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Posted September 17th, 2008
by Set News
DEAL’ fans, the show just recently taped its very popular Christmas episode last week. Everyone who couldn’t make it to the filming, myself included, here’s some of what you missed - every studio audience member got: a Sony Milo; one hundred dollar check; free satellite for one year; an Xbox360; Guitar Hero; two tickets to Jennifer Aniston’s movie premiere. All totaling a value of $2,500!
More details on this episode from one of our hosts who attended will be posted once we get them.
Tags: Christmas episode 2008, Deal or No Deal Posted in Deal or No Deal, NBC show
Posted September 17th, 2008
by Set News
First of all, I have to admit, I have never played the popular board game, “Trivial Pursuit”. I only have other game shows to compare it to.
The show is hosted by a Christopher Knight, a.k.a., Peter Brady from “The Brady Bunch”. During the early tapings of this show, he was flat with not a lot of charisma for a host. He limited himself to what he was told by the producers. I hope this changed as he got more comfortable with hosting during later tapings.
Above photo: Host, Christopher Knight waiting in between takes on his new game show.
Three contestants challenge each other in several rounds of trivia questions asked by people across the country who were videotaped by production asking their questions via a big screen in the studio. Questions are placed within topic categories. For example, sports, television, etc.
Players must collect six color-coded game pieces, or “wedges” by answering their questions correctly. The two players with the most wedges by the end of round one, go against each other in the second round. The player with the least, is sent home at the end of the first round.
Contestants in action on stage.
“America’s Team Captain” (a live in-studio guest)who is seen via a screen and is there to represent and make comments, along with pre-recorded questions given by other everyday folks, trying to stump the players with their trivia.
The two contestants go against each other in the second round, called “the hot pursuit round”. Whomever answers the most questions correctly, therefore, gaining the most wedges, wins this round and goes-on to the final round, where he, or she answers questions randomly shuffled within six different categories and goes head-to-head with “America’s Team Captain”. With each question answered incorrectly, the money in banked by “America” (really, the people that participated with their questions). If by the end of this round there is more money earned by “America”, than by “the studio” (or, contestant), “America” gets to split the winnings. Typically that may be somewhere between $200 to even $1000.
One attempt to stump a contestant was the question, “Who owns the Kwik-E-Mart on The Simpsons?” The contestant answered with “Apu”. Later, after the show taping, an audience member yelled-out that the answer was incorrect. Any “Simpsons” fans out there know the answer? Maybe you’d do better on “Trivia Pursuit”.
The show is set to air staring September 22nd. Here in Los Angeles, “My13″.
AUDIENCE COMMENTS from the show’s run-through, here: http://hollywoodjunket.com/TrivialPursuit_audiencewrap.html
Tags: Christopher Knight, Peter Brady, Trivial Pursuit Posted in Trivial Pursuit
Posted September 11th, 2008
by Set News
SPOILER ALERT! SPOILER ALERT! SPOILER ALERT!
Don't Forget The Lyrics host, Wayne Brady
Host, Wayne Brady (photo from a previous season) will be reading from a revised song board this season (not pictured).
Last season “Don’t Forget the Lyrics” featured celebrity singers for the first time. The karaoke-style game show recently wrapped its third season. Show ratings have proven to pull-in enough of an audience to book more name celebrity guests and contestants.
That’s right, MORE celebrities will be singing when the new season airs on FOX. The two show dates I attended, featured Rick Springfield, Mark McGrath, Gary Dell’Abate (a.k.a. BaBa Booey), En Vogue, Survivor, game show host, Chuck Woolery, and lead singer of Men At Work, Colin Hay.
Audiences also served as the background to a “People Magazine” photo shoot of producer, Mike Darnell. Wayne Brady announced his new debut R&B album, “A Long Time Coming” that consists of Brady singing a variety of cover songs.
The show had a change of pace, and put two strangers on a blind date with each other on-stage. Their back-up included: ex-girlfriend, ex-husband, and of course, Chuck Woolery. They managed to help each other win a lot of money!
