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The Game Show Forum => The Big Board => Topic started by: davemackey on May 22, 2008, 10:40:15 AM
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Embassy Row is reviving "The Dating Game" and "The Newlywed Game" for their umpteenth go-rounds. Search around Craigslist and you'll find the info to apply. I'm actually sort of excited because I can actually be on Newlywed Game for the first time in my life, though my wife doesn't think it's such a hot idea.
Davies is also looking for couples who survived the NG in the 70's and 80's to come back and try their luck again.
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Question is do they bring back Eubanks?
My gut says no.
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[quote name=\'davemackey\' post=\'186592\' date=\'May 22 2008, 10:40 AM\']
Embassy Row is reviving "The Dating Game" and "The Newlywed Game" for their umpteenth go-rounds. Search around Craigslist and you'll find the info to apply. I'm actually sort of excited because I can actually be on Newlywed Game for the first time in my life, though my wife doesn't think it's such a hot idea.
Davies is also looking for couples who survived the NG in the 70's and 80's to come back and try their luck again.
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If these revivals of DG and NG occur, let's hope they stick with the classic formats, get better time slots in many markets, and get more promotion! The 96 revival didn't have all of these (the NBC affil that picked up both shows didn't even promote it during the Atlanta Olympics, instead running promos for a long-forgotten Maureen O'Boyle show, and the Gen X revamp for that version didn't go over so well that Sony went to the classic formats for the rest of the run).
Brian
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[quote name=\'cmjb13\' post=\'186596\' date=\'May 22 2008, 11:35 AM\']
Question is do they bring back Eubanks?
My gut says no.
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That's a no-brainer. Lange don't come back, either. Chuck Woolery, maybe. But it's time to find some new, capable hosts.
/Paul Rodriguez need not apply
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[quote name=\'davemackey\' post=\'186592\' date=\'May 22 2008, 09:40 AM\']I'm actually sort of excited because I can actually be on Newlywed Game for the first time in my life, though my wife doesn't think it's such a hot idea.[/quote]
Listen to your wife. She is wise.
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[quote name=\'davemackey\' post=\'186598\' date=\'May 22 2008, 11:41 AM\']
But it's time to find some new, capable hosts.
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The same Embassy Row that gave us Dylan Lane?
'Nuff said
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[quote name=\'davemackey\' post=\'186598\' date=\'May 22 2008, 11:41 AM\']
[quote name=\'cmjb13\' post=\'186596\' date=\'May 22 2008, 11:35 AM\']
Question is do they bring back Eubanks?
My gut says no.
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That's a no-brainer. Lange don't come back, either. Chuck Woolery, maybe. But it's time to find some new, capable hosts.
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Keep it in the Invision family.
Dale Grass for The Newlywed Game. Matt Ottinger for The Dating Game. Randy West will announce.
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Sounds interesting. I'll probably watch it once or twice. Never really was my kind of show though.
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[quote name=\'catnap1972\' post=\'186601\' date=\'May 22 2008, 12:45 PM\']
[quote name=\'davemackey\' post=\'186598\' date=\'May 22 2008, 11:41 AM\']
But it's time to find some new, capable hosts.
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The same Embassy Row that gave us Dylan Lane?
'Nuff said
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Yeah, but they also gave us World Series of Pop Culture, Power of 10*, and Grand Slam. Even Goodson had a couple of clunkers.
*Is this still being shopped for fall 09?
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Gotta think of a 21st-century substitute for the word "whoopee".
Make up your own "in da butt" joke.
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[quote name=\'chris319\' post=\'186615\' date=\'May 22 2008, 12:08 PM\']
Gotta think of a 21st-century substitute for the word "whoopee".
Make up your own "in da butt" joke.
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There won't be one. The new, edgy Newlywed Game will just ask "When was the last time you gave it to your wife up the pooper?"
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I have a feeling that "whoopee" has entered American lexicon and is so synonymous with that show it'll just be used.
"Up the pooper", though....that's 21st century Newlywed Game right there.
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I think this will air on Lifetime. Andrea Wong, a top executive at Lifetime, used to work with Michael Davies while they were both at ABC, if I remember correctly.
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Hmm...since this is the 21st century, will they also be doing men seeking men (or women seeking women) on DG?
