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"College Bowl" returning to network TV
JasonA1:
With the Pat Finn pilot on YouTube, the notion that Joker's Wild would have fared better in 1990 with a different title came up again. I think, if a show is good enough, the link to the past simply gets viewers in the door, but the execution keeps them there; The New Price is Right, Match Game '73 and Password Plus say hello.
-Jason
TLEberle:
Does anybody care about a Q&A show titled Cash Machine? Or, more adjacently, Bracket Genius?
That Don Guy:
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--- Quote from: That Don Guy on May 01, 2021, 08:50:58 PM ---NBC aired a brief clip during its Kentucky Derby coverage. That show is a lot of things...but it is not "College Bowl." It looks a lot like they took the revised rules for Honda Campus All-Star Challenge (which itself switched from traditional College Bowl rules to the format of a show called Africa Challenge); I saw three-player teams, and they were choosing categories from a board of four.
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In all fairness, when’s the last time “College Bowl” aired on TV? The format is more or less Q&A amongst college teams. The execution isn’t that important.
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Network TV? 1984, when NBC aired a one-off hour-long show of the national championship semi-finals and final.
Before that, the first two national championship semi-finals and finals aired in syndication in 1978 and 1979 (the 1980 through 1982 tournaments were on CBS Radio); before that was the NBC weekly series that I think ended in 1970.
Cable TV? Disney Channel ran the complete (15-game) national championship tournament in 1987.
Oh, and I think there's a problem with the forum; a URL of a YouTube video forms a link properly in the preview, but inserts the video when saved.
ChrisLambert!:
That was a rhetorical question.
chris319:
Do we need another hard quiz? Someone I know refers to them as "televised SAT tests".
If the material is hard enough to challenge a team of college students, they may end up leaving the home viewer behind. The home viewer can't really play along because the material is too difficult.
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