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Jimmy Owen:
[quote name=\'Ian Wallis\' date=\'Dec 29 2003, 01:45 PM\']
--- Quote ---As if women are the sole demographic for game shows?

Game shows weren't created and targeted for housewives, were they?
--- End quote ---


That's what I've found interesting.  I always wondered why certain game shows (especially in the '70s and early '80s) always had way more women contestants than men.  I figured it's probably because most of the people watching were women, so they went with more women contestants (couldn't women also root for men contestants?)

When you look at the biggest fans of the genre (i.e. - us), it's mostly men. [/quote]
 I thought it was that "it could be you" factor.  Since women were the primary audience, why not make the contestants similar to the audience?  The thought that "average housewives" were winning fantastic appliances and furniture was very appealing to the women watching.  Nowadays, women have to go to work.

Jay Temple:
[quote name=\'zachhoran\' date=\'Dec 28 2003, 06:52 AM\'] [quote name=\'tommycharles\' date=\'Dec 28 2003, 01:35 AM\']
When was the last time a GS did 260 shows a year, anyhow? [/quote]
The last show to do 52 weeks a year was probably either CBS Combs Feud or Classic Concentration circa early 90s. I think CBS Feud had some occasional reruns. If the Challengers had gotten better ratings, it would have run 52 weeks a year with no repeats, which would have been a first for a syndicated game show. Dick Clark would have missed a couple of weeks of tapings a year and a guest host would have been brought in. As per a 1996 Usenet post by one of the staffers of the show, when the show was pretty much a shoe-in not to be renewed, they did a few weeks of shows without the airdate's date on the monitor, and reran them in the final few weeks of the show's run. [/quote]
 As far as I'm aware, your statement is correct but possibly misleding.  In November they had a Tournament of Champions, with the top nine winners from their nine weeks or so on the air, which did not have any dates on it either, which suggests one of two things:  (1) They were aware of the non-renewal after a VERY short time, or (2) they were already planning to have breaks in production filled in by occasional reruns.

TonicBH:
Verting back to the original topic...

Yeah, I was thinking a timed game at maybe $100/word and $200/Lingo, maybe do the game in "halves", and add question mark balls to the second half (but don't double the dollar values).

I say we keep Bonus Lingo as-is. Except I'd make it $250 (maybe $500) a ball, win or lose. And maybe we should throw in one red ball to heighten suspense so games don't get anticlimatic, and they truthfully do most of the time. Oh yeah, $10,000 and a nice trip on first draw, $10,000 afterwards.

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