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Title: Summer GS schedules...
Post by: weaklink75 on April 07, 2022, 02:29:14 PM



ABC- http://thefutoncritic.com/news/2022/04/07/abc-announces-summer-2022-unscripted-premiere-dates-series-greenlights-new-specials-and-renewals-943114/20220407abc01/

Thursdays starting 7/7
8:00-9:00 p.m. "Press Your Luck"
9:00-10:00 p.m. "Generation Gap" (series premiere)


Sundays starting  7/10
8:00-9:00 p.m. "Celebrity Family Feud"
9:00-10:00 p.m. "The Final Straw" (series premiere)
10:00-11:00 p.m. "The $100,000 Pyramid"


Title: Re: Summer GS schedules...
Post by: colonial on April 07, 2022, 03:34:20 PM
Description of "The Final Straw" from Futon Critic ...

THE FINAL STRAW

The newest show to join ABC's unscripted lineup is the larger-than-life physical comedy game show, "The Final Straw." The stakes are high as four teams of colorful contestants face off to combat tremendous tipping towers. Each life-sized themed tower is chock full of various objects ranging from basketballs to small kitchen appliances as contestants try to successfully pull items from the stack without tipping it over in order to earn prizes. If the tower falls, the team is eliminated and the last team standing will compete against The Mega Stack, an epic battle of physics where the odds are literally stacked against them, in hopes of winning a life-changing grand prize.


Translation -- It's Jenga, but ABC changed just enough to avoid a lawsuit.


JD
Title: Re: Summer GS schedules...
Post by: Jimmy Owen on April 07, 2022, 03:46:37 PM
Jenga or KerPlunk.   Re: Generation Gap.  With Kelly Ripa hosting, makes it a must miss.
Title: Re: Summer GS schedules...
Post by: tvwxman on April 07, 2022, 08:49:22 PM
Description of "The Final Straw" from Futon Critic ...

THE FINAL STRAW

The newest show to join ABC's unscripted lineup is the larger-than-life physical comedy game show, "The Final Straw." The stakes are high as four teams of colorful contestants face off to combat tremendous tipping towers. Each life-sized themed tower is chock full of various objects ranging from basketballs to small kitchen appliances as contestants try to successfully pull items from the stack without tipping it over in order to earn prizes. If the tower falls, the team is eliminated and the last team standing will compete against The Mega Stack, an epic battle of physics where the odds are literally stacked against them, in hopes of winning a life-changing grand prize.


Translation -- It's Jenga, but ABC changed just enough to avoid a lawsuit.


JD

Somewhere recently there was a link to a pitch of this from overseas. Anyone remember that?