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The Game Show Forum => Game Show Channels & Networks => Topic started by: arrowood20 on September 19, 2017, 06:01:00 AM
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I just saw a commercial promoting Buzzr's new fall schedule. It looks like there will be new episodes of "Now You See It", Combs "Feud", "Match Game '75", "$ale of the Century", "Tattletales" and the addition of Bill Rafferty "Card Sharks". It also looks like they went far enough with "Trivia Trap" episodes to go into the second format. As a side note, a post on Buzzr's Facebook page talks about "Dream Maker" only being around for a limited time.
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hope you enjoyed "Wordplay" while it lasted. Episode one of MG73 is running now, in it's place.
OH! I've got a word for that, what's the definition of (this word did not meet the approval of NBC's standards and practices) ?
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hope you enjoyed "Wordplay" while it lasted. Episode one of MG73 is running now, in it's place.
OH! I've got a word for that, what's the definition of (this word did not meet the approval of NBC's standards and practices) ?
Seriously? That's absurd, asinine, and ludicrous! Did a test pattern beat it in the ratings?
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I don't think ratings really matter on a digital subnet.
My guesses are either that someone screwed up tonight and loaded the wrong show, or that, after showing episode 1 last week, they meant to show it again this past Monday, but showed episode 2 instead, and filled the slot with something else tonight to bring the series back to airing each week from Monday to Friday.
Or maybe they really did pull it after 3 shows. Guess we'll know for certain come Thursday.
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My guesses are either that someone screwed up tonight and loaded the wrong show, or that, after showing episode 1 last week, they meant to show it again this past Monday, but showed episode 2 instead, and filled the slot with something else tonight to bring the series back to airing each week from Monday to Friday.
That wouldn't work anyway because the first week of shows was only four episodes due to a New Year's Day preemption.
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Well, shows what I know, which is a big pile of nothin'.
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My guesses are either that someone screwed up tonight and loaded the wrong show
That's what I was thinking. The digital guide said Wordplay, but they did indeed air episode 1 of MG '73.
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My guesses are either that someone screwed up tonight and loaded the wrong show
That's what I was thinking. The digital guide said Wordplay, but they did indeed air episode 1 of MG '73.
They did, however, advertise Match Game as coming up next during Super Password, so I’m thinking it was no mistake.
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Buzzr has posted a message to their Facebook page apologizing for the sudden schedule change, stating that "unforeseen circumstances" forced the change. Match Game will be in that slot for at least the rest of this week, and next week.
The post: https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=1907927346090718&id=1594990200717769&ref=bookmarks
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Their online schedule for the next two weeks has also been updated to show MG73 instead of Wordplay. Wonder if some sort of rights issue came up?
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Their online schedule for the next two weeks has also been updated to show MG73 instead of Wordplay. Wonder if some sort of rights issue came up?
Either that, or the amount of episodes they initially digitized to play (and rerun to death before adding more episodes) were deleted from their hard drives accidentally. My first thought was maybe they didn't get all the clearance issues from all parties who
had their hand in producing the show (Fiedler-Berlin, Rick Ambrose,...).
Just a couple of theories...
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Could celebrity clearances have been an issue also? After all, these episodes have never been rerun anywhere before.
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Buzzr said that this is going to be the schedule for the next week and a half; on their FB page they cite "unforeseen circumstances" as the reason for the abrupt change.
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Schedule for week of October 2nd is on Buzzr's site now. Wordplay is still replaced with Match Game 73. Also, the 8PM run of Super Password will be swapped out with Password Plus on that date.
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Schedule for week of October 2nd is on Buzzr's site now. Wordplay is still replaced with Match Game 73. Also, the 8PM run of Super Password will be swapped out with Password Plus on that date.
And Password Plus looks to be a new batch of episodes, picking up from where they left off last time.
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Also on October 2, Eubanks Card Sharks departs, and Jim Perry's Card Sharks returns. They'll start with the 4/24/78 premiere.
