Most of us liked The Pyramid around here, and wanted it to be back on GSN for a second season. It didn\'t happen, and wasn\'t even mentioned in the 13-14 upfronts like Family Trade and Newlywed Game were.
Quite odd that yesterday evening someone from GSN sent out a tweet on The Pyramid\'s Twitter Page asking \"Do You Think You\'d Be good giving clues?\" after four months of silence from the page.
Very strange.
Unless they are planning on improving the calibre of celebrity guests, I\'m cool with letting any revival happen a few more years down the road.
I\'m getting my hopes up that you\'ll fess up to all those fake people on your blog.
<LGY BS snipped>
How have you not been arrested for identity theft yet?
Very strange.
Yes, you are.
If you lot would stop replying to him, it would make it an easier task to delete his posts.
....you replied to him just earlier today. In this very thread. As the first post. If you don\'t want people discussing with him/about him on a discussion forum, why did it go through in the first place?
I\'m not going to nuke stuff that\'s already been posted just because.
So then quit your continuously increasing bitching when you\'re just as at fault for doing what the \"lot\" you\'re talking about is.
I didn\'t approve the thread, it wasn\'t my place to nuke it.
You don\'t have to nuke it. You just don\'t get to rightfully and logically moan about people who keep replying to it when you were the first of those people.
You still have \"Crusader for the little guy\" in your custom title and maybe you used to be. But lately, around these parts, you\'ve been more active and, for whatever reason, more miserable and irascible to many. Being doubly snarky when it\'s not necessary is tiresome.
Sounds promising. I\'ve mentioned before I\'d rather see it in syndication, but the show deserves a second season regardless, with a few improvements. Hoping that account isn\'t just blowing smoke.
Everyone else, we get it. The dude\'s a fraud...the massive piling on for every person that causes trouble here does get old at times. It doesn\'t adding anything productive.
Sounds promising. I\'ve mentioned before I\'d rather see it in syndicationOther than a better chance of seeing it on your friendly local, what difference does it make between syndication and GSN? You certainly don\'t need a bigger prize fund.
Sounds promising. I\'ve mentioned before I\'d rather see it in syndication
Other than a better chance of seeing it on your friendly local, what difference does it make between syndication and GSN? You certainly don\'t need a bigger prize fund.
Increased chances for being seen IMO...the prize budget was fine, but I\'ve often wondered just how many more people would be aware if it aired in syndication as opposed to a lower-tier cable channel.
That being said, I just like the possibility of a second season, no matter where it airs.
I know folks aren\'t trying to give LGY any inch of credibility (as at this point they shouldn\'t), but I\'ll just add a little something.
Perhaps since there is now a sort of gateway to talk to Mike Richards, that isn\'t just Twitter, perhaps the fate of The Pyramid could be answered by him.
Unless it already has, I haven\'t really listened to his first two podcast episodes.
Sounds promising. I\'ve mentioned before I\'d rather see it in syndication
Other than a better chance of seeing it on your friendly local, what difference does it make between syndication and GSN? You certainly don\'t need a bigger prize fund.Increased chances for being seen IMO...the prize budget was fine, but I\'ve often wondered just how many more people would be aware if it aired in syndication as opposed to a lower-tier cable channel.
That being said, I just like the possibility of a second season, no matter where it airs.
I agree with the idea that a syndicated series would do better than an exclusive-to-GSN series, with there definitely being more chances for eyeballs to see it. The problem though is that where would you put it on your schedule? Most of these slots are filled with either talk or court shows and I don\'t exactly see why station owners would be in such a rush to put new game shows on their stations (the success of Let\'s Ask America notwithstanding).
I\'d be for bringing The Pyramid back as a syndie series. But as I\'ve stated, I would like to see it back with a different host. Mike Richards does not do it for me.
And Chad, for the record, glass houses.
Our local CW affiliate has Family Feud and Millionaire in a two hour block; I don\'t think it is so dire for game shows as all that. Hollywood Squares marked out six years; what\'s to say The Pyramid (I don\'t think I\'ve ever gone so far out of my way to make sure that a definite article is included in something) couldn\'t stake out the same?
For every Feud, Millionaire, and H2, there\'s been the Temptations, Donnymids, Merv Griffin\'s Clusterfricks, Trivial Pursuits, Card Sharks 2001s, To Tell the Truths, Weakest Links, and insert designated failure here.
Feud is in an okay position right now, but once Millionaire bites the dust in the not-too-distant future (don\'t know if it can go much further than the 11 years it\'s already been on, can it?) is there a guarantee that the stations that carry it will replace it with a game show if one might be in the pipe? You\'ve got the double run airing together on your CW affiliate, but in my market it\'s in the post-news, pre-Chew slot on our ABC O&O. (the second half of the double run, FTR, still airs in late night after Nightline) Who\'s to say that in your case the station won\'t try to add another talker or episode of a talker, or in my case extend the news to cover the bottom of the hour?
