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Alternate realities when it comes to game shows
aaron sica:
I've recently seen the new animated Spider-Man movie and also, "The Flash", in which alternate realities play a huge part. In the alternate reality of "The Flash", for example, it was Eric Stoltz who was Marty McFly and not Michael J. Fox.
Chris C. mentioned in another thread how Twenty One was passed on and Child's Play went to series instead.
What would have happened had Twenty One made it to series? How long would it have lasted?
What other alternate realities could exist in our world of game shows, and what might have happened as a result?
BrandonFG:
I don’t think 21 does any better, honestly. I wasn’t too blown away by the pilot and it felt like audiences didn’t appreciate hard trivia shows again until J! came back a couple years later.
I do wonder what if the games from fall 1990 lasted a little longer? Not that TJW, TTD, or Trump Card set the world on fire, but if they last until about 1993, does the genre come to as much of a standstill in the mid-90s?
aaron sica:
--- Quote from: BrandonFG on June 20, 2023, 10:32:35 AM ---I do wonder what if the games from fall 1990 lasted a little longer? Not that TJW, TTD, or Trump Card set the world on fire, but if they last until about 1993, does the genre come to as much of a standstill in the mid-90s?
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Along those same lines, even though it's not one of the syndicated fall 1990 games, that comment caused me to wonder what would have happened if Ross Shafer's comment on the last MG90 about "another channel, another time" had come to pass. It's rumored that was CBS. If that were the case, I could see the "Designing Women" reruns being taken off to make room.
Blanquepage:
I definitely believe Break the Bank would've had a decent daytime run had it not been for that soap expansion.
aaron sica:
--- Quote from: Blanquepage on June 20, 2023, 11:38:51 AM ---I definitely believe Break the Bank would've had a decent daytime run had it not been for that soap expansion.
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Absolutely. IIRC, its ratings were not bad.
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