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The Game Show Forum => The Big Board => Topic started by: Sodboy13 on October 10, 2007, 11:53:54 PM

Title: "Nothing But The Truth" axed in Colombia
Post by: Sodboy13 on October 10, 2007, 11:53:54 PM
Well, I think this article provides us with a fine little sampling of the quality programming the Fox network is getting ready to bestow upon us.  If it's anything like this recently-canceled Colombian version, we may soon be encountering something that surpasses "3's A Crowd" for sheer shame factor.

Murder-for-Hire Admission Dooms TV Show
By JOSHUA GOODMAN, Associated Press Writer

Wed Oct 10, 3:51 PM

BOGOTA, Colombia - The hit game show "Nothing But the Truth" has been canceled after a contestant won $25,000 for admitting she hired someone to kill her husband.

Tuesday was the final day for the show, in which contestants attached to a lie-detector machine answered 21 increasingly invasive questions to win up to $50,000.

(EDIT: Full article is here (http://\"http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5hF5AUsRbcXtb5n79-u6q3usMWJrQD8S6JHG01\"). -DZ)