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The Game Show Forum => Game Show Channels & Networks => Topic started by: jimlangefan on October 05, 2015, 11:58:29 AM
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I know this was posted in the Buzzr discussion thread, but this might warrant it's own thread and discussion. You can delete mods, if you want to keep it where it is.
http://www.tvinsider.com/article/44819/buzzr-asks-game-show-fans-to-program-its-sunday-night-with-retro-episodes/
Buzzr is having a Pick & Play Sweepstakes where you can vote for one of the six shows eligible to be included on Buzzr's new Sunday night lineup. The top three will make it on the schedule (with possible prizes awarded if you vote for one of the top three shows). The shows up for voting are Trivia Trap, Wordplay (didn't know Fremantle owned it until the article came out, but makes sense), Beat The Clock (Hall's version), Now You See it (Narz's version), Double Dare, & $ale of the Century. Voting ends October 12th and the new Sunday night lineup debuts October 18th.
Just a thought. Could Buzzr be doing reruns until that week? While crappy, would make sense.
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Here's the commercial for the sweepstakes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TlHj08vS6g0
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Interesting that the Now You See It logo in the above thumbnail and on the website is from the '89 version. Regardless, any of these shows would be good additions.
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I think we have already made mention that graphics and accuracy were not their core competencies.
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Well, it should make sense that Wordplay is a Fremantle product, considering it was Syd Vinnedge's first foray into game shows.
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Well, it should make sense that Wordplay is a Fremantle product, considering it was Syd Vinnedge's first foray into game shows.
I don't remember where I saw it, but very recently, I came across an article from fall 1985, interviewing Rob Fiedler and Peter Berlin, who were still trying to get shows on the air. They'd recently produced a pilot for NBC that didn't pan out. I bring this all up, because Wordplay followed along a year and change later. If I find the article, I'll post it on the Big Board.
ETA: found it...see the Big Board in a few minutes. :-)
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Well, friends, the votes are in...
https://www.facebook.com/BUZZRplay/videos/1643168012566654/
Anyone want to take a guess on which trio of shows made the cut? My guesses are $ale, Beat The Clock and Trebek Dare. For the record, I went Team Wordplay simply because it hasn't been since its original broadcast.
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My predictions are $ale of The Century, Now You See It, & Double Dare. Beat The Clock could sneak in there too. My reasons for predicting NYSI, DD, & BTC (maybe) are since they made an appearance during the Lost & Found week, they may be more known and people would want to see more of them. But hands down $ale has to be number one. I'd be VERY surprised if it isn't. In fact, based on that reason I didn't even vote for $OTC, I voted for Wordplay as well.
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Well, friends, the votes are in...
https://www.facebook.com/BUZZRplay/videos/1643168012566654/
Anyone want to take a guess on which trio of shows made the cut? My guesses are $ale, Beat The Clock and Trebek Dare. For the record, I went Team Wordplay simply because it hasn't been since its original broadcast.
I'd be okay with a Wordplay for $aletrade-off since I was a newborn when Wordplay aired. All others are okay with me.
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I suspect that the $ale episodes they'd be airing would be the same ones that aired on GSN a few times over, so I'd much prefer either Now You See it on Wordplay.
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I suspect that the $ale episodes they'd be airing would be the same ones that aired on GSN a few times over, so I'd much prefer either Now You See it on Wordplay.
The episode of Sale that's being used in the promos is an early syndicated episode that GSN aired more than once, so I would tend to agree.
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If I had Buzzr on my TV, I would have preferred to see Wordplay because the local NBC affiliate in Detroit (where I got the NBC feed from) never aired the series in favor of syndicated programming (most likely), and the only time I saw such show was through YouTube.
Funny I said that, because I voted for $ale.
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So wait...you would rather not have seen Sale, would rather see Wordplay, voted against your preference, and it makes no difference because you can't pull it in?
Seems like a long walk to go one step.
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I don't get Buzzr, but it seems to me Wordplay would be the obvious choice among us fans, simply because it's the truly "new" one among the nostalgia channels.
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My vote went to the Hall BTC, although I really expect to see "Sale of the Century" and "Now You See It" on the schedule there too.
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My vote goes to "Your vote didn't really mean anything" because this channel has been quite less than stellar so far.
It wouldn't surprise me for this channel to already have everything loaded into their automation system.
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Rats, no Wordplay. The new lineup will be two episodes each of Sale of the Century (8PM), Beat the Clock (9PM), and Double Dare (10PM.)
Source: http://www.tvinsider.com/article/47606/buzzr-reveals-its-new-sunday-retro-game-show-lineup-picked-by-fans/
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I woulda figured Now You See It would've snuck in there. Oh well, good choices all.
Assuming these will air again from 11 to 1?
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I'm curious as to what era of $ale they'll be airing.
