Posted October 31st, 2008
by Set News
The latest word on the set is: DEAL OR NO DEAL may be canceled.
According to some of the rumors floating around town, as in Hollywood, both prime time DEAL’ and daytime DEAL’ halted filming
for about a month to work-out some issues. Now, insiders are buzzing in our ears, that one may not be returning to production.
My guess is that it’s the daytime version, since ratings have not been high. Again, these are only rumors. We’ll get back to you all once we know the real deal!
Tags: Deal or No Deal, Deal or No Deal syndicated, Hollywood, NBC Posted in Deal or No Deal, NBC show
Posted October 27th, 2008
by Set News
HOLLYWOOD JUNKET was at the filming of a special “twin” themed version for the syndicated daytime version of DEAL OR NO DEAL.
Here are some video interviews from some of the contestants on that show!
Click here: DEAL OR NO DEAL twin contestants interviews
Tags: daytime, Deal or No Deal, sydication, twins episode Posted in Deal or No Deal, NBC show
Posted October 19th, 2008
by Set News
SPOILER ALERT! SPOILER ALERT! SPOILER ALERT!
TRIVIAL PURSUIT host, Christopher Knight, former “Brady Bunch” child star who played Peter Brady will be joined by four of his TV show siblings, during “Brady Week” on “Trivial Pursuit”. “Brady” contestants are: Jan (Eve Plumb), Greg (Barry Williams), Bobby (Mike Lookinland), and Cindy (Susan Olsen). But, no appearances by Marcia (Maureen McCormick).
“Brady” contestants from left to right: Eve Plumb (Jan), Mike Lookinland (Bobby), and Susan Olsen (Cindy).
“Brady Week” is a five day event that will have five of the six children (Knight included) from the 1970’s series, “The Brady Bunch” playing “Trivial Pursuit”. The first four days features one Brady child per game as “America’s Team Captain” at their own designated podium and representing “The Brady Bunch” trivia by asking questions to regular contestants (non-Brady’s that is) pertaining to a special “Brady” category on “Trivial Pursuit” for the whole week.
On the fifth and final day of “Brady Week”, all five of the Brady children will be playing the game together. Three at the contestant podiums side-by-side against each other, one at “America’s Captain” podium, along with Knight hosting.
All winnings earned by the final round “Brady” winner were donated to charity.
They all took turns as Team Captains during the week. But Barry Williams (Greg Brady) was the Team Captain for the final game where they all played. Williams brought with him on stage, the original “Tiki Idol” from the Brady’ Hawaii episode. He said it was to distract his TV siblings and wish them bad luck.
Eve Plumb (Jan Brady) proved to be especially competitive, blurting out “F*@$!” upon frustration of not being able to buzz through on a question she knew due to Mike Lookinland (Bobby Brady) buzzing-in at the same time.
Some categories included: Poetry, Actors, Botany, World War II, and Celebrities.
Host, Knight, seemed a bit more relaxed since the first show taping I attended, and even comfortable at mixing it up with a little bit of Improv during the game.
For those of you who haven’t been following the television version of this game, here’s how it’s played:
During the first round, three players compete by answering trivia by “America” or random people asking their question via video. First player to get three wedges first, automatically moves-on to the next round. Something folks at home may not know, this contestant awaits in the audience, not off-stage.
In the second round, “the hot pursuit round”, the two remaining players compete to get three wedges the quickest. Whomever answers a question to a category correctly, gets to automatically answer the next question. If that question is answered wrong, the next question is an “all answer” question meaning, anyone of the two contestants can answer.
In the third and final round, the remaining player left has to answer whatever questions are thrown at him/her after the categories are systematically shuffled. This contestant must beat “America’s” total in order to win the game. For each wrong answer, the money goes to “America”. If “America” wins, the money is split between the people who participated in asking the questions during that particular game.
Categories in the final round are worth: $500, $1000, $2000, $3000, $4000, and $5000
Tags: Christopher Knight, Maureen McCormick, The Brady Bunch, Trivial Pursuit Posted in Trivial Pursuit
Posted October 12th, 2008
by Set News
SPOILER ALERT! SPOILER ALERT! SPOILER ALERT! SPOILER ALERT!
FAMILY FEUD just taped it’s “Big Money Tournament” show yesterday! Seven games were played by past family contestants chosen by the show to play for a potential grand total of $120,000. Host, John O’Hurley stated that the families for this tournament were considered the “best” ones out of last years 165 shows!
Family Feud host, John O'Hurley
Yep, they brought the “best” of those families back to play this high stakes game. O’Hurley, nor anyone else from the production of the show mention if “best” was defined by how well the families played in their previous game, or if “best” meant they were the most entertaining in personalities. In either case, neither scenario seemed to uphold.
