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Based on the ads, I'm really interested in Ultimate Tag. Looks like they're trying to capture an American Gladiators style vibe with it. On the other side of that coin, I was hugely disappointed with The Titan Games' first season and I'm surprised it's getting a second. The final round's obstacle course was phenomenal, but the first 55 minutes of each episode was an absolute waste of time. Why would you spend 5 minutes on the backstory of every contestant along with footage of them getting the call to be a contestant, only for them to be immediately eliminated in their first round lasting less than a minute?! TelevisedInsanity posted:As of right now, because of COVID-19, most productions are in a stand-still so Supermarket Sweep, Card Sharks, Big Brother, etc. are all pretty much stuck in production lunch break.  While I prefer the "best 2 out of 3 rounds" format of the original Card Sharks, I still very much enjoyed the modern series. Great mix of risk/reward gameplay with Joel McHale as the cherry on top. Was hoping it'd be back for the Summer. Only got into ABC's lineup of game shows last year because of the return of Press Your Luck. They've been doing a fantastic job of updating classic game shows. Before then I had no idea modern versions of Match Game, To Tell the Truth, and Pyramid had been running for years! Not seeing Pyramid on the schedule I looked it up and apparently it also got delayed because of COVID-19. I'm ecstatic that Holey Moley is back. The golf is nothing but a conduit through which Joe Tessitore and Rob Riggle serve up amazing commentary. I think I just spent the last half hour watching highlights of my favorite parts from the first season. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_qOZbjH_q8&t=569s - Start at 9:30 and watch to the part where they have to find the contestant's glasses.
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Pluto TV added Game Show Central to its lineup today! Was scrolling down to watch Buzzr and noticed the new channel right next to it. Buzzr is filled mainly with 50s to 80s game shows with a dash of Supermarket Sweep, and it's looking like Game Show Central is a channel filled with GSN originals. So those along with the 24/7 American Gladiators, MST3K, and Rifftrax channels have been holding my sanity together while stuck at home. 
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Doggles posted:Based on the ads, I'm really interested in Ultimate Tag. Looks like they're trying to capture an American Gladiators style vibe with it. Ultimate Tag  Ultimate Tag is everything that was great about 90s American Gladiators in everything but name! Went into the first episode hoping for something at least better than The Titan Games and came away blown away! There is absolutely zero sob story bullshit in it. Each of the 6 contestants gets about a 10 second introduction, as do the taggers, and the rest of the time is dedicated purely to the events! Each of which would fit almost seamlessly into an American Gladiators episode! UT's events are timed to last around 2 minutes whereas AG's last about 1, so one of the women's events wound up being summarized rather than shown which I'm not a fan of. Not sure where they could find the extra time for it though, there's not a whole lot of fat to trim unlike in The Titan Games!  Aside from skipping showing one of the events, the only real negative thing I have to say about the first episode is that the final event is underwhelming compared to the events that lead up to it, so it's like the exact opposite problem The Titan Games has. Instead of each contestant running an obstacle course one at a time, I'd rather see the contestants go head to head somehow. Fox might be on to something by making sincere knock-offs of properties other networks are squandering. The Orville is the true successor to Star Trek, and Ultimate Tag is looking to be the true successor to American Gladiators!
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https://twitter.com/DEADLINE/status/1288257568494755846 And I don't know if it's been brought up in this thread yet, but Supermarket Sweep is currently casting and is showing up on ABC's Fall schedule for Sundays at 8! I know Cards Sharks was supposed to start filming recently, but I haven't seen any updates on that yet, nor have I seen anything about $100,000 Pyramid. TelevisedInsanity posted:
Season 2 of Press Your Luck has been fantastic! The pacing and production for the first season of Press Your Luck, while not bad, was just a little "off." Odd camera angles, lack of music cues, commercial breaks at awkward times, etc. At times it almost seemed like the episodes were edited together at the last minute. With this season they've really hit the ground running and basically fixed every issue* I had with the first batch of episodes! *Buttons are still too bulbous. This season they've built the base up to mask the button's long neck, but the button itself is too round to be slappable like the original's. 
