NBC Plans 12-day long, 24/7 quiz show this fall

[michael hagerty]

^ Let's run with that.....if it *is* news, then---ready?---*every* channel should mention it, not just the NBC ones

Hey I love game shows.....but those that are indoor, in a studio, with bells & buzzers, a studio audience, etc., with happy music, no eerie stuff (as in suspense).....

cd

And only half an hour long(unless it's 'The Price is Right').

Well, Hugh Downs and Don Pardo are still alive and working. Time to re-boot Concentration.

 

[cd637299]

^ Yes, Concentration (whose format is still owned by NBC) is due again. I prefer the old 30-square board & mechanical trilons (as opposed to the computerized Classic Concentration), but I know that that won't happen again.

Also, Norm Blumenthal, who designed all the original rebuses & those for the home games as well, is still with us.

How about this? Make Concentration the 24/7 show, with 1,000,000 squares (1000 x 1000)-----nah, it'd take 5 days before the first match was made. Scratch that.

cd

 

[blackgold]

Let's reboot the old NBC Radio Network. Have NBC News Radio run Monitor during the weekend and prime time programs during the week.

 

[michael hagerty]

Let's reboot the old NBC Radio Network. Have NBC News Radio run Monitor during the weekend and prime time programs during the week.

But who would host a modern-day Monitor? They were getting desperate enough 40 years ago to turn it over to Don Imus, Robert W. Morgan and Wolfman Jack (Imus quote: "Wolf, Robert and I did Monitor for a while. Well, actually Robert did Monitor. Wolf and I did cocaine.").

 

[ercjncpr]

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[michael hagerty]

Somebody at NBC/Comcast has been smokin' funny cigarettes...my prediction is it ain't-a-gonna-happen (at least not on over the air NBC affiliates). It would be way too costly, not enpugh sponsors , questions, answers, contestants or viewer interest beyond the first few hours. No affiliate in their right mind is going to give up twelve 24/7 days to the network.

Already covered: It's looking like the only thing that gets televised (apart from the pimping by Today, Tonight, Late Night and Last Call) will be 3 hours of prime time on 12 consecutive nights. The rest will be online.

 

[ercjncpr]

Somebody at NBC/Comcast has been smokin' funny cigarettes...my prediction is it ain't-a-gonna-happen (at least not on over the air NBC affiliates). It would be way too costly, not enpugh sponsors , questions, answers, contestants or viewer interest beyond the first few hours. No affiliate in their right mind is going to give up twelve 24/7 days to the network.

Already covered: It's looking like the only thing that gets televised (apart from the pimping by Today, Tonight, Late Night and Last Call) will be 3 hours of prime time on 12 consecutive nights. The rest will be online.

I know I just revised my post, thanks!

 

[ercjncpr]

Somebody at NBC/Comcast has been smokin' funny cigarettes...my prediction is it ain't-a-gonna-happen (at least not on over the air NBC affiliates). It would be way too costly, not enpugh sponsors , questions, answers, contestants or viewer interest beyond the first few hours. No affiliate in their right mind is going to give up twelve 24/7 days to the network.

Already covered: It's looking like the only thing that gets televised (apart from the pimping by Today, Tonight, Late Night and Last Call) will be 3 hours of prime time on 12 consecutive nights. The rest will be online.

You know, online would be the best place for Survivor and Big Brother at this point

 

[umfan]

Why? They both still pull very good ratings.

NBC may as well try something. It's not like they have current programming that will draw anything. Plus a show like this lends itself well to being promoted on Today.

 

[pab]

Is anyone else thinking "subchannel?" Philly's WCAU-TV (NBC O&O) has kept a vacant channel on 10.3 for a while. Might NBC be putting this show on a subchannel on their O&O's and offer it to other affiliates?

 

[michael hagerty]

Is anyone else thinking "subchannel?" Philly's WCAU-TV (NBC O&O) has kept a vacant channel on 10.3 for a while. Might NBC be putting this show on a subchannel on their O&O's and offer it to other affiliates?

They could do that, but they'd be dooming themselves to sporadic coverage. Cable and satellite systems do individual deals to carry each subchannel. If it's vacant, it's likely not being cleared. And most active subchannels have contracts for programming that likely wouldn't permit 12 days of pre-emptions.

 

[BMR]

Something a bit like this was tried in the UK in 2004, and it bombed..... http://www.ukgameshows.com/ukgs/24_Hour_Quiz

It'll be interesting to see how this goes

 

[kenglish]

^ Let's run with that.....if it *is* news, then---ready?---*every* channel should mention it, not just the NBC ones

Hey I love game shows.....but those that are indoor, in a studio, with bells & buzzers, a studio audience, etc., with happy music, no eerie stuff (as in suspense).....

cd

And only half an hour long(unless it's 'The Price is Right').

Well, Hugh Downs and Don Pardo are still alive and working. Time to re-boot Concentration.

Lynwood King is still around....he was the Director on "Concentration" for a few years. I know his brother, Don, from back in Georgia.

 

[KERCAlum]

^ Yes, Concentration (whose format is still owned by NBC) is due again. I prefer the old 30-square board & mechanical trilons (as opposed to the computerized Classic Concentration), but I know that that won't happen again.

Also, Norm Blumenthal, who designed all the original rebuses & those for the home games as well, is still with us.

How about this? Make Concentration the 24/7 show, with 1,000,000 squares (1000 x 1000)-----nah, it'd take 5 days before the first match was made. Scratch that.

cd

Okay, so I know this is kind of off-topic, but...

Why not a combination of the two? Do the mechanical board for nostalgia's sake, but make the faces of each trilon LCD or LED screens that can animate - for example, you have animated prizes (either video clips or kinetic typography), and the puzzles are somewhat animated (remember "Catch Phrase" from the UK in the '80s?). And the number faces can be animated as well, but not so much that it's jarring.

It'd be an expensive board, but it might work!

 

[cd637299]

^ Well certainly as NBC has held onto the Concentration rights, certainly they *could* do something with the format.....I'd think that anything would be worth a shot. Neat idea about the animation; my trilon idea is so 1958 anyway. It wouldn't work, unless they wanted to please me and only me. (I just recall how 2 trilons would sometimes get stuck, and it might have to have been manually adjusted. )

BTW "Catch Phrase" began in the USA in 1985 w/ Art James hosting, and it bombed, running only 13 weeks in syndication, I think. I enjoyed it, and even sent ideas for catch phrases, but the show was canceled quickly. It was exported to Europe & Australia, and it did just fine. (I have a Catch Phrase home game from the UK I got on eBay, but never played the thing.)

Yes I'm OT....back to the title of the thread....

cd

 

[vchimpanzee]

^ Yes, Concentration (whose format is still owned by NBC) is due again. I prefer the old 30-square board & mechanical trilons (as opposed to the computerized Classic Concentration), but I know that that won't happen again.

Me too. I couldn't stand that noise made when the new board was used. I much prefer the mechanical noises.

I recall they told us the secret of that board for the old show's anniversary, and when they got to another milestone they were going to reveal more secrets. But they never got to that anniversary.

 

[BMR]

BTW "Catch Phrase" began in the USA in 1985 w/ Art James hosting, and it bombed, running only 13 weeks in syndication, I think. I enjoyed it, and even sent ideas for catch phrases, but the show was canceled quickly. It was exported to Europe & Australia, and it did just fine. (I have a Catch Phrase home game from the UK I got on eBay, but never played the thing.)

Yes I'm OT....back to the title of the thread....

cd

Since you mention it, Catchphrase has just re-started here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQBkFFRb4Mc if you want to sample some...