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Posted January 30th, 2010
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The producers of “The Biggest Loser”, and Chef Gordon Ramsay (”Hell’s Kitchen”, and “Kitchen Nightmares”) are casting for a new “inspirational” cooking show called MASTER CHEF. The show is co-produced by Ramsay who will also have an on-air role.
New cooking show produced by Chef Gordon Ramsay is now casting!
The show is looking for “amateur chefs” who will have the opportunity to put their skills to the test. The show is NOT looking for professional chefs, rather people who can be mentored and judged by a panel of top chefs in the country.
“Master Chef” is an American version based on a very popular Australian one. Fox is expected to air 12-15 one hour-long episodes. For Ramsay, this new cooking show will be in place of “Kitchen Nightmares”, a previous show of his that also aired on Fox.
The casting call for Los Angeles is tomorrow, Sunday, January 31 at the Farmer’s Market at The Grove in “Sur la Table” from 10am to 4pm.
More information can be found at: www.fox.com/casting
Tags: amateur chef, Casting, Fox cooking show, Gordon Ramsay, Master Chef Posted in Castings, FOX
Posted January 26th, 2010
by Set News
After filming almost a full season in sin-city Las Vegas, Nevada, the re-make of classic game show by the same name, “Let’s Make a Deal” will be switching locations to Los Angeles in March, where it originated. The pilot was shot at CBS Television City in Hollywood with host Wayne Brady who currently hosts the show.
The main reason “Let’s Make a Deal” is filmed in Las Vegas at The Tropicana may be due to the fact that Brady also performs a live comedy show called, “”Making %@it Up” at the same hotel. This show goes on hiatus in March.
Check back here with “Let’s Make a Deal” show updates!
Tags: Las Vegas, Let's Make a Deal, Making %@it Up, The Tropicana, Wayne Brady Posted in CBS
Posted January 22nd, 2010
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“America’s Got Talent” will hold it’s open auditions in Los Angeles this weekend for two days only! Talented hopefuls should go to the Los Angeles Convention Center this Saturday, January 23rd or this Sunday, January 24th. Auditions start at 8am! For all the details, go to this link: http://americasgottalentauditions.com/new/LA
Video interviews of last year’s L.A. auditions in video below:
Tags: America's Got Talent, Casting, Los Angeles Auditions Posted in America's Got Talent, Castings, NBC show
Posted January 17th, 2010
by Set News
SNEAK-PEEK!
SHOW SPOILERS! SHOW SPOILERS! SHOW SPOILERS!
Studio City, CA – Filming for the NBC import of “The Cube”, called “Minute to Win It” with host from Food Network fame, Guy Fieri began on Friday in Studio City.
NBC introduces food host Guy Fieri to the masses. Possibly another show debacle for the network.
The show introduced a set of challenges for it’s contestants that involve using everyday household objects and making complicated stunts with them. It’s almost like Nickelodeon’s “Double Dare” but without the extreme messiness!
The obvious advantage of using everyday items is the show saves tons in production costs especially when the game play takes place directly on the stage with very few props.
Each contestant must complete a series of ten tasks to be completed in one minute or less to win the grand money prize of $1 million. In pursuant of that, the lower money levels that can be obtained are: $1,000; $2.500; $5,000; $10,000; $50,000; $75,000; $125,000; $250,000; $500,000. If $50,000 is won, the contestant keeps that if they fail at tasks after that. If they lose before earning $50,000, they walk away with nothing.
Some tasks that were given to game competitors on Friday’s show included the following: Pulling tissues out of a box with one hand; hitting three soda cans off of another one with a ball of yarn; sucking M&Ms candy up with a drinking straw and placing them atop other straws; riding a bath rug around an obstacle of bath instruments one of which was a toilette plunger; pulling-up M&Ms candy placed on top of a pencil with two strings; and one contestant’s feat was to move cookies into her mouth using only her face muscles.
Rules of challenges are not clearly stated by Fieri, or the announcer. There is a chance the show will add some narration in post production later.
Players get multiple chances if they fail a task. But, only two and they’re called “lives” which represent doppelgangers of there own selves. An exception was made when one contestant could not complete the first task. After missing it the first time, the director of the show stated that they were going to give her a “mulligan” due to nerves. When the contestant failed it a second time. Guess what? Production stopped the show, cleared the stage. Then re-started the whole show over again from the very beginning with a new first task for the player. Really? Did executive producer Mark Burnett leave the set of “Our Little Genius” and go straight onto this one? No game show Standards & Practices in sight, and a “game show” lets a contestant re-start their game.
