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Lingo New Year's marathon
vtown7:
--- Quote ---As for the contestants on the first season, do we know for sure they were Americans and Canadians living there, or were they just on vacation at the time
--- End quote ---
I was actually living in Eastern France at the time... would have gladly paid to take a five hour train trip to Amsterdam to have been a part of it!!!
Ah well, whadda ya going to do? I suppose I'll wait for some more random Canadian game shows to pop up (paging Blaq...)
Cheers,
Ryan :)
uncamark:
[quote name=\'vtown7\' date=\'Jan 5 2004, 10:10 PM\']
--- Quote ---As for the contestants on the first season, do we know for sure they were Americans and Canadians living there, or were they just on vacation at the time
--- End quote ---
I was actually living in Eastern France at the time... would have gladly paid to take a five hour train trip to Amsterdam to have been a part of it!!![/quote]
And another half-hour to Hilversum, where the studio actually was, along with much of the rest of the Dutch broadcasting industry.
But they may've done interviews in Amsterdam.
melman1:
Does GSN license the game itself from the European people? I've long wondered why GSN has done nothing to tweak the basic game, and maybe the answer is "their contract says they can't".
PeterMarshallFan:
[quote name=\'melman1\' date=\'Jan 6 2004, 07:07 PM\'] Does GSN license the game itself from the European people? I've long wondered why GSN has done nothing to tweak the basic game, and maybe the answer is "their contract says they can't". [/quote]
Ask this question at the GSN boards and you will be told that Stacey is the fix to all the show's problems. [And sadly, I'm only being a little bit sarcastic]
The game is as stale as an old wafer. At least the 1987 version mixed it up a little bit with the prize and jackpot balls. I'd say the gameplay should be improved first, before the set [which is now ugly] or the theme [which is good, but is on the wrong show] or before hiring a "linguist."
But the contract point is something I didn't think of before. You might have something there.....
SplitSecond:
[quote name=\'melman1\' date=\'Jan 6 2004, 04:07 PM\'] Does GSN license the game itself from the European people? I've long wondered why GSN has done nothing to tweak the basic game, and maybe the answer is "their contract says they can't". [/quote]
Well, their end game is different than the standard "No Lingo" end game used in most of the rest of the world, and many other versions have some sort of intermediate game involving toss-ups and longer words (like the tiebreaker used here).
I'm not aware of any "the format must stay the same" clauses in international game format sales. Maybe on this one point, GSN and Phil Gurin had the revolutionary idea of "if it ain't broke, don't fix it".
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