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Post by Flowgli on May 27, 2015 10:18:48 GMT -5
A revival of Are You Smarter Than A 5th Grader? premiered last night, and Jeff Foxworthy returned as the host of the show. The game and the payouts are exactly the same as they were in the original Fox version that ran from 2007 to 2009. There are a few differences in this new version. One is that each subject is shown in the form of an app. Another is that the kids in the class each have profile pages explaining their hobbies and favorite subjects shown on the game board, and the Million Dollar Question is a sixth-grade level question.
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Post by Flowgli on Jun 14, 2015 15:39:51 GMT -5
Next week, a celebrity spin-off of Family Feud called Celebrity Family Feud will be brought back. This show first aired on NBC back in the summer of 2008 with Al Roker as the host. In the upcoming run, it will be hosted by the current host of the regular Family Feud, Steve Harvey, and it will air this summer on ABC, making this show the first time that any version of Family Feud has aired on that network since the end of the original Richard Dawson-hosted run in 1985, exactly three decades ago.
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Post by Flowgli on Jun 25, 2015 20:43:51 GMT -5
I just watched a brand new game show on Fox. It's called Boom!, and it's hosted by Tom Papa.
A team of three people answer questions by cutting wires on bombs. There are seven bombs, and each one represents a question. Each wire represents an answer. On each bomb, one wire represents the wrong answer, and the rest of the wires represent correct answers. A category is given, and one team member chooses to play it. That team member goes to the bomb and puts on a pair of goggles. The answers and the question are revealed, and that team member has to cut all the wires that represent the correct answers within a time limit; if they can do that, the team adds money to their total. If time runs out, or if the wire representing the wrong answer is cut, the bomb explodes, making a mess on that team member and a certain section of the studio audience, and that team member is out of the game until the seventh and final bomb. If all three members of the team get a bomb exploded on them, the game is over, and the team leaves with nothing. The first six bombs are worth $5,000, $10,000, $15,000, $20,000, $25,000, and $50,000, in that order. The first three bombs each have four wires, and all the wires representing correct answers have to be cut within 30 seconds. The fourth bomb has five wires, and all the wires representing correct answers have to be cut within 40 seconds. The fifth bomb has six wires, and all the wires representing correct answers have to be cut within 50 seconds. The sixth bomb has seven wires, and all the wires representing correct answers have to be cut within 60 seconds.
On the seventh and final bomb, all three members of the team play at the same time. Before this bomb is played, the team has to decide whether to stop playing and take the money or play that bomb and risk the money. This bomb has ten wires; seven of them represent correct answers, while three of them represent wrong answers. All the wires representing correct answers have to be cut within 90 seconds. If the team succeeds, their winnings are quadrupled. But if they fail, their winnings are cut in half. A possible $500,000 can be won.
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Post by Flowgli on Jul 16, 2015 21:20:18 GMT -5
The new version of Chain Reaction just aired tonight. They showed two episodes.
The main game in this version has the same format as the main game in the last version, except the game is not played in a battle of the sexes, there are two members on each team, and there are no speed chains at the end of the first three rounds.
The bonus round in this new version is a brand new one. A keyword is given to the winning team, and the winning team has 45 seconds to correctly guess seven words that link to that keyword. The first three letters of a word in play are revealed, one at a time, to help the team out. If a team gets stuck on a word, they can pass it and come back to it if there is still time left on the clock. Solving all seven words before running out of time wins the team an additional $5,000, while running out of time before solving all seven words wins the team nothing extra.
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Post by Flowgli on Jul 16, 2015 23:03:22 GMT -5
I have another update.
A game show called Geeks Who Drink premiered tonight on Syfy, and it is hosted by Zachary Levi. It's a trivia game based on the nationwide pub trivia contest of the same name.
Also, starting tonight, The Chase is airing new episodes on Thursdays.
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Post by Flowgli on Aug 21, 2015 13:47:54 GMT -5
One of the new episodes of Chain Reaction that aired last night was unbelievable. One of the chains in that episode had the word B*TCH in it, and that word was between SKINNY and PLEASE. I'm really surprised that a word like that would be said and shown in a game like this!
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Post by Flowgli on Sept 14, 2015 15:17:03 GMT -5
The new season of Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? just started airing today. Not only does the show have Chris Harrison as the new host, but it also has a format change. The money ladder is changed from the shuffle format to its classic format, meaning that all the questions asked increase in difficulty and not in a random order on the first ten questions. There are still only fourteen questions for each contestant to answer instead of fifteen. $5,000 on the fifth level and $50,000 on the tenth level are the safe havens, and the Jump The Question lifeline is replaced with the 50:50 lifeline. The Ask The Audience lifeline and the Plus One lifeline are still there.
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Post by Flowgli on Sept 23, 2015 22:34:54 GMT -5
Well, the second episode of this week's episodes of Idiotest marks the first time on the show in which the main game ends in a tie. The tie would've been broken by the team who answered the most questions correctly during the game, but each team only answered one question correctly, so the tie is broken by the team who locks in with the correct answer in the fastest time. Also, neither member of the winning team answered the question correctly in the "Smart Money Round" and made history on this show by walking out with the lowest cash total, which is $120. Yeah, how pathetic.
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Post by Flowgli on Sept 25, 2015 10:51:58 GMT -5
All this week on the 44th season premiere week on The Price Is Right, each decade that the show has been on is celebrated on each day of the week, starting with the 1970s on Monday and ending with the 2010s today. Also, a new game is introduced today, and it's called Vend-O-Price. In this game, there is a vending machine with three shelves, each one having a different product on it and a specific amount of that same product. All the contestant has to do is pick which shelf is the most expensive one. After the contestant locks in their choice, each shelf has its number of product on it multiplied by the price of that product. If the contestant picked the most expensive shelf, they win the prize.