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Did Buzzr get a new batch of Beat the Clock and Now you See it Episodes?
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Did Buzzr get a new batch of Beat the Clock and Now you See it Episodes?
They haven't gotten anymore BTC episodes. That will cycle back to the beginning in two weeks.
As for NYSI, I'm not sure yet. Episode 22 is as far as they've gotten, and the farthest Sunday ahead on Buzzr's website right now, which is October 8th, has episodes 20 and 21 listed.
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Week of October 9th has been posted. Still no Wordplay. Season 2 of Sale of the Century starts on October 13th. No new episodes of NYSI.
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Richard Simmons' Dream Maker departs on October 9, replaced by Family Feud from 1980.
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Richard Simmons' Dream Maker departs on October 9, replaced by Family Feud from 1980.
Our long national nightmare is over. :)
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Beat the Clock (Hall) goes in the 8:30pm weeknight slot starting next Monday.
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And I take it that we're still pretending that the whole unfortunate incident with Wordplay never happened?
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And I take it that we're still pretending that the whole unfortunate incident with Wordplay never happened?
Apparently.
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The episodes on weeknights will be New to Buzzr.
Beat the Clock (Hall) goes in the 8:30pm weeknight slot starting next Monday.
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I'd love to see the documentary "Game Changers" but I still don't get BUZZR!. I found that news on this page which features a horrible misspelling of Monty Hall's first name: http://www.broadcastingcable.com/buzzr-scores-documentary-history-tv-game-shows/169247
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I'd love to see the documentary "Game Changers" but I still don't get BUZZR!. I found that news on this page which features a horrible misspelling of Monty Hall's first name: http://www.broadcastingcable.com/buzzr-scores-documentary-history-tv-game-shows/169247
It looks like Monty's name has been corrected, but Howie Mandel's last name has not.
The article also mentions that "...Game Changers will also appear on the primary channel of the Fox owned stations that carry Buzzr, giving it stronger distribution."
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I'd love to see the documentary "Game Changers" but I still don't get BUZZR!. I found that news on this page which features a horrible misspelling of Monty Hall's first name: http://www.broadcastingcable.com/buzzr-scores-documentary-history-tv-game-shows/169247
It looks like Monty's name has been corrected, but Howie Mandel's last name has not.
The article also mentions that "...Game Changers will also appear on the primary channel of the Fox owned stations that carry Buzzr, giving it stronger distribution."
He's still identified as "Monte" in the picture. It's not a "horrible" misspelling, but someone should've caught that one.
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I'd love to see the documentary "Game Changers" but I still don't get BUZZR!. I found that news on this page which features a horrible misspelling of Monty Hall's first name: http://www.broadcastingcable.com/buzzr-scores-documentary-history-tv-game-shows/169247
It looks like Monty's name has been corrected, but Howie Mandel's last name has not.
The article also mentions that "...Game Changers will also appear on the primary channel of the Fox owned stations that carry Buzzr, giving it stronger distribution."
He's still identified as "Monte" in the picture. It's not a "horrible" misspelling, but someone should've caught that one.
Actually, if Wikipedia is to be believed, Hall's real name is Monte Halparin. Yep, with an "E"...not a "Y".
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I'd love to see the documentary "Game Changers" but I still don't get BUZZR!. I found that news on this page which features a horrible misspelling of Monty Hall's first name: http://www.broadcastingcable.com/buzzr-scores-documentary-history-tv-game-shows/169247
It looks like Monty's name has been corrected, but Howie Mandel's last name has not.
The article also mentions that "...Game Changers will also appear on the primary channel of the Fox owned stations that carry Buzzr, giving it stronger distribution."
He's still identified as "Monte" in the picture. It's not a "horrible" misspelling, but someone should've caught that one.
Actually, if Wikipedia is to be believed, Hall's real name is Monte Halparin. Yep, with an "E"...not a "Y".
When he changed his last name legally to Hall, the E became a Y.
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Understood on his real name, but I'd still think you use the stage name for the article. I guess mileage may vary here.
