Author Topic: CBS promoting Game Show Marathon (Read 9526 times)

wheelloon · « **Reply #15 on:** January 21, 2006, 04:22:33 PM »

Dawson is most doubtful as a possible guest. He's tried to keep himself out of the public eye for some time now, and the last thing I'm sure he wants to do right now is be on a game show...

IMHO, Betty White is always good for game shows, along with some of that, dare I say it, "Whose Line is it Anyway" gang. I wouldn't be surprised, however, if I were to see the likes of Phil Koeghan and Jeff Probst so to plug their own shows...

uncamark · « **Reply #16 on:** January 23, 2006, 12:39:22 PM »

[quote name=\'wheelloon\' date=\'Jan 21 2006, 03:22 PM\']Dawson is most doubtful as a possible guest. He's tried to keep himself out of the public eye for some time now, and the last thing I'm sure he wants to do right now is be on a game show...

IMHO, Betty White is always good for game shows, along with some of that, dare I say it, "Whose Line is it Anyway" gang. I wouldn't be surprised, however, if I were to see the likes of Phil Koeghan and Jeff Probst so to plug their own shows...

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Actually, I'm seeing Probst and Keoghan as the *hosts*, especially if all involved want to have two hosts like Ant and Dec (even though that worked so not well with Seacrest and Dunkelman).

tvwxman · « **Reply #17 on:** January 23, 2006, 01:25:13 PM »

[quote name=\'uncamark\' date=\'Jan 23 2006, 12:39 PM\']
Actually, I'm seeing Probst and Keoghan as the *hosts*, especially if all involved want to have two hosts like Ant and Dec (even though that worked so not well with Seacrest and Dunkelman).

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You can just forsee that the 6 celebs will be CBS stars. PLEASE someone book Brad Garrett as one of them. Hell, i'd bet he'd be a good host.

Is Tom Bergeron locked into ABC ? Does he have some sort of development deal with them?

Mike Tennant · « **Reply #18 on:** January 23, 2006, 01:32:03 PM »

[quote name=\'clemon79\' date=\'Jan 20 2006, 05:49 PM\'][quote name=\'Mike Tennant\' date=\'Jan 20 2006, 01:15 PM\']I still think a discussion of potential celebrity players, with an eye to who among current celebs would be a good and entertaining player, would be worth the bandwidth.
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I would love to know if you still feel that way after you see some of the suggestions people here come up with.

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Good point, although thus far we're on pretty solid territory, but then most of the usual suspects for the Bowling Buddy award haven't weighed in yet.

davewalls · « **Reply #19 on:** January 23, 2006, 02:56:45 PM »

[quote name=\'tvwxman\' date=\'Jan 23 2006, 01:25 PM\']
Is Tom Bergeron locked into ABC ? Does he have some sort of development deal with them?

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Tom was on WMMR/Philly this morning, promoting "Dancing with the Stars", and he did mention that he has a developmental deal with ABC. The best line of the morning: "If ABC needs a host....and Regis has the flu...I'm their man."

Matt Ottinger · « **Reply #20 on:** January 23, 2006, 03:07:45 PM »

[quote name=\'davewalls\' date=\'Jan 23 2006, 03:56 PM\']The best line of the morning: "If ABC needs a host....and Regis has the flu...I'm their man."[/quote]
That is a perfect Bergeron line.

clemon79 · « **Reply #21 on:** January 23, 2006, 03:15:35 PM »

[quote name=\'Matt Ottinger\' date=\'Jan 23 2006, 12:07 PM\'][quote name=\'davewalls\' date=\'Jan 23 2006, 03:56 PM\']The best line of the morning: "If ABC needs a host....and Regis has the flu...I'm their man."[/quote]
That is a perfect Bergeron line.

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At least he's honest.

/bump him to the #1 slot, dammit

tvwxman · « **Reply #22 on:** January 23, 2006, 03:30:20 PM »

[quote name=\'davewalls\' date=\'Jan 23 2006, 02:56 PM\']Tom was on WMMR/Philly this morning, promoting "Dancing with the Stars", and he did mention that he has a developmental deal with ABC. The best line of the morning: "If ABC needs a host....and Regis has the flu...I'm their man."