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Post by Flowgli on Oct 6, 2015 15:01:30 GMT -5
I just watched an episode of Celebrity Name Game in its second season. The game is the same, but with a few differences in the main game. First, some of the categories in rounds one and two are either initials or straightforward categories, and they are not explained what answers those categories entail. Second, all the letters in the correct answers start out as blanks, and a few letters at a time are filled in. At one point in the third round, however, a morphed photo of a celebrity is shown instead of a name with blank letters.
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Post by Flowgli on Oct 28, 2015 19:31:41 GMT -5
I'm now watching GSN's original horror-themed game show called Hellevator. It is hosted by the Twisted Twins (also known as the Soska Sisters) and produced by Jason Blum.
The game takes place in a slaughterhouse, and it is played by a team of three contestants. The three contestants step into an elevator called the "Hellevator", which takes the contestants to different floors filled with horrifying challenges. There's one challenge on each floor, and each contestant has to face a challenge alone but can communicate with their teammates via walkie-talkies. The three challenges are worth $5,000, $10,000, and $15,000, in that order, and each challenge is more difficult than the last. A contestant has a certain amount of time to complete a challenge and run back into the Hellevator. If they succeed, they win the cash for the team and stay in the game; but if they fail, they are left behind in the slaughterhouse and eliminated from the game. After the three challenges, the remaining contestants advance to the Labyrinth where they can add up to $20,000 to the money they already won.
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Post by Flowgli on Oct 30, 2015 11:01:20 GMT -5
Well, today's episode of The Price Is Right was...interesting. It's a special Halloween episode, and everyone in the studio is dressed as and referred to as Drew Carey.
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Post by Flowgli on Jan 29, 2016 21:43:25 GMT -5
I am now watching a new game show on Pop. It's called The Easiest Game Show Ever, and it's hosted by Michael Ian Black, who hosted a game show on TBS with D. L. Hughley back in 2013 called Trust Me, I'm A Game Show Host.
In this game, a team of two people is asked twenty true-or-false questions about pop culture. First, the team has a total of 100 seconds to answer the twenty questions. One team member answers the first ten questions within the time limit, and the second team member has the remaining time to answer the remaining ten questions. The team is not told right away whether or not their answer to a question is right or wrong after they gave that answer, though.
After the twenty questions, the team has 30 seconds to choose which five of the questions answered they are the most confident that they got right. Each of the chosen questions that is answered correctly is worth 500 points. If all five of the chosen questions are answered correctly, the total is doubled to 5,000 points.
The team then has another 30 seconds to choose five more questions, and they can change their answers to any of the questions. Like before, each chosen correctly-answered question is worth 500 points, and the total on that set of questions is doubled to 5,000 points.
In the final part of the game, the total points scored becomes the dollar value earned for each chosen correctly-answered question. Each time the team chooses a question they got wrong, their cash total is dropped to 10%. If five of the questions they chose are answered correctly, their cash total is doubled. A team can win up to $100,000.
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Post by Flowgli on Apr 10, 2016 11:54:31 GMT -5
It's time for another update.
Tomorrow, a new game show will premiere on Logo TV. It's called Gay For Play, and it will be hosted by RuPaul. Speaking of RuPaul and game shows, he is a judge on a GSN original called Skin Wars, which will premiere its third season later this month. Also, in two days, another GSN original called Idiotest will also premiere its third season.
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Post by Flowgli on Apr 11, 2016 22:34:52 GMT -5
Two episodes of Gay For Play aired today. Here's how the game is played.
This show is a panel game show that features six celebrities in the panel and two contestants playing the game. The two contestants get help from the panel in answering questions, with correct answers scoring the contestants points.
In rounds one and two, a contestant chooses one of two categories and either the top or bottom row of the panel. Each panelist in the chosen row gets a chance to help come up with an answer to a question in the chosen category for that contestant. There are three questions in that category, with each question in it being more difficult than the last. After a panelist gives an answer to a question, the contestant in turn decides whether to go with that panelist's answer or give an answer of their own. If the answer given by the contestant is correct, that contestant scores points. After that contestant's turn ends, the other contestant plays the remaining category with the remaining row of the panel in the same manner. Questions in each category are worth one, two, and three points in round one and two, four, and six points in round two.
Round three is a speed round called "Quick, Before I Slap You". Each contestant has 69 seconds to answer as many questions as possible on a subject that is their expertise with help from a panelist of their choice. On each question, the chosen panelist gets to answer first, and if they are correct, the contestant in turn scores two points; but if they are incorrect, the contestant in turn gets to answer that question, but a correct answer from the contestant in turn is worth only one point. After each contestant has their turn in this round, the contestant with the most points wins the game and advances to the bonus round, while the losing contestant gets slapped in the face by RuPaul.
In the bonus round, the winning contestant is shown six numbered boxes, with five of them containing a total of $5,000 in cash and prizes and one of them containing a rubber chicken. One at a time, the contestant chooses the boxes they think have cash and prizes in them. After each successful choice of box, the contestant has the option to choose another box or stop and take everything they have accumulated up to that point. If the contestant chooses the box with a rubber chicken in it, the round ends, and the contestant loses everything they have accumulated up to that point. One of the prizes has "$5,000" printed on it, and if that is found, the round ends, and that counts as an automatic win.
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