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The Game Show Forum => The Big Board => Topic started by: calliaume on March 16, 2017, 01:06:23 PM
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CBS has set a premiere date of July 9:
https://www.yahoo.com/tv/cbs-reveals-summer-premiere-dates-candy-crush-big-160032542.html (https://www.yahoo.com/tv/cbs-reveals-summer-premiere-dates-candy-crush-big-160032542.html)
"It's the game you've played all your life the last five years on your phone, but never quite like this got to watch others play instead!"
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And just like all the requests on Facebook, I'll be avoiding the hell outta this too!
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Well, I guess I'll have to watch at least once; a friend of mine and her son just got cast as contestants.
#therearenowordsforhowmuchIhatetheuseofCASTforselectingcontestants
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And who better (or worse) to host than the man who also hosts Extra, who once co-starred on Saved by the Bell, and was former host of Masters of the Maze?
Also, who better (or worse) to produce it than the man behind Fear Factor and Wipeout? That, in itself, might give you some idea of how it will work.
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/mario-lopez-host-cbs-candy-crush-988369
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Here's the first promo...
http://ew.com/tv/2017/05/09/candy-crush-game-show-first-look/
(I will say the set looks pretty good...)
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The set is nice, but I could feel the caffeine in the contestants' systems all the way from my apartment. :P
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The set is nice, but I could feel the caffeine in the contestants' systems all the way from my apartment. :P
When a contestant is doing cartwheels down the Grand Entrance Catwalk? Oh god yes.
I made it through two episodes of Teh Wall, and I actively *like* Chris Hardwick. I'll be interested to see what my tolerance is for this. (Of course, I did actively like National Bingo Night so anything's possible.)
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It doesn't look like it has much of a play along aspect. We're just watching people play Candy Crush on a very large screen. Then again, Family Game Night's games didn't really have much of a play along aspect, but it lasted 3-4 seasons.
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Bumping this thread. So the moment is here. Candy Crush, along with Mario Lopez and his dimples premieres this Sunday at 9 pm Eastern time on CBS. Hey, it's an alternative to that Funderdome thing.
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Hey, it's an alternative to that Funderdome thing.
So is not watching anything at all.
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So we have two popular apps as game shows now: (Beat) Shazam and Candy Crush. Your move, Bejeweled!
/But, I wouldn't be surprised if QuizUp follows suit.
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Candy Crush. Your move, Bejeweled!
But you repeat yourself.
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Bumping this thread. So the moment is here. Candy Crush, along with Mario Lopez and his dimples premieres this Sunday at 9 pm Eastern time on CBS. Hey, it's an alternative to that Funderdome thing.
I watched The Nineties on CNN.
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My DVR was already working double-time recording the Amelia Earhart special on History, and the midseason finale of "Fear the Walking Dead". I felt it would have been DVR abuse to have it work triple-time to record "Candy Crush". Good to see my decision was justified. :P
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And after that first episode...I'll stick with "American Grit", thank you very much.
Candy Crush, Celebrity Family Feud, the Gong Show and Love Connection reboots, Beat Shazam...boy, Studio 36/46 at CBS Television City has been quite the Hollywood hot spot lately!
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And after that first episode...I'll stick with "American Grit", thank you very much.
Candy Crush, Celebrity Family Feud, the Gong Show and Love Connection reboots, Beat Shazam...boy, Studio 36/46 at CBS Television City has been quite the Hollywood hot spot lately!
At least all those studio rentals will help recoup some of CBS's likely losses from their Candy Crush investment.
/ I preferred watching the Indians collapse against the Tigers last night over CC.
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/But, I wouldn't be surprised if QuizUp follows suit.
QuizUp did follow suit with a pilot for NBC. I was part of it. It was okay.
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Candy Crush, Celebrity Family Feud, the Gong Show and Love Connection reboots, Beat Shazam...boy, Studio 36/46 at CBS Television City has been quite the Hollywood hot spot lately!
"Look at me, everybody, I know where all of these shows tape!"
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Candy Crush, Celebrity Family Feud, the Gong Show and Love Connection reboots, Beat Shazam...boy, Studio 36/46 at CBS Television City has been quite the Hollywood hot spot lately!
"Look at me, everybody, I know where all of these shows tape!"
Or can operate a web browser.
/that doesn't make the comment any less fatuous or him any less tedious.
//watched the show on 30 second skip. It wasn't as horrible as you'd think, but it wasn't great. Cotton candy TV personified.
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Well, I made it all the way through, giggling at some of the "physical challenges" and eye-rolling at plenty of the over-the-top host language. And, you know what? I'm not the target audience for this. I think who *is* is somebody who wanted to be on DOUBLE DARE as a kid and never got the chance, and who now plays Crush games on his/her phone.