“Minute to Win It” openly states that every contestant on the show is given the challenges ahead of time and are allowed to practice them at home. I really lost interest at that point. It’s not fun watching contestants re-do something that they’ve already done a number of times at home, even if they still fail the task on-stage.
During day one of filming, there was no explanation given to why contestants practice at home. One possibility might be due to the fact that contestants are given only two lives compared to nine lives given on “The Cube”. Then, why not just add more lives?
With the NBC Pubic Relations Department on a walk-out due to the Conan O’Brien upheaval, NBC really can’t afford another show controversy.
Tags: Guy Fieri, Minute to Win it, NBC, Our Little Genius, The Cube Posted in NBC show
Posted January 16th, 2010
by Set News
Studio City, CA- Filming started yesterday for a new NBC game show called, “Minute to Win It”, originally tilted “Perfect Ten” with host Guy Fieri (”Road Show”, “Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives”) from Food Network.
Food Network’s celebrity chef Guy Fieri hosts “Minute to Win It”.
“Minute to Win It”, a British import of “The Cube” challenges its contestants to various stunts that involve household items. The show relates its content to their popular food host Fieri by putting food into the stunts. Some food items on yesterday’s show included: M&Ms candy and cookies. A wrap-around screen behind the audience seating area projects various displays of cookies and M&Ms floating through the air. I thought I was watching “Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs” again!
Contestants are given two “life-lines”, so to speak that give them two chances to complete a stunt. These are called “lives”. The “lives” are represented as the contestants’ clones of themselves on a large screen on stage.
Each challenge is presented to the player via a female announcer with a British accent as the “blue-print” of the stunt is shown to them as an electronic diagram on the digital screen. This is in place of “The Body” on the British version. The player is then sent off by Fieri to attempt the stunt on the stage platform.
Two model-type young girls are the resident “game agents” who insure each contestant is set-up in their challenge properly. The entire game consists of ten separate challenges. Each contestant has only sixty-seconds to complete each task. Once they reach the $50,000 level they get to keep that money if they should loose the following challenge. If a contestant completes all ten tasks, they win $1 million.
I have to admit that I went into watching “Minute to Win It” with a fresh canvas, having never seeing “The Cube” until today. All the while, while I was witnessing the events on stage of what the production was calling a “game show” I kept feeling that there was something missing. After watching “The Cube” today, I now know what that is. It’s organization, intrigue, and brains. There is none of that in “Minute to Win It”!
I’m predicting that this show is sure to be the record-holder of the cheapest “game show” ever produced! The host is from a cable network (score!), the props are all cheap household items, and there is no contraption build on the stage (like say a big rectangular glass room). All games are played on the stage itself!
Now that NBC has to pay “The Tonight Show” host Conan O’Brien a reported whopping $30 million to buy him out of his contract, I’ll also bet that the network will be happy that they saved so much money on this show!
Check-back for an exclusive sneak-peek!
Tags: Conan O'Brien, Food Network, Guy Fieri, Minute to Win it, The Cube Posted in NBC show
Posted January 16th, 2010
by Administrator
Although the popular prime time game show DEAL OR NO DEAL is gone, and with it those fabulous twenty-six case models, local fans can get a chance to meet some of them in-person at a special Amnesty International event tomorrow night in Long Beach, Ca!
The event will be held at the Hotel Maya and includes a comedy show and an exclusive after party where DEAL’ models, Marisa Petroro (case #18), Leyla Milani (case #13), and Patricia Kara (case # 9) will be hosts.
To attend, RSVP here: http://www.standupcomedytickets.com
Tags: Amnesty International, Deal or No Deal, leyla milani, Marisa Petroro, Patricia Kara Posted in Uncategorized
Posted January 16th, 2010
by Set News
OXYGEN network has announced the development of a new fashion game show called “Fashion Drop”.
The show idea was originally filmed as a pitch for MTV. Read our on-set report of the show’s run-through in our article posted last May here: http://hollywoodjunket.com/blog/MTVfashiongameshow
Fashionistas are pulled-out of the audience and brought onto the stage that consists of a catwalk. They have to parade themselves up the catwalk in front of a panel of judges who ultimately decide which contestant has the most fashion savvy after competing in a series of challenges.
Those that lose are literally dropped through a trap-door in the stage floor.
No word on who the judges or hosts will be for the show. Last year’s MTV run-through of the show had Annie Jagger (stylists to the stars), Trevor Raines (designer), and Eva Marcelle Pigford (”America’s Next Top Model”) as judges with an unknown host.
The show is produced by World of Wonder (”Tori & Dean: Home Sweet Hollywood”, “Million Dollar Listing”).
