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cmjb13:
According to tvgameshows.net

GSN is pulling Who Dares Wins, the Australian Fear Factor-style game, out of the mothballs to replace Funny Money Wednesdays at 11:30 p.m. (ET)

WhammyPower:
Now that is just stupid.  What idiots would put a show like that on the schedule?




Oh, wait....

CaseyAbell:
Funny Money isn't even on the current schedule at the GSN site. Wednesday 11:30 PM is a double run of Spy TV according to the sched.

Really, I'm amazed that Funny Money was ever considered for a comeback. The show was a real clunker that helped create GSN's ratings disaster of late last summer. If the show could have booked consistently good comics, it might have had a chance. But too many comics bombed and took the show with them, because there was no strong gameplay to pick up the slack.

Don't know much about Who Dares Wins, except from the show's web site. It lasted for a few years on Seven, one of Australia's main networks, and was exported to a few other countries. Hard to see how it could be worse than Funny Money.

EDIT: Did some googling and found out that Who Dares Wins apparently had a brief run on GSN several years ago. Don't remember it, but there was a spell when I didn't have access to GSN on my cable provider.

JerrysFeudinAgain:
Who Dares Wins was on GSN during the Fall of 2001. I still remember those ads that GSN run to the ground with it's "new" shows PYL,LMAD and $1.98 Beauty Show at the time.

uncamark:
[quote name=\'CaseyAbell\' date=\'Mar 23 2004, 08:39 AM\']Don't know much about Who Dares Wins, except from the show's web site. It lasted for a few years on Seven, one of Australia's main networks, and was exported to a few other countries. Hard to see how it could be worse than Funny Money.

EDIT: Did some googling and found out that Who Dares Wins apparently had a brief run on GSN several years ago. Don't remember it, but there was a spell when I didn't have access to GSN on my cable provider.[/quote]
Actually, I was one of the few people who liked the show when it was on the first time.  It's a much gentler show than "Fear Factor" and is actually more like "Truth or Consequences" done on location.

Most of the show is Mike the host, whose last name I've forgotten, challenging people to do various little stunts on the street or in malls for a modest little cash prize.  Some of it is eating gross food like "Fear Factor," but the examples they've done were nowhere near as gross as that show--and the host had a much more light-hearted attitude about the thing than Joe Rogan.

On each show, there is a major stunt, where viewers send in people who they would like to see get dared.  Mike shows up at their home or workplace with a camera crew and tells the mark that they are to receive the dare and then hands them off to his lovely assistant at the location of the stunt.  The stunts were often spectacular ones similar to "Fear Factor," but often were things like singing the Australian national anthem at a rugby game or performing in a male strip show or participating in a demolition derby (given to a ascerbic radio talk show host).  If they complete the stunt, they win a trip.  They are fully trained and briefed by the stunt coordinators, but they have the choice to walk away at any time.  If they at any point turn down the stunt, Mike's lovely assistant then has to perform the stunt--if she does it, they still win the trip, I believe.  If *she* turns it down, then the show's chief stunt coordinator has to perform it.

They also in some shows do a stunt that isn't as major or complicated for an A$500 cash prize, where Mike's lovely assistant (sorry I can't remember her name) picks someone off the street to attempt it.

Maybe not intellectual, but I always found it more fun than "Fear Factor"--and with contestants of all ages.

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