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The Game Show Forum => The Big Board => Topic started by: Mikefromcasting on October 23, 2007, 01:10:36 PM
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I am working on ABC's new gameshow "Duel". We are looking for contestants. If you want to know more about the show, send an email to castingduel@gmail.com. You can find out more about this competitive trivia game by going to abc.com and clicking on casting.
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For faster results, you could go here: http://www.duelcasting.com/ (http://\"http://www.duelcasting.com/\")
Be warned, the application form is...extensive.
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Hi Mike from casting - while I know you don't make the decisions, it would be really nice if your game could get rid of the "must be a US citizen" rule...
Just my two cents though!
Cheers,
Ryan
(a Canuck)
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Wow. I have applied for more than a few game shows, and that application is the most ridiculous one I've ever seen, bar none. I would love to apply for the show but I can't commit for two weeks...and I think it would take about that long for me to fill out the app in the first place!
Are the coordinators really in need of that many questions to select good contestants? Maybe I'm in the wrong here...but the contestant adjective "Endemolriffic" pops into mind.
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Jesus, and I thought the DoND application was ridiculous. This makes it look like a flat-tax postcard.
/they ask for nicknames. Should I tell them the "Giganto (http://\"http://gameshow.ipbhost.com/index.php?s=&showtopic=8543&view=findpost&p=94776\")" story?
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[quote name=\'vtown7\' post=\'167667\' date=\'Oct 23 2007, 12:38 PM\']
Hi Mike from casting - while I know you don't make the decisions, it would be really nice if your game could get rid of the "must be a US citizen" rule...
Just my two cents though!
Cheers,
Ryan
(a Canuck)
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And what's the big problem with felonies anyway?
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[quote name=\'Neumms\' post=\'167678\' date=\'Oct 23 2007, 11:16 AM\']
And what's the big problem with felonies anyway?
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"Have you ever been convicted of a felony?"
"Never convicted, no."
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[quote name=\'Neumms\' post=\'167678\' date=\'Oct 23 2007, 02:16 PM\']
And what's the big problem with felonies anyway?
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You'd think the felonies would be a plus for them! With every felony comes a great story.
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[quote name=\'clemon79\' post=\'167674\' date=\'Oct 23 2007, 02:00 PM\']Jesus, and I thought the DoND application was ridiculous. This makes it look like a flat-tax postcard.[/quote]
Surely someone who attended GSC5 in '06 mentioned how ridiculous the 1 vs. 100 application was. It was 9 pages in length and required a potential contestant to draw a picture of themself.
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Maybe it's just my intense dislike for extensive questionaires, but I don't see any reason why anyone needs to know that much about ANYBODY. I'm not a private person, but seriously, unless you're writing my biography or if I'm running for office, half of that information is plain and simple irrelevant just to be on a game show. I know they want personality, but that exam makes me think they're not looking for game-playing or strategy skills, or at least not placing a heavy emphasis on it.
And honestly, can you really judge someone based on a 51-question interrogation, without even talking to them?
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[quote name=\'MikeK\' post=\'167683\' date=\'Oct 23 2007, 02:47 PM\']
[quote name=\'clemon79\' post=\'167674\' date=\'Oct 23 2007, 02:00 PM\']Jesus, and I thought the DoND application was ridiculous. This makes it look like a flat-tax postcard.[/quote]
Surely someone who attended GSC5 in '06 mentioned how ridiculous the 1 vs. 100 application was. It was 9 pages in length and required a potential contestant to draw a picture of themself.
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[Doing my best Old Man Perriwinkle impression] I remember when I was a young'un all you had to do to be a contestant on a game show (like Three On A Match) was to send in your name, address and phone number on a post card.
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My favorite is "Tell us something about yourself you don't want us to know."
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"Have you ever been convicted of a felony?"
"Never convicted, no."
They're not convictions... just very firm beliefs!
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[quote name=\'GameShowFan\' post=\'167714\' date=\'Oct 23 2007, 04:10 PM\']
They're not convictions... just very firm beliefs!
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Well played, sir!
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[quote name=\'mcsittel\' post=\'167709\' date=\'Oct 23 2007, 02:48 PM\']My favorite is "Tell us something about yourself you don't want us to know."[/quote]And I'm not going to tell you, because, (say it with me, class!) I don't want you to know.
Relating to that insane questionnaire/autobiography, has anyone here ever entertained thoughts of making up a fictional backstory to use in the application process? After all, "I go to work every day, come home, and occasionally avail myself of rather boring hobbies on the weekends" isn't going to get anyone very far through the rat race. Which isn't to say that I couldn't come up with five interesting things about myself to put on the card, but compared to many of the contestants you see these days, I sound downright dull.
