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Bingo.. Coming to a ABC affliate near you!

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RFLA

If this was an April fools joke, they are about 15 days too early....

But according to an article in this week's Variety magazine, ABC has fast tracked a show who's main thing has been done for years on rural cable and satellite TVs everywhere.....BINGO!!!!

They are fast tracking 6 episodes of a tv show to be called "National Bingo Night" at 9PM EDT starting May 18th with Ed Sanders (Extreme Makeover: Home Edition) will be host (bingo caller?).

FMI: http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117961118.html?categoryid=14&cs=1

RFLA
 
LMAO!!! Wonder how many Ethels and Margarets will be tuning into this one?
 
Tim-In-Houston said:
Well, if that's not bad enough, Disney's Buena Vista TV is prepping a bowling-centric game show, according to Reuters/Hollywood Reporter.

We are truly scrapping the bottom of the barrel...
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Nick at Nite already did one of those.

How are these worse than the 80 billion poker shows, DOND, Millionaire, etc., anyway?

Like those, these bingo and bowling shows will be HUGE hits for at least the first month.

Also, the "sport" of Rock-Paper-Scissors is beginning to catch on. I predict someone will inject RPS with some WWE-style personality and make big money off that idea, especially if there is a writers' strike and networks need tons of dirt-cheap "unscripted" stuff to fill time.
 
Re: Bingo.. Coming to AN ABC affliate near you!

Brian Donegan said:
I'd rather watch bingo, Bowling, or Poker over people eating rats on reality shows any day.
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If this idea were a good one, Gameshow network would have thought of it first, wouldn't they?

Here's where I believe Bingo truely belongs:

http://www.cgtvcanada.com/index.php

Respectfully, there may have been those who thought watching poker on tv a few years ago was a silly idea too, and that's doing ok on regular network tv.
 
RFLA said:
If this was an April fools joke, they are about 15 days too early....

But according to an article in this week's Variety magazine, ABC has fast tracked a show who's main thing has been done for years on rural cable and satellite TVs everywhere.....BINGO!!!!

They are fast tracking 6 episodes of a tv show to be called "National Bingo Night" at 9PM EDT starting May 18th with Ed Sanders (Extreme Makeover: Home Edition) will be host (bingo caller?).

FMI: http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117961118.html?categoryid=14&cs=1

RFLA
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Well they had to do it before MyNetworkTV beat them to it.

Than again, knowing Fox, they might do it anyway...
 
Hi everyone:
Tim-In-Houston said:
Well, if that's not bad enough, Disney's Buena Vista TV is prepping a bowling-centric game show, according to Reuters/Hollywood Reporter.

We are truly scrapping the bottom of the barrel...
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Either that or the networks have thrown themselves back to TV's earliest days.

I bet it won't be long now before either ESPN or FOX Sports Net (If not both) start producing live BOXING matches for their respective OTA sister networks. Heck, the old DuMont Network used to carry boxing on TV back in the late '40s thru its demise in the mid '50s, so why should we be surprised if it were to happen today?

Just my $.02 worth :D

Cheers :D
 
clichemoth said:
Tim-In-Houston said:
Well, if that's not bad enough, Disney's Buena Vista TV is prepping a bowling-centric game show, according to Reuters/Hollywood Reporter.

We are truly scrapping the bottom of the barrel...
Click to expand...

Nick at Nite already did one of those.

How are these worse than the 80 billion poker shows, DOND, Millionaire, etc., anyway?

Like those, these bingo and bowling shows will be HUGE hits for at least the first month.

Also, the "sport" of Rock-Paper-Scissors is beginning to catch on. I predict someone will inject RPS with some WWE-style personality and make big money off that idea, especially if there is a writers' strike and networks need tons of dirt-cheap "unscripted" stuff to fill time.
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Yeah, I think it was originally produced for Comedy Central re-ran on Nick at Nite.

And I swear SpikeTV (or G4, maybe) ran a Paper-Rock-Scissors tourney one saturday afternoon last year.

(scrape scrape)
 
Yes, Comedy Central had a short-lived bowling show called "Let's Bowl!", right around the time they aired "Battlebots".

As far as bingo on TV, wouldn't EWTN be the best place for that? (rimshot) Seriously, can you imagine how one of the networks would drag out a game of bingo? "And the next number is...(dramatic pulsing techno music for 10 seconds...) N...(dramatic pulsing techno music for another 10 seconds...) We'll reveal the rest of the number right after this."
 
Corky Marlowe said:
Yes, Comedy Central had a short-lived bowling show called "Let's Bowl!", right around the time they aired "Battlebots".
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Same concept, but the N@N show I was thinking of came first by a good several years, before Comedy Central even existed as far as I know. This was in the mid-late 80s. I think it ran like a whole 3 episodes before getting dropped when they went back to being all classic TV with no original crap again.
 
Corky Marlowe said:
Yes, Comedy Central had a short-lived bowling show called "Let's Bowl!",
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Classic case of a wacky local show getting some national attention, if only briefly. Good show.

The show Nick@Nite did some years ago was a one-off called "King Pins", which referred to the end game and the pins used in same - about two feet taller than hostesss/singer/model/general cutie pie Molly Scott (who now co-hosts iVillage Live for NBCU). George Siegel (not the actor) hosted the show before he moved to Seattle for a stint at KOMO-TV, and later FNN Score where he hosted "Time Out for Trivia" after Todd Donoho left for KABC.

As far as syndication goes, about the last one I remember making a decent run of it was this mid-80s show from Florida, "Ten Pin Alley", which featured the whole gang from that cult classic "Face the Music" - Ron Ely and Lisa Donovan hosted, and the late Tommy Oliver produced. 'That Band' didn't come along for the ride.
 
vibe said:
I wonder if the MC will ask "What has 75 balls and screws old ladies?" BINGO!
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LMAO! Where is Chuck Wollery to host this one when you need him? I just pictured him saying this at the beginning of the show!
 
Let me get this straight - AMC, TVLand and others have blown out "classic" shows loved by those in their 40's and 50's because these are "undesirable" demos yet ABC is doing a show that features.......................BINGO?

Did we miss something here? Has the 75+ demo somehow become more powerful? Has Senator Byrd been pulling some strings at ABC/Disney? Maybe the blue-haired stockholders have finally rebelled.

Heck, even Chuck Woolery is too uteful to host a BINGO show. Wow

I would LOVE to be a fly on the wall during a network programming meeting. I just wonder how many "network execs" it takes to change a (compact flourescent) lightbulb.... ::)
 
Well ABC had to do something to target that coveted CBS 60 Minutes audience. ;D
 
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