and decides to put LMAD in at 9 (replacing TP: AP and Family Feud, so it's not out of the question).

[tvwxman]

http://www.tvsquad.com/2009/08/03/does-way...-make-a-deal-p/

Unless I missed this in a previous post - the nugget in this article is : LMAD will tape in Vegas.

[toetyper]

Brady did a better job of fielding some weirdly uncomfortable questions during the session. When a reporter said "you'd know better than anybody" when she asked if Wayne was the first African-American host of a network game show, he said "Yes (I would), because of the meetings..." He later came back to that theme when he joked that he was the "African-American guiding light of television."


WRONG

nipsey on your number's up

[BrandonFG]

[quote name=\'gsgalaxy82\' post=\'221866\' date=\'Aug 3 2009, 08:12 PM\']I think it's safe to say it'll run in the same place as GL in most places (I know, stating the obvious). But not all markets run GL in the 9 am/10 am slot. Here in Seattle, I'm guessing KIRO will run LMAD at 2 pm, meaning TPIR and LMAD won't air back to back, unless KIRO does some "shuffling" and decides to put LMAD in at 9 (replacing TP: AP and Family Feud, so it's not out of the question).[/quote]
WTKR airs GL at 3pm, and I'm guessing they'll put LMaD there, although 10am makes a good lead-in to TPiR. 'TKR also airs D/ND from 4-5, so this would make a decent lead-in for that as well.

/They could call it "Let's Make a Deal or No Deal"!

[quote name=\'toetyper\' post=\'221873\' date=\'Aug 3 2009, 09:25 PM\']He later came back to that theme when he joked that he was the "African-American guiding light of television."

WRONG

nipsey on your number's up[/quote]
Actually, Adam Wade on Musical Chairs a good decade before...

[aaron sica]

[quote name=\'gsgalaxy82\' post=\'221866\' date=\'Aug 3 2009, 08:12 PM\']I think it's safe to say it'll run in the same place as GL in most places (I know, stating the obvious). But not all markets run GL in the 9 am/10 am slot. Here in Seattle, I'm guessing KIRO will run LMAD at 2 pm, meaning TPIR and LMAD won't air back to back, unless KIRO does some "shuffling" and decides to put LMAD in at 9 (replacing TP: AP and Family Feud, so it's not out of the question).[/quote]

I don't know, David; I think it would be very tempting for CBS affils who ran GL in at 3pm (EST) to *want* to move LMAD to 10am to create a 2-hour game show block and a lead-in to Price. AFAIK, I don't think WHP has the choice to switch the 10am and 3pm timeslots; the fly-in-the-ointment is "The Doctors", which I don't think can air at 3pm as its parent show, "Dr. Phil", airs at that time on WGAL. However, they could always move "The Doctors" to 9am, put LMAD on at 10, and move their 9am offering ("The 700 Club") to 3pm.

As much as I would love to have a late afternoon network game show for the first time since the days of Bowzer, I really see it airing at 10am.

[weaklink75]

For the 2nd time- Though I doubt it'll be at the Hilton this time by...The Venetian is the obvious first choice (Brady has a show there), but do they have the facilities to do a show like LMAD on a full-time basis?

[aaron sica]

I think CBS will go for the obvious Whose Line connection, and I'm willing to put my next check on a Wayne Brady TPiR cameo sometime between Oct. 2-5. Other than that, I think the two shows' formats interloping will be slim*.

I have been telling my wife (who likes game shows somewhat but doesn't understand my deep love for them) about LMaD and who's hosting it (she loves Whose Line) and she didn't put two-and-two together that they're on the same network until I told her. She definitely would bet a paycheck on a Wayne Brady cameo.

[tvwxman]

[quote name=\'aaron sica\' post=\'221875\' date=\'Aug 3 2009, 09:26 PM\']As much as I would love to have a late afternoon network game show for the first time since the days of Bowzer, I really see it airing at 10am.[/quote]

Agreed...for most affils, it will fit better here with Price, than stick out in the PM coupled with talk shows.

WCBS airs GL at 10am, and I fully expect them to do the same for LMAD.

[aaron sica]

[quote name=\'tvwxman\' post=\'221878\' date=\'Aug 3 2009, 09:43 PM\'][quote name=\'aaron sica\' post=\'221875\' date=\'Aug 3 2009, 09:26 PM\']As much as I would love to have a late afternoon network game show for the first time since the days of Bowzer, I really see it airing at 10am.[/quote]

Agreed...for most affils, it will fit better here with Price, than stick out in the PM coupled with talk shows.

WCBS airs GL at 10am, and I fully expect them to do the same for LMAD.
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As do KYW (Philly), WJZ (Baltimore), WYOU (Scranton), and KDKA (Pitt), among countless others. I don't see any of them moving the network offering back to 3pm.

[JIANORAN]

For San Francisco for KPIX i think Let's Make A Deal will air at 1:00 PM, so KTVU will air Family Feud at the same time.

[Kniwt]

And for a Canadian perspective on things (because, after all, Monty is, y'know, one of them), here's a story from the Tuesday edition of The Globe and Mail.
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/nation...article1240289/

The reporter seems to get a couple of key facts wrong about network runs, but it's got more Monty tidbits than most of the U.S. stories.

I'd also take a bit of issue with this bit from the story:

But it was unique in that it was a largely improvisational show, without a script, and it relied entirely on the banter between the host and the audience-contestants. “There can't be a script,” Mr. Hall said Monday. “The script isn't there, the show evolves from the audience reaction.”

... since the Maxene Fabe book shows part of an actual typewritten, marked-up LMAD script.

[clemon79]

[quote name=\'toetyper\' post=\'221873\' date=\'Aug 3 2009, 06:25 PM\']WRONG[/quote]
I'll say.

[Robert Hutchinson]

[quote name=\'calliaume\' post=\'221841\' date=\'Aug 3 2009, 05:00 PM\']was anybody really impressed with the way Alex or Pat handled them in 1997?[/quote]
I thought Pat did a great job with Jeopardy!, actually.

I'm bummed about the announcement, but then, I like Pyramid and don't like LMaD.