Posted August 26th, 2008
by Set News
Here’s another sneak peek review of a game show pilot from HOLLYWOOD JUNKET host, Charity (she was there!) -
Written by: Charity C.
Let me entertain you! YES LETS! I was so thrilled to watch such a great TV pilot that’s called, “Let Me Entertain You!” Me, being a Filipino, is a statement we live by!
This new show is just like “America’s Got Talent” but the twist is that the audience is the judge! This show is perfect with somebody that has Attention Deficit Disorder. As soon as fifty percent of the audience clicks their little remote controls in their hands, the performer stops performing, and the show moves on to the next act. Each performer has to beat the previous act in performance time. The ultimate prize is $10,000 dollars!
The performances include variety acts such as: magicians;singers, dancers and basically anything that is entertaining and weird at the same time.
For example, some of the acts were - some Asian guys that did sword stunts and they even broke a stick on his private area and he didn’t even say ouch! These guys were like “Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon” without the computer graphics! There was also a nine-year-old kid that could play the drums like he was a professional rock star drummer! The audience gave him a standing ovation! Also on the show, was an exotic belly dancer that could move her body like a snake. But, I noticed that most of the audience was NOT impressed! It was too weird for people. I actually liked another act with two guys that played instruments with a balloon by stretching and pulling it and using their feet to strum a guitar and play a drumbeat. Pretty cool!
At the beginning of the show, the producers asked members in the audience with a lot of energy to come onto stage. Of course I jumped at the chance. I knew that I could offer that. Myself and four other people went on stage and did an audition to see who could host the beginning of two of the shows. Each of us on stage had to say our name, where we were from, and that we were there “to be entertained.” By audience applause, a girl named Candice and I got picked to host one show each. I think they liked me cause people were laughing, but then again were they laughing at me or with me? HMMMM? I don’t know? Candice hosted the first show and I hosted the second one. It was pretty fun! The host of the show is Rossi Morreale. He was on Temptation Island in 2001. More recent, he is the current host of game show, “Temptation”. I got to play along with Rossi a little bit! I told him I wanted to have his babies cause he was hot! No I did not say that on the show!
Yeah well, who knows? Will this show make it? Will this show entertain you? We will have to keep our eyes and ears peeled to find out more!
Tags: Let Me Entertain You, Rossi Morreale Posted in Uncategorized
Posted June 22nd, 2008
by Set News
HOLLYWOOD JUNKET host attended the recent pilot taping of “Match Game” shot for TBS. Watch the video of her review below.
Tags: Andrew Daly, Match Game, Niecy Nash, Norm MacDonald, Sarah Silverman, Super Dave Osborne, TBS Posted in Uncategorized
Posted April 30th, 2008
by Set News
GAME SHOW IN MY HEAD was recently shot for CBS. Produced by Ashton Kutcher, who it is rumored, he bought the idea of the show from a British production company.
It’s a new game show that combines hidden camera pranks with game show winnings. Instead of the subject being the one getting pranked, the subject is the show contestant, and they are the ones pulling pranks on unknowing passersby. Contestants have to follow instructions of tasks given to them via an ear piece.
Each stunt, or prank that they manage to pull off, they earn $5000. The maximum amount one contestant can win in the show is $50,000. If they win the last challenge, they automatically double their earnings.
The show is hosted by stand-up comedian Joe Rogan who also hosted “Fear Factor”.
Tapings of the show lasted three days, and that was three days too many for Rogan and the stage manager who did not get along. The two squabbled in front of audience members.
Joe Rogan and the stage manager on set.
I attended two of the three days of filming. Edited footage of the contestants are shown on a large screen on stage while the studio audience reacts. While the pre-taped footage is rolling, Joe Rogan is speaking his lines that are timed with the edited footage. When the show airs, it will appear as if Rogan is speaking directly to the contestants via their ear piece. However, it is more likely that a team of producers were really instructing the contestants at the time the field footage was shot.
Another flaw in the show is that, each contestant is said to have only five minutes to achieve each task, but with the footage being pre-taped along with much editing, it is not certain how long each task really took. The audience is given the illusion that every task happened within five minutes.
Contestants go from starting to attempt a task in a unsuccessful way, then suddenly they go about it in a more creative way. It’s as if a producer instructed the contestant on exactly what to do to help the contestant win the task. Other times, the contestants are left out to dry.
Joe Rogan even stated to one audience member that one contestant achieved her task after the five minute time limit. The camera crew shot it anyway. But the show did not reward her, instead, faulting her for another time factor. She had to keep three possessions from a stranger for a solid 60 seconds. Again, because of the edited footage, we really have no way of knowing for sure if she held the items for one minute, even though it was irrelevant.
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