T. Jay Matches the Stars (MG'98 Review)...
T. Jay
was OK for celebs to get wild & crazy, and occasionally out of
hand....And that show is now!!!
SET (B+):
I loved the set...The colors used were great -- and no sign of orange
shag carpeting anywhere!!!
My only quirks was that for a studio as large as CBS 33, that set is
small!!! Give a little more airspace for all. Also if you notice, the
celebs have to reach for the trashcan under the desk to toss their
answers away. To me, seeing the stars reaching under the desk bugs me.
Put some slots in them desks!!!
MUSIC (A):
The main theme reminds me of MG'90's theme. And I like how with the
think music, they start off with a clip of the original WANK music, then
morph into a 90's melody.
HOST (A+):
Michael Burger has this game down!!!! Burger & Bergeron are THE game
show hosts for the 21st century.
ANNOUNCER (A):
His name slips my mind at the moment, but he does sound exciting and not
abrasive. A very good job!!!
GAME PLAY: (B-): Out of the 2 eps I have seen, the game can easily
accomodate a 6th star without any time problems. But I do like the clue
choices over the "A" & "B" format. I have yet to hear any audience
participation questions ("_________is sooooo_________....").
OVERALL: It's nice to see Jay Wolpert at the helm of a good show.
Though I cannot describe them, there is a lot of Wolpert touches to the
set, SFX, and to the overall show itself. I also like the MGP credit
at the end.
In this shortened review, T. Jay proudly gives Match Game '98 a
big................
**** "A" ****
As far as which new show is better (MG v HS), I have to give it a couple
of months.
JAY WOLPERT ROCKS!!!
T. Jay
Tim Dunleavy
>ANNOUNCER (A):
>His name slips my mind at the moment, but he does sound exciting and not
>abrasive. A very good job!!!
His name is Paul Boland, and he's a very personable, funny guy. He keeps the
audience entertained by doing impressions (Neil Diamond, Louis Armstrong,
Kermit the Frog etc.) and he's very good. (By the time the third episode
rolled around, Paul was running out of comic ideas, but who wouldn't?) At
the taping I saw, he would ask a technician to cue up "Satisfaction" and he
would start to sing it, only to be joined onstage by Judy Tenuta and Vicki
doing better Jagger impressions than him!
The taping I went to was attended by about twenty people who live at a home
for the mentally retarted. Between episodes two and three, Paul went over to
their area of the audience and spent about ten minutes talking to them. I'm
sure it meant a lot to them. That proved to me that he's a class act.
-Tim
GDukes2729
Tim, You are so lucky to have gone to a tapeing of MG. I wish i could maybe i
will someday. I watched Paul and Mike when they were on Home and Family(the
talk show Mike co hosted) and Paul came on the show a few times and keep
everyone laughing til their sides hurt. He is a funny guy. He came across as a
sweet person then too so its good to see he really is sweet:-)
Eddie Walker
hopefully i can pull an audition the following week (i will come back from
las vegas for the day to do this!!).
Ed
GDukes2729 wrote in message
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C319Chris
Jay Wolpert rocks only when he is producing someone else's idea. He has yet to
come up with a successful idea of his own. At least Bob Stewart had "Pyramid"
(and not much else). If Jay would only listen to MY ideas he might have a
success on his hands :-) Are you listening, Jay?
T. Jay
Well, I think many of us believe that Whew! was ahead of it's time. I
really think that the show would be a great hit nowadays, maybe confined
to a cable channel like Comedy Central. Blackout would also have been a
good show with a longer life if CBS didn't label it as a "replacement
series" from the get go.
And Jay probably would have had extended success with Shopping Spree had
the folding of FAM, as we knew it, had not happened.
Granted, Rodeo Drive probably couldn't have gone too far from Lifetime
and Hit Man (along with Wait Til You Have Kids, IMHO) was a difficult
game to grasp in one episode but he did have some things going for him.
His sets were filling, the music was good, and on most of his shows, a
new twist to the Q & A style was created.
I know that I am challenging the views of someone who is in the biz of
game shows, but I believe that Jay has always put his heart & soul into
the shows he produced & created, unlike some of the
people we have seen, and that some of his demises shouldn't be the fault
of him.
Heck, I've been through many jobs in the last few years myself, and lost
many of them due to downsizing, department relocation to another part of
the country or the fact that the job itself was eliminated. That does
not or should not label me as an unsuccessful worker.
T. Jay
Chris M. Dickson
<c319...@aol.com> writes
>Jay Wolpert rocks only when he is producing someone else's idea. He has yet to
>come up with a successful idea of his own.
So what? The members of this newsgroup aren't interested in seeing
successful shows. No, we'd much rather see a glorious, brilliant idea
flawlessly executed which has lots to be fannish about and caters to
regular viewers and die-hard game show fans but is so impenetrable that
the idiot masses don't catch on and the show gets canned after 13 weeks.
However, we'll have taped every episode of the run, will spend 32.5
hours watching all 65 shows consecutively at each of the next six GSCs
and then spend the next 25 years plotting revivals. And we won't care.
Apply :-)s at your own discretion, depending on how serious you think
I'm being. Or, rather, how serious you think I'm *not* being.
Chris
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Rhudson765
>At least Bob Stewart had "Pyramid"
>(and not much else).
EXCUSE ME, but did'mnt Bob Stewart create
"Nothing But the Truth" <TTTT> and Ther Price is Right BEFORE he started
working
for Goodson-Toddman who hired him to produce the shows for them.
And let's not forget about Password,Jackpot &
Chain Reaction
And if Bob Stewart had'nt created the origional Price, there would be NO
network
daytime shows on the air right now.
Richard Hudson
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