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Title: Broadcasting and Cable
Post by: Jamey Greek on March 16, 2014, 03:45:40 PM: From January 11, 1999. An article about game shows Page 36

http://www.americanradiohistory.com/Archive-BC/BC-1999/BC-1999-01-11.pdf
Title: Re: Broadcasting and Cable
Post by: Mr. Armadillo on March 17, 2014, 01:21:21 PM: That's page 36 of the magazine, in case anyone's curious. If you do as I did and went to page 36 of the PDF, you'll instead find a full-page ad for Tia Carrere's Relic Hunter.
Title: Re: Broadcasting and Cable
Post by: TLEberle on March 17, 2014, 01:46:35 PM: And of course Jamey couldn't be arsed to give us a nut graf of what the article's about.
Title: Re: Broadcasting and Cable
Post by: Thunder on March 17, 2014, 09:24:57 PM: Quote from: Mr. Armadillo on March 17, 2014, 01:21:21 PM
...Tia Carrere's Relic Hunter.

Wow. Haven't heard that name lately...
Title: Re: Broadcasting and Cable
Post by: PYLdude on March 17, 2014, 10:50:22 PM: Quote from: TLEberle on March 17, 2014, 01:46:35 PM
And of course Jamey couldn't be arsed to give us a nut graf of what the article's about.

Or that it's a combined half page.

So somebody was looking at O'Hurley to be a host before Truth? Wonder what the show would've been about.

And isn't it a little presumptous of both Studios USA and Paramount to have tried to continue selling a sliding Sally and a dead in the water Hard Copy, which IIRC didn't last beyond the 98-99 season despite the clearances they were touting?
Title: Re: Broadcasting and Cable
Post by: BrandonFG on March 17, 2014, 11:44:19 PM: I haven't hunted for the article yet, but if it's the show I'm thinking of ("Who Knows?" IIRC), it was a bluffing game along the lines of "Wordplay".
Title: Re: Broadcasting and Cable
Post by: TLEberle on March 17, 2014, 11:54:38 PM: Quote from: BrandonFG on March 17, 2014, 11:44:19 PM
"Wordplay".
If there was ever a format that reminded me of a box of Kleenex that'd be the one.
Title: Re: Broadcasting and Cable
Post by: PYLdude on March 17, 2014, 11:55:15 PM: Quote from: BrandonFG on March 17, 2014, 11:44:19 PM
I haven't hunted for the article yet, but if it's the show I'm thinking of ("Who Knows?" IIRC), it was a bluffing game along the lines of "Wordplay".

Close. Who Knew? was the title and Paramount was on board to produce/distribute.

Paramount really didn't have a good track record with game shows, did it? Outside of the original You Don't Say (if you count Desilu's tenure, since Paramount Television was spawned from that) th
e other series it was responsible for didn't last more than a year, right?
Title: Re: Broadcasting and Cable
Post by: TLEberle on March 17, 2014, 11:55:52 PM: How long was Wipeout?
Title: Re: Broadcasting and Cable
Post by: PYLdude on March 17, 2014, 11:59:42 PM: Quote from: TLEberle on March 17, 2014, 11:55:52 PM
How long was Wipeout?

One season.

The only other series I can think of being theirs were Anything for Money (one season), the Bobby Van-hosted Make Me Laugh (one season), and The New Price is Right (sixteen weeks).
Title: Re: Broadcasting and Cable
Post by: trainman on March 18, 2014, 12:06:19 AM: Quote from: TLEberle on March 17, 2014, 11:54:38 PM
If there was ever a format that reminded me of a box of Kleenex that'd be the one.

If anything mentioned in this thread makes me think of a box of Kleenex, it's Tia Carrere.
Title: Re: Broadcasting and Cable
Post by: Jamey Greek on March 18, 2014, 11:07:22 AM: They mentioned about the failed LMAD pilot with Gordon Elliott as well as a game show produced by Madonna.
Title: Re: Broadcasting and Cable
Post by: brianhenke on March 24, 2014, 09:05:33 PM: To think that ten years later, CBS would air a hour-long daily version of LMAD...

I used to look forward to each year's NATPE convention (remember the 60 Minutes segment in 1984?) to see what new game shows were being offered.

Brian