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Post by Flowgli on Jun 10, 2019 19:38:29 GMT -5
Best Ever Trivia Show and the Nickelodeon revival of Are You Smarter Than A 5th Grader? premiered today.
In Best Ever Trivia Show, there are three contestants and three trivia experts. In each round, one trivia expert takes their seat in “Trivia Dome”, and that trivia expert and the contestants are asked multiple-choice questions in one of two categories. In rounds one and two, the trivia expert and the contestants lock in their answers, with each contestant who has locked in with the correct answer scoring points depending on whether the trivia expert has answered that question correctly or incorrectly. Each contestant who has answered correctly scores 50 points in round one and 100 points in round two if the trivia expert has answered correctly, but each contestant who has answered correctly scores 100 points in round one and 200 points in round two if the trivia expert has answered incorrectly. In round three, the trivia expert reveals how confident they are with their answer on each question. Based on that, each contestant locks in whether to go with the trivia expert’s answer or choose an answer on their own. Each contestant who chooses to go with the trivia expert’s answer an is correct scores 200 points, each contestant who chooses to go with an answer on their own and is correct scores 400 points.
After three rounds, the contestant with the most points wins the game, receives $1,000, and advances to the bonus round.
In the bonus round, the winning contestant plays against the trivia expert who has done the best in the main game. The contestant and the trivia expert are asked five questions. Whoever answers the most questions out of five correctly wins the bonus round. If the contestant wins the bonus round, they win $10,000, and they get to return to the show on the next episode to play again. A contestant can win up to three games, and if they can accomplish this and win the bonus round all three times, they get to be a trivia expert in a future episode of the show. But if the contestant loses the bonus round once, the game on the next episode will be played by three new contestants.
In the Nickelodeon revival of Are You Smarter Than A 5th Grader?, the show combines elements of the Fox runs and the syndicated run and adds new things to the gameplay.
The contestant doesn’t get to choose the questions and grade levels in any order they like at all. They can still choose which kids to get help from. Each kid can help out for the entirety of a grade. There is one question in first and second grade each, two questions in third and fourth grade each, and five questions in fifth grade. In first, second, third, and fourth grades, there is a money ladder, with the amounts of cash in order from bottom to top being $250, $500, $1,000, $2,500, $5,000, and $10,000. A correct answer augments the contestant’s winnings to that amount, while an incorrect answer removes the topmost cash amount from the money ladder. There is also no risk, so there is no option to “drop out”. In fifth grade, the contestant is asked five questions within 60 seconds. On each of the first four questions, whatever the contestant has won, they win that much more for each correct answer. For the fifth question answered correctly, the entire total of doubled. So, if the contestant can play a perfect game, they will win a possible $100,000, the biggest prize in the history of Nickelodeon game shows.
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Post by RaceFanX on Jun 10, 2019 21:39:25 GMT -5
I'm surprised "Fifth Grader" is now hosted by John Cena.
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Post by Flowgli on Jun 12, 2019 23:04:33 GMT -5
The revivals of Press Your Luck and Card Sharks premiered tonight.
In Press Your Luck, the game is played as it was back in the ‘80s, except that each question round has three questions instead of four, the cash amounts are higher than they were before, and the winner not only keeps their cash and prizes, but also plays a bonus round, where they can win even more cash and prizes, up to $1,000,000.
In Card Sharks, the game uses the classic gameplay. The differences are that the game is not played in a best-two-out-of-three match, each contestant has a row of ten cards instead of five, there are five high-low toss-up questions instead of four, all the cards in the Money Cards are in one row, and the winning contestant uses chips to make wagers.
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Post by Flowgli on Jan 24, 2020 19:33:22 GMT -5
Man, I haven’t touched this thread in weeks, and a lot has happened in game shows since the last time I posted here.
Just last year, Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? and Double Dare got cancelled, but Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? will be returning as a celebrity show with a ten-episode run with Jimmy Kimmel hosting, and it will continue if it does well enough. There was also a third season of Hip Hop Squares with yet another change of format for the bonus round and another spin-off of Hollywood Squares called Nashville Squares with Bob Saget as the host. There’s also a “Triple Toss-Up” That replaced the $3,000 toss-up in Wheel Of Fortune, and on some of the episodes of that show, Vanna took over for Pat as the host because he was sick. There’s also a a special Jeopardy! series called Jeopardy! The Greatest Of All Time. And there’s also a new game show on Game Show Network called Get A Clue, hosted by Rob Belushi. Also, America Says and Common Knowledge are currently in their third and second seasons, respectively, and Best Ever Trivia Show has been renewed for a second season and will be coming back soon with a title change to Master Minds. And Catch 21 got a revival, with changes in gameplay, Alfonso Ribeiro back as the host, and Witney Carson as the new dealer.
