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The Game Show Forum => Game Show Channels & Networks => Topic started by: dzinkin on June 22, 2004, 10:27:09 PM
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Yes, it's a joke. But given where GSN has gone lately, I would be shocked if this DIDN'T become a series.
http://www.datelinehollywood.com/showartic...p?articleID=235 (http://\"http://www.datelinehollywood.com/showarticle.php?articleID=235\")
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[quote name=\'dzinkin\' date=\'Jun 22 2004, 09:27 PM\'] Yes, it's a joke. But given where GSN has gone lately, I would be shocked if this DIDN'T become a series.
http://www.datelinehollywood.com/showartic...p?articleID=235 (http://\"http://www.datelinehollywood.com/showarticle.php?articleID=235\") [/quote]
Next up in development at GSN:
World Series of Bridge
Celebrity Bricklaying
Mormon Weddings Unveiled
ATM-TV
Fake-A-Life starring Zach Horan ;)
Tyshaun
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[quote name=\'tyshaun1\' date=\'Jun 22 2004, 11:09 PM\'] Next up in development at GSN:
Fake-A-Life starring Zach Horan ;) [/quote]
What took them so long?
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[quote name=\'dzinkin\' date=\'Jun 22 2004, 09:27 PM\'] Yes, it's a joke. But given where GSN has gone lately, I would be shocked if this DIDN'T become a series.
http://www.datelinehollywood.com/showartic...p?articleID=235 (http://\"http://www.datelinehollywood.com/showarticle.php?articleID=235\") [/quote]
Hey! If they play the "Price is Right" and "Wheel of Fortune" slots, it makes it a game show! :D
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Up next on BSN: "Celebrity Gin!"
Followed by: "The All-Star Darts Championship!"
And then: "The Jimmy Hoffa Scavenger Hunt!"
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If they air Extreme Kickball, I'm there.
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I'm counting down the days until
Celebrity Go Fish
All-Star 52 Pick Up
The World Series of Racko
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[quote name=\'daveromanjr\' date=\'Jun 23 2004, 06:54 AM\'] Celebrity Go Fish
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Replace this with "Celebrity Shut Up and Fish" and I'm there. :-D
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[quote name=\'dzinkin\' date=\'Jun 23 2004, 06:13 AM\'] [quote name=\'daveromanjr\' date=\'Jun 23 2004, 06:54 AM\'] Celebrity Go Fish
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Replace this with "Celebrity Shut Up and Fish" and I'm there. :-D [/quote]
I can just see it now, an hour of programming nightly
10pm : World Series of Slot Machines
10:30 : All Star ATM Withdrawals.
Then, they can merge the two for the "World Series of Slot Machines/All Star ATM Withdrawals" Hour.... the Slot winner faces yesterday's champion in a tense round of ATM withdrawals. Big winner plays Slot Machines for $30,000.
Someone see if Bowzer is available.
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Anyone for "Extreme Stratego?"
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[quote name=\'tvwxman\' date=\'Jun 23 2004, 07:05 AM\']10:30 : All Star ATM Withdrawals.[/quote]
That is freakin hilarous! :-D
11:00- Super Outrageous Extreme Tournament Slap Jack!
-The exciting game of Slap Jack has finally come to television...and it has a new twist! Sean Hayes of TV's Emmy award winning 'Will and Grace' reprises his role as Jack McFarland, a sharp tongued flambuoyantly gay man.
In Super Outrageous Extreme Tournament Slap Jack, two contestants play 'classic' Slap Jack. When a 'jack' appears, Hayes (as Jack) runs around the casino hurling clever barbs at the players. Each 'smart' causes the contestants to lose points. The player that successfully slaps 'Jack', wins and moves onto the next round.
Tournament winners get $1000 and a complete makeover by the Queer Eye Fab 5.
ITSBRY
itsbry@juno.com
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Ah, yes, because gay people running around and flaming is always funny.
Wait, no, it isn't.
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At GSCX two years ago, I came up with an idea for a game called Celebrity Poker. The concept was having 52 celebrities, each dressed up in a foam costume representing one card in the deck, and playing poker with those human cards. Unfortunately, liability was a big issue as shuffling the cards would've broken several spines.
"And here's Charles Nelson Reilly as the 4 of clubs!"
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How about a nice game of All-Star Bingo?
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Or what would make appointment television:
Thady vs. Lemon-y.
