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MyronMMeyer:
How about Plugged In, the game show for girls from the early days of the Oxygen network. It was supposed to be a "girl power" quiz show, but it quickly (d)evolved into a stunt show.
It was featured on the This American Life episode "Quiz Show". I've never found any video, but I did see a brief mention on the internet once that speculated part of the problem was that they were casting girls based on looks rather than quiz ability.
PYLdude:
What about Think Twice? Short-lived, weekly, and I don't even think it was carried nationally.
Matt Ottinger:
--- Quote from: PYLdude on July 07, 2011, 12:48:08 AM ---What about Think Twice? Short-lived, weekly, and I don't even think it was carried nationally.
--- End quote ---
Well, only in the sense that PBS shows aren't "carried nationally" the way other network shows are. PBS tries to get its member stations behind a common prime time schedule, and Think Twice was part of that schedule for its brief run. However, the locals have more latitude about scheduling or even carrying PBS shows than their commercial counterparts, and certainly there may have been a few more holdouts than usual for an untested game show with an unknown host. Bluntly, an unknown African-American host.
alfonzos:
Who Knows You Best? A then co-worker invited me to the taping of the pilot.
Joe Mello:
I was going to suggest The Pennsylvania Game, but Penn State's PBS station still has videos of it and it apparently ran for 10 years, so maybe that's not all that obscure.
I remember that my first taste of Joe Fowler was when he did the hosting for the Family Channel's kids competition series Maximum Drive. It was mostly offroad racing (watersports popped up on occasion), and the teams involved competed throughout the series. Good to know that the ARGO still exists.
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