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The Game Show Forum => The Big Board => Topic started by: byrd62 on September 29, 2009, 08:11:52 AM
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http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/conten...e931a4a3f188483 (http://\"http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/content_display/television/news/e3ife9d9d88fcefbcdcbe931a4a3f188483\")
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Okay, most people don't like DOING household chores. Why would they want to watch OTHER PEOPLE do them?
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Does anyone remember a (mercifully) unrelated box game called "Perfect 10"? You set a board upright between two players or teams ("Battleship" style") and each has ten multiple-choice questions to answer. A team tries all of their ten, then the other tells them how many answers are right. They alternate turns until one has all ten. It's a simple yet surprisingly challenging game, and a good premise for a TV game, albeit not for NBC.
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[quote name=\'Neumms\' post=\'227140\' date=\'Sep 29 2009, 09:18 AM\']and a good premise for a TV game, albeit not for NBC.[/quote]
I'm not sure how you'd do that on TV and not have there be tons of downtime while contestants deliberated over their next set of guesses.
(You could cross it with Go and use a one-team-sets-the-time-for-the-others-to-beat paradigm, but it's still a pretty silent game.)
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[quote name=\'Neumms\' post=\'227140\' date=\'Sep 29 2009, 12:18 PM\']Does anyone remember a (mercifully) unrelated box game called "Perfect 10"? You set a board upright between two players or teams ("Battleship" style") and each has ten multiple-choice questions to answer. A team tries all of their ten, then the other tells them how many answers are right. They alternate turns until one has all ten. It's a simple yet surprisingly challenging game, and a good premise for a TV game, albeit not for NBC.[/quote]
I've never heard of this game, but it sounds like a Q&A version of "Mastermind".
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[quote name=\'gamed121683\' post=\'227147\' date=\'Sep 29 2009, 11:36 AM\']but it sounds like a Q&A version of "Mastermind".[/quote]
Exactly so. Or the Wipeout endgame with more questions and more options.
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Oh, NBC.
Two words: The Cube. Just leave it be.
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As much as this makes me go "wtf"...I would love for this to make some sort of imprint on the television landscape here so someone else can pick up The Cube proper. Let this one be fun, leave the serious business to another network.
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[quote name=\'clemon79\' post=\'227143\' date=\'Sep 29 2009, 12:26 PM\'][quote name=\'Neumms\' post=\'227140\' date=\'Sep 29 2009, 09:18 AM\']and a good premise for a TV game, albeit not for NBC.[/quote]
I'm not sure how you'd do that on TV and not have there be tons of downtime while contestants deliberated over their next set of guesses.
(You could cross it with Go and use a one-team-sets-the-time-for-the-others-to-beat paradigm, but it's still a pretty silent game.)
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I hadn't thought it out that far. I imagine it as a cerebral version of TPIR's Race Game and One Away. As you point out, too cerebral if it's one player, and there would need to be a clock.
But it could be one team plays their whole board, then the other plays theirs. Whichever team wins then plays prisoner's dilemma with the money! (Just kidding.)
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I wonder how well the show will perform during "sweeps."
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[quote name=\'Neumms\' post=\'227140\' date=\'Sep 29 2009, 09:18 AM\']Does anyone remember a (mercifully) unrelated box game called "Perfect 10"? You set a board upright between two players or teams ("Battleship" style") and each has ten multiple-choice questions to answer. A team tries all of their ten, then the other tells them how many answers are right. They alternate turns until one has all ten. It's a simple yet surprisingly challenging game, and a good premise for a TV game, albeit not for NBC.[/quote]You forgot the part where one team has to give the answerers one of the correct answers. Then it is up to the answering team to figure out if they had that correct or not, and adjust their gameplay accordingly. (This also means that ten guesses is the longest a round can be.)
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[quote name=\'alfonzos\' post=\'227164\' date=\'Sep 29 2009, 06:37 PM\']I wonder how well the show will perform during "sweeps."[/quote]
Not sure, but I'm willing that one of the other networks will be mopping the floor with them in whatever time slot they wind up in.
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Pushing this up to note that NBC has apparently tapped Food Network personality Guy Fieri to host "Perfect 10"...
http://www.thewrap.com/ind-column/nbc-find...game-show-11896 (http://\"http://www.thewrap.com/ind-column/nbc-finds-right-guy-game-show-11896\")
Interesting choice to say the least. Fieri definitely has the personality and flair to host a game (which he did, somewhat, with Food Network's Ultimate Recipe Showdown), but he also has the ability to take over shows and turn them into personal ego-fests.
JD
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[quote name=\'colonial\' post=\'232492\' date=\'Dec 17 2009, 06:18 AM\']but he also has the ability to take over shows and turn them into personal ego-fests.[/quote]
+1. I like Diners, Drive-Ins, and Dives, but the snug pretention that kicks in when he tastes something is Bobby Flay-esque.