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ABC continues knocking it out of the park with their game show revivals. Very much enjoyed Supermarket Sweep. Same formula is just as good as it always was, plus the double-or-nothing addition to the bonus round is a nice way of raising the stakes without dragging out the game. The most surprising thing is the addition of this wacky cast of characters that work in the grocery store. On paper it sounds like it'd be the most cringe-worthy idea, but in practice it's so stupid it's good. Similar to Press Your Luck's transition from season 1 to 2, Card Sharks made the same kind of improvement. Every minor gripe I had about its first season was seemingly addressed and fixed. 7 cards to win instead of 10, leading to an actual win outside of sudden death for once! Ties in the bonus round result in a push instead of a loss. Finally, they added physical score displays in front of each contestant which look far superior than the simple on-screen graphics of the first season. And I guess Millionaire airs between those two. I'd rather watch Jeopardy.  Now where's my Classic Concentration revival?! 
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Context posted:What did PYL change from season 1 to 2? (I've enjoyed both seasons immensely.) Oh yeah, first season was definitely good, it just had some minor issues due to it being a new production. When the contestants were given their multiple choices for a question, the camera would switch to a wide angle with the contestants at the bottom of the screen, similar to the original PYL. The problem with that is the multiple choices aren't displayed on the screen in this new series so you'd have this awkward lingering wide-angle shot of the contestants just standing there while Banks reads the choices off camera. It's like they filmed it with the intention to add the choices on screen later, but never got around to it. I don't know if they changed directors or what, but season 2's camera angles and when they switch are a lot more dynamic and done with better purpose now. The first season also had some awkward pacing issues. Commercial breaks would happen in the middle of players' turns. Now, commercials only come after a player uses up or passes their spins. That allows the game to flow much smoother than before. The second season finally has victory music that plays when someone wins the main round. It was an odd omission that there wasn't any sort of fanfare after a win in season 1, only the sound of applause while waiting for the show to go to commercial. All minor things overall that the producers of ABC's game shows are taking notice of and improving upon season to season. This tells me these game shows aren't simply looked at as nostalgic cash grabs, but are being set up to be staples for years to come. Main reason I'm noticing these sorts of things is that I want to build a sort of portable game show production that can be rented out for events locally, so I've been extremely detail oriented about what is and is not working on modern game shows. I already have the programming knowledge, now I'm trial and erroring my way through woodworking and electrical engineering to build prototypes like eggcrate displays, https://www.instagram.com/p/B3qfMZGhPKO/, and a Combs-era Family Feud face off podium, https://www.instagram.com/p/CDZ0PcYB9As/. Seeing this game show resurgence over the past few years has been extremely inspiring. I'm just hoping it lasts like it did across the 70s-90s so that I have enough time to build my project and get it out there!
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Thanks for the shoutout in the OP. I'll hopefully have some more progress to show off early next year after the holidays are over. And from the second post in the thread... EugeneJ posted:If you're not yelling at the idiots during the grocery run in Supermarket Sweep every night, you're not living This is even more true in the new version during the big sweep. The riddles in the original version could be outright cryptic, but in the new version they basically tell you what aisle you should be looking in to start with. When the $100,000 clue begins with "This cereal..." run immediately to the cereal aisle you morons! Why are you trying to rhyme the clue with something in the healthcare aisle?!
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Schedule change for Jeopardy, they'll be airing Trebek's 10 best episodes the weeks of 12/21 and 12/28. Then they will air his final week of episodes the week of 1/4. New episodes begin production next week. https://twitter.com/Jeopardy/status/1330996342865293313 And a bonus promo for The Chase! https://twitter.com/bradrutter/status/1330734878162259969
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InsensitiveSeaBass posted:Also, coulda been you, Norm: This would have been amazing to watch if every single ad leading up to the episode that night didn't spoil the ending.
