Upcoming game shows

[Flowgli]

This year, there have been a couple of game show premieres, and there are going to be a couple more. As a game show fan, I decided to start this topic and give some information about new game shows, new seasons of current game shows, or new revivals of old game shows.

A show called Hip Hop Squares premiered on MTV2. It is a spin-off of Hollywood Squares, and it airs Tuesday nights.

A revival of a panel game show called Figure It Out premiered on Nickelodeon. It is hosted by Jeff Sutphen, who is also the host of another Nickelodeon game show called BrainSurge (now called Family BrainSurge).

Now, I would've explained more about these two game shows a bit more if I had started this thread sooner. But anyway, let's move on to the shows that will be coming later this year. Those upcoming shows I'm gonna talk about are gonna be on GSN.

One of those shows is The American Bible Challenge. It's a quiz show about the Bible, and the host is going to be Jeff Foxworthy, the same person who hosted Are You Smarter Than A 5th Grader? Not much information about the show has been revealed yet, so I'll talk about that later.

Another show is a revival of Pyramid. The name of that show is The Pyramid. The host is going to be Mike Richards, and according to a couple of photos I found of that show, the set is going to look much like the one seen on The $25,000 Pyramid and The $100,000 Pyramid. From what I've seen from those photos and what I've read about the show, I'll say that this is going to be a huge improvement over the Donny Osmond-hosted Pyramid.

In this upcoming revival, each category will have seven answers and be played for up to 30 seconds again. There will be no bonus cards like "Mystery 7" and "7-11", but there will be a $500 cash bonus awarded each time a contestant gets all seven answers before time runs out. Also, each player will have their own bankroll to build, just like the short-lived Bullseye round on Family Feud. They each will start off with $10,000, and each time they get all seven answers in a category, not only do they win a $500 bonus, but $5,000 will be added to their potential winnings, making it a possible $25,000 up for grabs in the Winner's Circle round should they win the game. And the game is played twice on each episode, just like all the other previous versions. So, one contestant can win over $50,000.

The American Bible Challenge will premiere on August 23, and The Pyramid will premiere on September 3. Hopefully, these two shows will do really good...unlike some others in the past.

[Belchic]

I heard of the Bible one. I'm thinking of checking it out.

[Trey_Vore]

I love game shows myself, so hopefully some of these will stay for a while.

[Flowgli]

The shows I talked about on my other post on this topic, The American Bible Challenge and The Pyramid, both have been aired on TV, now. And after seeing those two shows, I was happy to see GSN originals that are actually decent, unlike Hidden Agenda, Instant Recall, Late Night Liars, Love Triangle, Drew Carey's Improv-A-Ganza, and the Bill Engvall version of Lingo. On some of these shows that premiered one or two years ago, I was so upset that there was dirty humor found in them. But on the two shows that just premiered this year, they are actually clean. I'll talk about The American Bible Challenge and The Pyramid, but I'm going to make the explanations of each show as short as possible.

In The American Bible Challenge, three teams of three answer Bible-based questions for points. In the first two rounds, teams buzzed in to answer questions, and get penalized for a wrong answer. In the next two rounds, buzzers are not used, there's no penalty for a wrong answer, and all three members do not play together in the same rounds. One member on each team has to sit out the third round, and the other two players have to sit out the fourth round. The point values are 10 in round one, 25 in round two, 50 in round three, and 100 in round four. The team with the lowest score is eliminated and receives $2,500 for their charity. The other two teams are given a category, and each team is handed a copy of the Bible and went backstage to read as much information based on that category as they can for ten minutes. Afterwards, the team that ended up in first place in the previous round is asked questions from that category and have one minute to answer as many questions correctly as they can. When time is up, the other team, who were placed in a soundproof booth, is asked the same questions in the same amount of time. The team with the most correct answers receives $20,000 for their charity and moves on to a season-long tournament for $100,000 for their charity. The other team receives $5,000 for their charity.