Sure, there's no playalong value; but there wasn't any in the Summers obstacle course, either. Or on any given episode of BEAT THE CLOCK.
It's silly, is what it is. Somebody had a massive production budget and spent every penny of it. And I'm fine with that. And I'll watch next week, when a friend and her son are civilian contestants, but I don't expect I'll go back after that.
Oh? And one more thing. Halfway through the episode, my wife said, "You know what this makes me want to do?" She picked up her phone. "Play Candy Crush."
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Earlier this year, I received an e-mail from a contestant coordinator looking for teams to audition for the show. I asked my wife if she was interested, and she said no because she wasn't very good at Candy Crush. I then responded, "Do you think they would just make a show of people playing Candy Crush? That would be really dull. It will probably have a loose connection, like the game show Scrabble."
Imagine my surprise when I put it on...and saw a show of people playing Candy Crush. Our main issue with it was that the physical challenges are not evenly balanced to the point where, if they don't vary them from show to show, it will be obvious what each team will pick (or get stuck with) for their challenge. I seriously don't see this show surviving the summer, but I will give it credit: it actually motivated me to start playing Candy Crush again after almost two years. Maybe that was the point.
Anthony
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Well, I made it all the way through, giggling at some of the "physical challenges" and eye-rolling at plenty of the over-the-top host language. And, you know what? I'm not the target audience for this. I think who *is* is somebody who wanted to be on DOUBLE DARE as a kid and never got the chance, and who now plays Crush games on his/her phone.
It's silly, is what it is. Somebody had a massive production budget and spent every penny of it. And I'm fine with that. And I'll watch next week, when a friend and her son are civilian contestants, but I don't expect I'll go back after that.
Clay has summed up my feelings about this. This first episode had former Survivor and Big Brother players. It was guaranteed that one team would win $100K. I wonder if that will be the case when ordinary civilians play. Oh, and the caffeine level was WAAAAY over the top.
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Do you think they would just make a show of people playing Candy Crush? That would be really dull. It will probably have a loose connection, like the game show Scrabble.
My thought, too. If anyone fell off the giant wall into a pool of goo, that may have been funny in a Wipeout sort of way. Especially if it were a Big Brother contestant and there was no pool, just a cement floor.
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Caught the first 10-15 minutes of "Candy Crush". Like most of the posters, I didn't care for it. No play-along factor, over-caffeinated contestants, etc.
When I got to work Monday morning, I overheard a few co-workers talking about the show. One comment caught my ear ...
"Candy Crush, the TV show, is the end result of trying to introduce e-sports to your grandma."
E-sports is a growing market. TBS airs a popular "E-League" show, Deadspin has a decent percentage of article devoted to the e-sports field. ESPN appears to be going all-in with e-sports on its website, with a section solely devoted to e-sports. It's captured the interest of the younger demographic that's moved away from traditional TV.
It makes sense for a major network to capitalize on the e-sports phenomena, especially in a lower-risk summer timeslot. But there's no way in heck you can sell, say, "League of Legends" or "Overwatch" to the masses. So you turn to a popular app that the whole family can play, and try to present it on-air in similar fashion to an e-sports event. And it fell flat on its face.
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E-sports is simply co-opting the milieu of sports and applying it to something non-athletic. E-League is a great example because the first time I watched their pregame stuff, it felt like a club football show but with different jargon.
It sounds like Candy Crush needed to be much more game show-y in order to succeed
/ the lack of televised Rocket League gives me a sad
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It sounds like Candy Crush needed to be much more game show-y in order to succeed
How unsuccessful was it? Are they pulling the remaining episodes?
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/ the lack of televised Rocket League gives me a sad
I thought I read there was going to be soon.
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Ratingswise...Candy Crush was the week's #8 show in the 18-49 demo (http://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/weekly-ratings/broadcast-top-25-and-network-rankings-for-july-3-9-2017/) with a 1.1 and 1.375 million viewers; that's the good news.
The bad news? It failed to crack the Top 25 among total households (I think the Amelia Earhart documentary garnered more interest than Candy Crush).
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Ratingswise...Candy Crush was the week's #8 show in the 18-49 demo (http://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/weekly-ratings/broadcast-top-25-and-network-rankings-for-july-3-9-2017/) with a 1.1 and 1.375 million viewers.
Insulting that Pyramid is losing potentially better ratings because of the Funderdome lead-in. More insulting that Funderdome still finishes better than Pyramid.
/ And damn you calliaume for naming this thread Here Comes Candy Crush!
// I keep thinking of "Here Comes Honey Boo Boo" every time I read this thread.
/// Then again, CC (the show) is just as annoying as HCHBB.
//// calliaume, you are a genius!!!
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/ the lack of televised Rocket League gives me a sad
Ummm... (https://www.gamespot.com/articles/rocket-league-tournament-will-be-televised-on-nbc-/1100-6451090/)