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Update on Guiding Light's Replacement

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ssetta

According to gameshownewsnet.com, the two shows that are in works to possibly replace Guiding Light are The Dating Game & Pyramid. The sad part of this news is that they're making it $1,000,000 Pyramid, and in all honesty, I think it's a bit much. Why not just stick with $100,000 Pyramid. There are WAY TOO MANY $1,000,000 game shows on TV now..and I've got a feelling they're gonna crap it up like Donnymid. I can't see The Dating Game being a hit in today's entertainment world. Just keeping my fingers crossed that they choose Pyramid (and maybe come up with something else - Match Game anyone?) and use a more CLASSIC look to the set & get a good host (DON'T DO TO PYRAMID WHAT YOU DID TO TPiR!!!!)

Here's the full story:


Earth Needs Audiences
"5th Grader", Two Pilots Roll
From About.com Game Shows & Chad Mosher Posted 6/3/09

We may have lost the prime time show, but the syndicated daytime version of Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader? is going full steam ahead.


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The Dating Game could work since..well people still date in this day and age.

Now on the other hand had CBS decided to do a remake of The Newlywed Game, that may not work now since today so many couples live together and are having kids who are NOT married, so much so there are even a few churches today who no longer look at it as, well "living in sin". Whats the point of having newlyweds winning prizes and trips when they can already do that without saying "I do"?
 
I miss the bright flashy lights and the loud game show sets of the 70's and 80's. That was part of the excitement. Even the music was better. However that all changed when "Who wants to be a Millionaire" hit the air. Every game show felt that it needed to become a clone. Dim lights, dark sets and even darker sounding music. Let's go back to doing it in a way that made them fun in the first place. Then I think less of them would fail.
 
ssetta said:
According to gameshownewsnet.com, the two shows that are in works to possibly replace Guiding Light are The Dating Game & Pyramid. The sad part of this news is that they're making it $1,000,000 Pyramid, and in all honesty, I think it's a bit much. Why not just stick with $100,000 Pyramid. There are WAY TOO MANY $1,000,000 game shows on TV now..and I've got a feelling they're gonna crap it up like Donnymid. I can't see The Dating Game being a hit in today's entertainment world. Just keeping my fingers crossed that they choose Pyramid (and maybe come up with something else - Match Game anyone?) and use a more CLASSIC look to the set & get a good host (DON'T DO TO PYRAMID WHAT YOU DID TO TPiR!!!!)

Here's the full story:


Earth Needs Audiences
"5th Grader", Two Pilots Roll
From About.com Game Shows & Chad Mosher Posted 6/3/09

We may have lost the prime time show, but the syndicated daytime version of Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader? is going full steam ahead.


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[EDIT-quotation exceeds fair use standards.]
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Don't know about the Dating Game.
But I can't see anyone hosting Pyramid other than Dick Clark. And really, who wants to see Ryan Seacrest hosting that?
 
According to an excerpt someone posted to Wikipedia:

"Currently, there are pilots being taped for the new Pyramid game show, branded as "The $1,000,000 Pyramid". There has been one pilot produced with another scheduled for Friday, June 19th. The first was done on June 16, 2009 with host Tim Vincent of Access Hollywood and celebrity players including Jeopardy! super champion Ken Jennings[2]. The Game play is very much like the 1980s syndicated versions of the show. It is being taped at Kaufman Astoria Studios in New York, which would mark the first version of Pyramid to tape in New York since 1981. It is being produced by Who Wants to Be a Millionaire producer Michael Davies, CEO of Embassy Row. [3]"

Again, this is an entry from Wikipedia, but the information apparently came from here: http://onsetproductions.com/calendar/tickets.aspx?showID=70&eventID=109 And here: http://s834.photobucket.com/albums/zz265/MJose00/?start=0

I guess Dick Clark did not pick up the option to own the rights to the show.
 
mleach said:
The Dating Game could work since..well people still date in this day and age.

Now on the other hand had CBS decided to do a remake of The Newlywed Game, that may not work now since today so many couples live together and are having kids who are NOT married, so much so there are even a few churches today who no longer look at it as, well "living in sin". Whats the point of having newlyweds winning prizes and trips when they can already do that without saying "I do"?
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There is a new version of The Newlywed Game. It's on GSN and is hosted by the very pregnant CARNIE WILSON.
 
justthenumbers said:
Garrett said:
The Game play is very much like the 1980s syndicated versions of the show.
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As was the case on the 80's versions...I hope they flash the graphic "WINNERS" (with the quotes included) when it's determined which contestants are going to play for the big money. I just found something very entertaining about that.

