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The Game Show Forum => The Big Board => Topic started by: weaklink75 on August 02, 2018, 02:10:46 PM
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A Rob Lowe-hosted show called Mental Samurai:
https://deadline.com/2018/08/fox-orders-mental-samurai-competition-series-rob-lowe-host-produce-mike-darnell-1202438805/
A Korean format called Masked Singer:
http://ew.com/tv/2018/08/02/fox-masked-singer/
A Justin Timberlake-created show called Spin The Wheel (with a $20 million prize possible)
http://ew.com/tv/2018/08/02/justin-timberlake-fox/
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Renaming "Spin The Wheel" to "As The Wall Turns."
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About the Rob Lowe "Mental Samurai" show:
In each episode, contestants battle to answer questions accurately with speed and precision. Not only does the course test their acumen in categories of knowledge, memory, numbers and sequencing...
Nice, sounds like Britain's Brainiest or another intellectual format I enjoy!
...but players will also have to contend with being transported around the set at high speeds in a specially designed capsule that is capable of rotating 360 degrees.
argh
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About the Rob Lowe "Mental Samurai" show:
In each episode, contestants battle to answer questions accurately with speed and precision. Not only does the course test their acumen in categories of knowledge, memory, numbers and sequencing...
Nice, sounds like Britain's Brainiest or another intellectual format I enjoy!
...but players will also have to contend with being transported around the set at high speeds in a specially designed capsule that is capable of rotating 360 degrees.
argh
Sounds like Teh Chamber with a whole lot less electrocution and frostbite.
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Curious if "Mental Samurai" will be hosted by Rob Lowe or "Peaked in High School" Rob Lowe.
As for "Spin the Wheel", I presume the interview for host went as follows …
Q: So Dax, are you still married to Kristen Bell?
D: Yes.
Q: Can she cameo on an episode?
D: Well, I'd have to ask …
Q: Good enough, you're hired!
JD
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Curious if "Mental Samurai" will be hosted by Rob Lowe or "Peaked in High School" Rob Lowe.
Worse, it's "Peaked with High Schoolers" Rob Lowe.
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Curious if "Mental Samurai" will be hosted by Rob Lowe or "Peaked in High School" Rob Lowe.
Worse, it's "Peaked with High Schoolers" Rob Lowe.
Points. Both of you.
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Mental Samurai sounds like it will be a great show.
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Spin The Wheel apparently tapes Monday:
http://on-camera-audiences.com/shows/Spin_The_Wheel
The page makes clear that they are expecting each taping to take 4-6 hours.
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Ok, so riddle me this: If you have a tape session on the 9th that runs from 2-6pm, how are you also having a tape session on the 9th that starts at 4:45pm?
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I would assume that they are queuing up the next audience while they are winding down the previous taping. When they post 4:45, that is not the ass-in-seat time.
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Reviving this to note that "Mental Samurai" will premiere on Fox next month ...
https://deadline.com/2019/01/mental-samurai-premiere-date-rob-lowe-fox-obstacle-course-for-the-mind-1202532145/
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I guarantee you, the only reason this is airing is because of the fact that "The Masked Singer" started off ok in terms of ratings. (In other words they're hoping this pulls the same ratings or better.)
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You say that like it’s bad thing.
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Big reason why Fox is trying a bunch of game shows isn’t that one seems to be doing well but that they’re no longer a production studio, having sold most of the company to Disney. They won’t be able to work the distribution angles on scripted stuff and have said they’ll rely more on sports and news. Presumably cheap reality shows, too. If one takes off like Deal or No Deal, all the better.
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A game “almost no one can win.” Sounds like a sure-fire hit.
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The odds o&f fluking into the top prize of $250,000 on Wingo were 1 in 2,200 and it lasted six episodes. Just throwing that out there.
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but players also will have to contend with being physically transported around the set at high speeds in a specially designed capsule capable of rotating 360 degrees
This description's reminding me of both The Chair and The Chamber. Not a good sign.
People from all walks of life will compete,
I'll believe it when I see it, thanks.
and underdogs will triumph,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sz_D8s9jUc4
in the game that anyone can play, and almost no one can win.
Doesn't really bode well when you use this kind of phrase...
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and underdogs will triumph,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sz_D8s9jUc4
I wouldn't read too much into that. I'm interpreting that as just some gimmicky jargon meant to make the show sound more dramatic.
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I honestly didn't realize that they were no longer a production studio. (When did this happen?)
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I honestly didn't realize that they were no longer a production studio. (When did this happen?)
It hasn't happened quite yet, but Disney and 21st Century Fox (the parent company to the various Fox assets) have agreed to a deal in which Disney acquires the 20th Century Fox production studios, but the Murdochs keeps the Fox Broadcasting Company:
https://variety.com/2018/biz/news/21st-century-fox-disney-merger-shareholder-vote-1202888023/