The Game Show Forum
The Game Show Forum => The Big Board => Topic started by: WhammyPower on August 27, 2019, 08:52:47 PM
-
https://deadline.com/2019/08/leslie-jones-host-supermarket-sweep-reboot-fremantle-multiple-networks-pursuing-abc-nbc-fox-netflix-1202705704/
-
I wondered if this was coming, given Fremantle’s seemingly out-of-the-blue acquisition of it last year and the relentless hammering of it on BUZZR since.
I’m down for seeing this in a modernized grocery store setting.
-
I’m down for seeing this in a modernized grocery store setting.
Would you have to dodge people clogging the aisles by talking on their phones?
-
I’m down for seeing this in a modernized grocery store setting.
Would you have to dodge people clogging the aisles by talking on their phones?
Half the show would be in the self-serve lane, scanning each item, encouraged by family and friends sitting off to the side.
-
I’m down for seeing this in a modernized grocery store setting.
Would you have to dodge people clogging the aisles by talking on their phones?
Maybe if you complete the Big Sweep without knocking down anyone talking or texting, you get a $100 bonus!
Or, if they want to go the more violent route: Get a $50 bonus for every talking/texting shopper you knock down during the Big Sweep!
-
I’m down for seeing this in a modernized grocery store setting.
Would you have to dodge people clogging the aisles by talking on their phones?
Or Instacart shoppers and pickers thinking you totally know the store?
-
Whenever she's on Pyramid, Leslie gets real intense. I hope she tones it down as a host.
-
Whenever she's on Pyramid, Leslie gets real intense. I hope she tones it down as a host.
That's her personality in general, AFAIK. I'm definitely a fan. Looking forward to what she does on SS!
-
I’m pretty sure “Strahan and Sara” isn’t going anywhere, but IMO, remembering that recent thread, this would fit perfectly in the 1 pm Eastern time slot. I can’t see this working as well in prime time, although not all of the “Fun and Games” shows offer big money. Of course, this is assuming ABC is indeed the network that airs the show.
-
It's not going anywhere, but it's getting renamed(again) as Sara's maternity replacement joins permanently. New name effective September 9 is GMA3: Strahan, Sara and Kiki.
-
It's not going anywhere, but it's getting renamed(again) as Sara's maternity replacement joins permanently. New name effective September 9 is GMA3: Strahan, Sara and Kiki.
Why don't they simply add "And so on and so on and scooby dooby dooby" and be done with it?
JakeT
-
It's not going anywhere, but it's getting renamed(again) as Sara's maternity replacement joins permanently. New name effective September 9 is GMA3: Strahan, Sara and Kiki.
I'll be happy as long as I can still can enjoy the conviviality and human insight of Michael Strahan three hours everyday on Good Morning America, two days a week on football, and whenever we get to see Pyramid.
-
Confirmed for ABC. Ten-episode run, all signs point to the "Fun and Games" block.
https://variety.com/2020/tv/news/supermarket-sweep-leslie-jones-abc-1203460407/?fbclid=IwAR0hJDc-u1u9gi2P3n5vCNhdPWc4owxGaESJ7j9n5O3FGRZcntLCig7eKHc
-
Confirmed for ABC. Ten-episode run, all signs point to the "Fun and Games" block.
https://variety.com/2020/tv/news/supermarket-sweep-leslie-jones-abc-1203460407/?fbclid=IwAR0hJDc-u1u9gi2P3n5vCNhdPWc4owxGaESJ7j9n5O3FGRZcntLCig7eKHc
I'm hoping they'll do it as a "two full games in one hour" format and not the way they stretched it out to an hour in the UK recently...it really didn't work for me.
-
I'm hoping they'll do it as a "two full games in one hour" format and not the way they stretched it out to an hour in the UK recently...it really didn't work for me.
PYL aside, that’s pretty much ABC’s way of doing things. Wouldn’t surprise me if they do just that.
-
And it's going to be quite a homecoming for Supermarket Sweep on ABC, having aired the OG version in the mid-1960's.
-
And it's going to be quite a homecoming for Supermarket Sweep on ABC, having aired the OG version in the mid-1960's.
Which I guarantee you will not come up one time.
-
Which I guarantee you will not come up one time.
Definitely not. Just another case of John flexing his "look what I know!" muscles which impresses absolutely no one because
a) it's tiring and repetitive
and
b) it's things most people here know anyway.
-
And it's going to be quite a homecoming for Supermarket Sweep on ABC, having aired the OG version in the mid-1960's.
Which I guarantee you will not come up one time.
Considering Frenantle had contestants from prior versions on Press Your Luck, Card Sharks, To Tell the Truth, and Match Game, last summer it is actually possible.
No I do not expect an 80 year old contestant even with a partner, but if some one returns from Lifetime or PAX versions the ABC version would probably get a mention. But now I can't get the thought of an 80 year old in an electric cart running the sweep out of my head.
-
But now I can't get the thought of an 80 year old in an electric cart running the sweep out of my head.
I'm buying this as long as this is not an actual player, but as an impediment like the Frankenstein monster roaming the aisles very early on in the Lifetime run.
-
On a tangent, UK Top Gear did a Supermarket Sweep segment that I found fairly entertaining
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v1e0f4dM908
-
And it's going to be quite a homecoming for Supermarket Sweep on ABC, having aired the OG version in the mid-1960's.
Which I guarantee you will not come up one time.
Considering Frenantle had contestants from prior versions on Press Your Luck, Card Sharks, To Tell the Truth, and Match Game, last summer it is actually possible.
No I do not expect an 80 year old contestant even with a partner, but if some one returns from Lifetime or PAX versions the ABC version would probably get a mention. But now I can't get the thought of an 80 year old in an electric cart running the sweep out of my head.
That's a little different. Wouldn't be surprised if there's a former contestant or two, but John's acting like they're going to ever bring up their original ABC run.
That being said, if there's a desire to add an element to the game that reflects grocery stores in 2020, I'd have to think it's online grocery ordering. Maybe you've got to collect all of your team's color coded bags from the pickup station for a cash bonus?
-
Something, um, bizarre: www.supermarketsweep.com redirects you to.....Walmart.com
-
Something, um, bizarre: www.supermarketsweep.com redirects you to.....Walmart.com
Still the same nearly a month later. I've seen a couple of posts for casting on Facebook, but that site is not the site above - nor does the link work properly.
Could be worse - I had a thought of the first thing Leslie Jones saying on the premiere is: "As you know, Supermarket Sweep is a game of definitions."
-
I'm hoping they'll do it as a "two full games in one hour" format and not the way they stretched it out to an hour in the UK recently...it really didn't work for me.
I caught an episode of the UK version this weekend and it is sooooo tedious. The host is decent and the set is nice (tiny), but too much front-end and not enough Sweep.