To see John O’Hurley for the first time in person, was like seeing John O’Hurley on TV. He never seemed to break character, even when talking to the audience. However, when one has as a distinctive voice as he, I suppose it would be difficult to determine when he’s being himself. On a professional note, the majority of O’Hurley’s lines on the show are improv. And believe it or not, a lot of hosts have difficulty reading from the teleprompter and must do re-takes. O’Hurley on the other hand, never needed a retake for the entire day of filming, and he was only cued on what to say with cue cards (yes, they still use those).
Six games were played by selected families: Teague vs. Anderson; Tripp vs. DeRoux; Hart vs. Sutton; and so on. The winning family of each game had to play the winning family of another game until the final two families were narrowed down to play the seventh and final game.
Each regular game was played as usual. Except, at the end of the “Fast Money Round”, if a total of 200 points was scored, $20,000 went to NOT the family playing, but instead, to a “jackpot” in which the final two families played to win. So, if each of the six games played ended with the contestants earning the 200 pts., then the jackpot had the potential of being $120,000. Don’t worry, I won’t reveal how much it actually ended-up being.
At the end of the final, seventh “Big Money Tournament” game, there was NO “Fast Money Round” at all. Instead, the two families played until one of them earned 400 points or more. The first family to reach 400 points in the final game, won the jackpot! Orange and blue balloons galore fell upon the stage!
My biggest complaint (besides the show announcer’s, quirky personality, who is also the show’s warm-up host) was there was not enough of a build-up to when the winning family was actually winning. Okay, there was NO build-up to the moment when the question was answered that would decide who would win the jackpot.
Audience complaints rang throughout the entire time of the tapings of shows in regards to the aggressive manner in which the announcer/warm-up host, Burton Richardson, executed his job in a Nazi-like fashion. Not letting audience members talk when he was talking, not allowing them to use cell phones in between short breaks, and even pointing-out non-clapping and non-smiling audience participants. Such is life on the set of “Family Feud”.
On a sweeter note, one of the contestants on the show actually stopped the show to make a marriage proposal to his girlfriend sitting in the audience.
Awww! According to the show announcer, Richardson, it was the first time in “Family Feud” history that anyone ever proposed on-stage.
Tags: BigMoneyTournament, Familly Feud, John O'Hurely Posted in Family Feud, NBC show
Posted October 10th, 2008
by Set News
For those game show fans who are also reality show fans, we’ve got some exclusive interviews! Click here!
Evil Dick
“Evil Dick” returns to this year’s Fox REALLY AWARDS! Danny Bonaduce was also in attendance.
Fox Reality Channel, REALLY AWARDS will air tomorrow night, but they were REALLY filmed last month, September 24th in Hollywood.
HOLLYWOOD JUNKET was in attendance after the awards show broke-out. Check-out our exclusive video interviews about this years show.
WARNING: There are some show spoilers in their comments.
Video interviews here: http://www.hollywoodjunket.com/ReallyAwards_2008.html
Tags: Evil Dick, FOX Reality Channel, Hollywood, HollywoodJunket, Reality, Really Awards Posted in FOX
Posted October 7th, 2008
by Set News
We just posted an interview with new host, Diane Mizota of GSN’s “Bingo America”.
She talks about changes on the show, and her career.
Diane on the set with Richard Karn. Photo: courtesy of GSN
Watch the HOLLYWOOD JUNKET video at:
www.HollywoodJunket.com
Tags: Bingo America, Diane Mizota, GSN, Richard Karn Posted in GSN
Posted October 6th, 2008
by Set News
We’ll be doing an interview with the lovely Diane Mizota, from BINGO AMERICA later today after “GSN LIVE”. I’d like to start the first of many more interactive interviews.
For fans out there, if there’s a question you have for Diane, please email it to: hollywoodjunket@gmail.com
The cut-off time is 3pm today. We’ll post it here when her interview is up on our site.
Tags: Bingo America, Diane Mizota, game show, GSN, GSN Live Posted in GSN
Posted October 2nd, 2008
by Set News
HOLLYWOOD JUNKET attended last night’s live season 3 finale of “America’s Got Talent”. There were “Don’t Hassel the Hoff” T-Shirts, Hasselhoff paper masks, and, a lot of surprised fans.
SEE our video interviews from our “Audience Wrap” show here:
http://www.hollywoodjunket.com/Aud_AmericasGotTalent_3.html
Tags: America's Got Talent, David Hasselhoff, Neil E. Boyd Posted in America's Got Talent
