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BrandonFG:
[quote name=\'clemon79\' date=\'Mar 14 2004, 05:25 AM\']I'll make it short and sweet.

I believe we will see a live execution on TV in our lifetime.[/quote]
I'm probably missing the point, but wasn't McVeigh's execution televised? I want to say Pay-Per-View offered to show it.

--- Quote ---I do not believe it will be in the context of a game show. Which is not to say it won't happen. Just not in our lifetime. Things aren't that bad yet.

--- End quote ---


And to see how life imitates art, I saw "Married With Children" the other day, and it was the ep. where the Bundys pretend to be their neighbors and go on a game show to win a new washer/dryer. To win prizes, they had to basically physically torment their spouse. It's kind of eerie knowing that there are some shows VERY similar to that episode (Couples "Fear Factor" anyone?)

PeterMarshallFan:
[quote name=\'clemon79\' date=\'Mar 10 2004, 09:36 PM\'] [quote name=\'jcompton\' date=\'Mar 10 2004, 01:21 PM\'] Just waiting to hear that they've secured the rights to develop a real version of The Running Man. Or at least that show where you climb a cash-filled rope to escape slavering dogs that was depicted in a commercial in the movie. [/quote]
"Climbing For Dollars" can't be far off. After all, we've already seen "How Hot Can You Take It", or a variation thereof, which was mentioned in passing in the book version of "Running Man"... :) [/quote]
 Way off topic: I was in a music/video store today trying to find The Journey: The Best of Donna Summer CD (because....on the radio, oh-oh-oh-oh, on the radio....they don't play Summer too often here...on the radio....) and noticed that Running Man is out on DVD.

ObGameShow: In Running Man, the actor who portrayed Damon Killian was a somewhat well known game show host in real life.

whewfan:
[quote name=\'fostergray82\' date=\'Mar 14 2004, 02:10 PM\']
I'm probably missing the point, but wasn't McVeigh's execution televised? [/quote]
 No. They had cameras at the building, and shots of the room where Mc.Veigh was to be executed, but no actual footage of the execution itself.

clemon79:
[quote name=\'PeterMarshallFan\' date=\'Mar 16 2004, 05:57 PM\'] and noticed that Running Man is out on DVD.

ObGameShow: In Running Man, the actor who portrayed Damon Killian was a somewhat well known game show host in real life. [/quote]
 It's actually been out for some time (I've had it for a while), but today was the release day for the special up-your-bucket Special Deluxe Nifty Edition with commentary track and what-not. (No, I dunno if they talk to Dawson, but I'll prolly end up getting it, even though I bought it once already.)

HomieG1386:
[quote name=\'fostergray82\' date=\'Mar 14 2004, 02:10 PM\']I'm probably missing the point, but wasn't McVeigh's execution televised? I want to say Pay-Per-View offered to show it.[/quote]
A few people wanted it to be televised (a la Pay-Per-View and internet streams), but the judge, I believe it was, said it wasn't gonna happen. There was a closed-circuit broadcast to some auditorium in, I think, Norman, OK, where a few select people (relatives of deceased, survivors, etc.) were allowed to watch the execution live.

How do I know this? I was unlucky enough to listen to this all day long when it happened, thanks to the Oklahoma City media coverage and our cable being out. What a day.

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