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The Game Show Forum => The Big Board => Topic started by: DoorNumberFour on May 28, 2014, 01:52:58 PM
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http://www.buzzerblog.com/2014/05/28/cbs-announces-the-price-is-rights-socially-awesome-week/
A week of episodes chock-full of social media elements. Personally, I'm looking forward to Wednesday's second-screen broadcast the most.
The Price institution was pretty damn old and creaky, and I think events like this do a wonderful job of adding some color to the place.
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I sense that the Friday episode could be a gauntlet of fail if the producers don't have a firm grip on the emergency brake. The rest of the week sounds relatively harmless.
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After all the doom and gloom that surrounded the rumored changes following Roger's departure, I think Mr. Richards and Co. have done a damn fine job making the show more fun while keeping its core intact. The past few seasons especially seem to click a lot more than Drew and Mike's first few seasons.
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On behalf of the internet I apologize that CarShark has made his way to your merry forum.
I hope this doesn't become a thing where you post every article contributed to the site, but top marks go to the list of game shows to watch while stoned. I don't partake but my goodness that was an amusing piece. It is nice to see that some people can enjoy our hobby with a bit of levity.
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I sense that the Friday episode could be a gauntlet of fail if the producers don't have a firm grip on the emergency brake. The rest of the week sounds relatively harmless.
Let's Make a Deal had at least one episode where the Twitterverse contributed to decisions and zonks. That show was pretty good, and I'm not a huge fan of LMaD.
I don't see why the emergency brake would be necessary. It's not like the powers that be or the fans would do 6 playings of Plinko again in the near future, would they?
/6 playings of Rat Race with Banoodles doing a header into my big screen, and yours truly capturing it on the iPad, FTW.
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I look at the internet the way I look at four-year-olds: if you don't give them choices and/or boundaries they'll do silly or absurd things. (Having seen @midnight I absolutely believe that a contingent would vote for all-Plinko just for the potential lulz.) What I meant was that I hope the producers assemble the template for the episode and give the internet the option of which of two cash games to play, or what quick game they want to see, or what choice of trip to give away. That sort of thing.
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Here's the page with the Tweets asking what game to play, what prize to offer, etc. (http://www.cbs.com/shows/the_price_is_right/news-blog/1002335/) The questions they ask are pretty harmless.
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There's one in there that's very interesting: if there's a dollar spin should the forthcoming bonus spin have the 5 and 15 increased to twenty grand or the dollar to 35k.
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There's one in there that's very interesting: if there's a dollar spin should the forthcoming bonus spin have the 5 and 15 increased to twenty grand or the dollar to 35k.
#TPIR35K is a voting option for both the first Showcase Showdown poll and the second Showcase Showdown poll. I'm not expertly versed in Twitter -- I hope there was a way to determine which vote was for which.
(The control room is much more interesting than the green room, so I hope the voters chose that for the closed captioning bumper.)
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The Twitter questions are harmless to a fault. They could have had more this pricing game or that questions, and maybe assembled a showcase that warm almost like the "Do-It-Yourself" showcase from yesteryear but without blind luck.
A more amusing idea would have been "Socially Awkward Week."
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A more amusing idea would have been "Socially Awkward Week."
An entire audience of golden-road.net posters?
(I post there too...All in good fun...)
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#TPIR35K is a voting option for both the first Showcase Showdown poll and the second Showcase Showdown poll. I'm not expertly versed in Twitter -- I hope there was a way to determine which vote was for which.
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Not really. A hashtag is just a hashtag. There's nothing saying that these "decisions" weren't already made in advance.
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Episode one was OK, other'n Drew and Co. doing a dance to a chorus from Rockin' Robin during a one-bid, nothing out of the ordinary.
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There's one in there that's very interesting: if there's a dollar spin should the forthcoming bonus spin have the 5 and 15 increased to twenty grand or the dollar to 35k.
#TPIR35K is a voting option for both the first Showcase Showdown poll and the second Showcase Showdown poll. I'm not expertly versed in Twitter -- I hope there was a way to determine which vote was for which.
(The control room is much more interesting than the green room, so I hope the voters chose that for the closed captioning bumper.)
They probably logged the "votes" as they happened. So they'd take down the votes for #TPIR35K at one point when they asked one question, and then take them down again 10 minutes later when they'd ask another.
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There's nothing saying that these "decisions" weren't already made in advance.
Sure, but since any of them could be easily implemented in the show (and the voting cutoff was far enough ahead of the tape date that they'd have time to do so), I'd like to be more trusting.
My Luddite self figured out how to view the direct replies to a tweet, so assuming that's how they differentiated between the two #TPIR35K options, it's easy enough to count. And since fewer than 20 people voted on each question (except for Look of the Week, which received 30 votes), I just tallied the results myself, which will make it easy to tell whether the voting was legitimate.