Survivor sang, “Eye of the Tiger”, Rick Springfield sang “Jessie’s Girl” and his new single coming-out soon called, “What’s Victoria’s Secret”. En Vogue gave incredible performances of three songs. So incredible, that I forgot that I was on a game show set. More incredible, I’m not even an En Vogue fan, but I think I may be now.
One contestant was given a second chance. He had gotten to the $25,000 mark on the show. But, gave what was thought to be an incorrect lyric to “The Brady Bunch” theme song. The lyric was: “That’s the way WE all became the Brady Bunch”. Instead, he gave the same lyrics, but instead of “we” he sang it as “THEY”. After the executive producer did some research that night after the show taping, the next morning, it was confirmed that during the first season of “The Brady Bunch” the theme song was not sung by the children of the show. Therefore, the lyric during the first season was indeed “they”. The show brought back the contestant and allowed him to play-out the rest of his game. Did his second wind benefit him with more money? Catch the new season when it airs.
Tags: Brady Bunch, Chuck Woolery, Colin Hay, Don't Forget the Lyrics, En Vogue, En Vouge, Gary Dell'Abate, Mark McGrath, Men At Work, Rick Springfield, Survivor, Wayne Brady Posted in FOX
Posted September 9th, 2008
by Set News
“Hole In The Wall” pool.
HOLLYWOOD JUNKET spoke to several audience members who attended some of the show tapings.
Who would’ve guessed that people have so much to say about folks getting through a hole in the wall?
Check-out our video interviews here:
www.hollywoodjunket.com
Tags: FOX, Hole in the wall, Hollywood Junket Posted in FOX
Posted September 9th, 2008
by Set News
HOLLYWOOD JUNKET host, attended the recent tapings of “Don’t Forget the Lyrics”.
Written by: Charity C.
The Robinsons, Sister Sledge, Eddie Money, Jesse Money, Mark Cuban, and, Al B. Sure were the highlights of my fun filled exciting day! I watched four tapings of “Don’t Forget the Lyrics”, hosted by Wayne Brady! “Ain’t No Mountain High Enough”, “We are Family”, “Baby Hold On to Me”, “Day or Night”, and “The Dallas Mavericks” are stuck in my brain right now!
The sister of the Robinsons, Brenda White, competed today, and her beautiful sisters were there to support her and performed, “Ain’t No Mountain High Enough”! Brenda had the energy of Tina Turner and could perform just like Tina! The audience had goose bumps during her performance! Sister Sledge sang “We are Family” to help support a father and son team during the show! The family explained that the song, “We are Family” helped them have team spirit.
Eddie Money and daughter Jesse Money won money for their charity, and of course Eddie sang “Baby Hold on to Me”. Mark Cuban, owner of NBA team, the Dallas Mavericks, was there to support a contestant who is a fan of the Dallas Mavericks and gave this contestant an opportunity to sing the national anthem for a Mavericks game.
Last, but not least, Al B. Sure sang his hit “Day or Night”. He was a supporter for Eddie and Jesse Money. He always got guys to get girlfriends with this song in the late 80s! Wayne Brady even admits that he got his first girlfriend because of Sure’s hit song!
Tags: Al B. Sure, Brenda White, Dallas Mavericks, Eddie Money, Jesse Money, Mark Cuban, Sister Sledge, The Robinsons Posted in FOX
Posted September 8th, 2008
by Set News
Hollywood Junket host was a stand-in contestant on the new cat game show!
Written by: Charity C.
On your mark get set, MEOW! Ok, for all you cat lovers out there, there’s a new Game Show coming out on GSN called “Think Like a Cat”, hosted by Chuck Woolery!
