Re: Pace of play, that's actually something that I haven't found to be an issue with the majority of the ABC revivals; "Pyramid" is effectively 2 self-contained half-hours so it's pace is dictated by time (although I hate the fact that, with no wraparound for champions, ties have to be broken by time rather than a tie-breaker), and although "Press Your Luck"'s new bonus round can go on, I don't find it to be to be overwrought for the sake of drama, as in the case of Millionaire and its clones.
The exceptions to this rule are "Celebrity Family Feud", which moves at whatever the hell pace Steve Harvey decides it should move - usually something between 'glacial' and 'snail', and the now-cancelled "Card Sharks", whose producers didn't seem to understand that the drama of that game was created by the speed at which decisions were made when contestants had to call 'high/low' in the original version (and originally host Jim Perry may have had something to do with that as well, although I feel like the mid-80s revival hosts did a decent job with the pacing). The trivia rounds were fine, but any time attention went to the cards, the show ground to a goddamn halt. On Thursday, August 11, 2022 at 5:06:51 PM UTC-4 Tom Wolper wrote: > Yeah, game play moved fast enough. My problem with prime time game shows > has been the way they get stretched out and Password doesn’t have that > issue. I’ll have to wait until there’s an episode without Fallon (good > player but way too much excess energy) and watch again. > > On Thu, Aug 11, 2022 at 2:10 PM Diner <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I liked it. It's got some kinks to work out, and the game (and the host) >> are too hyper for their own good, but for a premiere I can let that slide. >> (Haven't seen episode 2 yet.) >> >> But I could do without the rehearsed, fake-shocked "oooooh" reaction from >> the audience every time the password was announced. Even Jon Hamm was like >> "c'mon!" >> (That crap ruined the Jane Krakowski "Name That Tune" for me - why was >> the audience shocked that somebody said "I can name that tune in three >> notes"?) >> >> On Thursday, August 11, 2022 at 1:49:06 PM UTC-4 Tom Wolper wrote: >> >>> I watched the first one and my only comment is on classic Password you >>> could imagine the celebrities and contestants sitting in the green room >>> before the show and studying thesauruses, and before this version you can >>> imagine them sitting there and binging on cocaine. There was a lot of >>> energy expended out there. >>> >>> On Thu, Aug 11, 2022 at 1:39 PM M-D November <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> I haven't watched yet, but it's nice to see a return to classic >>>> gameplay after the atrocity that was Regis' "Million Dollar Password". >>>> >>>> On Tuesday, August 9, 2022 at 10:42:12 PM UTC-4 Brad Beam wrote: >>>> >>>>> Gameplay: Ludden classic >>>>> >>>>> Tiebreaker: “Super”/”Plus” puzzle >>>>> >>>>> Bonus round: tag-team Alphabetics, with replacement clues (first half >>>>> only) >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> The password is… hour-long?! >>>>> >>>> -- >>>> >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>>> Groups "TVorNotTV" group. >>>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >>>> an email to [email protected]. >>>> >>> To view this discussion on the web visit >>>> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/733efcdd-4225-47b3-9816-348acc818ec7n%40googlegroups.com >>>> >>>> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/733efcdd-4225-47b3-9816-348acc818ec7n%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >>>> . >>>> >>> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "TVorNotTV" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> > To view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/7a6a78b2-fb2b-447e-b6ed-8615e47dd199n%40googlegroups.com >> >> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/7a6a78b2-fb2b-447e-b6ed-8615e47dd199n%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >> . >> > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/b2754da2-9e33-4e3c-85b5-f3a6503a4718n%40googlegroups.com.
