‘Gameshow Marathon’ begins tonight
May 31st, 2006 -- by Augie De Blieck Jr.
I know I mentioned this show here a few months back, but it premieres tonight at 8:00 p.m. Eastern, and I don’t think anyone realizes it.
GAMESHOW MARATHON features Rikki Lake hosting a series of classic game show set-ups with celebrity guests playing along. Tonight’s episode features Leslie Nielsen, amongst others, playing “Let’s Make A Deal.”
The show is so shrouded in secrecy that it doesn’t even have a page on the CBS web site. CBS disavows any knowledge of it already, save a cursory listing in their programming guide. That’s it.
That’s likely not a good sign.
Google it up if you want, but you’ll only get links to the British version of the show hosted by POP IDOL’s Ant and Dec.
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May 31st, 2006 at 3:37 pm
Funny thing about this is that when you go to the CBS website and click on the show name in tonight’s schedule, it take you to this link: http://www.cbs.com/primetime/gameshow_marathon/ which pops up as a “We cannot locate this page”. Still not sold on the idea of the show though.
May 31st, 2006 at 3:41 pm
Ok, this gets weirder and weirder. In the time I posted my first comment to now, they have actually put up some sort of a website on CBS. Very strange!
June 1st, 2006 at 8:38 am
Better late than never, I suppose. That IS weird, though. The show is fairly popular in the UK from what I’ve read, but I think they erred in starting off by emulating a show that’s still on the air five days a week. . .
June 1st, 2006 at 1:37 pm
In the Uk it was a success, but was only done a one-off to celebrate the anniversary of ITV(the main commercial rival to the BBC)
June 5th, 2006 at 11:21 am
I watched it last week . . . it was OK. I’ll probably watch the remaining eps. Definitely the “Press Your Luck” one!
June 29th, 2006 at 9:27 pm
i cannot get the web sight to load on my computer, why is this
June 30th, 2006 at 8:12 am
It looks like CBS has already taken the page down. I guess it bombed harder than any of us expected.
I admit that I never watched it. I was looking forward to it, but once it found its way onto my TiVo, I just couldn’t muster any enthusiasm for it. Oh, well…