Host of “Think Like a Cat” gameshow, Chuck Woolery
It was nice to see Chuck on stage! He was very cool, funny, and easy-going on set. I actually didn’t get to see live cats, I was a stand-in where I was just used for blocking for the new show. I used a stuffed pink pussy cat named “Wolfie”. My “contestant” name was “Stephanie”. I loved my made-up intro for myself and my little cat Wolfie! When Chuck asked about my cat, I told him I was single and that my cat Wolfie makes me feel that I don’t need a boyfriend. I also thought it was ironic that Chuck hosted “Love Connection” and if he was still hosting that, then maybe he could have forwarded me to casting for that show.
The first round of the show is called “Fast and the Furriest”. Eight cats and their owners put them in a track and race other cats. The cats are motivated at the other side of the track by “Meow Mix” cat food and their beautiful owners. Three of the fastest cats of that round get to go to the second round. The second round is cute because the show has it set up like “Jeopardy”, but they twist everything in cat lingo. For example: “Just Kitten Around”, “Let’s Get Fuzzical”, “Maw and Paw”, “Famous Felines”, “HISS-story”, and “Cat-tistics”. You could also double your points if you pick a block of points that contained “Pick A Litter”! You have to answer a question from a random celebrity. If you are the one that picked, “pick a litter”, you are the only one that must answer the question. You could also consult your cat for help! Third prize winner gets $10,000, one year supply of “Meow Mix” cat food, and they get to donate $1,500 to any animal charity!
The grand prize winner can win one million dollars as well as cat food and contributing money to an animal charity! Isn’t that great! You would get to bond with your cat and win lots of money. So for all you cat owners out there, start grooming and training your cats to be the next winner in “Think Like a Cat”!
Tags: Chuck Woolery, GSN, Meow Mix, Think Like a Cat Posted in GSN
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 August 22nd, 2008
by Set News
GSN started back filming its interactive show, BINGO AMERICA Wednesday, August 20th. This new season will introduce a new way for studio audiences to play along, as well as a new host!
New host of BINGO AMERICA, Richard Karn
After a reportedly (by a Hollywood Junket host) slew of rough tapings last season, Patrick Duffy as the BINGO AMERICA host is out, and Richard Karn, best known for “Home Improvement”, and one of many hosts of “Family Feud”, is in as the new host of BINGO AMERICA. He is accompanied by an attractive brunette host, Diane.
Richard Karn on the set of BINGO AMERICA
Karn proves to be friendly, warm, and witty. He approached the front row of the audience and chatted with them. He made light of the slow pace of the show taping and cracked a few jokes one of which was, “they are actually making this into a claymation” as an explanation for the repeated “holds” on set that paused production time after time. During another game with a marathon runner contestant, Karn made another comment that she was doing well because she was in a “marathon” of a show. It was hard for the show to pick-up momentum on-set which I suspect resulted in the overall low energy of both hosts and studio audience.
Studio audiences are given T-Shirts to wear that display letters and numbers. Each T-Shirt is accompanied by two baseball caps, one red and one blue. When the ball is dropped out of the machine, the audience member wearing that correlating letter and numbered T-Shirt stands-up. Whichever contestant answers the trivia question correct, that audience member places the color that the contestant represents of the baseball cap on his/her head and becomes part of the “red” or “blue” team whichever one it may be. If the contestant answers the question wrong, then the audience participate sits down. The best part for the audience is once they become part of a team, if that particular contestant wins his/her game, then each member on that contestant’s team wins $25 cash! Two audience members were lucky enough to win two games ($50), and another one won three ($75)!
Audiences are also made to stand-up in groups at the beginning of each show taping to spell-out B-I-N-G-O.
Above photo: “Bingo America” hats provided to the audience by the show.
After two games, the winner of the most letters, goes onto the “Bonus Bingo Round”. If a tie occurs between the two players, then the game goes into a five question tie-breaker. Each category answer starts with the same letter to spell-out B-I-N-G-O. Example questions: “This ‘B’ was a favorite family dog” (Answer: “Benji”), “This ‘I’ is a great cold snack” (Answer: “ice cream”). Winner must answer three correct.
