The Game Show Forum > The Big Board
From the Dog Eat Dog followup file...
uncamark:
[quote name=\'ChuckNet\' date=\'Jul 3 2003, 11:09 AM\']
--- Quote ---I represent that I have not appeared as a contestant in more than two (2) television competition or game shows within the last five (5) years from the tape date of the episode(s) in which I may appear.
--- End quote ---
[/quote]
--- Quote ---But then, that didn't seem to be a problem for Skyler from the W! premiere, who turned up on DOD's debut just 2 mos later.
--- End quote ---
IIRC from last year at this time, we had determined that Skyler had taped his appearance on \"DED\" long before his appearance on \"Whammy!\" \"DED\" taped between November 2001 and January 2002 (since in that time the accident involving a contestant during taping had made the news). The first series of \"Whammy!\" taped in March and April of 2002, and if GSN's eligibility requirements are based on air dates, Skyler was eligible since his \"DED\" ep hadn't aired yet. He was also eligible for \"DED\" because his appearance on \"Whammy!\" was taped and aired approximately 4 months after he taped \"DED.\"
Just another day in the exciting world of network S&P.
(BTW, I meant \"2002\" instead of \"2001\" for \"BB&D\"--the first series was to have been taped in the fall of 2001, but 9/11 postponed it six months.)
bttritle:
Landis may get out of this scott free for two reasons: if the Fear Factor eligibility rules are similar enough to the DED rules, they only address any shows from the 12 months prior to his show airing.
Second, the eligibility rules on the BBOD site only reflect the rules at the time they taped in April 2002. They are not adequately updated to reflect taping in 2003.
Unless they actually bothered to update it, ESPN may not have to do a thing, because they simply got lazy.
Ben T.
HYHYBT:
--- Quote ---H. No Finalist has appeared on any national broadcast or cable network primetime television reality/game show\" [list deleted] \"that (i) has been telecast during primetime within one (1) year prior to Contestant selection
--- End quote ---
Am I reading that wrong, or does that, as written, include reruns?
Jimmy Owen:
With duplicity at the heart of most reality shows, why would one need to be truthful when signing forms nobody ever reads? I mean, how's the guy gonna lie to the other players on the show if he can't fib on the form? If he's good for the show, let him on! Is there an S&P dept. anymore? We are coming full circle. I have a feeling that if the quiz show scandals would have happened today, no one would care!
Matt Ottinger:
--- Quote ---I have a feeling that if the quiz show scandals would have happened today, no one would care!
--- End quote ---
I'm afraid I agree with you. Frankly, I think it's already happened. A few years ago, there was an incredibly minor scandal in the talk show world when it was discovered that some of the guests that appeared on the shows (even the \"classier\" ones like Oprah) were just making stuff up and lying about their problems just to get on television. It had become a game for them, and some had even been on multiple shows with different problems each time.
Critics said we could have another scandal similar to the quiz shows on our hands....and no one cared.
FOX promised that they'd be much more careful about screening future reality contestants after the Who Wants to Marry A Multimillionaire fiasco, and went on to pick a couple with children to play \"Temptation Island\" and an already married woman to play \"Married By America\".........and no one cared.
One final OT example that, in my mind, proves that the era of any kind of television standards is nearly over: Last night, Comedy Central ran \"South Park: Bigger, Longer and Uncut\" -- a cartoon that flirted with an NC-17 rating for outrageous language and nearly pornographic visuals -- exactly as it aired in the theaters. The only cuts were for commercial breaks. I've been listening, and I haven't heard one peep of protest from the vast Moral Right that's supposed to be protecting us from this stuff.
OK, one more: On the new TNN cartoon block, we're reminded every half hour that \"This show is rated CFFA: Cartoons For F**kin' Adults\". In a climate where this kind of thing goes unchecked, who's going to care that some snotty nosed twentysomething got to play two reality games in the same year?
Navigation
[0] Message Index
[#] Next page
[*] Previous page
Go to full version