Welcome, Guest. Please login or register.

Recent Posts

Pages: 1 ... 8 9 [10]
91
The Big Board / Re: Travis Kelce: Smarter Than a Fifth Grader?
« Last post by DoItRockapella on March 21, 2024, 09:04:44 AM »
This complicates matters. "Are You Smarter Than A Celebrity" tapes in LA in April.

https://oslaproductions.com/show/647/are-you-smarter-than-a-celebrity

How, exactly, is that supposed to work?
92
The Big Board / Re: Travis Kelce: Smarter Than a Fifth Grader?
« Last post by Chuck Sutton on March 21, 2024, 08:18:21 AM »
John Cena isn’t available?
They couldn't find him.

More likely they saw way too much.
93
The Big Board / Re: People: Mike Richards speaks about J! experience, firing
« Last post by tvwxman on March 21, 2024, 07:53:55 AM »
Nobody is saying Mike Richards shouldn't be working. Or even working in or hosting game shows. Just that the Jeopardy gig went off the rails and that firing him was probably the right decision. The entertainment industry is fickle. People get hired and fired all the time as I'm sure you're aware. I have no doubt that he will bounce back or has bounced back just fine.

Nobody is saying he shouldn't be working - but I would hope those in the know, who have followed this story closely, have seen plenty of different versions of what happend....come from one source. Richards.

"Someone called in sick and I, as EP , had to step in. (paraphasing) " Remember that nugget? Sorry, it just doesn't work that way with a multi-million dollar franchise.

"I wasn't accused of sexual harassment on TPIR ". Except , by the staff, who didn't like the temperture of the room you turned it up to.

And that's the problem - there's a whitewashing of facts going on - it happens a lot in the world today. I get that we're talking about a little quiz show, a blip on the radar of world issues, but if you're gonna still talk about to People Magazine...people are still gonna remember what went down, and why you're not hosting any show today.

I wasn't there, but it wasn't hard to figure out. Mike wanted to be a host. He got a few chances. Then he wanted the big shows. He got them to take a chance on him with an audition for Price, but then he prob realized it might be easier to get a foot in the hosting door, by actually being through the door as a producer.

If he had just behaved better........ he would have had better results. He didnt, and now he doesn't.

94
The Big Board / Re: Travis Kelce: Smarter Than a Fifth Grader?
« Last post by Jeremy Nelson on March 21, 2024, 07:50:25 AM »
5th Grader is such an interersting show to me in that it's never truly taken a break. Even between versions of the show, developers are atill cranking out new board and video games. This is about to be the 4th iteration of the show since in 15+ years, and honestly, it's kinda impressive that they keep bringing it back from the dead in some way, shape or form.
95
The Big Board / Re: People: Mike Richards speaks about J! experience, firing
« Last post by Jeremy Nelson on March 21, 2024, 07:29:11 AM »
Agenda journalism and rushes to judgement have consequences.  That’s perhaps the biggest lesson that can be learned from this.
Except it wasn't a rush to jud- you know what? Ultimately, you're too close to the situation to provide an objective take. I think you underestimate just how bad a look those moves were at the time and overestimate what many of us felt should have been Mike's penance.

96
The Big Board / Re: People: Mike Richards speaks about J! experience, firing
« Last post by steveleb on March 21, 2024, 06:11:03 AM »
Nearly three years later thankfully this discourse has matured.  It certainly wasn’t that way when all of this went down. 

Agenda journalism and rushes to judgement have consequences.  That’s perhaps the biggest lesson that can be learned from this.

Now we return to our regularly scheduled programming
97
Game Show Channels & Networks / Re: Buzzr Q2 2024
« Last post by snowpeck on March 21, 2024, 03:00:35 AM »
Has anyone been keeping track of how many Rayburn-hosted Match Games Buzzr has aired? I only find myself tuning in once in a great while, but I think I've seen the network get into the syndicated run. Have all of the Match Game PM episodes aired on Buzzr? I'm curious how much is left before the network has no choice but to move to the '90s version of the show if it wants more fresh episodes.

Given how frequently Super Password airs on Buzzr, there would appear to be sufficient demand from the audience to see celebrities from that time period.
They've gotten through the entire CBS run (minus any episodes they've deemed inappropriate) and a large chunk of PM. There's still about 30 or so PM shows from 1976 they haven't gotten to.

They're currently working their way through the syndicated run. They've gotten about a third of the way through season two.
98
Game Show Channels & Networks / Re: Buzzr Q2 2024
« Last post by MSTieScott on March 21, 2024, 02:38:51 AM »
Has anyone been keeping track of how many Rayburn-hosted Match Games Buzzr has aired? I only find myself tuning in once in a great while, but I think I've seen the network get into the syndicated run. Have all of the Match Game PM episodes aired on Buzzr? I'm curious how much is left before the network has no choice but to move to the '90s version of the show if it wants more fresh episodes.

Given how frequently Super Password airs on Buzzr, there would appear to be sufficient demand from the audience to see celebrities from that time period.
99
The Big Board / Re: People: Mike Richards speaks about J! experience, firing
« Last post by inturnaround on March 21, 2024, 01:36:24 AM »
J! is doing just fine without him. In the end, what should have happened in the first place became the reality. Ken is host and it's being EPed by someone who is actively interested in growing things with the franchise in ways that seem exciting to me.
100
Game Show Channels & Networks / Re: Buzzr Q2 2024
« Last post by snowpeck on March 21, 2024, 01:12:31 AM »
April 1st starts off with an interesting curiosity:

All week at 7PM Eastern Buzzr will be running Match Game 90 for an hour, with episodes all being shows previously rerun in marathons. (They're doing similar hours on Saturday 3/23 and Sunday 3/31 at 5PM.).

Match Game 90's never been on the regular schedule in Buzzr's nearly nine years of existence.  Not sure if this is going to be a one-off or if they're going to eventually segue to a normal run of the show. Test?
I was wondering the same thing. They've done similar things with shows returning to the schedule after a long absence. For instance, Moore TTTT had a few weeks of repeats prior to them adding fresh ones, so I could see them applying something similar here even though it's never been on the regular schedule before. I'd definitely be interested in seeing Match Game 90 on the regular. The last time they did a survey, I specifically mentioned it as a show I'd like to see them run.

EDIT: On the other hand, I'm also reminded that they randomly ran a week of To Tell the Truth 1990 in the slot for the Garry Moore version recently, so who knows.
Pages: 1 ... 8 9 [10]