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Yes. I agree.
Excellent game show.
I hope ratings will agree!
I look forward to seeing more WSS SOON!
I'm glad there's passes. When it got to the part where the host said "I'm going to make this more exciting..." I wasn't expecting to see an added pass...I thought he was going to add phone a friend or some new lifeline...still, the extra pass was a nice touch.
Excellent game show.
I hope ratings will agree!
I look forward to seeing more WSS SOON!
I'm glad there's passes. When it got to the part where the host said "I'm going to make this more exciting..." I wasn't expecting to see an added pass...I thought he was going to add phone a friend or some new lifeline...still, the extra pass was a nice touch.
& I don't see any problems with Ben Bailey as host. At least it's not Louis Anderson! 
This show really does remind viewers of The GSN Game Show "Russian Roulette" mixed with "Ellen"'s "Know or Go" segment. This game show is a huge success for NBC, And that dude from "Cash Cab" really knows how to handle the situation. Don't let it get all that success go right through your head, and I hope it will stick around.
Much like the Weakest Link, NBC will insist on a celebrity edition and the show will be vapor in 3 short weeks.
That said, at least it's a rapid fire game show that doesn't rely on....................................................................................... LONG PAUSES & MANUFACTURED TENSION!
Ben Bailey is fine as the host but he's better in his cab element.
That said, at least it's a rapid fire game show that doesn't rely on....................................................................................... LONG PAUSES & MANUFACTURED TENSION!
Ben Bailey is fine as the host but he's better in his cab element.
I haven't watched the show so I can't comment on it, but
the premise of having the contestants fall when they miss
a question is nothing new. In 1966 Merrill Heatter and Bob
Quigley put a daytime show on NBC called "Showdown" (not
to be confused with "The Big Showdown" with Jim Peck), hosted
by Joe Pyne, at the time the king of insult talk on both radio and
TV. Two teams of three contestants were seated on breakaway chairs;
when a player missed a question the seat would give way and they would fall
to the floor (actually, through the floor, I believe, since an elevator
would bring members of the winning team back up for the next game,
since a team won when all of their opponents were eliminated). The show lasted only
thirteen weeks, to be replaced by another Heatter-Quigley show with
nine celebrities seated in a giant tic-tac-toe board: "Hollywood Squares."
the premise of having the contestants fall when they miss
a question is nothing new. In 1966 Merrill Heatter and Bob
Quigley put a daytime show on NBC called "Showdown" (not
to be confused with "The Big Showdown" with Jim Peck), hosted
by Joe Pyne, at the time the king of insult talk on both radio and
TV. Two teams of three contestants were seated on breakaway chairs;
when a player missed a question the seat would give way and they would fall
to the floor (actually, through the floor, I believe, since an elevator
would bring members of the winning team back up for the next game,
since a team won when all of their opponents were eliminated). The show lasted only
thirteen weeks, to be replaced by another Heatter-Quigley show with
nine celebrities seated in a giant tic-tac-toe board: "Hollywood Squares."
I didn't watch but I agree, especially after having seen the movie "The Prestige" recently--and that conjures up visions of something truly horrifying under that stage.fortt3 said:
There was a short-lived game show in the 60s that used this gimmick - losers would drop through the floor and disappear. It was called Showdown! - hosted by acerbic syndicated TV and radio talk host Joe Pyne (think Morton Downey Jr.). It only lasted one season - on NBC in the morning before Jeopardy with Art Fleming.
One imagines that the contestants must sign some kind of release form before competing, in case of injury. Despite how unsafe it looks, there are probably unseen safety features built in to the device that come into play once the contestant leaves the view of the camera. I've noticed they've been trained to raise their arms.
One imagines that the contestants must sign some kind of release form before competing, in case of injury. Despite how unsafe it looks, there are probably unseen safety features built in to the device that come into play once the contestant leaves the view of the camera. I've noticed they've been trained to raise their arms.
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To me, it appears the concept of the show was stolen from Ellen. She has done something quite similar to this on her syndicated talk show for the past few years.
DToTheJ said:Yeziknoradio said:I don't see any problems with Ben Bailey as host. At least it's not Louis Anderson!
Actually, it's Louie Anderson - unless he's using a new name ever since that blackmail business came out about him some years ago... :
Thanks! My mistake! I did mean Louie! I have no idea where I got Louis from...
