ABC Millionaire Coming Back

[petek66]

[quote name=\'TimK2003\' date=\'Jan 26 2004, 08:58 PM\']Perhaps one of the new lifelines would be a "wildcard" IE: use this to be what ever of the other lifelines you would like it to be.  Also on 2 50:50s on a question: you would only be able to eliminate 2 answers ever from a question otherwise it isn't a 50:50 shot :-)
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I want to see a "Search the Net" lifeline. Give them 30 seconds with
"our friends at Google" and show us the screen as they search.

[Matt Ottinger]

[quote name=\'Timsterino\' date=\'Jan 26 2004, 10:38 PM\'] [quote name=\'ChuckNet\' date=\'Jan 26 2004, 07:54 PM\']
I still say the phone game's the best way...brought in players who knew how to play the game and often left w/at least $32K.[/quote]
I still say that is ridiculous. How is a three round set of questions more superior then a 30 question test? That argument never made any sense to me. [/quote]
 My biggest problem with the syndicated show is that it's painfully obvious that they're NOT selecting the people who do the best on their 30-question test.  If they were, they'd regularly be getting Jeopardy-caliber contestants and it only takes watching for a couple of days to see that this simply isn't the case.

So while I agree with your intuitive point -- a 30-question test ought to be better than a 3-question test -- the fact is that, for whatever reason, the caliber of game play was significantly better under the original rules than it has been with the syndicated show.

[PeterMarshallFan]

[quote name=\'petek66\' date=\'Jan 26 2004, 10:43 PM\'] [quote name=\'TimK2003\' date=\'Jan 26 2004, 08:58 PM\']Perhaps one of the new lifelines would be a "wildcard" IE: use this to be what ever of the other lifelines you would like it to be.  Also on 2 50:50s on a question: you would only be able to eliminate 2 answers ever from a question otherwise it isn't a 50:50 shot :-)
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I want to see a "Search the Net" lifeline. Give them 30 seconds with
"our friends at Google" and show us the screen as they search. [/quote]
 Of course, I don't think a Google search will help them much on questions about what game show hosts have accidents in their pants or that classic game show "Hat Putato." :-P

ObGameShow: I'll go to the TTD90 room now.

[clemon79]

[quote name=\'petek66\' date=\'Jan 26 2004, 07:43 PM\'] I want to see a "Search the Net" lifeline. Give them 30 seconds with
"our friends at Google" and show us the screen as they search. [/quote]
 And this is different from how a smart player works Phone-A-Friend how?

[DrJWJustice]

[quote name=\'clemon79\' date=\'Jan 26 2004, 09:24 PM\'] Two words: Card Sharks. Not even freakin' CLOSE. [/quote]
 That $&(*#! show was "Card Sharks" ?!?  I didn't even recognize it as such.  All it had going for it was a cool logo that's on the box game.  Notice the box game follows the original format that worked not once but twice on pretty long network runs each occasion.

[Don Howard]

[quote name=\'Timsterino\' date=\'Jan 26 2004, 09:32 PM\'] [quote name=\'Sues Z\' date=\'Jan 26 2004, 05:49 PM\'] Aren't there still some primetime shows from the original run that never got aired? [/quote]
No, all of the original shows were aired. [/quote]
 It's Winning Lines in 2000 and Let's Make A Deal in 2003 which didn't get all of their taped episodes televised, despite lies by the networks claiming they'd be shown.

[Matt Ottinger]

[quote name=\'clemon79\' date=\'Jan 26 2004, 11:05 PM\'] [quote name=\'petek66\' date=\'Jan 26 2004, 07:43 PM\'] I want to see a "Search the Net" lifeline. Give them 30 seconds with
"our friends at Google" and show us the screen as they search. [/quote]
And this is different from how a smart player works Phone-A-Friend how? [/quote]
 I think his point is that the player in the Hot Seat would do the Googling himself, and we'd see the player's choice of search terms and the results the player got.  

Being able to control your own Googling probably would be an advantage over yelling terms to a friend, hoping he makes the right choices and keeping up the pretense that it's just a smart buddy on the other end of the phone, all in thirty seconds.