Incidentally, have we busted the myth yet that most of the NBC run was supposedly destroyed (except for the last 6 months or so)?
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Well, friends, the votes are in...
https://www.facebook.com/BUZZRplay/videos/1643168012566654/
Anyone want to take a guess on which trio of shows made the cut? My guesses are $ale, Beat The Clock and Trebek Dare. For the record, I went Team Wordplay simply because it hasn't been since its original broadcast.
I'm also slightly bummed that "Wordplay" missed the mark. However, seeing that I nailed the trifecta, where's the nearest window where I can collect my winnings :-P.
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I'm curious as to what era of $ale they'll be airing.
Incidentally, have we busted the myth yet that most of the NBC run was supposedly destroyed (except for the last 6 months or so)?
If the clips during the promo for the voting were any indication, the syndie run.
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I'm curious as to what era of $ale they'll be airing.
Incidentally, have we busted the myth yet that most of the NBC run was supposedly destroyed (except for the last 6 months or so)?
If the clips during the promo for the voting were any indication, the syndie run.
The run that we've been used to seeing back in the old USA days as well, so it's very likely we'll see Matt Ottinger's appearance yet again and we're definitely going to see the 10-second ads in the fee plugs coming up.
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As suspected, Buzzr's run of $ale started with the first nighttime show.
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First hour of the night: Syndie $ale
And honestly, I still don't mind. In the event that a new set of non-GSN viewers can enjoy this (and hopefully not troll to ask for more episodes), then everyone (okay, most) wins.
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Is it just me, or is the picture quality better than when these exact same episodes were aired on GSN?
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Is it just me, or is the picture quality better than when these exact same episodes were aired on GSN?
The framerate is definitely improved.
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Interesting. The BTC hour just aired in backwards order. Also, $ale was the only show to start from the premiere.
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Interesting. The BTC hour just aired in backwards order. Also, $ale was the only show to start from the premiere.
Looks like Double Dare started with #3, which I guess makes sense considering the first two shows aired during Lost and Found week.
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Interesting. The BTC hour just aired in backwards order. Also, $ale was the only show to start from the premiere.
Looks like Double Dare started with #3, which I guess makes sense considering the first two shows aired during Lost and Found week.
Double Dare is also airing in backwards order. I hope this doesn't continue.
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This channel needs some serious pleh.
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The meltdowns are quite fun to read.
(http://i.imgur.com/eiLIdDI.jpg)
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This channel needs some serious pleh.
It sounds like there's not nearly enough pleh.
Meanwhile, if I ever need a made-up Russian name, I'm going with "Dudnikov"
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Meanwhile, if I ever need a made-up Russian name, I'm going with "Dudnikov"
Me too. I know I'm a total Dud.
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Were there any responses to Mr. Dudnikov's statement that pointed out his inaccuracies?
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I'm curious what episode of "Double Dare" aired other than the first one. Was that a pilot? They spent the whole half hour playing the front game and didn't get to the Spoiler round. The 10:30 episode was indeed the second episode, mentioned by Alex on air.
"Sale of the Century" was the first two syndicated episodes.
"Beat The Clock" aired the first two episodes, with the live band playing the theme in the lower key of d minor. I have portions of that second episode on audio tape, recorded from the original network airing in 1979. I somehow missed the first one.
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Were there any responses to Mr. Dudnikov's statement that pointed out his inaccuracies?
Why, yes, there were. And even that went downhill quickly.
(http://i.imgur.com/2DoJ32W.jpg)
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Didn't GSN skip some syndie sale episodes?
If so, I'd be curious if BUZZR airs them.
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I'm curious what episode of "Double Dare" aired other than the first one. Was that a pilot? They spent the whole half hour playing the front game and didn't get to the Spoiler round. The 10:30 episode was indeed the second episode, mentioned by Alex on air.
They aired the third episode of Double Dare, followed by the second episode. In reverse order. Beat the Clock aired in reverse order too.
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Didn't GSN skip some syndie sale episodes?
If so, I'd be curious if BUZZR airs them.
Yep, they had, they (GSN) skipped John Goss' first episode which also slashed the goals from $830 to $750 to win all the major prizes and the cash jackpot as well as the episode where the cash jackpot went to $71,000(also with John Goss) as well as the 8th overall episode of the Winner's Board from November 1985, all of which were last seen on USA strangely. Similar to the way I felt of why ESPN Classic hasn't been able to rerun any Season 1 Stump the Schwab episodes and the missing Season 2 episode that had Lennie as one of the players on that episode(I'm guessing that was the episode where the Semi-Finals was first mentioned) and not even Grandstand(remember that show that combined Sports Challenge with 2-Minute Drill).
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Clearly what they need to start airing is People's Court.
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Clearly what they need to start airing is People's Court.
The Wapner episodes.