EDIT - Like this:

http://i43.tinypic.com/2vl3aj4.jpg
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On the new version it would be funnier if they flashed "Losers" on the other team instead. lol
 
that new version on GSN is very tame and boring. Carnie Wilson does not delight in putting people in the spot the way Bob Eubanks did. Also the questions are much tamer, you can tell they are shooting for a family audience. Refreshing in a way, but the end product is dull.
 
ssetta said:
According to gameshownewsnet.com, the two shows that are in works to possibly replace Guiding Light are The Dating Game & Pyramid. The sad part of this news is that they're making it $1,000,000 Pyramid, and in all honesty, I think it's a bit much. Why not just stick with $100,000 Pyramid. There are WAY TOO MANY $1,000,000 game shows on TV now.
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Cheapskate. :D
 
In today's economy, a million dollars attracts viewers. Sure it may be harder to win a million, but it will attract viewers.

Maybe they ought to change up Merv Griffins Crosswords to Merv Griffins $1,000,000.00 Crosswords!
Let's see $1,000,000.00 Wheel of Fortune.
$1,000,000.00 Jeopardy!
$1,000,000.00 Tic Tac Dough
$1,000,000.00 Card Sharks
$1,000,000.00 Hollywood Squares
$1,000,000.00 Match Game
$1,000,000.00 Celebrity Sweepstakes
$1,000,000.00 Truth or Consenquenses
$1,000,000.00 Concentration

Let's make EVERYONE a millionaire!!!!
 
I'd like to see Pyramid make it on the air, but could care less about The Dating Game. It was never on CBS, and CBS should be considering remakes of other classic CBS game shows. My choice would be Press Your Luck.

I liked the 70's version of Match Game, but I think a new version wouldn't be nearly as good.
 
I say, time for a brand new game show, true to today's times...

"Bailout"! :D
 
How about Press Your Luck. I'm must be the oldest 29 year old in America to remember that show when it was on the air back in the 1980's.
 
1069_KIFR said:
In today's economy, a million dollars attracts viewers. Sure it may be harder to win a million, but it will attract viewers.

Maybe they ought to change up Merv Griffins Crosswords to Merv Griffins $1,000,000.00 Crosswords!
Let's see $1,000,000.00 Wheel of Fortune.
$1,000,000.00 Jeopardy!
$1,000,000.00 Tic Tac Dough
$1,000,000.00 Card Sharks
$1,000,000.00 Hollywood Squares
$1,000,000.00 Match Game
$1,000,000.00 Celebrity Sweepstakes
$1,000,000.00 Truth or Consenquenses
$1,000,000.00 Concentration

Let's make EVERYONE a millionaire!!!!
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There actually WAS a $1,000,000 winner on Wheel of Fortune this past season. They now have a special Million Dollar Wedge on the wheel, which replaces the $10,000 wedge. It's very similar in the fact that it's surrounded by 2 Bankrupts, and if the contestant who picks it up solves that puzzle, doesn't land on any Bankrupts for the remainder of the show, and makes it to the Bonus Round, they take out the $100,000 envelope and replace it with $1,000,000. I never thought it would actually happen, since it's virtually impossible, but it actually did last October.
 
willcail said:
How about Press Your Luck. I'm must be the oldest 29 year old in America to remember that show when it was on the air back in the 1980's.
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I barely remember it as a four-to-five year old who hung out at his grandmother's before starting school.
 
Is the Dr.Oz show getting clearances on CBS O&O stations or ABC O&Os (New York, Philadelphia, etc.), assuming Rachael Ray moves to WCBS and KYW, if Disney/ABC really badly wants Dr.Oz on WABC and WPVI instead.

With Dr. Oz, The Doctors was renewed, and Dr.Phil is still around. Rachael Ray is also Harpo distributed by CBS. Minus Oprah (which is usually on ABC or NBC), that's plenty of syndicated content for the CBS owned and operated stations.
 
anotherguy said:
I'd like to see Pyramid make it on the air, but could care less about The Dating Game. It was never on CBS, and CBS should be considering remakes of other classic CBS game shows. My choice would be Press Your Luck.
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By that logic, CBS never should have picked up Pyramid years ago, because "it was never on CBS." They should have been focussing on remakes of other classic CBS game shows, not re-hashed ones made famous elsewhere.

Seriously, what kind of logic is that? ???
 
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