Tags: Annie Jagger, Eva Marcelle Pigford, fashion drop, MTV, Oxygen, Trevor Raines, World of Wonder Posted in Game Show Pitches
Posted January 12th, 2010
by Set News
Watch the video below for an exclusive sneak peek of THE SINGING BEE Season 2 premiere on CMT!
Special guest, Reba McEntire! The new season begins this Friday, January 15th at 9/8c.
HOLLYWOOD JUNKET interviewed “Beehive” drummer, Scotty Kormos while we were there!
Watch it here: http://www.HollywoodJunket.com
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Tags: Beehive, CMT, Reba McEntire, Scotty Kormos, The Singing Bee Posted in The Singing Bee
Posted January 11th, 2010
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Back in August of 2008, the FOX controversial game show, “The Moment of Truth”, hosted by Mark Walberg filmed an episode with former baseball player Jose Canseco in the hot seat.
The episode never aired when the show returned to FOX in August of 2009. HOLLYWOOD JUNKET was on the set that day. Many uncomfortable questions asked of Canseco were of course, in regards to steroids and how they were involved in his athletic career.
(Above photo) Former Oakland A’s baseball player, Jose Canseco on stage surrounded by friends and family before the taping of his episode.
During his time on the stage, Canseco made some candid, voluntary negative remarks about some of his past team mates that include: Alex Rodriguez; Roger Clemens; and Mark McGwire.
Since the taping of that episode, Alex Rodriguez has come clean and admitted to using steroids from 2001-2003. Today, Mark McGwire has also admitted to the performance-enhancing drug in order to “clear-the-air” before he becomes the St. Louis Cardinals’ hitting coach next season.
Canseco was known by team mates as “The King of Steroids”. In his open ‘TRUTH confession, Canseco claimed to not only sell steroids to the ball players, but on occasion even injected them with the drug himself, including McGwire who didn’t admit to it at the Congressional hearing he was called to along with Canseco and other players in the aftermath of Canseco’s tell-all book, “Juiced”.
Some questions asked of Canseco on the game show were the following: If he ever used a corked bat; If he had “sexual relations” with Madonna; If he ever did NOT play a game to the best of his ability in order to ensure a particular outcome; If he thinks baseball players cheat on their wives; If he had a list of women in varies towns that he played-in he could call to “hook-up” with.
MORE QUESTIONS ASKED OF CANSECO: Did he think baseball became better with the use of steroids; Did his second wife sleep with Alex Rodriguez; had he ever lied in court under oath; Did he think Roger Clemens took steroids?
One answer he took much hesitation on answering was if he intended to marry his current girlfriend. Canseco expressed that he thinks steroids helped bring about a new energy “buzz” to baseball because of how well they were playing. He also talked about his lawsuit where he had to pay millions to a bar fight victim in Miami after answering – “Will you claim bankrupt in the next 12 months?”
Canseco’s twin brother, Ozzy (who played in the Major and Minor Leagues) was present on-stage along with Canseco’s friend Andrew, and girlfriend.
Ozzy was surprised to learn of his brother selling steroids, and stated that before that day, he did not know that his brother had ever sold the illegal drug.
Canseco named Orel Hershiser as one of the toughest pitchers. He also named one baseball player as making 500 home runs with a corked bat.
When asked why he believed he was “black-balled” from baseball, he revealed that no one (baseball teams) wanted to take him. His agent told team owners that Canseco would work for free. After he tried-out for the Dodgers and was rejected, he decided to write the book about his experiences.
Original post here: hollywoodjunket.com/blog/josecanseco-moment
Tags: Alex Rodriguez, baseball, Jose Canseco, Juiced, Mark McGwire, Mark Walberg, Orel Hershiser, Ozzy Canseco, steroids, The Moment of Truth Posted in FOX
Posted January 10th, 2010
by Set News
NBC announced this afternoon that new judge, Howie Mandel, former game show host of another NBC hit, “Deal or No Deal”, will join co-judges Sharon Osbourne and Piers Morgan on “America’s Got Talent” this summer for the show’s fifth season. Nick Cannon will remain as host.
To make the Deal even sweeter, it was reported that Mandel has a first-look deal with NBC and will continue to produce projects with Alevy Productions, his production company whose past projects included the hidden-camera show, “Howie Do It” and “Bobby’s World”.
Executive Vice President of Alternative Programming at NBC and Universal Media Studios, Paul Telegdy stated Mandel was a top choice because “he’s passionate about new talent…not to mention the fact that he headlines and performs in Vegas all the time”. “He [Mandel] will bring new depth to our panel”. Telegdy predicts that Mandel with Piers and Osbourne, the sparks are sure to fly!
No mention of former judge whom Mandel will be replacing, David Hasselhoff.
Posted in America's Got Talent, NBC show