(It turns out that shooting the first closed captioning bumper in the control room was the only unanimous decision.)
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I stand corrected. I was under the assumption that they were doing this as the taping was happening.
20 to 30 replies? Good lord. I've had way more than that on a single tweet and I only run a small blog about SouthsideVA. That's pretty sad.
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After coming across a video of this dance, I can honestly say it was one of the dumbest things I've seen this new regime do. I know it's harmless, but why does it seem that stuff that is supposed to be "hip" and "cool" come across as "dumb" and "uncool?"
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I stand corrected. I was under the assumption that they were doing this as the taping was happening.
20 to 30 replies? Good lord. I've had way more than that on a single tweet and I only run a small blog about SouthsideVA. That's pretty sad.
They, like seemingly every other TV show and business, completely overestimate the effectiveness of it and how many people actually use it.
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Today's second screen experience was pretty incredible. Not only did it include alternate angles and control room/production/backstage discussions, but many of the games had post-interviews with the contestants describing what was going through their mind intertwined with the game playing on TV. Very well done, I thought it added a lot to the program.
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Today's second screen experience was pretty incredible. Not only did it include alternate angles and control room/production/backstage discussions, but many of the games had post-interviews with the contestants describing what was going through their mind intertwined with the game playing on TV. Very well done, I thought it added a lot to the program.
How would that work with time-shifting?
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How would that work with time-shifting?
I don't know that it will, since I don't know if the whole hour will be archived. On the East Coast, I synced my DVR'd program with the 10am PT West Coast stream and it worked fine. But if they do archive the whole thing, just hit play as soon as you see Drew's happy face on your TV screen.
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CBS archives their second-screen experiences at all? I didn't know *anybody* did that.
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And here it is, the whole "three hours." (The entire stream, with ET and PT streams, so only the first hour is relevant.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xT2It7DZWc4
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Today's second screen experience was pretty incredible. Not only did it include alternate angles and control room/production/backstage discussions, but many of the games had post-interviews with the contestants describing what was going through their mind intertwined with the game playing on TV. Very well done, I thought it added a lot to the program.
Seconded. It really makes you appreciate how much work and coordination has to go into making Price run so smoothly. The fact that they do that with minimal stop down makes it even more impressive. It would have been interesting to see how the situation with the female showcase contestant would have been handled had her wording made her the loser.
I honestly wouldn't mind seeing this happen again.
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Much respect to Stage Manager Doug Quick, his co-SM's, and the CBS stagehands. The behind-the-scenes clips definitely showed that they are the best in the biz.
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The split screen presentation was a real treat. Kind of reminded me of how they did parts of the LMAD "Deal" documentary back in the 70s. Got a little confusing to watch at times, but that's what makes it legit.
I see that those remain in CR now get $300 for consolation, and some TpIR mysteries were revealed. But what does that extra audience get after the show as a door prize that George was mentioning?
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The door prize, eligible for all audience members not called to come on down, is $100 cash, or at least it was in previous years. I remember this if only because someone on a certain Price fan page won it a few years back, at their taping.
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I see that those remain in CR now get $300 for consolation
That's an interesting tidbit. Not a bad parting gift at all. One could argue that the $300 is a better prize than a contestant who ends up winning a crummy one-bid prize and does not win their game or SSD.
Not that there are as many crummy one-bid prizes anymore, but anyway.
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It would be interesting to watch a whole week of episodes and to chart how many times you would want the one-bid. Not that you could flip it for cash or give it as a gift to someone but that you would accept it and use it.
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As a TV geek (what I went to school for), I really enjoyed the behind-the-scenes video. It made me miss broadcasting a bit, but I really did enjoy watching it and appreciate all that goes into the show. I'm really glad that they did this.
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Any reason why the video is now marked "private?" I cannot see it on YouTube, either? Started to watch it the other night, but ran out of time? I'd love to go back and catch the rest of it. Help? Thanks!
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Is the full video of the "YouTube" show still posted and if so, where? Thanks.
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Is the full video of the "YouTube" show still posted and if so, where? Thanks.
Well, I just came here to ask the same thing. Did anyone happen to save this video or know of a different source for the video? I was just telling a co-worker about the video and wanted to show it to him, but now it's not there anymore...
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https://drive.google.com/uc?id=0B-wagy_wY1_rdWQ1blRjR2JIOGc&export=download
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https://drive.google.com/uc?id=0B-wagy_wY1_rdWQ1blRjR2JIOGc&export=download
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Sweet! I'll check it out when I get home (blocked at work, go figure). Thanks!!