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"Uh oh. Ten minutes to Wapner."
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No love for Jeopardy or Wheel of Fortune among you guys I guess.
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I'd tell Dudkinov what I think the choices should be just to show him how much of a brat he's being, but then I remembered what happened when I posted the could've been "GSN schedule" almost three years ago in response to Vahan calling them "Inhuman monsters." Not even a week later, one of the shows listed, Match Game '98 was indeed announced to be part of the freakin' Christmas Day marathon.
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I'd tell Dudkinov what I think the choices should be just to show him how much of a brat he's being, but then I remembered what happened when I posted the could've been "GSN schedule" almost three years ago in response to Vahan calling them "Inhuman monsters." Not even a week later, one of the shows listed, Match Game '98 was indeed announced to be part of the freakin' Christmas Day marathon.
Well, there's two things to be thankful for...your sanity and Vahan's banity.
/okay, that's not a word but I really really wanted it to rhyyyyme....
//I'll shut up now
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FWIW, I snicker'd at said rhyme... :-)
Meanwhile, the complaints on FB shouldn't surprise me. Just wish my area could get Buzzr.
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Meanwhile, the complaints on FB shouldn't surprise me. Just wish my area could get Buzzr.
That's my response to the complainers. Be happy you even have Buzzr, some of us are still hoping a local affiliate will ever even pick it up.
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I'm certainly glad to finally have it. I get my Blockbusters, Card Sharks, and What's My Line back, plus the 70s Let's Make a Deal eps I grew up watching (and which, quite frankly, I prefer to the more colorful 80s edition) and Match Game. Plus, I get to see a little more Child's Play and have been seeing my first episodes of Tattletales even if they have been from the early days. (Didn't get GSN until much later)
Kinda wish Buzzr would put The Name's the Same in the Buzz 'til Dawn lineup. Of those panel games, I always found that to be the most fun.
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This is the second week of the new Sunday schedule, right? Because I think they just aired episodes #2 and #1 of Double Dare, in that order, again.
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This is the second week of the new Sunday schedule, right? Because I think they just aired episodes #2 and #1 of Double Dare, in that order, again.
Those weren't the eps they aired last week, right?
Sale appears to still be airing in order.
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This is the second week of the new Sunday schedule, right? Because I think they just aired episodes #2 and #1 of Double Dare, in that order, again.
Those weren't the eps they aired last week, right?
Sale appears to still be airing in order.
Last week was #4 and #3.
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Apparently Beat the Clock went backwards too. The first episode of the night was the one that should've aired in the proper order, but the second one looks like it aired during Lost and Found. (I'm just amazed that every time they played that Hanky Panky game, Monty never brained himself with that tetherball. He used to get that thing whippin', lemme tell ya.
EDIT: Sodboy was half right. The first episode of Double Dare picked up where last Sunday's second episode left off, while the premiere followed.
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I thought the Double Dare episode with the first $5,000 Spoilers Bonus Round win (with Laverne and Shirley as the subject) was new to BUZZR.
I hope as long as BUZZR keeps going for at least 1 more month this Sunday lineup may be short lived.
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Okay, everything seemed to be airing in order this time as Sale wrapped up week one and started week two, Beat the Clock was at least airing consecutive episodes, and Double Dare picked up with champion Joel Palmer's second ("?) day.
But everything didn't go as smoothly, again. The first Sale episode showed the final segment in place of the second Fame Game/third Instant Bargain segment, cut that off just as the speed round came to a conclusion, then showed the same segment again in full when they came back from commercial.
Minor annoyances, certainly, but you would like to think they got their stuff together by now.
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I thought the Double Dare episode with the first $5,000 Spoilers Bonus Round win (with Laverne and Shirley as the subject) was new to BUZZR.
I hope as long as BUZZR keeps going for at least 1 more month this Sunday lineup may be short lived.
1. Wouldn't hurt to use a spoiler next time.
2. Will you please stop with the predictions about how long this network will be around?
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1. Wouldn't hurt to use a spoiler next time.
2. Will you please stop with the predictions about how long this network will be around?
- There are no spoiler expectations on a 40 year old game show's broadcast, especially one that's been on Youtube for like five years. Some of your frustration is being aimed at who wrote this, and not what was written. Save it for the things he writes that deserve it.
- Yeah, this part deserves it. The "it's gonna die in a month" gets old really quick.
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Fair enough. I always figured the show is new to someone and having seen spoilers on older shows before, figured it was warranted here. Point taken.
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- There are no spoiler expectations on a 40 year old game show's broadcast, especially one that's been on Youtube for like five years. Some of your frustration is being aimed at who wrote this, and not what was written. Save it for the things he writes that deserve it.