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And I take it that we're still pretending that the whole unfortunate incident with Wordplay never happened?
Apparently.
The more important question, is Wordplay's replacement show airing episodes that includes the banned Match Game eps from GSN (à la the Batman & Robin questions)?
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The more important question, is Wordplay's replacement show airing episodes that includes the banned Match Game eps from GSN (à la the Batman & Robin questions)?
Unfortunately, no. Buzzr's MG 73 package skips episodes #7, 19, 31-33, and 49.
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Understood on his real name, but I'd still think you use the stage name for the article. I guess mileage may vary here.
No, you're correct. They didn't change it to get it "right" because it was originally his real name. They got it wrong. If they had credited the picture as Monte Halparin, then you'd have an argument, but how much sense would that make?
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Another batch of Now You See It episodes starts on October 29th.
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I would love to see them air Now You See It 1989.
Does Fremantle legally have to keep it shelved because Chuck Henry requested that it not be aired?
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Have they added any new Richard Dawson Family Feud, 1980 or 1985?
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Have they added any new Richard Dawson Family Feud, 1980 or 1985?
Do you know how far they've gotten in those years? I don't and comparing dates and episode numbers is the only way I can tell.
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I forgot to mention we're only getting two episodes into Tim Holleran's run on Sale of the Century. We go back to episode #31 (2/18/85) on Monday.
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Have they added any new Richard Dawson Family Feud, 1980 or 1985?
Do you know how far they've gotten in those years? I don't and comparing dates and episode numbers is the only way I can tell.
Family Feud 80 has gotten to 80-151 (Smith vs. Gilich). 85 has aired 40 episodes, the last being Salkeld vs. Eldridge.
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Apparently, Buzzr is now airing the mid-show consolation prize plugs on the newest batch of Match Game 75 episodes.
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Took a look at the schedule for Monday, October 30th and there are a few changes coming to the weekday lineup:
Match Game 76 takes over the 4pm hour
Family Feud from 1999 takes over the 6pm hour
Card Sharks with Bill Rafferty replaces Jim Perry at 10pm
Everything else appears to remain as it is. Also of note, on October 31st, Game Changers will re-air at 2pm, and Password Plus reverts back to 01-15-79 with Marcia Wallace and Tony Randall.
Source: http://buzzrplay.com/schedule/schedule_by_date/2017/10/30/America/New_York (http://buzzrplay.com/schedule/schedule_by_date/2017/10/30/America/New_York)
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Anderson Feud? Some things should stay buried.
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Buzzr had been offering a limited selection of Rafferty's CS and Anderson's Feud to station groups who were carrying BUZZR on (at least here) a weekly basis, but from what I've seen the shows were pulled right before the fall season started. This explains that.
Anderson's Feud doesn't really deserve the negative reputation it seems to have earned (I feel the same way about a lot of shows from the 90s and beyond). It's not the greatest version of the show, but taken on it's own it is NOT bad TV.
Most days Louie was a perfectly fine host - on the occasions when he clearly got emotionally invested in that particular pair of families he could even be an exceptional host in short bursts. But the show looked and sounded different than what had come before, and Louie's energy wasn't always there, and returning champions were gone and the format was weird, and by this point one of the superior prior versions - with Richard - was in constant rotation on GSN (with the other version with Ray came and went sporadically at the time) and I genuinely feel the show wasn't bad so much as it suffered in comparison to it's predecessors.
For my own tastes as a viewer, I find O'Hurley's run to be the best version of the four incarnations of Feud's present two decade run, but none of the four are even remotely terrible, and personally I'd rather sit through Louie's hosting than hearing about the family that DREW FIRST BLOOD (Karn) or watching a host get SHOCKED AND OUTRAGED and make goofy faces at juvenile, stupid and/or risque answers he knows damn well are going to be prompted by those questions. But even those two aren't bad.
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The episodes on weeknights will be New to Buzzr.
Beat the Clock (Hall) goes in the 8:30pm weeknight slot starting next Monday.