The Pyramid just like all the other versions of Pyramid, and it is played the way I described it in my other post on this topic. The set also looks more like the sets seen on The $25,000 Pyramid and The $100,000 Pyramid, and nothing like the one seen on the Donny Osmond version called Pyramid. They even brought back the old music and sounds, and Mike Richards is as good of a host on this show as Dick Clark was on the earlier versions.

The American Bible Challenge and The Pyramid are both great shows on GSN, but I really like The Pyramid more. It's very nice to see a revival of a classic game show, and it's great to see that GSN actually made a good revival. I'm now hoping that these two shows will stay on the air for many years to come.

[Flowgli]

Tonight on the Hub, Family Game Night aired its season three premiere episode, and the game is played much differently from the way it was played in the first two seasons.

In the first two seasons, two families of four--one in red, the other in yellow---played against each other for the entire show. First, they played an opening game, and each family picked a Monopoly Crazy Cash Card, with the winners of that game picking first. Then, the two families played in five games, with the winners of each game receiving a prize and picking another Monopoly Crazy Cash Card. Finally, each family inserted their Monopoly Crazy Cash Cards into the Crazy Cash Machine, and the family with the most money wins a family vacation.

In the third season, more than just two families played on the show, and they were chosen by host Todd Newton from the studio audience. The families now wear red, yellow, blue, green, and orange, and there are two, three, and four members in each family. There are only four games. Two games are played head-to-head, and two are played solo. On the solo games, a family wins a prize depending on how well they played it, and chose from six combinations to the Community Chest. On the head-to-head games, the winning family wins a prize and gets to pick a combination first, and the losing family picks second.

After six families have played the games, each of them enters their combination on the Community Chest, and the family with the right combination gets to play for a car.

In the final game, there are four rows with four Monopoly Crazy Cash Cards each. The winning family picks one card from each row, starting at the bottom and going up. The first row has four cards with cash, the second row has three cards with cash and one with "GO TO JAIL", the third row has two cards with cash and two with "GO TO JAIL", and the fourth row has three cards with "GO TO JAIL" and one with "WIN". If the family picks a "GO TO JAIL" card, then the game is over, but they keep all the cash they won up to that point. If they pick the "WIN" card, then they win a car in addition to the cash.

I really don't like this change to the show. I like the format from the first two seasons much better than this new format. In the new season, each family has a different number of members, each family plays only one game, and the new announcer who replaced Burton Richardson is only heard talking about the prizes won by the families. However, I'll keep watching this season of the show just to see if the winning families can go all the way in the final game. I wonder how much longer the show would last with this change in gameplay?

[Flowgli]

I just found out a few minutes ago that a new game show is coming on NBC. It's called Take It All, and it's going to be hosted by Howie Mandel, who previously hosted another game show on NBC called Deal Or No Deal. Take It All will premiere tomorrow night. The only information of the gameplay that I found is that the contestants will be vying for prizes, and that the final round will have the two final contestants each make a decision that will decide whether they will both win prizes, one of them will win prizes, or both of them will win nothing. So, that show will have a part of the game that's a variation of the prisoner's dillema, just like Friend Or Foe?, Golden Balls, and Shafted.

I'll catch it tomorrow night and see how the show will go.

[Trey_Vore]

Dec 9, 2012 22:12:12 GMT -5 Flowgli said:

I just found out a few minutes ago that a new game show is coming on NBC. It's called Take It All, and it's going to be hosted by Howie Mandel, who previously hosted another game show on NBC called Deal Or No Deal. Take It All will premiere tomorrow night. The only information of the gameplay that I found is that the contestants will be vying for prizes, and that the final round will have the two final contestants each make a decision that will decide whether they will both win prizes, one of them will win prizes, or both of them will win nothing. So, that show will have a part of the game that's a variation of the prisoner's dillema, just like Friend Or Foe?, Golden Balls, and Shafted.

I'll catch it tomorrow night and see how the show will go.

I like this one so far!

