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The Game Show Forum => Game Show Channels & Networks => Topic started by: snowpeck on August 10, 2012, 12:47:41 AM
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Um... uh... yeah.
http://www.broadcastingcable.com/article/488406-GSN_Greenlights_Family_Trade_.php
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Age old saying: Those who don't learn from history are doomed to repeat it.
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Real-Life Games show.
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I'm guessing TLC was too busy promoting parents whoring out their toddlers*, perhaps? Or that truTV is satisfied with that other pawn shop series?
/*not meant to be taken in a literal sense
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I suppose you can still learn stuff on TLC, though it would be more in the Goofus & Gallant sense, that is (don't do what these parents did),
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I suppose you can still learn stuff on TLC, though it would be more in the Goofus & Gallant sense, that is (don't do what these parents did),
That may be the most apt description of the former Learning Channel I've seen in quite some time. So much so that it usurps Kevin Prather's "sensible people" discussion as my profile quote. Congratulations. :)
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NEW CHAMPION! WHOOOOO!
GSN, you manage to simultaneously encompass the zenith and nadir of cable television. How does that happen?
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Aw come on...aren't you just giddy about "Dancing with the New Car Dealer"?
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This must be the price that we have to pay in order to get The Pyramid back on the air.
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It could be worse: Bring back "The Neighbors".
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But think of the hilarity that will ensue when someone trades a dozen eggs for a BRAND NEW CAR!!!!!!!!
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These are not the trades you're looking for.
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I don't find GSN's fascination with reality shows so awful. Cable see, cable do. The problem is that they're so late to the party, and they're left with C- and D-list ripoffs of far more successful reality shows. You can't help but think that a show like Family Trade was probably pitched to bigger outlets first, and GSN is just scraping up the discarded leftovers. On the other hand, we know for a fact that this is almost exactly what happened with Pyramid, and we're all really excited about that.
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"With Family Trade, GSN launches a new category... that we call Real-Life Games-shows that take place in real settings and feature real-life risk and reward..."
This ridiculous premise/excuse would probably draw more viewers if they acquired the Wapner run of The People's Court.
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Just repeat to yourselves...at least The Pyramid is coming.
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"With Family Trade, GSN launches a new category... that we call Real-Life Games-shows that take place in real settings and feature real-life risk and reward..."
The level of offensiveness in justifying this show by calling real situations with permanent effects a "game" is absolutely off the charts.
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I'm guessing TLC was too busy promoting parents whoring out their toddlers*, perhaps?
/*not meant to be taken in a literal sense
Shhh! Don't give Fox any ideas.
Coming Monday nights, now that House and 24 are both gone: Adopt Me, Please!
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Coming Monday nights, now that House and 24 are both gone: Adopt Me, Please!
Who Wants to Be Adopted by a Multimillionaire?
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"With Family Trade, GSN launches a new category... that we call Real-Life Games-shows that take place in real settings and feature real-life risk and reward..."
The level of offensiveness in justifying this show by calling real situations with permanent effects a "game" is absolutely off the charts.
So they're really serious about these insipid categories they put these shows into, i.e. "Shiny Floor", "Real Life"?
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"With Family Trade, GSN launches a new category... that we call Real-Life Games-shows that take place in real settings and feature real-life risk and reward..."
The level of offensiveness in justifying this show by calling real situations with permanent effects a "game" is absolutely off the charts.
I can see their next show now...
"From the hit short story comes the game of real stakes, "The Most Dangerous Game." And you thought 'Survivor' was tough."
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I can see their next show now...
"From the hit short story comes the game of real stakes, "The Most Dangerous Game." And you thought 'Survivor' was tough."
My wife likes to watch Iron Chef. One of my recurring jokes is that they're doing this.
\"Tonight on Iron Chef, we celebrate baseball. You will cook a cardinal, an oriole and a diamondback."
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Mike Burger prophesied the "dangerous game" idea ten years ago with Ten People, A Million Dollars and A Knife.
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I can see their next show now...
"From the hit short story comes the game of real stakes, "The Most Dangerous Game." And you thought 'Survivor' was tough."
You know, to tell you the truth, I'm surprised no one's tried to adapt that to television yet- without the death and such. I might watch it.
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You know, to tell you the truth, I'm surprised no one's tried to adapt that to television yet- without the death and such. I might watch it.
UPN's Manhunt says "I can see why you'd make that sort of error, I was a rather forgettable show in the summer of 2001."
