Casey posted a G-R report from Price's new season, and there's a few syndie Deal reports over on Hollywood Junket. (NOTE: there are some spoilers on the site as well)

Any other reports of what's going on for the upcoming season, from anyone who's attended a taping? Would love to hear about Trivial Pursuit, or even Million Dollar Wheel.

And has Fremantle officially shot the broken-legged horse that is "Temptation"?

/Don't tell PETA I said that
//I literally work a block from their HQ
///Having a BBQ there for Labor Day

Dunno, but I was looking at the numbers for Temptation in Hartford just today, and noticed something stunning.

At 2:30pm, up against 2 soap operas and Martha Stewart :

Temptation comes in second place with a 1.5 rating.

This HAS to be an abnormality, no?

It is surprising, to say the least. Perhaps a lot of people there are just glad to have $ale back in some form (I had the same attitude when Whammy! premiered, was glad to have PYL back in some form).

But Whammy at least TRIED to make it look like the game it was a revival of.

Temptation failed to do that. They added too much in and it took away from it.

True story: Local humane society had a fund-raiser. Local paper headline: "Homeless Animal BBQ"

We were working on a promo page at work that has wallpapers and icons on it for our users. (Apparently they like that stuff.) One day, one of my officemates looks at the banner on the page, and asks "Does that say what I think it says?"

On the banner, in inch-high letters: "Fun Free Downloads."

Could that be due to time-shifting? Sometimes women will tape or TIVO the soaps to watch later (and pause the action if interrupted by a phone call). Temptation is good for watching in real-time but for archiving.....? My grandmother used to tape her soaps to watch overnight and watched the USA game show block during the day. Always enjoyed visiting grandma.

The syndie Deal's website is up at DealorNoDealTV.com, but as for now it only has a video promo, link to get tickets, and a countdown of days to the premiere.

And pictures of the only two models this version needs: Patricia and Tameka.

http://www.exposay.com/celebrity-photos/cl...iere-RCSrjr.jpg

/Does NOT approve

Are there any station listings available for any of the new shows?

*bzzt* Sorry, that's incorrect. The correct answers are "Leyla and Anya"....

Personally, I got a chuckle out of the commercials for Deal. Well crafted and slightly creative.

Not that I know of. But since your a fellow Michigander, I can tell you that Deal will air on WSMH-Fox 66. I have seen the commercials a few times during Everybody Loves Raymond.

Very cool. I can't ever remember WSMH picking up a syndie game.

Columbus, OH: WSYX Channel 6 will carry DOND

Me thinks Sinclair got a group deal. In Buffalo last weekend, I saw an ad for DOND on Fox Toronto WUTV.

/And yet I haven't seen any ads for it on their Baltimore flagship(s).

I can safely say that WREX-TV in Rockford will be airing DoND starting September 8th, as well as Trivial Pursuit: America Plays.

This is on top of already having Millionaire, Jeopardy and Wheel.

Channel 6 is carrying a syndicated game? When was the last time they did that?
The last I remember was Pictionary and they ran that at 1:30am for a few months before moving it to 2:30am.

Now that Don mentions Pictionary, I do remember WSMH airing that back in '97. But that was the last time they ever aired a Syndie Game Show.

And that's because Don Howard is getting more senile by the hour. WSYX ran Pyramid for at least its first season and might still be running WWTBAM. Move along, friends. Meltdowns aren't pretty.

When they started in 85, they had "Anything For Money" and Dawson Feud. Later they picked up TTD and TJW as well as Don Bleu Gong Show and MacGregor DG. Boardman's Liar's Club and Fun House also aired on 66.

Ah, see, I did not know that, being born in... well, before you. ;) But very cool. I do remember seeing a bit or piece of Pictionary at age 7, but obviously not clearly enough to remember what station.

And now, I must go take my Geritol. :-P

/Was age 7 when the other Pictionary aired
//Way back in 1989
///When there were only four broadcast networks

I'm one of the younger folks here (c.1986) and that one even makes me feel a bit old.

/Was seven when Caesar's Challenge was on.
//Continuing to stay off your lawns, sirs.

I'll take the Geritol from you, thank you. :)

//Was 14 when it aired
///Was a freshman in high school in 1989

And for my Mid-Michigan friends:

"DOND" on WMAQ--don't know time yet, but they've got open that hour of local shows, infomercials and "Access" reruns at 11 a.m., so maybe there (or the 2 p.m. hour where "Crosswords" is, if they bail out on the Daytime Plus scheme).

"Trivial Pursuit" could be on either WFLD or WPWR--the Fox-owned stations have bought it.

And the second run of "WWTBAM" could either disappear or move into overnight at WGN--their midday newscast is adding a half-hour in September and starting at 11:30 a.m.