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[quote name=\'clemon79\' post=\'232512\' date=\'Dec 17 2009, 12:42 PM\'][quote name=\'colonial\' post=\'232492\' date=\'Dec 17 2009, 06:18 AM\']but he also has the ability to take over shows and turn them into personal ego-fests.[/quote]
+1. I like Diners, Drive-Ins, and Dives, but the snug pretention that kicks in when he tastes something is Bobby Flay-esque.
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And another. I often feel like I watch that show in spite of Fieri, who has a tendency to make the proceedings into Diners, Drive-Ins, and Douchebag.
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[quote name=\'Sodboy13\' post=\'232517\' date=\'Dec 17 2009, 02:58 PM\']Diners, Drive-Ins, and Douchebag.[/quote]
Thread over. No more calls, please.
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For a million dollars, can you unspool a roll of toilet paper with your body in 60 seconds?
"Find out on Million-Dollar Beat the Clock!"
By choosing easily replicated challenges, NBC hopes to increase the level of at-home participation and the potential to expand the game to other platforms. The network will post demonstrations of 50 games on a Web site before the show's launch, allowing potential contestants and viewers to practice the tasks.
"Honey, why is there toilet paper all over the bathroom floor?"
it looks and feels like we're creating a very different show than any traditional in-studio game show
Beat the Clock debuted on March 23, 1950, almost 60 years ago.
Wouldn't it be fun to see Fremantle and GE duke it out? "Welcome to Battle of the Corporate Lawyers". I'd actually be rooting for Fremantle. How about a game where a panel of four tries to determine a contestant's occupation through questioning?
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[quote name=\'chris319\' post=\'232534\' date=\'Dec 18 2009, 07:43 PM\']How about a game where a panel of four tries to determine a contestant's occupation through questioning?[/quote]
How do you lure in the younger demographics, besides having every other occupation being "bikini model" or having guests show up 3/4 naked?
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[quote name=\'MikeK\' post=\'232536\' date=\'Dec 18 2009, 04:56 PM\'][quote name=\'chris319\' post=\'232534\' date=\'Dec 18 2009, 07:43 PM\']How about a game where a panel of four tries to determine a contestant's occupation through questioning?[/quote]
How do you lure in the younger demographics, besides having every other occupation being "bikini model" or having guests show up 3/4 naked?[/quote]
You just answered your own question, Michael.
For that matter, how do you come up with BTC stunts which lure in younger demos? Of course the difference between BTC and WML? is that the former is more visual and more mindless.
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[quote name=\'chris319\' post=\'232534\' date=\'Dec 18 2009, 07:43 PM\']How about a game where a panel of four tries to determine a contestant's occupation through questioning?[/quote]
Each "no" answer from the panel is worth $50,000.
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[quote name=\'Neumms\' post=\'232552\' date=\'Dec 19 2009, 05:42 PM\'][quote name=\'chris319\' post=\'232534\' date=\'Dec 18 2009, 07:43 PM\']How about a game where a panel of four tries to determine a contestant's occupation through questioning?[/quote]
Each "no" answer from the panel is worth $50,000.
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And will be met with loud applause from the audience. Of course, there has to be 10 seconds of silence before each reveal, complete with close-ups of panelists and audience members.
Oh, and during the questioning, there's a music bed consisting of nothing more than eerie humming and timpani rolls.
/Met Guy in person (http://\"http://twitpic.com/q90bq\"), he was cool
//Yes that's really him, not an imposter (http://\"http://www.eatmedaily.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/guy-fieri-impostor.jpg\")
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[quote name=\'fostergray82\' post=\'232554\' date=\'Dec 19 2009, 07:29 PM\'][quote name=\'Neumms\' post=\'232552\' date=\'Dec 19 2009, 05:42 PM\']Each "no" answer from the panel is worth $50,000.[/quote]And will be met with loud applause from the audience. Of course, there has to be 10 seconds of silence before each reveal, complete with close-ups of panelists and audience members.[/quote]
"We'll find out if this man is a bovine inseminator... after the break."
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From this twiwpic (http://\"http://twitpic.com/wtb6v\") and caption from Mr. Fieri, it appears the title has changed to "Minute To Win It".
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So they decided to steal a catchphrase from a UK version of a US show then? (http://\"http://www.ukgameshows.com/ukgs/Wipeout\")
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[quote name=\'ChrisLambert!\' post=\'233657\' date=\'Jan 5 2010, 04:55 PM\']From this twiwpic (http://\"http://twitpic.com/wtb6v\") and caption from Mr. Fieri, it appears the title has changed to "Minute To Win It".[/quote]
If there has ever been a more fitting TwitPic than Guy Fieri, I'd like to know it.
