Didn't know if anybody had seen this yet, but Debmar-Mercury had an insert in this week's B&C magazine touting their syndicated offerings, and included a pic of Trivial Pursuit, which I now present for your edification.

Lord....... please bless us with a game show that is not afraid to use a bright set. Amen.

Tyshaun

Two observations...don't affect my hopes for the show, but stood out.

1. I don't know why, but that set looks somewhat cheap, even for a pilot. Does it affect my opinion of the show? Not at all, but it's just an observation. Then again, I just realized Debmar-Mercury might not be working with a Wheel-sized budget either...so strike this one for now.

2. Not feeling the mood lighting and audience pit set for a board game, either.

Mood lighting, no. Audience pit, maybe. If there's one game where the whole theatre-in-the-round setting would fit, Trivial Pursuit might be it.

Again, only a pilot.

I personally think the 1993 Trivial Pursuit set could work for this version. It fit the mood of the board game, and looked great, to boot.

They could even keep the three podiums and the big monitor for the categories; would also work with the "America's Team" thingy they're doing here.

The set looks rather cheap. I'm sure they'll "touch it up a bit" by the time the show goes into full series mode. The monitor's nice & big. If only they go by the 1993 rules except the podiums look like the wedges have whole slices instead of being split into 2 pieces.

Who's the host? I don't remember seeing anything about who's emceeing.

Mark L. Walberg.

Well, that's one plus so far. :p

Given that even the board game isn't what it used to be, I guess the boring set shouldn't come as a surprise. But geez, without the Trivial Pursuit board being somewhat involved, aren't we basically dealing with the Joker's Wild without the fun part?

I think a remake of the 1993 set would be much better, especially in terms of ambiance. Not to mention, I hope this vehicle fares better for Mark this time around.

(and from the look of the picture: You know, judging from the lady in the "big-honkin-monitor," she has the look where she might look like she is about to burn the contestants to a crisp.)

FYI, Mark has not signed to host the series as yet. It's a matter of scheduling around his other committments. And I love hearing everything good about that 1993 version of TP. It was a fun show to work.

Randy
tvrandywest.com

Fun show to watch as well. I think it would've worked better as a standalone show, though, and without the interactive qualifying round.

But for a low-budget cable game, I thought it made for an excellent board game adaptation. Everything about the show meshed well, the music, the set, the host. (*sigh*)

And I agree with the idea of revamping the 1993 set. It would still look very classy with the gold...just switch out that green chase lighting.

Another reason we can all hope that "Moment of Truth" burns out fast. :)

And poor Walberg yesterday on "The Morning Show with Mike and Juliet"--he was on camera for about 20 seconds before they went to an audience member playing "Moment of Truth" with the polygraph operator from the show in the role of Female Robot Voice and Jarrick and Huddy asking the questions. I can only hope he got his scale for the gig.

At least it's consistent with how they've been treating celeb guests lately--they bring them out at 9:54, run the clip, ask them one question and then dump them out before the last break and the wrapup for the day. The first guest on Regis can run out into the limo, perhaps zoom down Sixth Avenue to the News Corp. building and do both shows live in the same day, while Mike and Juliet are doing their umpteenth segment on sex and/or Internet abusers.

Speaking of which, will this version have the same announcer as the 1993 edition?
Or will this be one of those, "I'm [name of host]. This is Trivial Pursuit". Cue the theme (ten seconds of the same measures in an endless loop) followed by the emcee saying, "Welcome to the show".
It is good to see there's actually an audience there.

Randy, it would be nice if you could announce this version of TP

doesn't those 3 podiums stuck together remind you a bit of the dreaded Monopoly? also, it may just be a pilot but still none of these new game shows can get away from the light blue!!!

Yeah, sure. It also reminds me of Jeopardy. Or the original Trivial Pursuit game show. Or 3 on a Match. Or Split Second. Or WinTuition. Or [insert name of any game show in history with three identical podia/lecterns].

If I wrote a list of game shows with three contestant desks sandwiched next to each other, I dare say Monopoly would not appear in the first twenty pages.

/If the opening theme to Trivial Pursuit features a woman moaning out the spelling of the title, I'm changing the channel

I'd say I agree on general principal, but really it depends on the woman...

Thanks guys! It's too soon to know, as production won't start for several months. But Mark and I are already in touch, planning to rule the game show world together ;-)

Randy
tvrandywest.com

That'd be nice. Especially since each of you is someone that "gets it".

Actually, they may be looking at Led Zeppelin doing the theme

"T..R...I, I, I, I...V...I, I, I, I...."