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Grand Slam possibly coming to the US....
PeterMarshallFan:
This looks interesting....taken from SB's site, so your mileage may vary:
Davies Licenses Grand Slam
TVgameshows.net has learned Who Wants to Be a Millionaire executive producer Michael Davies has obtained U.S. rights to Grand Slam, the popular U.K. quiz which pits champions of various game shows in an all-star battle of mental agility.
Davies told TVgameshows.net Monday from his office: \"Essentially, the biggest quiz show winners in the history of television, no matter what show they came from, compete in a winner-take-all tournament where one of them emerges as the ultimate winner.\"
In Britain, the contestants put up their own money to play. \"I'm not sure we'd have that element here,\" said Davies. \"I'm not certain we would be successful in that happening because not everyone has won six or seven figures but they may be great contestants from shows which did not offer a lot of prize money.\"
Davies' Diplomatic Entertainment and a British company are preparing to pitch Grand Slam to all of the networks and cable networks.
Excited over the concept, Davies said: \"This is really a terrific looking show. This is like the All-Star Game of game shows. You can just imagine the kind of interest this would build.\"
The tournament structure would involve anywhere from a 16-player to a 64-player draw, depending on the number of episodes sold, according to Davies.
\"We’re just starting to work with this. I don’t want to be snowed under with submissions just yet. We're nowhere near ready to take applications,\" said Davies. \"However, I promise you anybody who’s interested should watch the space with TVgameshows.net because we will let you know when and if we go forward.\"
This weekend, Davies will be featured in an extensive one-on-one interview about season two of Millionaire in syndication and his post-mortem on Pepsi Play for a Billion.
Brig Bother:
This should be, in fact, brilliant news because Grand Slam is the only quiz I've bothered following over here in the last year or so. This might just push C4 for a second series.
zachhoran:
[quote name=\'Brig Bother\' date=\'Sep 24 2003, 10:56 AM\'] This should be, in fact, brilliant news because Grand Slam is the only quiz I've bothered following over here in the last year or so. This might just push C4 for a second series. [/quote]
With the talk of Grand Slam possibly coming to the US, the obvious followup question would: what contestants, past and more recent, would you like to see compete?
goongas:
I would like to see Leszek P. compete for sure. I think he was robbed in not being invited to Jeopardy! Masters.
Eric
Jimmy Owen:
Snarkily, I'd like to see John Carpenter, the dude who won the Pepsi show, Rich Hatch, Kelly Clarkson and Charles Van Doren.
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