Now, here’s one big announcement that I really, really wanted to share since I’ve heard about it. After being out of production since 2003, Supermarket Sweep is getting revived!
Yes, Supermarket Sweep is being brought back! This upcoming revival will be hosted by Leslie Jones, and it will premiere on ABC this April.
Now, while that was the biggest announcement I have for game show updates, I still have a couple more.
One is that Legends Of The Hidden Temple will be revived, but not as a Nickelodeon show played by kids. Instead, it will be played by adults, and it will be revived as a show on an upcoming mobile video platform called Quibi. This revival will premiere on the day of the launch of Quibi, which is April 6 this year. But there’s a game show that now is airing as a Nickelodeon show, and that’s The Crystal Maze, a US adaptation of the UK game show of the same name, and it just premiered tonight!
Whew! That was a lot of updates to bring up here all at once. I don’t know why I took so long to make each one of them separately.
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Post by Flowgli on Feb 19, 2020 16:40:53 GMT -5
A new game show premiered on truTV last night. It’s called Hot Ones: The Game Show, and it’s hosted by Sean Evans.
In this show, two teams of two buzz in and answer questions and eat hot wings, which are drenched with spicy sauces that get even spicier as the show goes on. There are three questions in each round, and they are worth $100, $200, and $300, in that order in round one, $200, $400, and $600, in that order in round two, and $1,000, $2,000, and $3,000, in that order in round three. In rounds one and two, a team wins the money by default if their opponents buzz in with an incorrect answer. In round three, however, if the team who buzzes in first is incorrect, the opposing team has to earn the money by answering that question. Also, in round three, each time a team answers a question correctly, they have to eat more hot wings.
After three rounds, the team with the most money wins the game and advances to the bonus round called the “Ring Of Fire”.
In the “Ring Of Fire”, the members of the winning team take turns describing answers to each other within 60 seconds. If they can guess five answers correct before time runs out, their total winnings are augmented to $25,000, and they get to wash the spicy taste of the hot wings off with cold milkshakes.
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Post by Flowgli on Mar 1, 2020 0:33:41 GMT -5
A commercial for Master Minds has been showing recently. For this upcoming season, Sherri Shepherd will not be returning as the host; instead, the host will be Brooke Burns, who previously hosted The Chase, another show on Game Show Network.
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Post by Flowgli on Apr 6, 2020 16:17:59 GMT -5
The second season for Best Ever Trivia Show, now called Master Minds and hosted by Brooke Burns, just premiered today, and some differences are made to the gameplay.
In the main game, three contestants play against each other, and three “trivia experts”, now called “masterminds”, play against each other.
In round one, seven multiple-choice questions are asked, each one under a different category. On each question, all six people each lock in an answer, with each one who has answered correctly scoring 100 points.
In round two, five questions are asked, each one in a different category. On each question, the first person on each side to buzz in writes down an answer, with each one who has answered correctly scoring 200 points and each one who has answered incorrectly losing 200 points. At the end of this round, the person on each side with the lowest score is eliminated.
In round three, each side has 60 seconds to buzz in and answer questions, with the two remaining contestants playing first and the two remaining masterminds playing afterwards. For each side, the first question is worth 500, and each question thereafter is worth 100 points more than the previous one. At the end of this round, the contestant with the highest score wins the game and $1,000, and they play against the mastermind with the highest score in the final round.
In the final round, the winning contestant and the winning mastermind are asked the same five questions, but they play separately, with the contestant playing first and the mastermind playing afterwards. After both people have answered the five questions, the correct answers to those questions are revealed. Whoever answers the most questions correctly wins.
If the contestant wins the final round, the $1,000 won earlier is increased to $10,000, and they get to return on the next episode to play again; but if they don’t win the final round, they win nothing extra, and their championship ends right then and there. Winning the final round three times wins the contestant a total of $30,000 and earns then the right to return on the show as a mastermind.
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Post by Belchic on Apr 6, 2020 17:18:06 GMT -5
The reboot of Who Wants to be a Millionaire is premiering this Wednesday. Isn’t this like the fifth or sixth time this show has been rebooted?
Also, supposedly the reboot of Supermarket Sweep is beginning filming, but no word yet on when it’s airing. I’m guessing not for a while because of COVID-19.
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Post by Flowgli on Apr 6, 2020 22:45:04 GMT -5
Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? is being revived as a limited celebrity series. Just like how the show originally aired, it will be on ABC with a full-hour runtime.
Tonight, a behind-the-scenes special of the show aired.
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Post by Flowgli on Apr 8, 2020 21:55:59 GMT -5
The revival of Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? as a full-hour primetime game show on ABC just aired tonight.