Tyshaun
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[quote name=\'tyshaun1\' date=\'Jun 23 2004, 08:04 PM\'] Or what would make appointment television:
Thady vs. Lemon-y. [/quote]
Only if "Thady" WINS!!
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[quote name=\'Thad Dixon\' date=\'Jun 23 2004, 06:08 PM\'] [quote name=\'tyshaun1\' date=\'Jun 23 2004, 08:04 PM\'] Or what would make appointment television:
Thady vs. Lemon-y. [/quote]
Only if "Thady" WINS!! [/quote]
Oh, the setups. The jokes I could make.
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Celebrity Checkers?
Seriously, though. Much as I was delighted to see the Scrabble tournament on ESPN a couple months back, doesn't it belong on GSN?
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Not unless they talked Chucklehead into hosting it.
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[quote name=\'hmtriplecrown\' date=\'Jun 23 2004, 01:23 PM\'] At GSCX two years ago, I came up with an idea for a game called Celebrity Poker. The concept was having 52 celebrities, each dressed up in a foam costume representing one card in the deck, and playing poker with those human cards. Unfortunately, liability was a big issue as shuffling the cards would've broken several spines.
"And here's Charles Nelson Reilly as the 4 of clubs!" [/quote]
You must have missed it when Chuck Barris tried the same concept years earlier ("People Poker"). That's okay, though. I won't hold it against you.
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Celebrity Checkers?
How about "Celebrity Dominoes". No wait....that's already been tried on Canadian television!
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Extreme Yawning?
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Interesting to compare the reaction here about Extreme Dodgeball to the reaction on the GSN boards. There's a lot of the same "Extreme Crap" stuff over there, but a definite contrary opinion is getting into the threads.
Long long time ago I muttered (over here I think) that GSN might start pulling in some new viewers to its boards who could be more enthusiastic about non-traditional shows. Seems to have started.
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Are those robot-building shows still on or are they played out? I was thinking those might be a possiblity for the new GSN. I'm not a gigantic fan of them but they would be better than, say "Vegas Weddings."
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Don't know about robot-building, but Travel Channel may be taking a cue from another (allegedly, though I disagree) non-traditional offering on GSN...Blackjack:
http://www.hattiesburgamerican.com/news/st...ews/719802.html (http://\"http://www.hattiesburgamerican.com/news/stories/20040625/localnews/719802.html\")
Travel Channel did one show from that million dollar tournament last year, before GSN ever debuted its blackjack series. Kinda interesting that TC is upping the commitment to four shows this year. Blackjack must be getting okay numbers by niche network standards.
I thought the Travel Channel show last year was too post-produced and human-interested. Didn't really concentrate enough on the gameplay, in my opinion. GSN mostly avoided that mistake in their first series.
Hope Ken gets into GSN's third blackjack series, anyway. He posted some interesting comments about the first series on the GSN board.
For a little more info on the Million Dollar Tournament and Travel Channel's plans for four shows in August...but beware there's a huge SPOILER:
http://www.blackjacktournaments.com/ (http://\"http://www.blackjacktournaments.com/\")
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[quote name=\'Jimmy Owen\' date=\'Jun 25 2004, 11:18 AM\'] Are those robot-building shows still on or are they played out? [/quote]
Nick GaS plays their "Robot Wars" show on the weekends in reruns, but I THINK that might be the only one on right now (I'm not certian if they're others on).
I'm pretty sure robot building shows are cooked.
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World Series of Slots, eh? I have an idea for World Series of Pinball, which I'll admit is downright goofy, but GSN just might be crazy enough to spring for it!
As for a couple of other "proposals" in this thread: There was on TV in the early 1960s a celebrity game show based on bridge! It was called Championship Bridge and was played between teams of professional bridge players.
The show aired on ABC on Sunday afternoons and was hosted by newscaster Alex Drier, and none other than the famous bridge columnist Charles Goren was on hand to analyze the play. The two celebrity teams played four hands of bridge (each team member getting one deal during the half-hour show), and scoring was in accordance with standard rubber bridge rules of that time. The team getting the highest score during the program won the game and $500, with the other team receiving a consolation prize of $250. There were also bonus cash awards for bidding and making slam contracts ($500 for a small slam; $1,000 for a grand slam.)
A lasting legacy of that program were the special decks of cards that had to be developed for it by the U.S. Playing Card Company. They had to be small enough for the players to hold in their hands, but the markings on the cards had to be large enough to show up on home TV screens (and you know what they were like in the early 1960s!). But the USPCC came through, and you can still buy those special cards they developed today wherever playing cards are sold. (Just ask for "Bicycle Jumbo Index" playing cards!)
