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FremantleMedia North America and Debmar-Mercury are selling TV stations and networks on a new syndicated game show, hosted by Craig Ferguson and based on the board game Identity Crisis. They’re looking to launch Celebrity Name Game nationwide in fall 2014. As the description for the pilot, filmed back in 2011, …
In case you missed it, TBS unveiled a game-show concept last night that actually fits the cable network’s motto of “very funny.” In fact, Michael Ian Black and D.L. Hughley are so refreshingly and wickedly witty, slinging barbs at each other throughout the half-hour, that the actual “game show” element …
Ray-Ray is going to school the ladies on what’s going on inside the minds of men. So to speak. GSN, the Game Show Network, has tapped stand-up comedian DeRay Davis to host the new game show, Mind Of A Man, with at least 40 episodes coming our way on cable …
First rule of Chinatown is there are no rules. It’s Chinatown, Julian! Wait. Neither of those movie lines came back to haunt me or you when Julian McCullough performed on Wednesday night’s episode of Conan. What we did see and hear is McCullough’s own experience with Chinatown (New York City …
Who’s ready for some new Whose Line Is It Anyway? anyway? The short-form improvised comedy game show that’s not really a game show but just a good half-hour of make-em-up fun returns tonight (8 p.m. Eastern/Pacific) on The CW. Aisha Tyler has replaced Drew Carey as the host, but the …
Good news all around for Team Coco this week. Jimmy Pardo is stepping in as Conan O’Brien’s sidekick tonight and Wednesday night for tapings of Conan on TBS. Whither Andy Richter, you say? You don’t say! No. Don’t say it. Because Richter is busy with his own new TV project …
The greatest unanswered question in short-form improv will return to TV this summer as The CW has revived the game show that’s not a game show (unless you consider improvised comedy a game), Whose Line is it Anyway? Wayne Brady, Ryan Stiles and Colin Mochrie will return, too, as primetime …
A classic game show beloved by comedians and comedy fans returns to the TV airwaves five times a week starting tonight. But Match Game isn’t coming back to America. Try heading north of the border. Oh, Canada! Sally was so desperate for new episodes of Match Game…”HOW DESPERATE WAS SHE?”…Sally …
“Do you win anything here?” Cyndi Lauper asks during the second episode of Would You Rather…? with Graham Norton. That’s the main and maybe only thing holding up BBC America’s introduction of comedy panel “game shows” to the States. Filmed in New York City before live studio audiences, Would You Rather…? …
The SPEED channel announced today that it’d launch its new game show, Pumped!, on Nov. 17, hosted by stand-up comedian and radio/podcaster Greg Fitzsimmons. The network has ordered 20 half-hour episodes of the show, in which Fitzsimmons surprises patrons at undisclosed Sunoco gas stations, then quizzes them with automotive trivia …
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