[Cruella]

Is The American Bible Challenge kid-friendly, I'm wondering. Not religious, personally, just curious.

[Flowgli]

Dec 13, 2012 7:17:43 GMT -5 Cruella said:

Is The American Bible Challenge kid-friendly, I'm wondering. Not religious, personally, just curious.

I can say it is. That show doesn't have any material that lead to sex jokes and dirty humor. Speaking of The American Bible Challenge, it's coming back on television with a second season.

Back to Take It All. Just like Deal Or No Deal, this game is all about making decisions and hoping that you're lucky, and there are no trivia questions or stunt games.

The game starts with five people. The first player gets to choose one of five hidden prizes from the Dream Screen. The chosen prize is revealed, and the player takes the item related to that prize to their podium. Each player after that has the option to take a prize from the Dream Screen, or take a prize from one of the other players. If a player holding on to a prize doesn't want it to be taken away, they can lock it by pressing a button, and no one can take it away from that player. But each player is only allowed one lock for the entire game. If a prize is taken away from a player, then that player has the option to take a prize from the Dream Screen or any of the other players who are not locked except the person who just took a prize away from them; there are no immediate take-backs. After each player has gotten a prize, the person who went first has the option to keep the prize they have or take one from any of the players who are not locked. After that decision was made, the round is closed.

Each prize has a different value, and the values of the prizes are revealed. The player holding on to the least valuable prize in that round is eliminated from the game, and that person goes home with nothing.

In each round after the first one, not only is there one less player, but there are prizes that are even more valuable than the ones offered in the previous rounds. This continues until there are only two people left. The two remaining players advance to the Prize Fight, the final round of the game.

In the Prize Fight, each player picks a card with an amount of cash inside, and the amounts are not revealed until the end by host Howie Mandel. Each player has to secretly decide whether to "Keep Mine" or "Take It All". Before making that decision, they must take a moment to talk to eack other, making them sound convincing to the other player in hopes that they won't pick "Take It All". After that, each player secretly lock in their choices, which will be revealed on the count to three. The players' choices decide what each player will be going home with.

*If both players choose "Keep Mine", then each player receives the prizes they've accumulated in the game.
*If one player chooses "Keep Mine" and the other player chooses "Take It All", then the player who chose "Take It All" takes all the prizes accumulated by both players, and the player who chose "Keep Mine" gets nothing.
*If both players choose "Take It All", then both players lose all their prizes, and they go home with nothing.

That's how the game is played, and this show will be on for six nights. So far, three episodes have already aired, and I've watched all of those aired episodes. I've found this show to be a good one.

[Flowgli]

I've seen a commercial for the second season of The American Bible Challenge, and it's coming up in the 21st of this month. Not too long ago, they showed a marathon of the show's first season.

From what I saw in the commercial for the show's second season, there's gonna be a change in gameplay; the game is gonna be a bit more physical. I'll watch the show when it comes on to see how it does on it's new season.

[Flowgli]

It has been announced that Meredith Vieira decided to leave Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? to focus on other projects in her television career. She already had all her final episodes of the show as host taped in November last year, and her departure from the show already had been announced two months ago.

A new host has been chosen for the show, and it is Cedric the Entertainer. Previously, he hosted another show on NBC called It's Worth What?, which didn't last long. I'll see how Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? goes when it's new season starts airing later this year with Cedric the Entertainer as host.

[Flowgli]

I saw the season two premiere of The American Bible Challenge last night. The gameplay is the same as it was in the previous season, but with a difference in round two. After the first round, the three teams are asked a question with three answers in the form of percentages, and score 25 points for choosing the right one. Instead of buzzing in and answering questions worth 25 points apiece up and down, a physical question round is played. The physical game in the episode shown yesterday is similar to one of the games on Minute To Win It, which involves the teams each having one minute to propel silverware into glasses. Each glass has a name of a person from the Bible on it, and host Jeff Foxworthy gives clues to those names. The team with the most right answers scores 50 points.

[Flowgli]

It's time now for an update.

