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clemon79:
--- Quote from: TimK2003 on January 14, 2025, 12:48:44 AM ---I'd be very afraid of what they'd do to it in the states with choice of host(s), pacing and/or the overall Americanized format of the show.
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I watched a couple episodes, and it got old for me pretty quick, but I did enjoy the concept well enough. And, I mean, Ant and Dec.
Make no mistake, the US would absolutely MUTILATE that show. And Bert Kreischer or whatever flavor of the month they got in there is no Ant and Dec.
SwohS Emag:
--- Quote from: BillCullen1 on May 13, 2024, 07:07:49 AM ---Here in NYC, Relatively Speaking was regulated to 2:30 am, the same time slot given to Kennedy's TPIR a few years earlier.
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I've been working through Relatively Speaking recently and found that episodes labeled 71-90 on FAST sites are markedly different in pacing and format than the previous episodes. Their runtimes are 1-2 minutes shorter from the already <20 minute timing (likely because prize and promo plugs were excised), with two of them clocking in just over 17 minutes. However, they have added an additional round to the show (4 guests instead of 3), eliminated the punny clues hinting at who the relative is, and the questioning moves at an absolute breakneck pace compared to the previous shows. References to prizes for the non-celeb guests are gone altogether and there is no more reference to a "Super Stumper Jackpot."
Anyway, what would cause a show to make a shift like this so soon toward what would be the end of its run?
Allstar87:
The latter episodes are a lot less fun because of that; the slower pace allowed everyone more time to shine. It was fun hearing the stories about growing up with the celebs, showing the family photos...by the end there were some episodes where the contestant left immediately after their connection was discovered. (It's also kinda silly to take the prize plugs out, especially when the transition is "Let's see what you won!" -fade to black, immediate fade in- "Thanks for playing!")
--- Quote from: SwohS Emag on March 14, 2025, 09:27:59 AM ---Anyway, what would cause a show to make a shift like this so soon toward what would be the end of its run?
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My guess is that they knew they weren't gonna get a second season and couldn't find as many people for the final round as they'd liked, so they blasted through the remaining contestants as quickly as they could to ensure everyone at least got a chance to play.
bwood:
The Hollywood Squares Channel has ended on PlutoTV.
FWIW, The Drew Barrymore Show Channel has ended as well.
Sounds like something going on through CBS Media Ventures.
steveleb:
Re RELATIVELY SPEAKING: knowing how leveraged the company that produced and distributed the show was (the executive producer Mitch Gutkowski was also personally cutting most of the major market deals with stations) and how poor the first few weeks of ratings were relative to expectaions from advertisers, my educated guess is that his investors mandated budget cuts whereever possible, no matter how minor, just to try and stop the bleeding. Taking away the potential of even modest prizes from later episodes probably cut a few thousand out of their minus column.
Relative to some other syndie efforts in that era, RS at least tried to look like a first-rate daytime show at the outset, even though way too many stations were running it pre-dawn. Looking back on it now, had this been attempted a decade or so earlier, it might have had a shot.
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