Only if they showed the contestants' whole trip down.gregg75 said:
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My wife and I really enjoy the show, that being said there are some things that urk us. It seems that the rules and the way the game is played really wasn't thought out that much prior to filming. There have been a few changes and tweaks to the format here and there as the show has progressed which is fine but gets confusing and weird because they are showing episodes/contestant sequences out of order.
My recollection may be a smidge off so excuse me, on the first night you only had 2 passes and had to get though 5 drops/people before given the choice to leave. You get offered one more pass to help you decide and then if you choose to continue you have to drop the next 5. This is your only choice to leave.
Next episode you get 3 passes and then at the middway offer get another. Still have to knock down all the next 5 if you continue.
Next episode or episode after you get 3 passes, the middway choice, but if you choose to go on you now get the choice to leave after every consecutive person you knock off. No mandatory knocking off the next 5, You can leave after 6, 7 or whatever.
Monday December 26th...no rule changes.
This past Monday was really odd. We had two contestants in one show. The first guy only had 2 passes and had to make it to knocking off 5 contestants to get the choice to leave. He was the first contestant to never make it that far. We didn’t get a speed round with the remaining opponents. We just got another contestant, now this is where things get really strange because the rules were totally different than the first contestant. So different that it would’ve changed the way the first contestant played the game. The second contestant (a woman) was back to 3 passes to start with. The guy could’ve used a 3rd to make it to the choice to go home. She not only had 3 passes but the choice to leave was now after knocking off only 3 people!!! Plus in EVERY episode shown the prize amount for knocking someone off is between $1,000 and $20,000 in increments of 1000, 5000, 10000, 15000 and 20000. In this game it’s all over the place. First prize was $1, then $50,000 and then like $7,000. And in the past we always had a wide shot of Ben flipping over their console to reveal the prize, but now it was just an extreme close-up of a hand flipping it over with a Ben Bailey voiceover.
I’m fine with a game show evolving as time goes on but to use two different segments with such different rules and game play was just jarring.
My recollection may be a smidge off so excuse me, on the first night you only had 2 passes and had to get though 5 drops/people before given the choice to leave. You get offered one more pass to help you decide and then if you choose to continue you have to drop the next 5. This is your only choice to leave.
Next episode you get 3 passes and then at the middway offer get another. Still have to knock down all the next 5 if you continue.
Next episode or episode after you get 3 passes, the middway choice, but if you choose to go on you now get the choice to leave after every consecutive person you knock off. No mandatory knocking off the next 5, You can leave after 6, 7 or whatever.
Monday December 26th...no rule changes.
This past Monday was really odd. We had two contestants in one show. The first guy only had 2 passes and had to make it to knocking off 5 contestants to get the choice to leave. He was the first contestant to never make it that far. We didn’t get a speed round with the remaining opponents. We just got another contestant, now this is where things get really strange because the rules were totally different than the first contestant. So different that it would’ve changed the way the first contestant played the game. The second contestant (a woman) was back to 3 passes to start with. The guy could’ve used a 3rd to make it to the choice to go home. She not only had 3 passes but the choice to leave was now after knocking off only 3 people!!! Plus in EVERY episode shown the prize amount for knocking someone off is between $1,000 and $20,000 in increments of 1000, 5000, 10000, 15000 and 20000. In this game it’s all over the place. First prize was $1, then $50,000 and then like $7,000. And in the past we always had a wide shot of Ben flipping over their console to reveal the prize, but now it was just an extreme close-up of a hand flipping it over with a Ben Bailey voiceover.
I’m fine with a game show evolving as time goes on but to use two different segments with such different rules and game play was just jarring.
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I'm glad someone else brought this up. You're absolutely correct--- the rules and stipulations seem to change from episode to episode! Isn't there some rule that is supposed to prevent game shows from doing that?
And about the overdubs--- if you go back and watch one of the shows on demand--- especially the 3rd or 4th episodes, watch and listen CLOSELY... you'll notice that there's A LOT of editing going on and overdubs. To me, that sort of makes the show lose some of its appeal, AND raises a red flag about the legitimacy of some of the goings on. :-\
My main complaint is that they drop the contestant too quickly. The host says "any last words?" and the contestant is about to say something but is dropped before a word can be said!!!
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