From Sony Pictures studios, Get set to climb...The $1,000,000 Pryamid!
Jrnoelle123
The host SHOULD be Dick Clark, but knowing Scott Slutberg productions, It'll
probably be Todd Newton or Ryan Seacrest. So here's the list:
1. Dick Clark
(Sternberg probably will screw tradition)
2. Todd Newton (he'd be good)
3. Ryan Seacrest
(OH NO!!! The Man from C.L.I.C.K.!!!)
4. John Davidson
(Okay, okay, so we all remember that he was only good on Hollywood
Squares..."Hello, stars!!!" "Hello, John!!!"... and that he BOMBED on the
Pryamid but that was probably because of the "Double Trouble" feauture)
5. Marc Summers (I have no idea why I put him up there)
6. Jason Harris (DD2K can't spew slime forever, can it???)
7. Jerry Springer (Jerry Springer????!!!!???)
8. Jeff Probst (But with SURVIVOR...HMMM...not too sure, just put him up there)
The Pryamid set itself can and will be changed, but they should and probably
won't keep the trilons (that was my favorite part of the whole set!)
If it's going to be syndicated around the country, it has to be on at a good
time. Remember Match Game '98? Here where I live in lower Connecticut right
near New York City, we had MG98 on 2 stations... One was UPN 20 WTXX-TV in
Hartford (They did a double run, one at 2:00 P.M. and another at 2:30 in the
Afternoons) And the other was CBS 2 WCBS-TV New York City (They showed MG98 at
2:00 A.M.!!!! Can you believe that? The biggest city in the world and they
aired it at 2:00 A.M.???) If it's not on in non-Wheel/Jeopardy! or
Non-Hollywood Squares/Family Feud cities (There are quite a few of them folks!)
in the early primetime hour or at a 4:00 slot in the afternoon or in a 10:00
A.M., IT WON'T SURVIVE. (Frankly, Pryamid/Squares or Pryamid/Feud has a nice
ring to it)
Next, bring on a good MIX of celebrities, not Betty White and Christina
Aguilera, no, more like Betty White and Ray Romano or Christina Aguliera and
Brittany Spears. I'm not saying that you shouldn't have a Betty White VS.
Christina Aguliera, just a good mix of CURRENT celebrities. I mean, who wants
to see Ed Begly Jr. VS. Harry Pollick III? (I know I do!!! Yeah, right!!!)
Celebrities who have a rivalry, that will attract RATINGS! Maybe that's why
someone like Jerry Springer should host.Also, Network Soap Star matches will
not attract people to watch (Remember Match Game '90?
And FINALLY, and MOST IMPORTANTLY, above all else: DON'T CHANGE THE GAME! A few
new twists are good, but I hope we don't get a cross between Wheel of Fortune's
new concept this season and Pryamid 91!
Thanks for listening. I appreciate comments.
James L.
Kerry, Andre, John Studd, JYD, Bobo, Pillman, Gorilla, Owen and now Gordon
Solie... sigh...
This fall, the WWF is moving on down to TNN...The Nashville (Hicks and
Slapnuts) Network!
PyramidFreak
>Date: 8/29/00 1:58 PM Pacific
> The host SHOULD be Dick Clark, but knowing Scott Slutberg productions, It'll
>probably be Todd Newton or Ryan Seacrest. So here's the list:
>
I think the reason why they wouldn't get Clark is because he's not too eager
about hosting the Pyramid. You're forgetting that he hosted from the early
seventies to late eighties, give or take a few years.
>The Pryamid set itself can and will be changed, but they should and probably
>won't keep the trilons (that was my favorite part of the whole set!)
>
They probably will use monitors, but trilons are still fun nonetheless. It's
ok to dream, after all.
>Next, bring on a good MIX of celebrities, not Betty White and Christina
>Aguilera, no, more like Betty White and Ray Romano or Christina Aguliera and
>Brittany Spears. I'm not saying that you shouldn't have a Betty White VS.
>Christina Aguliera, just a good mix of CURRENT celebrities. I mean, who wants
>to see Ed Begly Jr. VS. Harry Pollick III?
I have no plans on watching if it's Christina Agulera VS. Brittany Spears. I'd
rather watch the Newlywed Game marathon.
