I sceond this, after all, it is just a pilot. Hell, I think the set is great considering it is a pilot. It just needs to be snazed up a bit if it goes to production, but I have no doubt that will happen.

I completely agree with waiting until it goes to air to really start being too picky.

-Ryan

I felt the same way. Not having returning champions like previous versions made that stand out more. I think modern game shows have two extremes: they either try to be contestant-driven, with constant joking and sob stories (DOND, Millionaire, Lyrics) or just give them the name, rank and serial number treatment (Catch 21, Wheel, TP: AP). I think the best show for contestant interaction in a while was Lingo. Chuck Woolery made just about every contestant seem like the most interesting person in the world, and he and Shandi would mention it later, tie things into the words. They just had fun with it. Newlywed Game's good for that, by design, although the current format hamstrings things somewhat.

Well, from watching reruns on GSN (especially the second season), they seemed to try to take as few wide shots of the big board as possible. If the pair run up the board normally, there's no problem. If they skip around and come back, I can see how someone at home might lose track.

As for 6-in-20, I can understand why they did that, if the reasoning was time. What I couldn't understand was why a time-strapped show insisted on making a big deal of the front game category reveals, and the laughs they generated...or didn't. I believe having normal categories and going to 6-in-25 would have saved they syndie version a similar amount of time. As for the upcoming CBS series, I'm a bit worried about it. The only other half-hour show CBS has in daytime is Bold and Beautiful, and that clocks in on most days at a little under 20 minutes. I have no idea how they plan on getting two front games and two Winners' Circles into that.

EDIT- Just saw the comment about the celebrities. The distinctly more casual atmosphere on Donnymid was part of that, because I don't think Pyramid (or game shows in general) drew a lot of "big" celebrities during the 80s. The 70s, maybe.

I need to dip into the GSForum lexicon for this one; what does "QFT" mean?

Quoted For Truth.

QFT ;-).

In this case, I was going for the stronger Quite F***ing True.

I always thought it meant "Quit F'n Talking".

If you'd seen oodles and oodles of posts, context clues should have lead you to believe otherwise. But just seeing it every once in a while, I suppose different word combinations could occur. Lord knows how many times I've read stuff on this board and had to parse what an abbreviation meant. The worst was YMMV.

Except that if you Google it, you immediately get the answer. Same with QFT. Neither of these are remotely specific to our forum.

I'm not saying you shouldn't ask if you want to know, and I'm certainly not saying everybody should have the entire list of internet abbreviations memorized. I'm just surprised people don't realize they can almost always find the answers themselves with virtually no effort at all.

And the winner of one Internet is you!

/relevant jargon you'd have to look up: JFGI

Let me Google that for you.

The Jewish Federation of Greater Indianapolis? Oh wait....


Greg

Any differences between Tuesday's and Friday's pilots? I thought I read that Dean Cain did well, but any format changes or anything? More throwbacks to the 80s version? Alan Kalter?

Different celebs--Kathy Najimi and Mo Rocca--but no changes to the format.

No sh*t? Let me clarify. I meant figure it out on my own, using context. QFT was looked up quite a while ago; I doubt I ever would have guessed "quoted for truth." I was happy to discover I had figured out YMMV without looking it up. Nothing to get huffy about. Just another inconsequential rest stop on the information superhighway.

Clear now?

Any word on if the 7-11 and Mystery 7 bonuses survived, or are they using different bonus cards/no FG bonuses?

There's still 7-11, but no Mystery 7.

I've read conflicting reports, so I'll ask. Is Pyramid in the pilot stage or is this a go on CBS' schedule in September? I don't want to read through 31 pages to find out.

It is in the pilot stage, as of now. I even informed one Pyramid fan through an e-mail that is just that right now. However, in the event that it does go to series in September, and if does tape at Kaufman-Astoria in Queens, I gave him subway directions as to how to get to the studio.

If you loved Words Have Meanings, tune in this fall to the all-new Abbreviations Have Meanings!

Ouch, my incredibly fragile ego! Some of us don't have thick hides, Mr. Armadillo.

\See what I did there? One of the few members on the board where that joke works.

Nicely done.

Very well played, sir. I nearly rogl'd.

Rolled On the Gravel Laughing?

\Armadillo's idea isn't bad
\\Now we just need someone along the lines of Nipsey Russell to host it

Reviving the thread...
As of now, WUSA in Washington will not be carrying this at 3pm (if it happens), opting instead for the new syndicated series "Dr. Oz." It won't be the first market to skip it, unfortunately.

Maybe I missed something or maybe I misread something, but I thought if Pyramid went on air, it'd take the 10 AM slot on CBS, preceding the Price is Right, and not enter syndication right away. Am I wrong in thinking this?

Depending on the market, Guiding Light airs/aired at either 10 am or 3 pm. (Or, if you live in Flint-Saginaw-Bay City, it doesn't air on CBS at all.) So, if the combination of Pyramid/Dating/Deal takes up the old timeslot of Guiding Light, that timeslot will differ.

I emailed WHP (Harrisburg) to ask them and got this reply from the "programming manager":



So much for a straight answer..

How is that not a straight answer? Guiding Light isn't done until September. CBS certainly hasn't announced anything publicly about what they're doing with the slot, and only a small handful of industry people and us rabid fans are even aware that Pyramid is under consideration. Seems perfectly likely that local station managers don't have any more of a clue than we do right now.

Maybe you read it differently than I, but what I was mainly wondering (and I might have not made that clear in my original message) was if WHP was going to show the GL replacement at 3pm, or at 10am. Unless I've missed the boat somewhere along the way, I've been under the impression that CBS was going to continue to program the 3pm hour, as compared to giving that hour back in exchange for 10am.

