[quote name=\'Brig Bother\' post=\'140820\' date=\'Dec 17 2006, 10:25 AM\']
Hello there.
As you know, The Phil Gurin company have bought the rights to Wetten Dass...? and hope to make a domestic version, hopefully a bit better than the last time you tried it.
But if you don't know what happens in an average episode of Wetten Dass...? then here's a look at a random episode.
http://www.bothersbar.co.uk/weekendspecials/wettendass.htmThe bets are, in the most part, faintly astonishing.
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And something tells me that the U.S. will screw this show up. The variety element, which we don't have any idea how to do anymore, will get dumped, it won't be live, it won't travel around, the host will be incompetent--and most importantly, doing it as a weekly series will rob what seems to be the show's strongest point--the fact that it's on every so often and is therefore an event. It just seems like a show that plays better as an event than as a weekly series (of course, the UK version was weekly, but like most of your shows, I assume that it was only on for a limited part of the year).
If we do it--and I thought I saw ABC's name attached to it--there's only one host to be considered--Tom Bergeron. It's live television, it's a loose format with comedy elements for him to goof around in, it involves all kinds of people, he would be extremely good at it. But as I said, I'm afraid this show will get screwed up here anyway.