Last night on GSN, not only did they show the season two finale of The American Bible Challenge, but they also showed a sneak peak of that network's revival of Minute To Win It. The show is the same, except that the host is Apolo Anton Ohno instead of Guy Fieri, and the top cash prize is only $250,000 instead on $1,000,000. This new version of Minute To Win It will premiere next month.

[Flowgli]

Another new game show is going to premiere exactly one month from now on GSN. It is the American version of a UK game show called The Chase.

Before I say anymore about the upcoming American version, I'll explain about the original UK version. The Chase is a quiz show where four contestants must play against a person called the "chaser" in order to add money to the prize fund and win it.

First, one at a time, contestants have to answer as many questions as they can within one minute, with each correct answer worth £1,000. Then, they are placed in the third highest space on the game board, and they must decide whether to start on that space, one step forward, or one step back. If they decide to start at where they are, they will play for what they accumulated in their minute of answering questions. If they decided to start at a step forward, they will play for a lower cash prize offered by the chaser, and it can be a negative amount. If they decide to start at a step back, they will play for a higher cash prize offered by the chaser.

Regardless of where on the game board a contestant decided to start at, the goal is to answer enough questions correctly to make it to the bottom of the game board, or "home", as they say. All questions in this part of the game are multiple-choice. The contestant and the chaser each secretly locks in which of three answers is the correct one to a question. If the contestant picks the right answer, they are one step closer to home; but if the contestant picks a wrong answer and the chaser picks the right one on the same question, the chaser is one step closer to catching up with the contestant. If the contestant gets caught by the chaser, they are eliminated from the game, and no money is added to the prize fund; but if the contestant makes it home, they stay in the game, and the money is added to the prize fund.

After each and every contestant had played against the chaser, the remaining contestants play as a team on the last part of the game called the "Final Chase". What they have to do in this round is make a row of as many spaces as they can within two minutes by buzzing in and answering questions. If there's only one contestant remaining, they are not required to buzz in in this part of the game. The Final Chase begins with a head start of one space for each remaining contestant. After two minutes of adding spaces to the row, the chaser is given two minutes to give as many correct answers as there are spaces in that row. If the chaser gets a question right, they are one step closer to stopping the contestant(s) from winning, but if they get it wrong, the clock stops, and the contestant(s) get a chance to answer that question, with a right answer sending the chaser one step back and a wrong answer keeping the chaser in the same space on the row. Then, the chaser's time continues. If the chaser has caught the contestant(s) before time runs out, no money is won; but if time ran out on the chaser, the contestant(s) win all the money in the prize fund.

There have been a total of four chasers on the show: Mark Labbett, Shaun Wallace, Anne Hegerty, and Paul Sinha.

Now, to talk about the American version of the show. It's basically the same as the UK version. The differences are that each episode will start with three contestants instead of four, and they will be playing for American dollars, obviously. One of the chasers from the UK version will be the chaser for the American version, and that chaser is Mark Labbett, who is nicknamed "The Beast". The host of the UK version is Bradley Walsh, and the host of the American version is Game Show Garbage inductee and former Baywatch star Brooke Burns, who had hosting experience in Dog Eat Dog, the Fox version of Hole In The Wall with Mark Thompson, and You Deserve It with Chris Harrison.

From what I've read on the Internet today, the American version of this show has two seasons, despite this version not even airing until August 6 this year.

That's all I have to say about The Chase. I'm looking forward to seeing the American version, and I'm hoping that it will be as good as the UK version.

[Flowgli]

Well, I watched the season four premiere of Family Game Night. It's pretty much the same as it was in the third season with a few differences. Stacey J. Aswad is replaced by Andrew Kishino as the announcer, Yahtzee is played more like the traditional dice game it is based on rather than a bowling game, Jenga is added as one of the games, and there are a couple of new games that were shown in a commercial and not in the episode I saw tonight; those games are Monopoly Remix and Barrel of Monkeys. I'll still keep watching the show to see its new games being played every chance I get.