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Can a English version of Sabado Gigante work?

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Saturday night is the worst night for network television as far as ratings go? If one of the networks decided to do an English version of Sabado Gigante (with a title that makes more sense in English) do you think it could work. I think it is worth a shot. First of all you have games and contests that not only involve the studio audience but the viewers at home as well, and you also have musical acts and other forms of entertainment.

Or is this a moronic idea that would never work in English?
 
It wouldn't be the worst idea ever. If you found the right hosts with broad appeal and presented the right mix of content, it could work. But it would be very difficult to pull off and reruns and reality crap are still cheaper.
 
Brian Donegan said:
Saturday night is the worst night for network television as far as ratings go? If one of the networks decided to do an English version of Sabado Gigante (with a title that makes more sense in English) do you think it could work. I think it is worth a shot. First of all you have games and contests that not only involve the studio audience but the viewers at home as well, and you also have musical acts and other forms of entertainment.

Or is this a moronic idea that would never work in English?
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One of its main segments and one of my favorites is towards the end of the show where they have pricing games comparable to The Price Is Right such as Plinko, Hi-Lo, among others. I just wonder why that any Spanish station(Univision, Telemundo, Azteca America) hasn't had a Spanish version of The Price Is Right yet. Other countries like England and Australia have versions of the Price Is Right, why hasn't Mexico?
 
I am not sure what it is called but there is a show right after TPIR airs on Univision that seems very similar. I don't know what it is called.
 
it's called Trato Hecho...which translates (roughly) to let's make a deal. I believe it's produced Domestically in the United States.
 
Brian Donegan said:
First of all you have games and contests that not only involve the studio audience but the viewers at home as well, and you also have musical acts and other forms of entertainment.
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That really sounds like an expansion of the old variety shows (like "Ed Sullivan"), that featured of a wide range of entertainers of all types. It's commonly believed that tastes in the U.S. today are too splintered to make a program like that viable in this day and age...but really, unless someone tries, you never know.
 
Braves2005 said:
Other countries like England and Australia have versions of the Price Is Right, why hasn't Mexico?
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They did -- "Atínale al Precio", which ran on Mexico's Televisa network from 1997 to 2001.

mimo said:
it's called Trato Hecho...which translates (roughly) to let's make a deal. I believe it's produced Domestically in the United States.
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"Trato Hecho" was actually a Hispanic version of "Let's Make A Deal", rather than "The Price Is Right". (Though of course, I tend to believe TPIR returned in 1972, so CBS could have something similar to ABC's "Let's Make A Deal".)
 
Trato Hecho on Univision, for my pesos, was as close as we'll ever see to a good update to Let's Make A Deal. Guillermo Huesca was solid as host and they kept to the tradition of the show while adding in Hispanic flair. Once you get by the low budget (their big deals were typically $4,000-$6,000), you have a decent half hour to spend.

Hey we could be dealing with Billy Bush's version of the show. And to think Al Roker almost had a lock on the job for sometime before Billy got the gig.
 
How about this for Saturday nights on MyNetworkTV? It would be something different, and first-run instead of re-run.
 
TexasTom said:
It's commonly believed that tastes in the U.S. today are too splintered to make a program like that viable in this day and age...but really, unless someone tries, you never know.
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American Idol?
 
DoctorBear said:
TexasTom said:
It's commonly believed that tastes in the U.S. today are too splintered to make a program like that viable in this day and age...but really, unless someone tries, you never know.
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American Idol?
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By all conventional wisdom, Idol shouldn't have worked here, either. Fox only tried it because it was cheap to produce and WHAMMO! 50 million viewers.
 
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