Steve Williams skill...@ntlworld.com wrote:
I was reading an interview
with Terry Wogan from his spell as host as he said he loved it when nobody
scored any points or won anything because he felt that was really the ethos
of how they approached the game in the UK, just half an hour of idle
Canada's Comedy Network has done a remake of Match Game that I just
discovered. They've added lots of lights and music cues and animations
and fast money rounds. They made the stars raise their hands, shout
pick me, and generally feign enthusiasm for Super Match. They did
all those things and
From Mark Jeffries
As far as I can tell, Take It All was not a direct adaptation of a
British format, although the Prisoner's Dilemma gambit is or has been
used by a British game show
Yes, as the Wikipedia page points out -
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Take_It_All_%28game_show%29 - it is
One of my favorite bar discussions at my previous place of business was
putting together a Match Game panel based on people at the office. We
immediately figured out the Brett and Charles spots, solved the
Dawson/Martin and White/Flagg seats shortly thereafter, but went back and
forth on the two
: Friday, March 15, 2013 11:08 AM
Subject: Re: [TV orNotTV] NBC Bringing Back Fun Prime Time Game Show?
Probably the biggest game show on British TV now is Pointless (I love this
piece, written from a US perspective -
http://gameological.com/2012/05/british-game-shows-pointless/) and last week
On Mar 15, 2013, at 4:33 PM, K.M. Richards wrote:
Probably because GSN has run repeats of the entire Match Game '7x series
somewhere on the schedule for the entire 18 years of their existence.
There was a period of about 6 months, October 1997-April 1998, when the rights
to most of the
I'm 99% certain they run them out of order now. The panelists change
every day (other than the two regulars, at least one of whom is
obnoxious at any given time), and I have the sneaking suspicion that
they were all taped in about 2 weeks in Montreal sometime last summer.
There are very few
On Fri, Mar 15, 2013 at 4:35 PM, Mark Jeffries spotligh...@gmail.com wrote:
The fast money round--or Match-Ups!--was created in the 1990 ABC version
as a way of playing a full game in one show and not having to play three
rounds and edit down the writing or play two rounds and risk having lots
Three words: Beauty School Riot.
On Mar 15, 2013, at 7:25 PM, Kevin M. drunkbastar...@gmail.com wrote:
When people watch Match Game, the last thing they should be focused
on is the actual game aspect of the show. That episodes ended without
a clear winner was never of consequence to me. What
On Friday, February 22, 2013 2:33:54 PM UTC-8, Kevin M. (RPCV) wrote:
One of my favorite shows of all time continues to be The Match Game,
reruns of which I continue to watch regularly. The problem is that
gameshows got too elaborate.
I TiVo Gene Rayburn Co. every weekday morning at
The Peacock has put an 8-ep order for Hollywood Game Night, with what
producer Sean Just Jack Hayes (whose company produces Grimm for NBC and
Hot in Cleveland and Soul Man for TV Land) is promising as A-list
celebs playing games with civilian contestants (like in the 60s when the
prime time
When I was in college in the mid 1990s, CBS did a special series of
prime-time installments of The Price is Right. The only difference
between the nighttime show and the usual version were slightly bigger
showcases, and Bob Barker wore a tuxedo. No celebrities... no false
sense of tension... just
As far as I can tell, Take It All was not a direct adaptation of a
British format, although the Prisoner's Dilemma gambit is or has been
used by a British game show (and by GSN's old Friend or Foe?, which was
uncomfortable enough with the low stakes cable jackpots, despite the fact
that Lisa
On 2/22/2013 6:33 PM, Kevin M. wrote:
When I was in college in the mid 1990s, CBS did a special series of
prime-time installments of The Price is Right.
'86 (Aug-Sept)
Mandel's latest show, based on a UK series, was doomed from the start
because, to succeed, you have to exhibit the very
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