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lolin' that contestants who don't know how to play poker keep drawing Poker Game as their pricing game. Barker: You have four 9s. Do you want to keep that or pass that hand to the house? Contestant:  Barker: Audience, help her out. Should she pass that hand? Audience: NO! Contestant: Uh, I guess I'll keep it? Barker: And the house has drawn two pair! Contestant:  Barker: That means you win. Gene Hackman Fan posted:it's not just the variance of winning, but in just how elaborate the pieces were for the games No kidding. Was super surprised when Pick-a-Pair rolled out and had the prizes rotating on a ferris wheel that they could stop and start on command! And then this thing for Check-Out!  Seeing that pop up on screen gave me one of the most visceral nostalgia trips I've had in years! Took me back to sitting on the shag carpet in my grandparents' den, punching in the numbers on my Mickey Mouse calculator along with the show. hexwren posted:On the downside to the Barker channel, I've only watched a handful of episodes (no more than five) and I've already seen one repeat between Wednesday and Friday nights. That's a weird quirk with Pluto's binge channels. It's like they start these binge channels, but they don't have all the episodes distributed to them all at once. They seem to get them in batches over time. Like when the Star Trek channel launched, it was only the first half of the first season of TNG over and over again. Now, a few months later, they have about the first half of TNG episodes in general, a couple of movies, and at least one documentary in rotation.
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Surprise, The Hustler's premiering tonight before moving to its regular night on Thursdays! https://twitter.com/CraigyFerg/status/1346180831069360129
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Even more game shows are coming! I hadn't even heard of this one until I saw an ad for it during the Name That Tune premiere. I believe it's starting in February on Fox. https://twitter.com/Variety_TV/status/1339239752910827520
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Between hosting Supermarket Sweep and being a contestant on Wheel of Fortune, you can tell Leslie Jones is living her dream. 
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Doggles posted:Main reason I'm noticing these sorts of things is that I want to build a sort of portable game show production that can be rented out for events locally, so I've been extremely detail oriented about what is and is not working on modern game shows. I already have the programming knowledge, now I'm trial and erroring my way through woodworking and electrical engineering to build prototypes like eggcrate displays, https://www.instagram.com/p/B3qfMZGhPKO/, and a Combs-era Family Feud face off podium, https://www.instagram.com/p/CDZ0PcYB9As/. Goon game show project update. Life stopped kicking me in the balls long enough to finally get started on the next phase of my project.  https://www.instagram.com/p/CKcgwXGB_wX/ Finished 5 "light blocks" over the weekend and whipped up a simple test animation. My idea is to build the framework of my portable game show set out of blocks like these. I got a shipment of dark acrylic last week, so next up is using that to build a 4-character eggcrate display. That will stack on top of these blocks, flanked by its own light blocks, and then another row of blocks will go on top of that. That'll compose one "chunk" of the set. Overall, the plan is to have a projector screen set up, flanked on each side by one of these chunks, plus another chunk above the screen. It'll wind up as a rudimentary version of the Family Feud board. And if all that somehow works, I then start working on contestant podiums for things like Jeopardy and maybe a couple of original game show concepts I've been cooking up!
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Doggles posted:Goon game show project update. Fully assembled and wired the first of three score displays! https://www.instagram.com/p/CNQlTJQhoVt/ EDIT: emgeejay posted:Good video about Family Dollar’s odd failed game show: https://youtu.be/QwulEe3Tmz4 And I had never even heard of this before. Gotta go start on dinner, but I'll definitely be checking this out later. Doggles fucked around with this message at 23:32 on Apr 4, 2021 |
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^^^  https://twitter.com/Variety/status/1392162939604512779  EDIT: More good news! https://twitter.com/DEADLINE/status/1392905103858937863 Doggles fucked around with this message at 20:42 on May 13, 2021 |
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I don't have the data to back it up, but crazy thing I've been noticing about COVID-era Price is Right is that the value of trips are thousands of dollars less than I remember them being. Before COVID, trips were getting way up there in price, some even 5-digits, and most wouldn't go below $8000. Recently, I'm seeing many contestants lose pricing games by over-valuing trips. If there was a game to choose between two prices for a trip, it used to be if you chose the more expensive one you were basically guaranteed a win. I just saw someone lose a trip on Coming or Going by choosing the $7000 price rather than the $5000 price! And now it's got me thinking about how the superconductor shortage is going to affect the price of cars coming up. Will cars starting with a 3 become the norm rather than the exception later this year? With this game show project I'm building, I pictured myself buying a cargo van to transport the set around town. I really don't want to see the prices of those shoot up. I'm spending enough on inflated plywood and plastic prices already. 