In this version, all the cash prizes are back to how they originally were back when the original version premiered back in 1999, the format went back to being fifteen questions needed to be answered correctly to win the $1,000,000 instead of fourteen, and the Phone-A-Friend lifeline, original music theme and cues, and “hot seat” are back. Yes, even though there’s a reason why the Phone-A-Friend lifeline was removed from the game over a decade ago, it’s back.
Now, for the differences in the new version. All contestants here are celebrities playing for charity, but home viewers can win the same amount of money won by the celebrities by downloading the Millionaire Live app and playing along. Each celebrity is also accompanied by someone they know, who can help them with the first ten questions. However, after the first ten questions are answered correctly, the celebrity has the option to trade one of their remaining lifelines for the person accompanying them to help them on one more question. Also, there’s no Ask The Audience lifeline, making this the very first time in the history of the show that this lifeline is not included in the game. That’s because there’s no audience in the studio. Instead, there’s the Ask The Host lifeline.
So, two lifelines currently in the game are mentioned here. In case you’re wondering, the remaining lifeline currently in the game is 50:50.
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Post by Flowgli on Sept 29, 2020 21:00:15 GMT -5
Well, I’ve got some updates on game shows to announce here. Most of what I’m gonna say here have to do with keeping contestants, hosts, and other personnel safe during the coronavirus.
In the 37th season of Jeopardy!, instead of one connected podium, the contestants stand further apart at three disconnected podiums. Anti-cheating panels are still installed for “Final Jeopardy!”, with the furthest upstage contestant having one on their left, the furthest downstage contestant having one on their right, and the contestant in the middle having two, one on their left and one on their right.
In the 38th season of Wheel Of Fortune, contestants use white caps that fit each spoke of the wheel to spin the wheel without actually touching it. Also, the minimum cash prize in the bonus round is $38,000, and Pat stays at the bonus round wheel, while the winning contestant takes their usual spot on the set for the bonus round puzzle.
In the second season of 25 Words Or Less, Meredith hosts the show from her basement at her home in New York, while the contestants and celebrities play the game in separate pods in Los Angeles. Also, each contestant has a “superfan” to play for, with the losing contestant’s superfan receiving a $100 gift card, and the winning contestant’s superfan receiving $1,000 for a bonus round win or a $100 gift card for a bonus round loss.
Finally, a revival of Weakest Link premiered on NBC tonight. It’s hosted by Glee star and Hollywood Game Night host Jane Lynch, and it’s almost the same as the Anne Robinson-hosted NBC run, with the game starting with eight contestants and 2 minutes and 30 seconds on the clock as the time limit in the first round, 10 seconds being deducted from the clock with each new round, eight links in the money chain, the two remaining contestants each being asked up to five questions in the head-to-head round, and a possible $1,000,000 to be won. However, in this version, there are some differences made here. First, a contestant banks money by not just saying the word “bank”, but also hitting a button. Second, the questions are shown on the home viewers’ screens as they are being read. Third, some of the questions have images accompanying them, and those images are shown on the home viewers’ screens and the screens on the contestants‘ podiums as the questions are asked. Fourth, the cash amounts on the chain links are not the same for the entire game. There are six rounds of bank-building, and contestants can bank up to $25,000 in round one, $50,000 in round two, $75,000 in round three, $100,000 in round four, $250,000 in round five, and $500,000 in round six. And fifth, the contestants reveal their votes after the host has a chat with some of them.
I gotta say that this is the first game show to be revived after I covered it on Game Show Corner. So, I hope some of the game shows I covered soon get revived, too.
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Post by Belchic on Sept 30, 2020 1:55:10 GMT -5
I just saw a promo for a Weakest Link revival go by while I was watching something else this evening. Though it’s probably not the same without Anne Robinson hosting it; she really was the face of that show.
Any word yet on the reboot of Supermarket Sweep?
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Post by Flowgli on Sept 30, 2020 7:19:56 GMT -5
Yeah, the revival of Supermarket Sweep will premiere on October 18, along with the second season of the current run of Card Sharks. In the revival of Supermarket Sweep, the teams will be wearing tops of variety instead of just sweaters, and the top cash prize will be $100,000.
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Post by Flowgli on Jan 10, 2023 21:10:38 GMT -5
Wow! It’s been over two years since I last posted any game show-related updates on here. I can’t believe I neglected to post anything recent that happened in game shows for that long. Well, I’m about to post something here again, starting now.
Yesterday, season three of Master Minds (or season four, if you count Best Ever Trivia Show) premiered. In this season, The Chase chaser Mark “The Beast” Labbett joined the line up of Master Minds, and Jeopardy! champion Ken Jennings is no longer there in the lineup due to him working as the host of Jeopardy! (though the celebrity version called Celebrity Jeopardy! is hosted by Mayim Bialik)
Round one is played exactly the same as it’s always been; each contestant and Master Mind locks in an answer to each of seven multiple-choice questions, with each question worth 100 points.
