GSN acquiring Truth or Consequences?
Christopher Bogart
Just in case any of you don't know. I have just returned from california and
on June 24th I got to see TPIR in person. In fact the show I saw was the
second episode of the 31st season. During the Q&A period I asked Bob what is
was it like working with Ralph Edwards. It took him two commerical breaks to
answer the question because he had so many memories, but at the end of it he
said the Ralph Edwards was in talks with GSN about getting ToC on GSN, so it
might be coming.
This is just my .02, but I think this show is very dry for GSN's standards.
If it's true, strange they would try to acquire this before Price. I guess
the deal with Price is it's too expensive. I thought Edwards was holding out
for money too.
Penguin
Nah, they couldn't have. If they'd gotten Price back, they'd already be
promoting the hell out of it
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Dave Mackey
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> said the Ralph Edwards was in talks with GSN about getting ToC on GSN, so
it
> might be coming.
>
> This is just my .02, but I think this show is very dry for GSN's
standards.
>
> If it's true, strange they would try to acquire this before Price. I guess
> the deal with Price is it's too expensive. I thought Edwards was holding
out
> for money too.
Yeah, but if GSN is talking to Ralph Edwards, think of all the other Ralph
Edwards shows they could be getting as well. Cross-Wits, anyone?!?!?!?!?!
EPaddon
>Edwards shows they could be getting as well. Cross-Wits, anyone?!?!?!?!?!
And Kennedy NTT as well!
Eric Paddon
Robair
> This is just my .02, but I think this show is very dry for GSN's
standards.
>
> If it's true, strange they would try to acquire this before Price. I guess
> the deal with Price is it's too expensive. I thought Edwards was holding
out
> for money too.
Dry? If a college-age kid has never seen a TPIR episode before 1994,
he's got no idea of how Barker used to conduct "TorC" on a daily
basis. He relished getting every last drop of humor out of every
situation, and never overplayed anything. Heck, even the reunions,
which in lesser hands would have been ham-handed, were conducted
by Barker with aplomb. And every interview was a gem...he never quit
on a subject, he kept trying new angles to make them funny.
And that's what he always said his chief role was on TorC...he made
his living making other people funny. That's why I think it would
be wonderful to see the old Barker TorC shows again.
--Robair
Brett A. Pasternack
>
> From the GSN Message board. Take it for what it's worth.
>
> Just in case any of you don't know. I have just returned from california and
> on June 24th I got to see TPIR in person. In fact the show I saw was the
> second episode of the 31st season. During the Q&A period I asked Bob what is
> was it like working with Ralph Edwards. It took him two commerical breaks to
> answer the question because he had so many memories, but at the end of it he
> said the Ralph Edwards was in talks with GSN about getting ToC on GSN, so it
> might be coming.
>
> This is just my .02, but I think this show is very dry for GSN's standards.
I really can't remember anything about TorC, but my parents tell me I
was a huge fan when I was a toddler, to the point where I learned how to
read the words "Truth Or Consequences" in the TV listings when I was
less than two years old. It would be very interesting to see what I
would think of it today. B^)
Michael Brandenburg
a.t.g.s.on 7-1-2002:
«««If a college-age kid has never seen a TPIR episode before 1994, he's got no
idea of how Barker used to conduct "TorC" on a daily basis. He relished getting
every last drop of humor out of every situation, and never overplayed anything.
Heck, even the reunions, which in lesser hands would have been ham-handed,
were conducted by Barker with aplomb. And every interview was a gem...he never
quit on a subject, he kept trying new angles to make them funny.
And that's what he always said his chief role was on TorC...he made his
living making other people funny. That's why I think it would be wonderful to
see the old Barker TorC shows again.
»»»
Right on! IMO, TorC was never the same after the production of the
Barker-hosted version ended in 1975 -- Bob Hilton and Larry Anderson, the
respective hosts of the two short-lived attempts to revive it, just couldn't
cut it!
However, after finding herself needing her own daily dose of Weakest Link
(which airs in double-run from 10-11 A.M. daily on WCPO-TV near where she
lives), my mother thinks that George Gray should be the one to eventually
replace Bob Barker on TPIR. But now I say that if WL should fold up soon into
its second season (now that we won't have Anne Robinson to kick around any
more), get George Gray over to GSN to host new TorC episodes -- I think he'll
be a dandy!
Michael Brandenburg
(Also this personal memo: My condolences over the death of the IRPinball
site as it had previously existed on hippie.net. I was hoping, as an
occassional gag, to post here some reviews of "game show-based" pinballs from
your other site as a poke against all the game show-based slot machines -- but
your original "Wheel of Fortune" pinball creation perished before I could
download it when the hippie.net-hosted site went down, and that game might have
been a good one!)
Doug
>
Cronin was on record in ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY saying that NTT is a popular
request but would be too mired in music clearance issues to get (this is also
supposedly the reason that GSN can't/won't air THE GONG SHOW--even though they
did clear about half of the NBC run in its daily airing in 1997-99).
Doug
--
Allen Ludden: [When I first met you], you had a beard.
David Letterman: I did have a beard. I still have the beard--it's out in the
car.
- PASSWORD PLUS (5/28/79)
Matt Ottinger
"Doug" <sri...@aol.comspamnot> wrote...
>
> Cronin was on record in ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY saying that NTT is a popular
> request but would be too mired in music clearance issues to get (this is
also
> supposedly the reason that GSN can't/won't air THE GONG SHOW--even though
they
> did clear about half of the NBC run in its daily airing in 1997-99).
I know we've discussed this before, and I had some very smart people try to
explain this to me, but it still seems a shame that GSN can't get past music
clearance issues for the 70s version, while the USA network reran the 80s
version with Jim Lange incessantly for years.
--Matt
otti...@acd.net
Mark Jeffries
>
> Just in case any of you don't know. I have just returned from california and
> on June 24th I got to see TPIR in person. In fact the show I saw was the
> second episode of the 31st season. During the Q&A period I asked Bob what is
> was it like working with Ralph Edwards. It took him two commerical breaks to
> answer the question because he had so many memories, but at the end of it he
> said the Ralph Edwards was in talks with GSN about getting ToC on GSN, so it
> might be coming.
It is possible that Barker may've gotten this mixed up with
Fremantle's planned revival of "T or C," but considering that we were
convinced that we'd never see the original "Squares" ever again, I'm
not going to doubt anything--but I'd still wait for an official
announcement.
DSmith
> I know we've discussed this before, and I had some very smart people try to
> explain this to me, but it still seems a shame that GSN can't get past music
> clearance issues for the 70s version, while the USA network reran the 80s
> version with Jim Lange incessantly for years.
Same could be said about Face the Music on FAM..
TDN2OO1
Just when you thought television was safe from Kathie Lee Giff.., er
Johnson....:-D
Ted Novak
--
Doug
>explain this to me, but it still seems a shame that GSN can't get past music
>clearance issues for the 70s version, while the USA network reran the 80s
>version with Jim Lange incessantly for years.
>
the only editing done wasn't for music clearance (or for that matter, for USA's
benefit as they ran the Firestone packages) but to snip references to
"yesterday's" show (as the reruns aired out of order) or to "NBC" (whether it
was to redo fee plugs or Michael Winslow's direct reference to the network
during his breakthrough act).
Or did no one want me to mention that? :)