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NBC announced its schedule post-Olympics (and post-Leno at 10p ET) today. "Perfect 10," now called "Minute to Win It," will premiere on March 14th at 8p ET, before The Donald...
http://www.thrfeed.com/2010/01/nbcs-postle...e-revealed.html (http://\"http://www.thrfeed.com/2010/01/nbcs-postleno-schedule-revealed.html\")
A tough, competitive time slot against TAR, Ty Pennington Smile Time Show and FOX sitcoms (which tend to swing younger in the demos). Definite uphill battle for the Peacock.
JD
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Probably one of the worst timeslots they could have gotten- and The Marriage Ref will be on Thursdays at 10 as well I see (too bad "Who Do You Think You Are?" was dumped to Friday nights- I've seen the UK version of this, and it can be a fascinating show at times)
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[quote name=\'weaklink75\' post=\'234359\' date=\'Jan 14 2010, 04:19 PM\']The Marriage Ref will be on Thursdays at 10[/quote]
Hill Street Blues -- LA Law -- ER -- Five More Seasons of ER Than There Should Have Been --The Jay Leno Show -- The Marriage Ref
The decline of NBC in one timeslot nutshell.
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[quote name=\'Matt Ottinger\' post=\'234361\' date=\'Jan 14 2010, 04:38 PM\'][quote name=\'weaklink75\' post=\'234359\' date=\'Jan 14 2010, 04:19 PM\']The Marriage Ref will be on Thursdays at 10[/quote]
Hill Street Blues -- LA Law -- ER -- Five More Seasons of ER Than There Should Have Been --The Jay Leno Show -- The Marriage Ref
The decline of NBC in one timeslot nutshell.
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Proving what Johnny Carson said in 1991 about Darwin's theory in reverse.
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[quote name=\'Matt Ottinger\' post=\'234361\' date=\'Jan 14 2010, 04:38 PM\'][quote name=\'weaklink75\' post=\'234359\' date=\'Jan 14 2010, 04:19 PM\']The Marriage Ref will be on Thursdays at 10[/quote]
Hill Street Blues -- LA Law -- ER -- Five More Seasons of ER Than There Should Have Been --The Jay Leno Show -- The Marriage Ref
The decline of NBC in one timeslot nutshell.
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As well as Leno's immediate predecessor, Southland. Granted it's going to TNT, but it had a lot of potential.
Sometimes I wonder if NBC is intentionally trying to shoot itself in the foot (rhetorical).
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[quote name=\'fostergray82\' post=\'234364\' date=\'Jan 14 2010, 04:45 PM\']Sometimes I wonder if NBC is intentionally trying to shoot itself in the foot (rhetorical).[/quote]
I'm quoting someone else, but at this point, NBC has not only shot themselves in the foot, they've refused to take the bullet out, they've refused to sterilize the wound, so now it's grown gangrenous, and now they're trying to amputate the foot in an effort to save the rest of the leg.
EDIT: And now it seems as if they're trying to walk directly on said amputated stump. (http://\"http://www.deadline.com/hollywood/jeff-zucker-threatens-to-ice-conan-ill-keep-you-off-the-air-for-3-12-years/?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter\")
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I remember reading somewhere that this was the same network that passed on Desperate Housewives and Lost a few years back. Programs that would eventually get ABC out of their defecit with Millionaire.
I think that the problem with NBC is that they want a hit and they want it NOW! They feel that if the audiences aren't responding to it in 2-3 weeks, it's toast. Sometimes it takes a while for an audience to warm up to a show and the powers that be just don't seem to have the patients. It's now all about the bottom line over what's good for your viewers. I can't imagine Zucker running NBC back in the days when Cheers and Hill Street Blues were new, critically acclaimed yet low-rated programs. The Peacock would've been the next Dumont ions ago.
It's times like this that I appreciate even more the genius of Tartikoff's scheduling vision.
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History has been made, a new precedent set, and a new touchstone installed. In the future we will no longer have to harken back to Fred Silverman and "Supertrain".
Randy
tvrandywest.com
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[quote name=\'tvrandywest\' post=\'234386\' date=\'Jan 14 2010, 11:19 PM\']History has been made, a new precedent set, and a new touchstone installed. In the future we will no longer have to harken back to Fred Silverman and "Supertrain".[/quote]
Hey, don't knock "Supertrain"! That show had one helluva theme song -- shoulda been used for a game show!!!
Oh wait,.... :)
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Well the show page is up-
The home page (http://\"http://www.nbc.com/minute-to-win-it/index.shtml\")
but the video page is interesting
..because it proves how much they stole from The Cube. (http://\"http://www.nbc.com/minute-to-win-it/video/\") They use slow-motion, and the contestants chances are called "lives" (they get 3 to start).....