Round two still has five questions for the contestants and Master Minds to answer by writing their answers on their touchscreens, except that all six participants simultaneously write down their answers instead of competing to be the first to buzz in and write down their answers. The first four questions are worth 200 points each, and the fifth and final question is worth 400 points. This time, there’s no penalty for incorrect answers in this round. The participant with the lowest score on each side is eliminated at the end of this round.
Round three still has both participants on each side buzzing in and answering questions for one minute, with the first question worth 500 points and each question thereafter worth 100 points more than the previous question. The participant with the highest score on each side advances to the final round.
The final round still has the winning contestant and the winning Master Mind answering the same five questions (actually, it has been changed to four questions in this season), except they both answer each question at the same time by writing down their answers on their touchscreens (a change made to this round in the previous season). Whoever answers the most questions correctly out of the five wins. If the contestant wins, they win $10,000 and get to return to the show on the next episode to play again against two new challengers. But if the Master Mind wins, the contestant wins $1,000, and three new contestants play against each other on the next episode.
Also, unlike all the previous seasons, a contestant can return on the show as a Master Mind in future episodes by winning the game and the final round two times instead of three.
Tomorrow, the CBS revival of Lingo with RuPaul as the host will premiere. Also, later this month, Switch, a US adaptation of a game show from Belgium, will premiere on Game Show Network, with actor Jeff Hephner as the host.
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Post by Flowgli on Jan 11, 2023 22:00:43 GMT -5
Tonight is the night of not one game show premiere, but two.
First, we have the season three premiere of the current version of Name That Tune. Yes, this is one of the many game shows I haven’t talked about during the two years of inactivity in this thread. For this season of the current version of the show, the format has been changed so that celebrities are playing the game instead of civilians, making the show Celebrity Name That Tune.
Apart from the change in contestants from civilians to celebrities, the show is still the same as it has been in the previous two seasons. Each episode has two full games, each one having two contestants play against each other in two rounds (round one being the mini-game changing from game to game, and round two being the Bid-A-Note round), and the winning contestant playing the bonus round called Golden Medley for a chance to win $100,000. And since the show now has celebrities playing the game instead of civilians, all the money won by the contestants are donated to the charities that they are playing for.
Next, we have the premiere of the CBS revival of Lingo. This version mostly uses the same format as that of the current UK version, meaning that it’s solely a word game, and there’s no Bingo element like all the versions before this one.
The game is played by four teams of two, with two teams playing at a time. In each match, each team has three five-letter words to solve, with up to five guesses on each word and up to ten seconds on each guess. Each word correctly solved adds money to a team’s bank, with the first guess worth $5,000, the second guess worth $2,500, the third guess worth $2,000, the fourth guess worth $1,500, and the fifth guess worth $1,000. If a team fails to solve a word after five guesses, runs out of time on a guess, or makes an unacceptable guess, the other team gets a chance to solve that word and steal the money.
After the teams have their chance to solve three five-letter words each, Super Lingo is played. Here, a ten-letter word comes into play for each team, with the letters appearing in that word, one at a time, after a clue is read. Before each word, RuPaul picks one of his “Lucky Balls”, and the team playing that word can choose a gold money ball to add some bonus cash to their bank (with the bonus worth $100, $500, or $1,000) on top of the value of the word or a white letter ball to reveal one of the letters in the word. When the team knows what the word is, they buzz in and solve it, with a correct solve adding money to their bank and an incorrect solve allowing the other team to steal. Each of these words start at $5,000 and decreases by $500 for each letter revealed.
After Super Lingo, Lingo Battle comes into play. Here, one member in each team solves two five-letter words, and the other member in each team solves two six-letter words. On each word, the guesses are worth $10,000, $5,000, $4,000, $3,000, and $2,000, in that order. If a contestant makes a guess that drops a new letter into its correct place in the word, they keep control of that word; but if they don’t, control of that word passes over to their opponent.
Another Super Lingo round is played, with each word twelve letters long and starting at $10,000 and decreases by $1,000 for each letter revealed. This time, the “Lucky Balls” are not used.
The team with the highest bank moves on to the Lingo Showdown to play against the winning team of the second match, while the other team is eliminated with nothing. If there’s a tie for highest bank, one more Super Lingo word puzzle is played to break the tie.
In the Lingo Showdown, the finalist teams’ banks are combined and added to a $50,000 jackpot, making that night’s cash prize for the teams to play for. The two teams solve five-letter words and six-letter words within two minutes each, with the team that has banked the most money choosing which team will go first. Each five-letter word is worth five points, and each six-letter word is worth ten points. If they get stuck on a word, they can pass it and move on to the next word.
The team with the most points after two minutes each wins the cash prize, while the other team leaves with nothing.
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