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ABC's upcoming summer hit...where is the originality???

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Mamaknowsbreast

I saw a preview of it during the NBA Playoffs and it's called WIPEOUT. A bunch of wacky challenges with 2 play by play hosts responding with quirky remarks. Wonder what executive at ABC was home one night and came across an MXC episode?
 
Well, I'm guessing networks are trying to think outside the box, when it comes to originality. I believe they sent people out to Japan just to watch those crazy game shows. "Wipeout" comes from "Takeshi's Castle", which also the inspiration for MXC-"Most Extreme Elimination Challenge". Ellen Degeneres was watching a YouTube video of People eating Marshmallows while their backs are tied up, and the only way they can eat marshmallows was by their mouths and their tongues. Ellen named one of her silly games she plays on her show, called "The Marshmallow Game". "Wipeout" comes from the producer of The hit Japanese television game show, "Fear Factor". And if that's not enough Japanese TV, wait there's more: ABC also have another show on their sleeves, and it's called "I Survived a Japanese TV Game Show".
 
Troy Goodwin said:
ABC also have another show on their sleeves, and it's called "I Survived a Japanese TV Game Show".
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I wonder if they'll be giving away stupid T-shirts as consolation prizes (hint, hint)?
 
Guess What? That hot Mercury Girl (Jill Wagner) from those car commercials happens to be one of the show's hosts. And I'll probably be watching it just for her.
 
easttxtv said:
...where is the originality???
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I think it went down the same drain as the regular, non-squeezed end credits....
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I don't understand the anger towards squished credits, I see it here alot. What gives?
 
Some time ago (okay, 1993), Vin Di Bona -- the man who took a popular segment from Japan's "Fun TV with Kato-chan and Ken-chan" and imported it to America as "America's Funniest Home Videos" -- Americanized "Takeshi's Castle" as a one-hour CBS special called "Storm The Castle."

And several episodes of "Happy Family Plan" (also from Japan) are on YouTube; that show thanks to Di Bona came to the States as "The Big Moment" for a few weeks in 1999.

"Wipeout", as I've found out, is produced by Endemol USA, not Vin Di Bona.

Jonathan Allen
 
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