Dire might be a little strong but not conducive to growth wouldn\'t be too much of a stretch IMO.
FTR, ETA: if anything, it would be our MyNetwork affiliate that picked up The Pyramid, but they\'ve decided that talk show reairings and Judge Joe Brown is what makes their afternoon (they moved Feud to 5:00 opposite the news). Although I\'m pretty certain now that Jeremy Kyle is leaving American airwaves they COULD find a spot for it...
Unless they are planning on improving the calibre of celebrity guests, I\'m cool with letting any revival happen a few more years down the road.
Pretty much this. The takeaway I got from Teh Pyramid was that the quality of play was a major factor to making Dick Clark\'s versions great, and that quality of play just wasn\'t there.
GSN opted to release Baggage to syndication, and is enjoying a modest success in the ratings, which at last check was almost half of what Millionaire has been getting of late http://www.broadcastingcable.com/article/493299-Syndication_Ratings_Syndies_Bounce_Back_in_Time_for_May_Sweeps.php.
If given the chance, and a little hype, I can see Pyramid matching & exceeding the current ratings of Millionaire within the first two years in syndication -- becoming a viable heir to the Millionaire timeslot throne if Cedric tanks. If the celebrity coordinators put a little more effort in finding & nurturing good or potential celebrity partners (seemed they did pretty good with the contestants this last time around), and keeping the celebrities consistent 5 days a week, they won\'t have such a Donnymess this time.
Unless they are planning on improving the calibre of celebrity guests, I\'m cool with letting any revival happen a few more years down the road.
Pretty much this. The takeaway I got from Teh Pyramid was that the quality of play was a major factor to making Dick Clark\'s versions great, and that quality of play just wasn\'t there.
But you know what? I didn\'t mind the quality of play- after all, if you take a look at the early $10K episodes, there\'s a lot of mumbling, stumbling, and failure. It happens. Your favorite sports team had rebuilding years (or decades) at some point, so it may take some episodes to cultivate good players in this generation, although I\'m baffled that the producers didn\'t pull someone who played in the \'80s heyday and still has some relevance (Levar Burton and Vicki Lawrence come to mind).
For me, the bad celebs wouldn\'t bother me so much if winner\'s circle payoffs didn\'t depend on main game performance- it\'s like the production company deliberately picked less than stellar players to keep the prize budget intact.
But you know what? I didn\'t mind the quality of play- after all, if you take a look at the early $10K episodes, there\'s a lot of mumbling, stumbling, and failure.
Yes. Forty years ago. When it was a new concept, I expect stumbling blocks. It\'s not a new concept anymore.
although I\'m baffled that the producers didn\'t pull someone who played in the \'80s heyday and still has some relevance (Levar Burton and Vicki Lawrence come to mind).
This, and that one Italian gentleman (Nick something?) should not have been allowed within a half-mile of the studio
You have crappy contestants, fine, they\'re gone in a day. You have crappy celebrities, you\'re stuck with them for multiple shows. There is no excuse for crappy celebrities.
Could you find sixteen contestants who are C+ or better at Pyramid, willing to do it and able to get it in their schedule?
Sure, it was forty years ago, but it has also been ten years since we\'ve seen it on the air, and twenty years since it was mounted properly.
Honestly? Yeah, I think I could. At the minimum, I could look at that Nick guy and say \"oh HELLS no.\"I knew he was rubbish after the first half on Monday, but so did anyone watching who had a pulse.
And how many party games have you seen in the last twenty (or even ten) years that use a bunch of those mechanics? Someone who can play Celebrities well is probably going to be at least passable at Pyramid. It\'s a known quantity at this point, and I absolutely believe it is possible to locate people who can play it at a level worthy of televising.Anybody can play Taboo or Time\'s Up In My Hat or Thingamajig or Tie One On or Paired Up or 25 Words or
Just about anybody who can talk can play the front game. That\'s not the case for the winner\'s circle; it does take a little bit more to play it not just properly but to be really good. You need practice to get there, but it does take a certain kind of person to be able to get there.
I\'m sorry. When someone gives you the clue \"One with six zeros\" for a million and you take more than five seconds figuring it out, the quality of play has suffered. Also, I don\'t think that forty years ago they shelved an episode of the series because someone played so badly.
I say the \"it\'s been 10 years\" argument doesn\'t hold any water because it was just as long when Donnymid premiered and celebrity/contestant gameplay was the least of that version\'s problems.
When you make Tom Poston look good, something\'s just not right.
Anita Gillette and Lucie Arnaz are still living and are likely available.
Nipsey Russell and Soupy Sales, alas, are not.
Gordon MacRae once tried out for P+ but was not booked.
Anita Gillette and Lucie Arnaz are still living and are likely available.
And, to be frank, they\'re only a little less well-known than the celebrities that were actually booked this time around.
Re Gordon MacRae: At first I missed \"for P+.\" Had he done Pyramid, it would have made the MacRae family the only one with three representatives. As it is, his wife Sheila and daughter Meredith are the only parent and child who both played.