And would you believe there was a game show called All-Star Bingo in the late 1960s? It aired in regional syndication in connection with local supermarket promotions, and you played it at home with game cards you got at your local supermarket. (The Albers/Colonial Stores distributed them in the Greater Cincinnati area.)
On the actual program, two teams of celebrities competed in a question-and-answer game for score points, and every time either team scored, a set of random-number generators was activated to select five Bingo numbers for the home players -- one each under the letters B, I, N, G, and O. Getting five of the selected numbers in a row on your home card won you a cash prize for that line (from $5 to $500), and if the winning team for that program matched the team mentioned on your game card, your prize was doubled.
(And a very similar game lives on today on America Online as Slingo!)
Michael Brandenburg
(Now for the Jeopardy question of the day: The answer is "Jason Smathers." And what's the question? "Who pilfered my AOL screen name and sold it to a whole lot of spammers??")
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[quote name=\'Michael Brandenburg\' date=\'Jun 25 2004, 04:46 PM\'] World Series of Slots, eh? I have an idea for World Series of Pinball, which I'll admit is downright goofy, but GSN just might be crazy enough to spring for it!
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Playing pinball is fun. Watching people play pinball is not fun unless you are a pinball nut yourself.
and you can still buy those special cards they developed today wherever playing cards are sold. (Just ask for "Bicycle Jumbo Index" playing cards!)
That is fascinating. I had no idea that's what they were designed for. I always assumed they were developed for elderly people with poor eyesight. (Which prolly would have been Celebrity Bridge's target audience, come to think of it.)
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Here's a few more:
"The $100,000 Taffy Pull"
"Extreme Red Rover"
"Celebrity I-Spy"
"Celebrity Cow Tipping"
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[quote name=\'HairMetalLives\' date=\'Jun 25 2004, 06:22 PM\'] [quote name=\'Jimmy Owen\' date=\'Jun 25 2004, 11:18 AM\'] Are those robot-building shows still on or are they played out? [/quote]
Nick GaS plays their "Robot Wars" show on the weekends in reruns, but I THINK that might be the only one on right now (I'm not certian if they're others on).
I'm pretty sure robot building shows are cooked. [/quote]
G4techTV still plays the original UK version of "Robot Wars".
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Bowling for Dollars?
Charles
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[quote name=\'clemon79\' date=\'Jun 25 2004, 07:30 PM\'] [quote name=\'Michael Brandenburg\' date=\'Jun 25 2004, 04:46 PM\'] World Series of Slots, eh? I have an idea for World Series of Pinball, which I'll admit is downright goofy, but GSN just might be crazy enough to spring for it!
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Playing pinball is fun. Watching people play pinball is not fun unless you are a pinball nut yourself. [/quote]
I never saw it, but was The Magnificent Marble Machine that bad? :-)
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[quote name=\'Fedya\' date=\'Jun 27 2004, 08:38 AM\'] [quote name=\'clemon79\' date=\'Jun 25 2004, 07:30 PM\'] [quote name=\'Michael Brandenburg\' date=\'Jun 25 2004, 04:46 PM\'] World Series of Slots, eh? I have an idea for World Series of Pinball, which I'll admit is downright goofy, but GSN just might be crazy enough to spring for it!
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Playing pinball is fun. Watching people play pinball is not fun unless you are a pinball nut yourself. [/quote]
I never saw it, but was The Magnificent Marble Machine that bad? :-) [/quote]
My beef with MMM was that it took too long to get to the danged machine. They had to win a so-so word game to get to the machine. My opinion was that they should have made it so the game was more about the machine. Maybe 90 secs of playtime per team with the best two out of three playing a bonus game for prizes.
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[quote name=\'Fedya\' date=\'Jun 27 2004, 08:38 AM\'][quote name=\'clemon79\' date=\'Jun 25 2004, 07:30 PM\'] [quote name=\'Michael Brandenburg\' date=\'Jun 25 2004, 04:46 PM\'] World Series of Slots, eh? I have an idea for World Series of Pinball, which I'll admit is downright goofy, but GSN just might be crazy enough to spring for it!
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Playing pinball is fun. Watching people play pinball is not fun unless you are a pinball nut yourself. [/quote]
I never saw it, but was The Magnificent Marble Machine that bad? :-)[/quote]
Yeah. It was.