In the “Bonus Bingo Round”, the winning contestant plays a bingo board (not visible from the audience perspective) for $100,000. Each letter is worth different amounts of money, if they manage to avoid the “wrecking balls” in which twenty are hidden throughout the board. The number of wrecking balls increase per column as the contestant plays each “B-I-N-G-O” letter. If the contestant manages to get through the whole board without getting a wrecking ball, they win $100,000. If they get one wrecking ball, it wipes out everything they earned during that bonus round. But, they still get to keep the amount that they won in previous rounds.
Home viewers can play the “Bonus Bingo Round” at home as bonus numbers. Audiences at home can still download and print Bingo cards and play along throughout the rest of the game. Every Wednesday, TV viewers have the chance to win $250.
Tags: Bingo America, Family Feud, GSN, Home Improvement, Richard Karn Posted in GSN
Posted August 17th, 2008
by Set News
HOLLYWOOD JUNKET host, Charity, attended a new game show pilot yesterday called “20 Q”. Here’s her review of the show:
Humans Vs. Machine, what do you think about that for a show? That’s right people!
There’s a new game show tv pilot that was just shot yesterday and I love the concept of the game.
It’s three contestants that get to compete with a computer screen! The cutest thing about the show is that the computer screen named “Debra-Q” or called “Q”, has the human qualities of a sexy woman robot voice with an attitude!
This show has charming and talented Joey Lawrence as the host and 74-time winning Jeopardy Champion, Ken Jennings as the so called “residential expert”. Jennings gets to pick out the categories of a person, place, or thing that the contestants have to guess. For example, Jennings may pick a celebrity category and give you clues of what celebrity it could be.
Ken Jennings
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The audience uses a little hand-held computer to enter-in their answers to whom they think the celebrity is. Whomever buzzes-in to submit their answer gets to run-in on stage and tell Jennings their answer. If that person is correct, than they get to be a contestant on the show and play against “Debra-Q”!
Jennings then tells the audience two more categories and then two more random contestants get on stage and play against “Debra-Q”! Each player that gets to play against “Q” get $1000 dollars!
In next round, Jennings recites a category and gives 6 clues on the screen and each contestant gets to ask one of 3 questions that are given. The contestants can ask up to 20 questions to figure out the answer. Whomever gets the right answer before “Q” or the Machine, that contestant goes-on to the next round and wins $20,000 dollars.
Each contestant has a computerized scribble pad that shows the audience the answers they think the person, place, or object could be! The contestants would then buzz-in with their final answer. Just because we see what they are guessing doesn’t mean that it’s the contestants final answer. The contestant that gets to go to the next round and plays for $500,000.
Another interesting thing that “Q” does to scare the contestants is that she tells the contestants how many words she is narrowing down her answer to. Obviously, the lower the number she shows on her screen, the more the contestant gets nervous and feels that they are under pressure.
So, in the last round that contestant picks out of 25 balls that are in 3 different colors that are labeled with covered numbers to reveal how many more times the contestant gets to raise their winnings with. For example, a contestant may pick a blue ball and if they have just won $20,000 and if they guess the correct answer for the category that Jennings gives the contestant then they get to uncover the hidden number on his ball to find out how many times they win on top of the $20,000! If they pick the number 6 ball, then the contestant would win $120,000.
The most money a contestant can win is $500,000. Good luck to anyone who dares to play against the MACHINE!
Tags: 20 Q, Jeopardy, Joey Lawrence, Ken Jennings, Twenty Q Posted in 20 Questions
Posted August 15th, 2008
by Set News
Don’t miss this sneak-peek at the new game show based on a board game, “Trivial Pursuit”. HOLLYWOOD JUNKET stopped-by the set for the show run-through on Monday to talk to some audiences about what they thought of the show.
Watch their candid video reviews at:
http://www.hollywoodjunket.com/AudWrap.html
The show is scheduled to start filming August 18th.
Tags: Christopher Knight, Trivial Pursuit Posted in Trivial Pursuit
