Besides being involved with the pioneer kiddie show for most of its 15- year run (and the unsuccessful 1976 syndicated revival), he and his partner Nick Nicholson created "The Newlywed Game" as a more-innocent parlor game--ABC bought the series, but made them license it off to then-hotshot Chuck Barris for Barris to tart it up and make it a success (Muir and Nicholson owned the foreign rights to the series, but sold everything to Barris in the early 80s--Sony now owns the series):
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/28/arts/television/28muir.html Unless Muir was still an NBC staffer when NBC forced Jack Barry and Dan Enright out of their own production company (sold to the network) after the quiz scandals, I would personally call shenanigans on him and Nicholson involved in the creation of "Concentration," since I've understood that Barry & Enright house format man Robert Noah was the main creator and developer of the format. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Like TV only smarter. You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