>And FINALLY, and MOST IMPORTANTLY, above all else: DON'T CHANGE THE GAME! A
>few
>new twists are good, but I hope we don't get a cross between Wheel of
>Fortune's
>new concept this season and Pryamid 91!
They're going to change the game. Wether it's drastic or not is up to the fate
of the producers.
The only thing I'm hoping for at this point though is trilons. :-)
Shawn K. Quinn
Jrnoelle123 <jrnoe...@cs.com> wrote:
| The host SHOULD be Dick Clark, but knowing Scott Slutberg
| productions, It'll probably be Todd Newton or Ryan Seacrest. So
| here's the list:
|
| (Sternberg probably will screw tradition)
The obvious choice to many, but I personally would rather see him as
an occasional guest celebrity. I wouldn't object to seeing him as
host, however.
| 2. Todd Newton (he'd be good)
I would have to agree with you here. He *would* do as well with
Pyramid as he has with Hollywood Showdown.
| 3. Ryan Seacrest
| (OH NO!!! The Man from C.L.I.C.K.!!!)
I think he could do well with it.
| 4. John Davidson
| (Okay, okay, so we all remember that he was only good on Hollywood
| Squares..."Hello, stars!!!" "Hello, John!!!"... and that he BOMBED
| on the Pryamid but that was probably because of the "Double Trouble"
| feauture)
Ick. Maybe for HSq if Tom Bergeron can't host it for some reason.
| 5. Marc Summers (I have no idea why I put him up there)
Ick. Maybe for DD2K if they need a replacement host there.
| 6. Jason Harris (DD2K can't spew slime forever, can it???)
No comment (haven't seen him).
| 7. Jerry Springer (Jerry Springer????!!!!???)
Eek! You cannot be serious!
| 8. Jeff Probst (But with SURVIVOR...HMMM...not too sure, just put
| him up there)
A decent choice, but I'm still partial to Seacrest or Netwon.
| The Pryamid set itself can and will be changed, but they should and
| probably won't keep the trilons (that was my favorite part of the
| whole set!)
As long as the Winner's Circle is, well, an actual *circle*, I'll at
least be content with the set.
| If it's going to be syndicated around the country, it has to be on
| at a good time. Remember Match Game '98?
Agreed. For quite a while MG98 was not even on the air in Houston!
| And FINALLY, and MOST IMPORTANTLY, above all else: DON'T CHANGE THE
| GAME! A few new twists are good, but I hope we don't get a cross
| between Wheel of Fortune's new concept this season and Pryamid 91!
Agreed mostly. I'd change only a few parts of the format, mostly prize
amounts:
Double most of the amounts used in 80's $100K Pyramid; $20,000 first
trip to WC, $50,000 second trip to WC, $10,000 for 21-21 tiebreaker
bonus, $100 to $600 for WC score money. First round bonus is the 24-7
($2,400 bonus money). Make the Mystery 7 a jackpot, where a new prize
gets added each day like the current HSq's secret square.
Have a two-layered tournament format; three tournaments for a smaller
amount (maybe $250,000?) and a shot at the million, then the
tournament between the three winners, then start the cycle over
again. *Maybe* make it two tournaments at the lower value and then the
two winners battle it out until one wins the million.
Oh, have the clock count off in 1/10 second increments and use a clock
sound similar to the bonus round in the second season of $1MCOAL for
the WC.
--
Shawn K. Quinn
BudMann9
I like adding the tenth-of-seconds on clock, but keep all sounds/music the
same.
This includes using "cucoo" in game but "bzzzzz" in winner's circle.
Chucky Carlisle
Jrnoelle123 wrote in message
<20000829165800...@ng-ct1.news.cs.com>...
>Here's what the Pryamid needs to survive:
>
It'll
>probably be Todd Newton or Ryan Seacrest. So here's the list:
>
>1. Dick Clark
>(Sternberg probably will screw tradition)
Would be nice to see him back at the helm.
>2. Todd Newton (he'd be good)
I agree...he's a reporter for E!, so why not?
>3. Ryan Seacrest
>(OH NO!!! The Man from C.L.I.C.K.!!!)
Too plastic for my taste...though he could help pull in younger viewers
w/his good looks.
