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zachhoran:
[quote name=\'ChuckNet\' date=\'Oct 20 2003, 05:33 PM\']
Also, the original NBC series was rerun on some stations in 1982-83 (no, these were not new eps, as some sources errnously claim), and the ratings they pulled may have influenced CBS's decision to revive it.
Chuck Donegan (The Illustrious "Chuckie Baby") [/quote]
And CBN showed a year of Perry CS reruns in 1984-85. Al Martella reported at his site Goodson had toyed with the idea of reviving it in 1983 or 1984 featuring the British format at the time and possibly even bringing in Bruce "Nice to See You" Forsythe to host it.
Michael Brandenburg:
--- Quote ---In September 2001, yet another edition of [Card Sharks] was launched in syndication, emceed by comic Pat Bullard and with Tami Anderson as the new dealer. This failed on every level, and didn't even last beyond a full season.
--- End quote ---
For a time, I had joked about what came on the scene soon after the 2001 edition of Card Sharks was put out of its misery -- a Card Sharkscomputer pinball machine simulation (rooted in the popular Visual Pinball construction set) that was created by someone with the crazy screen name of "Elah Dubh Sidhe". However, I learned some time ago that it was by sheer coincidence that he had come up with that game at that point in time -- he was from England, where Card Sharks never aired under that title (though many game show fans both here and in the U.K. know of Card Sharks' U.K. equivalent game show, Play Your Cards Right.
Incidentally, no one has mentioned this on this board, but it seems that the lesson of "don't mess with success" when it comes to a game show ended up very soon forgotten by the TLC cable channel. They took their popular Junkyard Wars "techo-competition" show and had it "re-tooled, re-engineered, and re-born" with some heavy-handed changes in its format for its 11th season, only to witness its overwhelming re-jection by its previous fan base and its very own discussion board on the TLC website ablaze with "flames" during the new format's seven-week run that concluded earlier this month.
They have now raced over to the U.K., picked up some episodes of their Scrapheap Challenge show that is produced by the same production company (RDF Media), and rushed those episodes back over to the U.S. where they are now airing here (at 9 P.M. and 12 midnight ET on Wednesday evenings) after a quick "re-badging" to turn them into Junkyard Wars episodes. Hopefully, these will satisfy those who voted 69 to 0 in a poll that was conducted on the TLC website's Junkyard Wars discussion board in favor of returning the show to its previous format.
Michael Brandenburg
(And I suspect they are also hoping that "Elah Dubh Sidhe" didn't hear about this fiasco -- otherwise, his next computer pinball creation would likely have been a Junkyard Wars pinball machine!)
brianhenke:
WCPO aired the 1982 Card Sharks reruns at (I think) 9:30 a.m. Shortly after, they bought a syndicated version of a game that hadn't been seen in Cincinnati since 1978 - WHEEL! OF! FORTUNE! - and it's been on that station ever since.
Incidentally, that was the same 9:30 a.m. slot the ill-fated 2001 CS revival wound up on WSTR (even though the website which is no longer running said it was going to be on at 3 a.m.!)
Brian
Indianapolis is the capital of Michigan?
We want some more pro wrestling (STILL) and NASCAR questions!
Jay Temple:
[quote name=\'zachhoran\' date=\'Oct 20 2003, 05:39 PM\'] And CBN showed a year of Perry CS reruns in 1984-85. Al Martella reported at his site Goodson had toyed with the idea of reviving it in 1983 or 1984 featuring the British format at the time and possibly even bringing in Bruce "Nice to See You" Forsythe to host it. [/quote]
CBN--Christian Broacasting Network? That's unusually open-minded of them. I know plenty of Christians who play card games, but I also hear from plenty of Christians decrying gambling whenever a state wants to start a lottery or legalize riverboat gambling.
dzinkin:
[quote name=\'Jay Temple\' date=\'Oct 21 2003, 12:41 PM\'] [quote name=\'zachhoran\' date=\'Oct 20 2003, 05:39 PM\'] And CBN showed a year of Perry CS reruns in 1984-85. Al Martella reported at his site Goodson had toyed with the idea of reviving it in 1983 or 1984 featuring the British format at the time and possibly even bringing in Bruce "Nice to See You" Forsythe to host it. [/quote]
CBN--Christian Broacasting Network? That's unusually open-minded of them. I know plenty of Christians who play card games, but I also hear from plenty of Christians decrying gambling whenever a state wants to start a lottery or legalize riverboat gambling. [/quote]
By that time the network was going by "CBN Cable Network"; the "Christian" in the name was rarely uttered except on "The 700 Club," and most of the schedule was dedicated to reruns of various old shows. A game show block was part of the rerun mix for some years.
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