I would be shocked, shocked I tell you! to find out that this wasn't an Endemol production.
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[quote name=\'mcsittel\' post=\'167709\' date=\'Oct 23 2007, 05:48 PM\']
My favorite is "Tell us something about yourself you don't want us to know."
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My response would be: "That I feel that this question, along with the 700 other senseless questions on this 30 page application should, by no means, be relevant to the actual audition process. Therefore, by telling you what I don't want you to know, you should not count this particular smarmy question against me because you shouldn't have known about it in the first place, but you had asked."
/What do you think you thought I said?
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[quote name=\'TimK2003\' post=\'167726\' date=\'Oct 23 2007, 08:13 PM\']
/What do you think you thought I said?
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"I'm not interested in being a contestant on your show."
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Say what you want about the questionnaire, but it beats the one for Are You Smarter Than A Fifth Grader:
"What college did you attend?"
"Did you attend an Ivy League college?" (You would think they would be able to answer that one themselves from the previous response)
"Do you know of any Ivy League alumni in the Los Angeles area that you think would make good contestants, and if so, how can we contact them?"
-- Don
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And the application Goodson-Todman used was one good-sized piece of cardboard that asked your name, address, phone number(s), age, Social Security number, occupation, hobbies, whether you'd ever been on any TV game shows and what they were and when if you had, if you were a performing union member and if you were an employee or family member of an employee of the network and/or syndicator. They didn't even ask if you were running for office, which is the other big potential problem for contestant bookers. In the upper right hand corner, they'd attach the black-and-white Polaroid they'd take of you.
Times have changed.
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[quote name=\'That Don Guy\' post=\'167764\' date=\'Oct 24 2007, 12:37 PM\']
"Did you attend an Ivy League college?" [/quote]
There is only one Ivy League college (Dartmouth). All the rest are universities.
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[quote name=\'Peter Sarrett\' post=\'167797\' date=\'Oct 24 2007, 04:18 PM\']
There is only one Ivy League college (Dartmouth). All the rest are universities.
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For a brief moment I thought that was gonna be an Ivy-league-rivalry joke, in the same vein as when Cal students refer to "Stanfurd, that junior college down the peninsula." :)
/they both suck
//Fight on for dear old San Jose State
///those are the only words to the fight song anyone knows
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There's one additional restriction that isn't in the eligibility rules on the website, but which has been publicized elsewhere: You can't have been on any other game show within the past five years.
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[quote name=\'leszekp\' post=\'167822\' date=\'Oct 24 2007, 10:31 PM\']
There's one additional restriction that isn't in the eligibility rules on the website, but which has been publicized elsewhere: You can't have been on any other game show within the past five years.
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Hmmmm. Maybe that wasn't me on Crosswords yesterday.
-M
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[quote name=\'leszekp\' post=\'167822\' date=\'Oct 24 2007, 10:31 PM\']
There's one additional restriction that isn't in the eligibility rules on the website, but which has been publicized elsewhere: You can't have been on any other game show within the past five years.
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Actually, I don't believe the restriction is set in stone yet.
This is part of a post from Holland Striplin, whose apparently the casting director for the show, on a quizbowl message board. Said post was made last week...
If you have appeared on a gameshow and won money or were featured on the show within the last 6 years then you are not eligible. However, if you were on a show such as 1 vs. 100 and were part of the mob then you may still be eligible.
I should also note that when I called the casting department and mentioned I was on WWTBAM in 2001, I was told that I should be eligible for the show (I was on both WWTBAM and 2MD just over six years ago). Granted, these things change, so who knows anymore?
James
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colonial wrote:
(I was on both WWTBAM and 2MD just over six years ago)
2MD? Dos Mexicanos Dijeron?
(Sorry to be dense, but I don't remember "2MD".)
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[quote name=\'Fedya\' post=\'167901\' date=\'Oct 25 2007, 03:48 PM\']
(Sorry to be dense, but I don't remember "2MD".)
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2 Minute Drill...ESPN show.
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[quote name=\'clemon79\' post=\'167798\' date=\'Oct 24 2007, 06:24 PM\']
For a brief moment I thought that was gonna be an Ivy-league-rivalry joke, in the same vein as when Cal students refer to "Stanfurd, that junior college down the peninsula." :)
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Is that because it really is named for Leland Stanford Jr.? A friend of mine went there and often--quite often--wore the sweatshirt home--really all too often--and the seal said "Leland Stanford Junior College." I'm gratified to know I'm not the only one making fun of it.
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[quote name=\'Neumms\' post=\'167977\' date=\'Oct 26 2007, 11:04 AM\']
Is that because it really is named for Leland Stanford Jr.?
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Actually, no, it's because Cal students really hate Stanford.
/SJ
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