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Doggles posted:Goon game show project update. Finished the three score displays I'll need, and this past weekend I built the rudimentary framework they'll stand on. Today I put them all together and it actually stands up on its own without falling over! Front view:  Back view:  Disassembled for storage/transport:  That gap in the center is where a projector screen will go. The shelves to the left and right of the top score display are where I'm thinking I'll put speakers. The whole thing will stand up on a couple of banquet tables. That'd place the side displays at around the height that the top display is currently (the top of that comes to about 5 1/2 feet tall). The top display would end up being above head level at that point. Next up: Start learning how to create and display a custom Family Feud game board through a projector connected to a Raspberry Pi, figure out how I'm going to wire and distribute power and communication between all the microcontrollers I'll use (1 Arduino for each score display, 1 Raspberry Pi to send graphics to the projector, and probably 1 more Raspberry Pi for a control box), and design, build, and wire a control box with pushbuttons to command the overall set. So yeah, I'm totally on the final stretch... 
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^^^ Island Nation posted:I complained about this in the Jeopardy thread but who decided to make College Bowl the Hee Haw Comedy Hour? Robnoxious posted:Yeah, the banter between Peyton and his brother is forced and pointless. Oooof, I'm finally watching this for the first time and it's worse than I thought!
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"Peloton instructor" I was going to joke about whether that's more or less of a star than "Youtuber." Then I looked up who the Youtuber is and it's Lori Loughlin's daughter, who scammed her way in to college. She has nearly 2 million subscribers.  EDIT: Maybe Mike Richards will be on next season. His schedule's freed up! 
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Ooof. https://twitter.com/TheWrap/status/1447596555452784641 I was one of them at least. It's not bad, but I wouldn't say it's good either. It's an hour-long show, but with this grown-up format there's too much content for a half hour, but not enough to stretch out into a full hour. So the show just kind of meanders and tries to build up too much suspense and tension around what should be quick whimsical challenges. And none of it is really compelling to watch except for the temple run. I'm loving what they did with the new temple, but the team only gets four minutes to run it and there's a commercial break in the middle of the run!  It's like the producers saw just how good the Supermarket Sweep remake is, and decided to take the complete opposite lessons from that.
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https://twitter.com/DEADLINE/status/1460706892167192583 Also, I skipped a few weeks of the new Legends of the Hidden Temple, but happened to catch this past Sunday's. That one was actually really good. The two teams that made it to the temple games just fully embraced the silliness of the situation and started roleplaying along with the games giving them a much needed energy. The hour-long format is still a drag, but the casting of those two teams was spot on for what the show needs to be entertaining. Supermarket Sweep remains an absolute joy to watch.
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https://twitter.com/KenJennings/status/1466490971999268864 First time I've heard of this. Looks like it'll be a sort of game show game streaming service, hopefully similar to the Jackbox Games. http://www.gamestarplus.com/ They have a lot more details on their crowdfunding site: https://wefunder.com/gamestar
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I'm sad I missed this as it aired. https://twitter.com/awfulannouncing/status/1498823694269001728
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You know how the celebrity version of Wheel of Fortune kind of livens up an otherwise well-worn formula? Well the celebrity version of Name that Tune is basically the opposite of that. It's like watching an episode of Jeopardy where the majority of clues are triple stumpers. Excruciating to watch and really confounding that Fox decided to air it.
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EvilMoFo posted:what the flying gently caress was that voice kermit had on holey moley? Looping this back around to Masked Singer chat, a few seasons ago there was a singer that sounded like they were trying to do a bad Kermit the Frog impression to mask their singing voice. It was Kermit the Frog. 
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The Price is Right will now be filmed in a different studio for the first time in over 50 years. https://deadline.com/2023/03/the-price-is-right-move-production-television-city-renovations-1235283050/
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InsensitiveSeaBass posted:Trebek's ghost must have scared him shitless. Seacrest is the Ghost of Game Show Future  https://twitter.com/koblin/status/1673732452790026240
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