WTKR picked up D/ND, I'm guessing in the 4pm hour with "Millionaire".
WTVZ will air "Trivial Pursuit", and I'm guessing that will take the noon-1 hour, replacing "Temptation".

On the Louisville front......

WDRB Fox 41 has already started advertising DOND, which would indicate a strong time slot since they never plugged Crosswords, which aired at 4:30am. No official word yet on "Trivial Pursuit", but based on Belo being announced as one of the station groups to pick up the show, my hunch is that WHAS will be carrying it, possibly as a pairing with WWTBAM.

Tyshaun

Good timeslot.

Oh, shut up.

Signed,

Chris Lemon
Class of '89

I was expelled from college for the third and final time in 1989.
Speaking of syndie DOND, Stosh and Stu (henceforth, The ST Boyz) were talking about how players who eliminate the high amounts early will have their game play edited from broadcast and be awarded $500. This discussion took place on Stu's Show two Wednesdays ago.

OK, I then pass the Geritol to you. :)

Buzzerblog and Hollywood Junket had this a couple weeks ago as an isolated incident on a couples' week taping. The two blew through all the high amounts, to a point where $500 was the big number on the board, so tape was stopped, and they were sent on their merry way with the high amount on the board. Doesn't make the practice any more savory or defensible, but it seems to be more of an "occurrence" than the hard-and-fast "rule" the Perf would make it out to be.

I know there have been episode(s) cut from the syndie version, but I didn't know that there was a standard operating procedure for it.

The (Best of) Syndie DoND will air on WPGH (FOX) in the Pittsburgh-New Castle area. Not sure about Trivial Pursuit, but it probably won't be on KDKA (CBS) or WTAE (ABC). WPXI (NBC) has been showing MGC, so I don't know if they're getting the Program Partners Package or continuing to air Montel.

/KDKA has 7(!!!) hours of local news/magainze per weekday

And that's where WDCA-20 (a MyNet affiliate) will be showing it in D.C. Right now, the big 4 DC stations are doing local news at that time and both 20 and WDCW-50 (CW) are showing court shows.

The only other certainty about DC syndie shows is that WJLA-7 (ABC) has snagged Millionaire from the 4:00 slot on WUSA-9 (CBS) and will bump Crosswords to make room for it at 12:30 p.m.

I never knew Geritol came in gazpacho flavor.

Signed,

Another high school freshman from 1988-89

Pass it to me--I was one year out of college in 1989.

ObGameShow: Geritol sponsored Twenty One in the 1950s.
Do you have tired blood? Then glug some of this while you study these answers.

According to the guys who did the America Plays taping at Northbrook, they mentioned it was WPWR, My50, or whatever the hell we call it up here.

/what the hell game shows were on that station back in '89?
//I was only 4 at the time, btw.

In that rough time frame, Clark "$100K Pyramid," Raferty "Card Sharks" (two years after the rest of the nation!), "Matchmaker" and a fourth show I don't remember right now. In prime time.

I'm now guessing that "TP" will replace "Temptation" at 1 p.m. Lots of love, Rossi.

Well, Charmin is a lot more entertaining than "Temptation" ever was...

/what?

They air WWTBAM at 7:30 weeknights, have for some time now.

Can't say how much distribution Syndeal will get up here in Canada, but NTV ("Canada's Superstation") has already been showing ads for it, promoting a fall launch at the plum time of 5.30 pm. This is due to speculation that CBC will run Wheel as a lead-in to supper hour news casts nationally, and J! as a lead in to the prime-time hours.

Ryan :)

/NTV isn't pleased right now; they've shunted Wheel and J! out of their 5-6 pm block to 4-5 am.
//This is the same NTV that used to run J!-H2-Wheel in a 90 min block when I was living there in '04
///But NTV wins points for being over the air on channel six; I used to walk home and listen to J! and H2.
////"Wheel of Fortune": Canada's game?

Oh all of you hush. LOL Class of 77....Oy......

Don

How on Earth did I miss that? My only memory of seeing Rafferty CS was on one of those rare days when the aerial would pick up stations from Milwaukee and Grand Rapids.

/remembers WFLD's B&E primetime block fondly, with an occasional dash of Catch Phrase
//Perfect Match & Davidson Pyramid, not so much

Yes, yes, we all find Rossi Morreale to be quite Charmin.

Provided that they're not pre-empted for Geoff Stirling's occasional late-night diatribes.

Do they still do that? I figured that all they showed at late night was 80% of a music video or that NFB feature with Smallwood and Stirling.

R.

Obgameshows: One Newfoundlander made it on DoND Canada, despite having to fly by helicopter to the closest casting call, in Halifax.