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Title: Variety Article about "The Wall"
Post by: tvmitch on June 25, 2017, 08:29:57 AM: Semi-interesting article about The Wall, with a buried lede, emphasis mine:
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Though the French version lacks the outsize cash payout that heightens the drama on the U.S. series, it has proven to be a success as a five-day-a-week strip in daytime. That, Telegdy hopes, is a sign that the show can work elsewhere in first-run syndication as well as primetime.

“It’s ticking a number of very commercial boxes for us,” he says. “Not only is it a very valuable asset on NBC, it’s starting to look promising for us that it could work in first-run.”

http://variety.com/2017/tv/news/the-wall-nbc-endemol-shine-1202476293/ (http://variety.com/2017/tv/news/the-wall-nbc-endemol-shine-1202476293/)

A daily version could still be compelling with just a tenth of the stakes.
Title: Re: Variety Article about "The Wall"
Post by: Jimmy Owen on June 25, 2017, 09:06:08 AM: You mean like "Plinko"?
Title: Re: Variety Article about "The Wall"
Post by: mxc0427 on June 26, 2017, 11:15:03 AM: Quote from: Jimmy Owen on June 25, 2017, 09:06:08 AM
You mean like "Plinko"?

No, like Pachinko.
Title: Re: Variety Article about "The Wall"
Post by: Matt Ottinger on June 26, 2017, 01:18:40 PM: Quote from: Jimmy Owen on June 25, 2017, 09:06:08 AM
You mean like "Plinko"?

For the 7,481st time, The Price Is Right did not invent this.
Title: Re: Variety Article about "The Wall"
Post by: TLEberle on June 26, 2017, 01:23:08 PM: Quote from: tvmitch on June 25, 2017, 08:29:57 AM
A daily version could still be compelling with just a tenth of the stakes.
I fervently disagree--the whole point is the giant wall and giant stakes--I think that a daily version would wear itself out very quickly.
Title: Re: Variety Article about "The Wall"
Post by: mxc0427 on June 26, 2017, 01:27:21 PM: Quote from: Matt Ottinger on June 26, 2017, 01:18:40 PM
Quote from: Jimmy Owen on June 25, 2017, 09:06:08 AM
You mean like "Plinko"?

For the 7,481st time, The Price Is Right did not invent this.

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Title: Re: Variety Article about "The Wall"
Post by: Jimmy Owen on June 26, 2017, 03:32:14 PM: I'm talking about as a television concept.
Title: Re: Variety Article about "The Wall"
Post by: Matt Ottinger on June 26, 2017, 05:48:30 PM: Quote from: Jimmy Owen on June 26, 2017, 03:32:14 PM
I'm talking about as a television concept.

Don't particularly care. It gets old.
Title: Re: Variety Article about "The Wall"
Post by: Peter Sarrett on June 29, 2017, 07:58:24 PM: Tangentially related: Turing Tumble just got funded on Kickstarter. Looking forward to playing it with my son.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/871405126/turing-tumble-gaming-on-a-mechanical-computer (https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/871405126/turing-tumble-gaming-on-a-mechanical-computer)
Title: Re: Variety Article about "The Wall"
Post by: TLEberle on June 29, 2017, 08:02:38 PM: That looks fantastic.