[DrJWJustice]

[quote name=\'fostergray82\' date=\'Jan 26 2004, 12:18 PM\'] I agree. I know shows like Greed and 21 taught us that $1,000,000 is now worthless*, but a $10 mil prize is just a bit too much, and seems like a severe case of Mo Money Syndrome. I know ABC needs ratings, but this seems a little desperate. (For the record, I hated the escalating jackpot, it made me feel as if Millionaire sold out)

*I'd still take $1 million. :-P [/quote]
 Um, Chris Lemon, you remember the spat we once had about 'mo money syndrome'?  I still stand by playing for $25,000 grand on a reincarnation of Password Plus, but I can DEFINITELY concede on this $10 million gig.  Way too damn much money.  As has been said before, Chuck offered the $4 millon question on Super Greed, and I remember the way he did it -- his voice practically said "You gotta be kidding me if you want to play this question!"

[dzinkin]

[quote name=\'clemon79\' date=\'Jan 26 2004, 09:24 PM\'] [quote name=\'goongas\' date=\'Jan 26 2004, 07:21 PM\'] According to Steve Beverly, it is a FCC regulation.  I will try and find it. [/quote]
Oh, well, yes, The Perfesser, of course, how could I have doubted you even for a second?

Two words: Card Sharks. Not even freakin' CLOSE. [/quote]
 Three more words: Play the Percentages.

[dzinkin]

[quote name=\'goongas\' date=\'Jan 26 2004, 09:28 PM\']http://www.tvgameshows.net/faqjune.htm

"No, though the Paschal English elimination, which we commented on in a column, angered an awful lot of viewers and not just in his home regions of Atlanta and Columbus. Including the locale in the title of each Survivor game after the original makes each one a different program under FCC regulations. So, even if I or other viewers don't like it, Mark Burnett is free to alter his rules each time, as long as the show's title is changed. This was why when Greed changed its plateau structure for the May 2000 sweeps to eliminate the $500,000 level and add a $4 million peak, the show's title was temporarily changed to Super Greed. The change in the prize alignment potentially did alter player decision strategies."[/quote]
Let's see... Play the Percentages, High Rollers (1974-76), Tattletales, and Dream House all changed the rules during their runs, and none had to undergo a name change.  And let's not forget how many times The Joker's Wild violated "FCC regulations" in its first few weeks alone.

Eric, you did not cite the FCC regulation... you cited the Perfesser's claim that it's an FCC regulation.  That's not the same thing.  Try again.

[GSWitch]

I'm glad ABC gave game show fans hope for 2004!

They're calling it Super Millionaire.  Guess they wanted to skip Millionaire + ala Pac-Man & Password

(Pac-Man, Pac-Man Plus, Super Pac-Man/Password, Password Plus, Super Password)

[clemon79]

[quote name=\'GSWitch\' date=\'Jan 26 2004, 08:31 PM\'] I'm glad ABC gave game show fans hope for 2004!

They're calling it Super Millionaire.  Guess they wanted to skip Millionaire + ala Pac-Man & Password

(Pac-Man, Pac-Man Plus, Super Pac-Man/Password, Password Plus, Super Password) [/quote]
 Off topic, but what the hell

EXCEPT: Midway did it in the other order...Super Pac-Man shipped BEFORE Pac-Man Plus did (both were 1982)

(This according to the History.dat file I have for MAME...and it's been pretty accurate so far...

[passwordplus]

Well at least The Reeg is getting the gig. Personally, I never did care for Meredith. She might be a good host for one of the new GSN shows, but not millionaire.

Wonder if they can get back the old 800# number? If so, GSN can stop putting the banner across it on the reruns(chuckle)

[Johnissoevil]

It has yet to premiere, so I'm gonna wait to pass judgement.  I'm not too worried about the format getting screwed up to something bad, as this is Michael Davies bringing the nighttime show back, not Fremantle, obviously, judging by the payout structure (OK, so Feud, Whammy!, and TTTT 2000 turned out decent, but with what they did to MG '98 and CS 2001...).

[NickintheATL]

OK, by what information I have gathered to this point is that this new incarnation is going to have updated graphics and updated music. Regarding those two items, what is so wrong with what was being used before? I mean, sure I can understand increasing the payouts (which I think are way too lofty), and altering title (as previously mentioned)... but I don't see the point of why these need to be changed. And I know people are going to bash me over the head with, "Oh trust Mr. Davies, he knows what he's doing"... but that still dosen't mean that everything the man does turns to gold upon first press of said ideas.