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 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 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
Posted June 15th, 2008
by Set News
The “Family Feud” will be airing a night-time version with celebrity families, hosted by “Today” show weatherman, Al Roker, according to news reported by “BuzzerBlog” starting June 24th on NBC. HOLLYWOOD JUNKET was on set and witnessed some of the celebrities viewers at home will see playing one of America’s longest-running game show.
First of all, Al Roker is a terrific, and bubbly game show host. He is genuinely his upbeat and cheerful self when the cameras are rolling, but more important, when the cameras are not rolling. He jokingly apologized to audiences seated facing his backside, for the unflattering view.
First and foremost, the format of the celebrity edition of “Family Feud” is slightly different. Four families play in one show taping. The two winning families from both games go up against each other. The family that wins that game, goes on to the final showcase showdown where they have a chance to win $50,000 for their chosen charity.
In one episode, American Choppers competes against the Christopher Knight (a.k.a. Peter Brady) family which included his wife, Adrianne Curry (first “Top Model” winner), her mother , and her best friend, along with Knight’s brother. Knight joked with American Chopper Patriarch, Paul Teutul Sr., who is easily identifiable by his big mustache. Knight wore a fake black mustache and mocked Teutul while playing against him in the head-to-head question. Tuetul’s family included two sons and two shop employees.
Other families we saw battling against each other were: Ed McMahon family vs. Tiki Barber family; Deion Sanders family vs. Kardashian family; and Corbin Bernsen family vs. Margaret Cho family.
Above: Ed McMahon (far right) gets makeup for the next round!
Aside from being the host of “Star Search”, he’s most famous for being Johnny Carson’s (of the “Tonight Show”) cheerful sidekick, Ed McMahon was greeted by Al Roker who said, “we’ve hear a lot on the news. Are you okay?” McMahon responded with a simple, “yes”. McMahon was wearing a neck brace and was helped onto to the stage by his son and wife. His family included his wife, grand daughter, and son. They competed against former NFL Giants star, and correspondent for NBC News’ “Today” Tiki Barber and family that included wife Candy, mother and children. Some humorous responses from McMahon’s side (they were 100% serious) to surveyed questions that one would only hear from people who live in Los Angeles, were: “liposuction” for what men do when they notice they have gained stomach fat, and “credit card” for something a husband wouldn’t want to see in his wife’s hand while she’s angry at him. In their defense, that last one could really do some serious damage!
As it was announced on the show, the only athlete to play in both a Super Bowl and a World Series, Deion Sanders competed with wife, Pilar, son, Deion Jr., daughter Deiondra, and his mother. If the names are not egotistical enough, the charity they played for was “Sanders Clause Foundation”, Deion’s own charity. Deion showed Pilar much affection after each of her correct answers, which by the way, were most of them. Their opponents were the Kardashian family that consisted of, Kim, step-father and former Olympics Gold winner Bruce Jenner, mother, and two sisters. One of the Producers of “Family Feud” was overheard asking if there would be a correction made when the announcer introduced Jenner’s children as his “step children”. They said “no”.
Above: Bruce Jenner plays the ‘Feud with his wife (in blue) and step children, including Kim Kardashian to his right.
Former “L.A. Law” and “How Much is Enough” game show host, Corbin Bernsen family vs. Margaret Cho (comedian) family. Corbin competed with wife and actress, Amanda Pays and three of their sons while their fourth and youngest son watched on the sidelines in the audience. Their opponents were Margaret Cho who brought her mother, father, stylist, and Assistant to battle. She wore bright red tights. Her father had the audience laughing when he made an example out of Roker to a response of a question regarding rudeness. I guess we know who Margaret gets her humor from!
“Celebrity Family Feud” was originally to be aired starting July 1st, but has been moved up to June 24th.
Word of the set is: an updated version of “The Gong Show” starts taping next weekend.
Tags: Adrianne Curry, Al Roker, American Choppers, Bruce Jenner, Celebrity Family Feud, Christopher Knight, Corbin Bernsen, Deion Sanders, Ed McMahon, Kin Kardashian, Margaret Cho, Paul Teutul, Tiki Barber Posted in Family Feud, NBC show
