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The Game Show Forum => Game Show Channels & Networks => Topic started by: BillCullen1 on July 10, 2017, 10:08:42 AM
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GSN has started airing promos for their latest original concept. Three contestants compete to guess things about people based on appearance. David Alan Grier is your host.
Divided with Mike Richards also returns on that date.
EDIT - Correction - Divided returns on August 15.
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Is anyone getting this in syndication too? I've seen a couple of promos on our Fox station for a weekday run at 5:30 PM starting on Aug. 7th.
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Is anyone getting this in syndication too? I've seen a couple of promos on our Fox station for a weekday run at 5:30 PM starting on Aug. 7th.
Yes Sinclair stations are getting it in syndication too
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Here's a press release about the show (http://www.thefutoncritic.com/news/2017/06/28/gsn-and-tornante-sinclair-announce-new-game-show-snap-decision-hosted-by-david-alan-grier-213115/20170628gsn01/). Apparently it will air on 20 Sinclair stations starting August 7.
Broadcasting and Cable had a little write-up (http://www.broadcastingcable.com/news/distribution/snap-decision-air-gsn-sinclair-stations/166877) about it last month, so I'm a little surprised it flew under the radar here. Given Scott St. John is behind it, that explains the Street Smarts vibe I picked up.
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Saw a promo on my local FOX station yesterday. It'll be airing at 6:30pm, which is surprising since that's one of Feud's slots prior to J!/Wheel.
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Four eps of this extravaganza will air Monday on GSN starting at 9 pm Eastern. Then the show moves to Tuesdays at 9pm with two episodes each week.
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So did anyone watch this? What do you think? I think it's nice harmless fun and David keeps it moving at a good pace.
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Haven't seen it yet, but hoping it goes better than this...
http://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live/video/snap-decision/n9757?snl=1 (http://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live/video/snap-decision/n9757?snl=1)
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It's harmless, but it's boring as hell. For me, Streets Smarts was fun in guessing how dumb the interviewee's answers would be (or if you were right in the first place). This is fine, but playing the Keys bonus round from Bergeron Squares over and over again on this sterile set gets old for me quickly.
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It's harmless, but it's boring as hell. For me, Streets Smarts was fun in guessing how dumb the interviewee's answers would be (or if you were right in the first place). This is fine, but playing the Keys bonus round from Bergeron Squares over and over again on this sterile set gets old for me quickly.
How do you mean? Is every question an either-or proposition all the way through?
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It's harmless, but it's boring as hell. For me, Streets Smarts was fun in guessing how dumb the interviewee's answers would be (or if you were right in the first place). This is fine, but playing the Keys bonus round from Bergeron Squares over and over again on this sterile set gets old for me quickly.
How do you mean? Is every question an either-or proposition all the way through?
The 1st round introduces each of the interviewees and then asks a question with two possible choices about something that person has done.
The 2nd round mixes it up a bit by presenting two of the three interviewees and giving a fact with the object here being to pick who it applies to. This round also eliminates the lowest scorer. (The tiebreaker here is to buzz in and answer a question about David)
The 3rd round takes the "Pick Your Pony" element of Streets Smarts and uses it to then ask a question about the two remaining interviewees with the contestants picking an answer for their pick (or rather how their pick will answer). Each question increases in value, with an incorrect answer causing the money at stake to go to the opponent. First to $2,000 is the winner.
The bonus round is David reading off facts about all three interviewees with the contestant having to pick to whom which fact belongs. 5 in 45 seconds bumps the total winnings up to $10,000.
So, they spritz it up here and there, but to me it all just comes off as "Is this true about that person?" the whole show. It's fun for a bit, but it wears on me after Round 2.
I shouldn't sell Grier completely short. Have always loved his career and he's fine here. Given the type of characters he's played on In Living Color, he doesn't come off as over the top here which I like a lot.
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TV Guide's online listing didn't have it, but apparently this airs on WTVZ, I think at 5pm. Maybe I'll check it out next week.
ETA: It airs at 5:30, after a third (!!!) episode of Phallic Feud. Another hour of Feud airs at 7 pm.
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I found a preview clip on Youtube. What I saw wasn't bad, but you can tell the producers definitely want David to channel Steve Harvey with the overreactions. I get it, that brings in the clicks, but it did seem kinda forced.
And I say this as someone who finds DAG hilarious.
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In Cincinnati, WSTR-TV is airing it at 6 p.m. in place of the first episode of the FF double run. It is supposed to be temporary, because FF is scheduled to return to the timeslot on Labor Day, according to zap2it.com.
Brian
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It's basically the "fun fact" part of the contestant audition spread out over an entire half hour. I'm watching once to see what it is but I'm not compelled to watch again. That said it does stay away from a game that's all about quiz questions because The Chase didn't light a fire under them.
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GSN has announced that Snap Decision moves to Mondays at 7:30 pm ET. Not sure if that's good or bad news for the show.
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They're apparently making more episodes of "Snap Decision," because I was contacted by casting to see if I wanted to apply to be in one of the video segments (I was told they pay $125 for 2 hours of filming).
I opted not to even bother filling out the application -- I can already tell I'm not the type of person they're looking for (anything about me that you wouldn't guess from looking at me is not something I want broadcast on TV).
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You don't want it to come out on national TV that you actually prefer buses? ;-)
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You don't want it to come out on national TV that you actually prefer buses? ;-)
POINTS!
I got another email about it -- specifically saying "over age 35" -- so if we have any other Los Angeles-based people who fit the bill and are interested (and eligible to appear on the show), here's the signup form (https://caracasting.formstack.com/forms/snap).