THE GAME SHOW AWARDS: GSN Honors All that is Game Shows!

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Our HOLLYWOOD JUNKET team of hosts and camera crew got some great coverage of the first ever game show awards by Game Show Network (GSN). See some of our video coverage here: http://www.HollywoodJunket.com

Our red carpet hosts, Dan Nier (multiple game show contestant), and Katie Cleary (DEAL OR NO DEAL case model #11) talked to a number of game show hosts, and personalities. Red carpet arrivals included: Jeff Foxworthy (‘Smarter Than a Fifth Grader), Alan Thicke, Rip Taylor, Alfonso Ribeiro, five “Deal of No Deal” models (Lisa, Leyla, Claudia, Megan, and Patrica), and Bruno (“Dancing with the Stars”).

H.J. host, Dan Nier, interviews “Amazing Race” Kynt and Vixen.

Howie Mandel was the best man for the show. In between awkward moments and pauses on stage while waiting for technical difficulties to be straightened-out, he added great comedy-relief.

One of which included one of several acts on stage that involved pre-screened contestants in the audience to come-up on stage to compete for prizes. Two contestants were playing against each other in answering trivia questions. One in which was, “Who was the host of the ‘Newlywed Game’?” Dead silence. Howie answered – Bod Eubanks. Then asked, “What letter does Eubanks begin with”. One contestant answered, “U”. Mandel and the audience laughed. Then, the next question was, “Jeff Probst is the host of what show”. Silence followed. Mandel stated the answer, “Survivor”, then said, “did you both know what show you were coming to today?” Everyone laughed.

The best part was when Mandel had to leave the stage due to an electronic board malfunction, and when he returned, the same question was asked again. Still, no response from either contestant. Mandel said, “you also didn’t know who hosted ‘Newlywed Game’, couldn’t spell Eubanks. I think I’m going to win this one.” Loud laughter and applause from the audience followed.

As a host, Mandel brought a little bit of an edge to the show with statements like: “sleeping for two hours with Bob Barker – now I know how Drew got the job!” as Bob Barker was seated in front of him.

Another on-stage contestant game was inspired by “Octo-Mom”. A contestant had to choose the correct name of “Octo-Moms” babies.

In the audience – Monty Hall was quizzing the contestant pools with trivia, and giving $100 out to correct answers. One pool contestant tried to charm Alfonso Ribeiro with “The Carlton Dance” as he walked-by. Insiders know that he hate’s that!

Dr. Gadget gave out new $800 vacuums to our host’s team – the Green Team. They also got DEAL OR NO DEAL games.

Charo played head-to-head in a game against Ken Jennings (famous “Jeopardy” champ) called “Are You Smarter Than Ken Jennings”. They had to answer all questions about Charo. How well did she do on her own game? Wait and see it.

Another game played by the pool of contestants was “Brady Bunch” themed. Couples had to compete in a sac race in the aisle, then race to the stage to dive in a pool of pork chops to pull out a golden idol. The first one to successfully hit the target of Marsha Brady’s nose three time won a Hawaii vacation.

Bob Barker was presented with the “Legend” award. In his acceptance speech, he announced that “now I can officially say I am a legend. And since this is the first Legend award, I am the only Legend. And for one year, I can say I am the Legend”.

Much, much more fun occurrences to watch on the show that weren’t mentioned in this article. See the show at home on GSN June 6th!

20 Q: Humans Vs. Machine!

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 is the “residential expert” on new TV pilot, “20 Q”.
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!