But apparently there are spoiler expectations for episodes from 1985:
http://www.gameshowforum.org/index.php/topic,27265.msg336936.html#msg336936 (http://www.gameshowforum.org/index.php/topic,27265.msg336936.html#msg336936)
The DD reveal doesn't bother me because I don't pull in the subchannel. Spoilers of things that I intend to watch that evening that are first-run bother me a little if they're not confined to Show Summaries. Notice that in the A/V section that most people don't reveal an outcome, but comment about other things that are interesting in the video. I believe that most of those folks have a similar compass to me: use common sense and be polite. It's not perfect and no one is bound to abide that, but the fact that most people choose to do so improves the experience for all concerned. Saying that something happened on some rerun is obviously not the end of the world, but for me it falls down at the hurdle I laid out.
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- There are no spoiler expectations on a 40 year old game show's broadcast, especially one that's been on Youtube for like five years. Some of your frustration is being aimed at who wrote this, and not what was written. Save it for the things he writes that deserve it.
But apparently there are spoiler expectations for episodes from 1985:
http://www.gameshowforum.org/index.php/topic,27265.msg336936.html#msg336936 (http://www.gameshowforum.org/index.php/topic,27265.msg336936.html#msg336936)
Yeah, you really shouldn't point to the thread where the OP said "don't spoil" and then spoiled in the same sentence as an example. I don't think anyone cared that he spoiled, just that he was kinda silly while doing so. That our kinda silly posters are also our most frequent spoilers is a source of frustration for many people for a variety of reasons.
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Will you please stop with the predictions about how long this network will be around?
Yeah, this part deserves it. The "it's gonna die in a month" gets old really quick.
Agreed, totally. Boo hoo, they're not running this network the way you want it, so the logical reply is to wish death on the network and stymie the whole attempt at keeping the classics alive. Smart.
Then again, I'm shocked that girl who was shouting and condemning GSN for months about dropping Sale isn't singing gospel from the rooftops like she used to. Maybe she mellowed out finally. Bottom line: Like many other circumstances, I don't envy the people working in this field one bit for the decisions they have to make.
Also find it a little wild that there was that one guy who ripped into the FB page about the Sunday lineup taking away the B&W's, and now today, they started doing B&W in the afternoon. Makes me feel like with as small an audience/clearance as they have, one voice sounds a lot bigger it would be otherwise. Hopefully, that won't give other people ideas, though I'm sure it has long before I said it.
Back on topic, yeah, airing's been a little odd for the lineup in these first 3 weekends:
Clock: 2, 1, 3, pilot, 4, 5
Dare: 2, 1, 3, 4, 5, 6
Sale: Only one going in order, but 5 had that round error on both runs last night (at least GSN showed that, so we have a complete show in some combination). Also, anyone else notice that we still have to work around people who don't know how to stop for a second to think, "Hey, this is a 40 year old game show, that contestant phone number doesn't work."
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Back on topic, yeah, airing's been a little odd for the lineup in these first 3 weekends:
Clock: 2, 1, 3, pilot, 4, 5
Dare: 2, 1, 3, 4, 5, 6
Sale: Only one going in order, but 5 had that round error on both runs last night (at least GSN showed that, so we have a complete show in some combination). Also, anyone else notice that we still have to work around people who don't know how to stop for a second to think, "Hey, this is a 40 year old game show, that contestant phone number doesn't work."
The order for Dare was actually 4, 3, 2, 1, 5, & 6.
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Back on topic, yeah, airing's been a little odd for the lineup in these first 3 weekends:
Clock: 2, 1, 3, pilot, 4, 5
Dare: 2, 1, 3, 4, 5, 6
Sale: Only one going in order, but 5 had that round error on both runs last night (at least GSN showed that, so we have a complete show in some combination). Also, anyone else notice that we still have to work around people who don't know how to stop for a second to think, "Hey, this is a 40 year old game show, that contestant phone number doesn't work."
The order for Dare was actually 4, 3, 2, 1, 5, & 6.
Actually, that's not right either because if the show had been airing in order, 4 would have been the second ep last Sunday and it was the first, with the premiere following it. So it was 3, 2, 4, 1, 5&6.
EDIT: I could also swear that Monday night's schedule consisted solely of eps that aired on Friday.
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But everything didn't go as smoothly, again. The first Sale episode showed the final segment in place of the second Fame Game/third Instant Bargain segment, cut that off just as the speed round came to a conclusion, then showed the same segment again in full when they came back from commercial.
I'm really glad GSN didn't make the same mistake when they aired the Friday episode of premiere week.
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But everything didn't go as smoothly, again. The first Sale episode showed the final segment in place of the second Fame Game/third Instant Bargain segment, cut that off just as the speed round came to a conclusion, then showed the same segment again in full when they came back from commercial.
I'm really glad GSN didn't make the same mistake when they aired the Friday episode of premiere week.
Don't see what difference it makes, considering you only found out about it through me.