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catkins522:
Is "House Rules", 13 week series where 3 teams competes from room to room and where the winner wins their dream house, a game show?
Charles
zachhoran:
[quote name=\'catkins522\' date=\'Dec 19 2003, 09:08 PM\'] Is "House Rules", 13 week series where 3 teams competes from room to room and where the winner wins their dream house, a game show?
Charles [/quote]
Probably more reality-inclined than a traditional game show
Kevin Prather:
[quote name=\'zachhoran\' date=\'Dec 19 2003, 09:10 PM\'] [quote name=\'catkins522\' date=\'Dec 19 2003, 09:08 PM\'] Is "House Rules", 13 week series where 3 teams competes from room to room and where the winner wins their dream house, a game show?
Charles [/quote]
Probably more reality-inclined than a traditional game show [/quote]
Therefore, no. If we counted House Rules as a game show, we'd have to count Survivor, The Mole, ElimiDate, and all that stuff as game shows too. And clearly, that's not an option. :)
starcade:
As a result, I _WOULD_ count all of the above except the date-u-mentaries on syndie...
It's a bonafide competition of skill or chance for a certain prize. Ergo, it's a game show.
(That's why I raise quite a stink about Survivor.)
I guess I would ask the following: How would Survivor, in a legal sense or otherwise, not be a game show without questioning it's bonafide-ness?
clemon79:
[quote name=\'starcade\' date=\'Dec 20 2003, 11:27 AM\'] It's a bonafide competition of skill or chance for a certain prize. Ergo, it's a game show.
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The Super Bowl. Cash money is given to the players on the winning team.
"Ah, you can't count sports."
I don't see why not, they too are "bonafide competitions of skill or chance", but, if you must:
That Scrabble tournament on ESPN. Or a Putt-Putt tournament.
Celebrity Poker Showdown.
You will NEVER be able to come up with a definition that I or someone else will not be able to find an exception to fit.
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