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That's VERY interesting. Regis' new deal with the network gives him a 4 day work week (shades of Letterman/Conan)....I'd imagine they'll spend the next few years 'gently looking' at heir apparents.......Tom and Kelly, anyone?

BrandonFG · « **Reply #23 on:** January 23, 2006, 05:20:06 PM »

[quote name=\'tvwxman\' date=\'Jan 23 2006, 01:25 PM\']You can just forsee that the 6 celebs will be CBS stars. PLEASE someone book Brad Garrett as one of them. Hell, i'd bet he'd be a good host.
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I'd honestly suggest the cast members of some of CBS' hit shows work the panel together. Cast members from "Raymond" one episode, the cast from "CSI" the next?

tvwxman · « **Reply #24 on:** January 23, 2006, 06:01:11 PM »

[quote name=\'fostergray82\' date=\'Jan 23 2006, 05:20 PM\'][quote name=\'tvwxman\' date=\'Jan 23 2006, 01:25 PM\']You can just forsee that the 6 celebs will be CBS stars. PLEASE someone book Brad Garrett as one of them. Hell, i'd bet he'd be a good host.
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I'd honestly suggest the cast members of some of CBS' hit shows work the panel together. Cast members from "Raymond" one episode, the cast from "CSI" the next?

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Go back to post #10 . It's explained there how this works...not the way you are suggesting.

Jimmy Owen · « **Reply #25 on:** January 24, 2006, 08:16:15 AM »

I'd like to see "Family Feud" with Charlie Sheen and his family. Denise, Martin, Emilio and....Heidi?

uncamark · « **Reply #26 on:** January 24, 2006, 03:51:07 PM »

[quote name=\'tvwxman\' date=\'Jan 23 2006, 02:30 PM\'][quote name=\'davewalls\' date=\'Jan 23 2006, 02:56 PM\']Tom was on WMMR/Philly this morning, promoting "Dancing with the Stars", and he did mention that he has a developmental deal with ABC. The best line of the morning: "If ABC needs a host....and Regis has the flu...I'm their man."

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That's VERY interesting. Regis' new deal with the network gives him a 4 day work week (shades of Letterman/Conan)....I'd imagine they'll spend the next few years 'gently looking' at heir apparents.......Tom and Kelly, anyone?

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He actually had a talk show project under consideration with Amy Yasbeck Ritter, but it looks like it's gone by the wayside in favor of Megan, Rachael, the "He's Not That Into You" guy and someone else.

LA the DJ · « **Reply #27 on:** January 24, 2006, 04:09:28 PM »

Have we even seen anything yet that says our version will be using celebrities?

uncamark · « **Reply #28 on:** January 24, 2006, 04:44:21 PM »

[quote name=\'nWo_Whammy\' date=\'Jan 24 2006, 03:09 PM\']Have we even seen anything yet that says our version will be using celebrities?

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Virtually every mention of the show from winter press tour said that celebs would be involved, usually with "celebrities" in quotes or "C-list" preceding the word.

LA the DJ · « **Reply #29 on:** January 24, 2006, 06:55:15 PM »

[quote name=\'uncamark\' date=\'Jan 24 2006, 04:44 PM\']Virtually every mention of the show from winter press tour said that celebs would be involved, usually with "celebrities" in quotes or "C-list" preceding the word.

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I'd seen that much, but I thought the only mentions thus far was that the British version was done that way, or am I incorrect?

EDIT: Upon looking, I see a few reports making some mention of celebs playing, so I guess I'll assume that's official.

Anyhow...
With CBS/Freemantle working on this project, and the announcement today of the CW Network, it seems even more likely now that this could be a launching pad for a new round of game shows. After all, the affiliates left out in the cold will have a lot of time to fill looking for new syndicated programs (via FM), and the CW will have a lot of hours in the day to fill, as well (possibly from CBS's end).