...and the answer is: they don't know. They know the schedule is going to change when GL goes off the air. Whether that's by another show filling its slot, or shuffling around the schedule to make the show fit better, they don't know. When CBS decides what they're going to put in that slot, then, maybe, they will know. Until then, they do not.

OK. I'd assumed* that the new offering would simply replace GL at 3pm.

* We all know what happens when one assumes

Right now, it looks like the affiliates have the option to show GL at 10:00 or 3:00 and take the other hour for themselves. It all depends whether, I guess, they see the best use of 3:00 as an extension of the network soap block or of their own local syndie/news block.

I would think that if game shows are the replacement, there will be a greater percentage taking the 10 am option.

As much as I would love to see an afternoon network game show for the first time in a long time, I tend to agree. Another game show would be a great lead-in for TPiR.

In our particular corner of the Mountain Time Zone, we currently get TPIR (off the live East Coast Feed) at 9AM, followed by Y&R at 10AM. If our station moves Y&R to the old Guiding Light slot at 2PM, we'd have the following:

900 AM: TPIR
1000: Pyramid
1030: LMAD ???
1100: Feud (first-run syndie)
1130: Millionaire (previous season reruns)

This would make for a great 3-hour block of morning game show programming. Plus, Y & R would make a great lead-in for Phil & Oprah.

...they'd be high as a friggin' kite, considering that Y&R is WAAAAAY more of an anchor show than GL ever was.

Absolutely. There are only a handful of stations I know of that don't run Y&R at its designated time for that time zone..It's been at 12:30 (EST) for nearly 30 years for a reason......

I am ASTONISHED that you got a reply from them at all. I have emailed them half a dozen times over the past couple years and never received a response once. They're still a sorry excuse for a TV station though.

/ObGameShow: WHP aired Combs daytime Feud at noon because they could not afford to slap together a noon news program at the time.

They usually are pretty good at emailing back, believe it or not. I do watch their news from time to time. I try to watch 8, 21, and 27 equally (and 15 and 43 if I remember).

As for the Feud at noon, they *still* can't afford to slap together a noon news program. The '80s were an off and on time of noon news for them.

And oddly enough noon is the one time that WHP would have a snowball's chance in hell of catching WGAL...at least that was true a few years ago.

WRAL, Raleigh NC, has been one of them since the mid 1990s. They show an hour of news at noon. This of
course, is the same station that has pre-empted CBS and/or replaced syndicated programming in the past during the day for "Andy Griffith" reruns.

No word from WUSA yet.

I'd think that swapping Y&R and GL's timeslots might actually work pretty well in Central Time, where you'd end up with Price at 10, Pyramid/LMAD/DG from 11-12, and local news or syndie programming at noon.

KEYE here in Austin has Meredith Millionaire instead of news at noon, so it would lead to quite a nice game show block there.

I'm surprised that nobody here's mentioned what a station has to go through if they move a show that's been watched at the same time daily all of a sudden for a game show.

As much as it would be cool that you'd have a game show block, realistically - not going to happen that Y&R's going to move for game shows.

It will be interesting here what happens...my affiliate is one that airs GL at 9AM, followed by the Bonnie Hunt show, then Price. I don't know how well Bonnie's ratings have been...I think GL's been the sacrificial lamb to Regis and Kelly for quite a while now, so I don't know what would happen.

/Who am I kidding? They're probably gonna pick up Dr. Oz for the Oprah trifecta and bump the games altogether. Never mind. Picked up by the black hole of suck of my FOX affiliate.

Because we were waiting for you to bring it up. And it took you an awfully long time to do so, I will tell you.
So since you've broached it, man In The Biz, alleviate the anxiety and tell all.

WUSA: "We will air whatever CBS replacement programming for Guiding Light at 10am" Better than not at all!

Best answer possible! YAY!

A) You were waiting with bells on. Or was that a girl named Belle?

B) I think it was like nine days, according to one board member.

C) The minor things you're looking at is promotion over and over again that there's going to be a time change. However, from the time that you mention that Days of our Lives is going to move a half-hour earlier, chances are you're going to get inundated with phone calls that this was the worst decision in the world - why is this happening, etc. Wait x amount of years, change it again, lather, rinse, repeat.

I'm just trying to show a different perspective of what happens when either an affiliate makes a daytime slot change or the network does it for them (see: Michael Jackson funeral coverage Tuesday and CBS).

Interesting news out of Atlanta regarding fall shows, according to the AJC...

http://blogs.ajc.com/radio-tv-talk/2009/07...z-joining-wxia/


Although not specifically mentioned, it appears that WGCL will air whatever replaces Guiding Light at 3p this fall. GL currently holds the slot.

As far as the future of WWTBAM and DOND in Atlanta go, that remains up in the air. Year-old reruns of WWTBAM still air at 12:30p on WXIA (NBC/Gannett), so I could see the channel move the new episodes to that slot (WXIA currently airs the news at noon). DOND lost both its slots -- 4:30p on WXIA (to Ellen) and 6:30p on WATL (MyNet/Gannett -- to Dr. Oz) -- I could see a DoND block in the afternoons on WATL if the network stops triple-running (!) the "Bad Boy Crew" (Jerry and Maury).

Peachtree TV (Indy/Time Warner -- former Atlanta home for SuperStation TBS) could also be an option for both shows.

7:30p on WXIA is likely not an option (that's slot is now open with "The Insider" moving to WGCL), as WATL airs WOF/J! in the 7p hour.

JD

This is way off-topic, but I need a native to explain something to me. I was in Tennessee visiting family last weekend, and being Braves fans, they watch the games on Peachtree TV. During Peachtree coverage, there are -- strangely -- no commercials. The announcers throw to what ought to be the regular break between innings, at which point we're treated to a mostly silent wide shot of the field. What's the deal with that?