The All-New All-Star Beat The Clock episodes will make their Buzzr debut on Tuesday 10/24/17
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Anderson's Feud doesn't really deserve the negative reputation it seems to have earned (I feel the same way about a lot of shows from the 90s and beyond). It's not the greatest version of the show, but taken on it's own it is NOT bad TV.
I suppose that's everyone's prerogative, but I recall finding out that the show was returning, staying up beyond late to watch a show that had made changes seemingly to make them and be different rather than fixing a problem, such as the problem of having too many families not getting to play, so adios returning champs, or not a big enough prize budget, so a Fast Money win pays $2,000 a head. I didn't feel compelled to watch again, and with a timeslot coming post Late Late Show, I don't think channel seven cared much about my viewing or not.
For my own tastes as a viewer, I find O'Hurley's run to be the best version of the four incarnations of Feud's present two decade run, but none of the four are even remotely terrible, and personally I'd rather sit through Louie's hosting than hearing about the family that DREW FIRST BLOOD (Karn) or watching a host get SHOCKED AND OUTRAGED and make goofy faces at juvenile, stupid and/or risque answers he knows damn well are going to be prompted by those questions. But even those two aren't bad.
Sterling analysis, of which I'm not surprised. Family Feud has never been hosted by a game show host, it has been run by comedians who either honed their craft over their tenure or didn't/aren't doing that. I think that John could have made some strides in that direction over time and if he didn't at least he wasn't phoning it in or being an assclown.
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I have to agree with pretty much everything Chelsea said, short of the Anderson revival being "fine." In that regard, I line up with Travis. One thing that I remember upon watching that when it debuted was just how sparse and cheap everything felt, and I don't mean the prize budget. Instead of backdrops for each family, there's just a monitor with their name on it. The big board was projected onto the background, and while, okay, maybe that looks better than 1994's Chyron approach, it's still not good, especially when the background lifts up for the host to come out, and the image on it doesn't. The Single-Single-Single-One Strike Triple format broke the game in ways that were glaring, and as following seasons showed, unnecessary to shave a couple minutes off the run time. I had forgotten that they initially had no returning champs. Well, you're our champions, here's $165 apiece and out the door you go!
O'Hurley is my favorite modern Feud host, as well. He was stiff as first, but adapted well, I thought. Wish he hadn't been saddled with the inexplicable return of the Bullseye round that one year.
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The late Randy Amasia explained it best when he said the yellow and red Sampler look of Dawson's version was intentional, as it was supposed to represent the old-timey Hatfields vs. McCoys rivalry. I didn't mind the modernizing of Louie's Feud, and honestly, the set would've been nice for another show. But with Randy's explanation, I still felt it was a change for the sake of change, even if it was for a modern Y2K look. That said, it was a decent enough half-hour, since the game was still there, even with the flawed scoring.
With the exception of Richard Karn's TRIPLE THE POINTS!!1, each run got more and more tolerable to an extent. I do agree O'Hurley's era was probably the best, although the audience holding signs rooting for families was pretty bizarre. IIRC, Steve's first season or so actually didn't have the bawdy humor, but allowed Steve to still do his shtick. If they went back to that, instead of Overreacting to Naughty Answers + Terrible Euphemisms, they'd be on to something.
But hey, #1 game show in syndication right now, so what do I know?
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But hey, #1 game show in syndication right now, so what do I know?
Just because something is popular doesn't make it good.
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I still don't like the concept of owning 1/5 of a car
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The one thing I did not like about Louie Anderson's version of Feud is that he sometimes mumbled and I couldn't understand the questions, especially during the first season. I also read that during the commercials he would go off stage and not talk to the audience.
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But hey, #1 game show in syndication right now, so what do I know?
Just because something is popular doesn't make it good.
I was being pretty facetious there, but my point stands that somebody is watching, even if we don't like it. Great thing is, we are finally at a point where there's several more games to watch.
/Been wondering how they decide who gets the car and on which days