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You know, to tell you the truth, I'm surprised no one's tried to adapt that to television yet- without the death and such. I might watch it.
UPN's Manhunt says "I can see why you'd make that sort of error, I was a rather forgettable show in the summer of 2001."
That was Vince McMahon's show, right? I remember Steve Beverly talking a lot about that show that summer...for some reason I thought was DOA and never made air?
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Someone should bring back "Tiny House":
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lomy7xAVDKE
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That was Vince McMahon's show, right? I remember Steve Beverly talking a lot about that show that summer...for some reason I thought was DOA and never made air?
There was to be a bunch of WWE synergy, most of which fell through at some point. Professor Malfeasance went on a bit of a tirade concerning the show's cavalier attitude toward "reality," as contestants reported that after shooting was completed in Hawaii many scenes were reshot in Los Angeles, well after the conclusion of the competition.
I don't think it ever would have been a breakout hit, but it was at least an interesting idea that was brought crashing down due to terrible execution.
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"With Family Trade, GSN launches a new category... that we call Real-Life Games-shows that take place in real settings and feature real-life risk and reward..."
The level of offensiveness in justifying this show by calling real situations with permanent effects a "game" is absolutely off the charts.
I'll allow that the premise is both stupid and dumb, but what's offensive about a long-winded and Variety-speak way of saing that "actions have consequences"?
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"With Family Trade, GSN launches a new category... that we call Real-Life Games-shows that take place in real settings and feature real-life risk and reward..."
The level of offensiveness in justifying this show by calling real situations with permanent effects a "game" is absolutely off the charts.
I'll allow that the premise is both stupid and dumb, but what's offensive about a long-winded and Variety-speak way of saying that "actions have consequences"?
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I'll allow that the premise is both stupid and dumb, but what's offensive about a long-winded and Variety-speak way of saying that "actions have consequences"?
Because life decisions and life events often have permanent effects, and those effects are not always good.
"Aw, you got laid off and now you can't pay your mortgage? Guess you lost at the game of work! Ha ha! And your wife left you? Man, you lost at the game of marriage, too!"
Life isn't a game, man. If you want to call yourself a "reality" show, be a "reality" show, that's fine. But it's not a game, and for someone whose most difficult life decision in the next week is going to be "steak or lobster?" to dismiss "real-life risk and reward" as a "game," that's something I find offensive.
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Only the most coarse and unmannerly people would carry on in the way you describe. And I submit that life is closer to Milton Bradley's Checkered Game of Life than you're willing to admit. (That game from Victorian times morphed into what is now Chutes and Ladders.) Yes, it would be stupid of them to position the show the way the way they appear to be doing, as if to make it fit into the "Game Show Network" mold. But I suspect it would be little different from all of the other fly-on-the-wall voyeur shows that are out there.
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Only the most coarse and unmannerly people would carry on in the way you describe.
You are precisely correct.
And I submit that life is closer to Milton Bradley's Checkered Game of Life than you're willing to admit.
I genuinely don't know what the heck you mean by this, but certainly you are under no obligation to join me in finding their classification to be in horrible taste..
But I suspect it would be little different from all of the other fly-on-the-wall voyeur shows that are out there.
I suspect that's the case as well. However, that has little to do with how they are classifying the show.
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And I submit that life is closer to Milton Bradley's Checkered Game of Life than you're willing to admit.
I genuinely don't know what the heck you mean by this, but certainly you are under no obligation to join me in finding their classification to be in horrible taste..
I'm saying that someone who had the view of "Life could be broadly looked at as a game where if you do the proper right and good things you move ahead, and if you do the bad naughty things, you move backward" that they'd have a point. A very broad and not very nuanced point, but a point all the same.
Here's a link to the original version of the Game of Life, from 1860. (http://"http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/40244/the-checkered-game-of-life")
I also think that they're climbing a tall tall mountain if they think that classifying one of their shows as a Real Life Game will make people stay on the channel after Password Plus or Millionaire, because even your average TV watch knows the difference between a Shiny Floor Game and some guy trying to upsell a Taurus with undercoating. I'm not trying to say that I approve of what their going for, that I'd enjoy it, that I'd watch it, or that I'd tell people to spend their time on it. Just that I see what they're doing.
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I'm saying that someone who had the view of "Life could be broadly looked at as a game where if you do the proper right and good things you move ahead, and if you do the bad naughty things, you move backward" that they'd have a point.
And since we have to live on this planet with each other, I think it's a little more respectful to your fellow man to take life a little more seriously than that. JMODO.