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Matt Ottinger:
As an example of my skewed value system, principles went out the window for me when Trio ran Joel Stein's week of shows, including Battle of the Network Stars.  So I gave Comcast their blood money -- and I find myself watching a LOT of Trio -- but I'm looking very seriously into a dish.

tommycharles:
[quote name=\'Matt Ottinger\' date=\'Nov 19 2003, 12:18 PM\'] As an example of my skewed value system, principles went out the window for me when Trio ran Joel Stein's week of shows, including Battle of the Network Stars.  So I gave Comcast their blood money -- and I find myself watching a LOT of Trio -- but I'm looking very seriously into a dish. [/quote]
 Actually, stupid as this sounds, but Trio happened to be the very reason we went with Direct TV over anything else.

Any channel that airs "God, the Devil and Bob" is worth my buck.

OBGameshows....they showed "Battle of the Network Stars" and "Idiot Savants"

OBIdiot Savants....having seen this for the first time when TRiO showed it, I have to wonder...why hasn't this been revived????

T

uncamark:
[quote name=\'tommycharles\' date=\'Nov 19 2003, 12:33 PM\']OBIdiot Savants....having seen this for the first time when TRiO showed it, I have to wonder...why hasn't this been revived????[/quote]
Probably because it's become an orphan in the MTV Networks library after its initial unsuccessful run (they didn't even repeat the series, which is unusual for MTV Networks).  As time went on after the first couple of weeks, the Friday shows (which, for those of you who remember, resolved the issue for the week, since all four contestants played for the entire week) got consistently pre-empted.

At the time, in my very first a.t.g-s post, I suggested that the show be moved to Comedy Central (which was then half-owned by MTV), as it really fit that channel better than MTV, which was even then starting to be absorbed by the Beavis and Butt-Head/Spring Break mentality.  At least COM came up with a better show (IMHO) a year later with "WBSM," but "IS" was a fun show to watch that proved that you could do a reasonably hardcore Q&A with comedy and "attitude" and it would work.

But Michael Dugan, the show's creator, doesn't work for MTV Networks anymore and I assume the format's not even in the MTV or King World overseas format catalogs.  A shame.

zachhoran:
[quote name=\'tommycharles\' date=\'Nov 19 2003, 12:33 PM\']


OBIdiot Savants....having seen this for the first time when TRiO showed it, I have to wonder...why hasn't this been revived????

 [/quote]
 My guess is that a Q&A show just wasn't popular on MTV after Remote Control, which is why it, Turn It Up, and Webriot all died in six months or less. As to a revival, it would have been a good fit for Comedy Central or possibly even GSN. It was reported in 1997 on Usenet that COmedy Central considered picking up Savants, but decided instead on the Make Me Laugh revival.

PeterMarshallFan:
Another Rowan and Martin GS credit is NBC's "Ultra Quiz" from 1981.

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