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Title: WML revival?
Post by: alfonzos on July 28, 2008, 05:40:16 PM

The New York Post (http://\"http://www.nypost.com/seven/07282008/tv/redrawing_my_line_121956.htm\")

Title: WML revival?
Post by: Jay Temple on July 28, 2008, 05:51:42 PM

I'm guardedly optimistic. (But only three sentences in the whole article? Sheesh, I could have been a reporter.)

Title: WML revival?
Post by: chad1m on July 28, 2008, 06:15:15 PM

I'd love to see it, but I don't think the majority of celebrities are classy or "serious" enough to play the game well.

Title: WML revival?
Post by: TroubadourNando on July 28, 2008, 06:57:52 PM

I'm not so confident this format can work today.

Add me to 'cautiously optimistic,' though. It could be good.

Title: WML revival?
Post by: The Pyramids on July 28, 2008, 07:06:42 PM

[quote name=\'TroubadourNando\' post=\'192484\' date=\'Jul 28 2008, 05:57 PM\']
I'm not so confident this format can work today.

Add me to 'cautiously optimistic,' though. It could be good.
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I don't think the '00s versions of 'To Tell The Truth' and 'Secret' turned out bad so I say it can be properly done.

Title: WML revival?
Post by: Dbacksfan12 on July 28, 2008, 07:16:44 PM

When did the rights shift to Fremantle?  I thought CBS held the rights.

And isn't this the third time this decade this has been reported, only to see nothing in return?  I'll believe this one when I see it.

Title: WML revival?
Post by: TroubadourNando on July 28, 2008, 08:22:36 PM

[quote name=\'PaulD\' post=\'192489\' date=\'Jul 28 2008, 07:06 PM\']
[quote name=\'TroubadourNando\' post=\'192484\' date=\'Jul 28 2008, 05:57 PM\']
I'm not so confident this format can work today.

Add me to 'cautiously optimistic,' though. It could be good.
[/quote]

I don't think the '00s versions of 'To Tell The Truth' and 'Secret' turned out bad so I say it can be properly done.
[/quote]

That is true, but WML is much more formal than either Truth or Secret, especially in their latest incarnations. WML done for laughs would pretty much be Secret, so the formality really does have to stay, I'd think.

Title: WML revival?
Post by: Don Howard on July 28, 2008, 08:28:35 PM

If J. Keith is hosting, I'm in the tent.

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Post by: BrandonFG on July 28, 2008, 09:04:48 PM

[quote name=\'Don Howard\' post=\'192504\' date=\'Jul 28 2008, 08:28 PM\']
If J. Keith is hosting, I'm in the tent.
[/quote]
I thought that only happened when you're around Anitra?

Title: WML revival?
Post by: Don Howard on July 28, 2008, 09:19:28 PM

[quote name=\'fostergray82\' post=\'192507\' date=\'Jul 28 2008, 09:04 PM\']
[quote name=\'Don Howard\' post=\'192504\' date=\'Jul 28 2008, 08:28 PM\']
If J. Keith is hosting, I'm in the tent.
[/quote]
I thought that only happened when you're around Anitra?
[/quote]
No, no. Then I'm in the tree, remember?
Was she ever on the WML? panel during the Bruner/Blyden era?

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Post by: MikeK on July 28, 2008, 10:20:18 PM

[quote name=\'Don Howard\' post=\'192504\' date=\'Jul 28 2008, 08:28 PM\']If J. Keith is hosting, I'm in the tent.[/quote]
What Don said.  J. Keith isn't a big name, but he does a darn good job at it.

Brandon, when Anitra's around, he's pitching a tent. ;-)

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Post by: Casey Buck on July 28, 2008, 10:27:26 PM

How much is each "no" answer going to be worth? $500 each (or $5,000 for all 10) wouldn't be so bad these days, and it would keep the game for fun only, like the original version.

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Post by: chad1m on July 28, 2008, 10:29:40 PM

[quote name=\'Casey Buck\' post=\'192528\' date=\'Jul 28 2008, 10:27 PM\']How much is each "no" answer going to be worth?[/quote]The first will be worth $10,000, awarded after a commercial break-long reveal while we wait to find out if "Is it bigger than a bread box?" can be answered with a no. The next eight will be of increasing value going all the way to $500,000. The final is worth $1,000,000, but you have to risk going back to $25,000 to try for the big money.

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Post by: Matt Ottinger on July 28, 2008, 11:53:53 PM

[quote name=\'Casey Buck\' post=\'192528\' date=\'Jul 28 2008, 10:27 PM\']
How much is each "no" answer going to be worth? $500 each (or $5,000 for all 10) wouldn't be so bad these days, and it would keep the game for fun only, like the original version.[/quote]
If they have any sense at all, they'll play the game for no money, the way they did in the seventies.  

If they have any sense of fun at all, they'll play it for the same stakes they did in the fifties, just for a laugh.

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Post by: uncamark on July 31, 2008, 02:37:16 PM

And there's one lingering problem here--the source for all this is the New York Post.  I'd rather trust a diagnosis from Dr. Woo Woo than I would the Post.

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Post by: chris319 on July 31, 2008, 03:09:20 PM

[quote name=\'uncamark\' post=\'192944\' date=\'Jul 31 2008, 11:37 AM\']
And there's one lingering problem here--the source for all this is the New York Post.  I'd rather trust a diagnosis from Dr. Woo Woo than I would the Post.
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During an interview on WABC radio over the weekend, Hasselhoff said he was talking with officials about being on the show's famous panel.

Do you think Hasselhoff wasn't interviewed on WABC and didn't talk about WML, that the entire report is a fabrication?

Hasselhoff still has an image problem if you ask me:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QH3JAp7vMuo (http://\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QH3JAp7vMuo\")

From the Museum of Broadcast Communications:

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They sold What's My Line to CBS in 1958

http://www.museum.tv/archives/etv/G/htmlG/...goodsonmark.htm (http://\"http://www.museum.tv/archives/etv/G/htmlG/goodsonmark/goodsonmark.htm\")

I have never heard that Goodson/Fremantle reacquired WML?, so I'm with Modor on this. They may think they own it because it used to be produced by G-T but the Goodsons or the Todmans haven't owned it since 1958. I thought this was common knowledge. Calling Roy Blakeman!