On Nov 16, 9:49 am, "Kevin M." <[email protected]> wrote:
> Frank Conniff posted news of the death of the "Remote Control" host on
> his Facebook profile. Though I've yet to find confirmation elsewhere,
> it isn't the sort of thing Frank would joke about.
>
> Though I may get slammed for this, "Remote Control" did for game shows
> what "Late Night with David Letterman" did for talk shows. It twisted
> the genre whilst simultaneously respecting the shows that preceded it.
> It gave goofballs and hotties a chance to win cash and prizes, while
> the mainstream game shows were booking homemakers from Provo, Utah or
> insurance salesmen from Omaha, Nebraska.
>
> I may have my chronology messed up, but I think it was one of the
> first non-music oriented shows on MTV, but it still semi-related to
> the other things found on the channel. I also recall either a
> broadcast of syndication version of the series that flopped, but the
> original gave us Kari Wuhrer, for which the male populace is grateful.
Shecky magazine credits Eddie Brill's Facebook page for reporting the
rumor--nothing from news sources, yet, though:
http://www.sheckymagazine.com/2009/11/ken-ober-rumor.html
I personally loved "Remote Control" because it was the only show that
worked as both game show parody and straight game show. It wasn't the
first long-form non-vidclip show on MTV ("Week in Rock" and "Club MTV"
were first--hell, the Britcoms "The Young Ones" and "Comic Strip
Presents" came before those shows), but it did put the change in
emphasis to long-form programming in motion. It took "Beavis and Butt-
Head" and "The Real World" to send vidclips off to overnight and early
morning hell on the channel that Bob Pittman envisioned as having one
program that never ended.
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