I don't know why, but, for some strange reason, I usually enjoyed watching old DG's and hope they don't mess around with it too much. No need to mess around with Newlywed, even though it would be nice to get Eubanks back (even when he was older, he still did better at it than the others they tried, IMO).
/Too bad Davies doesn't go outside NY; I'd try out for DG
Anthony
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[quote name=\'fostergray82\' post=\'186610\' date=\'May 22 2008, 02:14 PM\']
Yeah, but they also gave us World Series of Pop Culture, Power of 10*, and Grand Slam. Even Goodson had a couple of clunkers.
*Is this still being shopped for fall 09?
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Weren't there some episodes left when it went on hiatus? I know the show's not in CBS's fall plans but we can hope for a burnoff, can't we?
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[quote name=\'beatlefreak84\' post=\'186628\' date=\'May 22 2008, 04:50 PM\']
Hmm...since this is the 21st century, will they also be doing men seeking men (or women seeking women) on DG?
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You know, given this point and time in history, that's actually a good question. I can't think if there's more for the idea than against it though.
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[quote name=\'beatlefreak84\' post=\'186628\' date=\'May 22 2008, 01:50 PM\']
Hmm...since this is the 21st century, will they also be doing men seeking men (or women seeking women) on DG?
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I think so. I applied in an email (specfically saying that I was interested in a same-sex relationship), and they still sent me the application info. However, there's nothing on the form indicating for gay/lesbian relationships.
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[quote name=\'Hastin\' post=\'186659\' date=\'May 23 2008, 01:24 AM\']
[quote name=\'beatlefreak84\' post=\'186628\' date=\'May 22 2008, 01:50 PM\']
Hmm...since this is the 21st century, will they also be doing men seeking men (or women seeking women) on DG?
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I think so. I applied in an email (specfically saying that I was interested in a same-sex relationship), and they still sent me the application info. However, there's nothing on the form indicating for gay/lesbian relationships.
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Considering now that the state of California now legally recognizes same-sex marriage, there could be lawsuits filed if same-sex unions are denied as contestants on the show -- especially if the shows were shot in California.
/Not that there's anything wrong with that.
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[quote name=\'TimK2003\' post=\'186668\' date=\'May 23 2008, 09:37 AM\']
Considering now that the state of California now legally recognizes same-sex marriage, there could be lawsuits filed if same-sex unions are denied as contestants on the show -- especially if the shows were shot in California.
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Why? How many other dating shows are on the air now , shot in CA, that don't have same sex unions? I don't see any lawsuits towards "The Bachelor"?
They'll do what they want to do, and no lawsuits will be filed.
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[quote name=\'TimK2003\' post=\'186668\' date=\'May 23 2008, 09:37 AM\']
Considering now that the state of California now legally recognizes same-sex marriage, there could be lawsuits filed if same-sex unions are denied as contestants on the show -- especially if the shows were shot in California.
/Not that there's anything wrong with that.
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Since Davies is loyal to New York, I wouldn't see it as much of a problem...for now. Such status is an when, not if, proposition that has waitlisted thanks to the instability at the top of the state.
/What he said.
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Come to think of it, unless I missed something at BuzzerBlog, is there a World Series of Pop Culture this year?
Pat Kiernan reading the song lyrics of Hip-Hop music in his newsreading-style cracks me up all the time year-after-year.
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[quote name=\'pianogeek\' post=\'186671\' date=\'May 23 2008, 10:04 AM\']
Come to think of it, unless I missed something at BuzzerBlog, is there a World Series of Pop Culture this year?
Pat Kiernan reading the song lyrics of Hip-Hop music in his newsreading-style cracks me up all the time year-after-year.
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Doesn't look like it. Vh1 (that's how it looks like it's styled now) seems to be more interested in bringing back "...of Love" and "I Love NY" contestants for "I Love Money," where they *really* feel the need for greed.
Oh boy.
/The "51 Minds" combine seems to have become a division of Endemol now
//Something appropriate there
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[quote name=\'uncamark\' post=\'186960\' date=\'May 28 2008, 05:15 PM\']
/The "51 Minds" combine seems to have become a division of Endemol now
//Something appropriate there
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"51 Minds and not a single brain between them" ?