>4. John Davidson
>(Okay, okay, so we all remember that he was only good on Hollywood
>Squares..."Hello, stars!!!" "Hello, John!!!"... and that he BOMBED on the
>Pryamid but that was probably because of the "Double Trouble" feauture)
Nope...there were other reasons John sucked on Pyramid:
- Blatant use of cue cards (he gave the exact same rules spiel and Winner's
Circle intro every day)
- Mocking the contestants
- "Ready...Go" overly strung out, and sometimes the giver would start
talking before he said "Go"
- While doing post-mortems in the WC, jumping around from category to
category without identifying them
- Misunderstanding the rules (once told a player going for $25K, who had won
$10K in the 1st WC, that if s/he won, she'd have a total of $35K, told
another player in the tournament that he could only qualify for one
tournament)
- Rapport w/celebs virtually non-existent
...and besides that, he's busy right now doing some off-Broadway show.
>5. Marc Summers (I have no idea why I put him up there)
Might work.
>6. Jason Harris (DD2K can't spew slime forever, can it???)
Eh...
>7. Jerry Springer (Jerry Springer????!!!!???)
If he hosts this version, God forbid, I will NOT be watching.
>8. Jeff Probst (But with SURVIVOR...HMMM...not too sure, just put him up
there)
He might work.
>And FINALLY, and MOST IMPORTANTLY, above all else: DON'T CHANGE THE GAME! A
few
>new twists are good, but I hope we don't get a cross between Wheel of
Fortune's
>new concept this season and Pryamid 91!
We can only hope...
Chuck Donegan (The Illustrious "Chuckie Baby")
DrBear
>
>If it's going to be syndicated around the country, it has to be on at a good
>near New York City, we had MG98 on 2 stations... One was UPN 20 WTXX-TV in
>Hartford (They did a double run, one at 2:00 P.M. and another at 2:30 in the
>Afternoons) And the other was CBS 2 WCBS-TV New York City (They showed MG98 at
>2:00 A.M.!!!! Can you believe that? The biggest city in the world and they
>aired it at 2:00 A.M.???) If it's not on in non-Wheel/Jeopardy! or
>Non-Hollywood Squares/Family Feud cities (There are quite a few of them folks!)
>in the early primetime hour or at a 4:00 slot in the afternoon or in a 10:00
>A.M., IT WON'T SURVIVE. (Frankly, Pryamid/Squares or Pryamid/Feud has a nice
>ring to it)
>
news (the big moneymaker) and not take a gamble on something untried. That's why Wheel has survived when another game
might do better; its easier to do nothing and not show any change than make a change that might not work and lose your
job.
If you ever want to see the model for a programmer, check out the Cowardly Lion in the Wizard of Oz.
sonic...@my-deja.com
> Here's what the Pryamid needs to survive:
>
> The host SHOULD be Dick Clark, but knowing Scott Slutberg
productions, It'll
> probably be Todd Newton or Ryan Seacrest. So here's the list:
Chances are Ryan Seacrest will not host the Pyramid, b/c NBC just hired
him to host their Saturday night movie block (or maybe it was some
other netowrk, I'm not sure). I'm not saying this won't happen, but
there's a good chance of it NOT happening.
And besides, who are they going to get, Mark Walberg? **shudder**
Chico
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Before you buy.
Zach Horan
>
The second recent pilot of Pyramid was hosted by Chuck Woolery. He'd be a
viable possibility, assuming Greed or Ultimate Fan Search does not return.
mich...@stratos.net
"Chucky Carlisle" <Cyber...@worldnet.att.net> wrote:
> > The host SHOULD be Dick Clark, but knowing Scott Slutberg
productions,
> It'll
> >probably be Todd Newton or Ryan Seacrest. So here's the list:
>
>
> I agree...he's a reporter for E!, so why not?
Honestly, after watching Newton host the Hollywood Showdown tryout in
Pittsburgh for 3 hours last night, I think he'd be better suited for a
show with more interactivity between the host and the contestants like
TPiR or Let's Make a Deal. As Rob McMonigal, Jim Lokay, or Mitch Groff
can tell you, his interaction with the contestants, especially the
younger, attractive females was priceless (no pun intended). He's very
quick on his feet, coming up with a snappy reply for every situation
immediately. After watching Newton for about an hour, Rob told me he's
ashamed he didn't see Hollywood Showdown once when he had access to GSN
for a week.
Mike