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HOWIE SAYS NO TO SYNDICATION
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Lightning
Strikes Twice
Comedian/magician Penn Jillette hosts the mind game at 8 p.m. (ET/PT) every night except for the opener Dec. 18 (9 p.m. after Deal or No Deal).
Identity tests a contestant's ability to read people "based off of perception and judgments of others," according to executive producer Ben Silverman, who also oversees USA Network's Nashville Star for Reveille Entertainment and NBC's Biggest Loser.
A contestant faces 12 strangers with 12 identities. The player selects an identity, ranging from a profession to a shoe size, and tries to match it with one of the dozen strangers. If he or she succeeds in matching all 12, the top jackpot is $500,000.
Looks for Contestants
for New Episodes
As in the first series of shows, executive producer Michael Davies is seeking teams of three with connections either as friends, classmates, co-workers or family members.
Applications are available at embassyrow.com. Potential contestants to appear with host Dylan Lane must be at least 18 and may not have appeared on any GSN show in the last two years or any other network or cable television game/contest show in the last year.
Players accepted for the show must agree not to appear on another game show for six months after the initial broadcast of their Chain Reaction episode.
USA OpensContest
with Big Lots USA Network is launching its first co-branded sweepstakes with closeout retailer Big Lots. The Big Lots! Character Hunt was announced by Chris McCumber, senior vice president for marketing and brand strategy.
The sweepstakes is an online and on-air treasure hunt which will involve website biglots.usanetwork.com. Viewers and users will participate in six USA character hunts.
The grand prize is $10,000 with 30 first and second place prizes also to be awarded. The promotion runs through Christmas Eve.
Users are required to register for the hunt at the website. After registration, entrants receive etails on how to search for six mystery characters from USA Network's top original series, including Nashville Star and WWE Raw. After each hunt, the mystery character will be revealed and the user will be entered for a chance at the $10,000. Winners will be announced in January.
Best of MatchGame DVD
Now Hits
Store Shelves If your shelves are not full of taped-from-GSN repeats of Match Game, the series' first box set DVD is now in stores and online.
Best of Match Game is a four-DVD set from Brentwood Home Video. Pre-orders are already available from amazon.com.
The DVDs hit the stores Tuesday in the same week as a Match Game blitz on GSN, including the premiere of Match Game: Behind the Blanks, the first in a series of game show documentaries produced by Asylum Entertainment for GSN, is scheduled.
In the GSN classic overnight slot later the next morning, a rarely-seen black-and-white episode from the original NBC Match Game of the 1960s was shown with Orson Bean and Jayne Mansfield. What was billed as the original pilot for the '60s Match Game appears on the DVD.
THE ENTIRE SYNDIE MARKET?
A daytime version of Deal has been considered the odds-on favorite to become the first new game show offering in syndication in five years.
Yet, a Monday story in Broadcasting and Cable suggests if NBCU opts not to go forward with Deal, CBS Television Distribution Group's new Combination Lock and The Joker's Wild! could also be in jeopardy. CTDG executives deny that speculation.
This week's Cover Story explores whether Howie's "no" is a final answer, how the syndication market could be affected and why new game shows have had a difficult time selling in a crowded marketplace.
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Ira Skutch, producer of Match Game
Natalie Hlavenka of Wheel of Fortune
Show Me the Money executive producer Mike Nichols
Miguel Ferrer of Celebrity Jeopardy!
Tribute to Bud Collyer
Geoff Edwards of Treasure Hunt and Jackpot
Bob Harris, author of "Prisoner of Trebekistan"
Johnny Gilbert, Jeopardy! announcer
Bob Goen of That's the Question
Ken Jennings, author of "Brainiac"
Howie Mandel of Deal or No Deal
Pilar Laster of Deal or No Deal
Claudia Jordan of Deal or No Deal
$1.86 million WWTBAM winner Ed Toutant
Network TV's top winner Dr. Kevin Olmstead
Kathy Garver of Family Affair
Tribute to Mike Douglas
Burton Richardson of Family Feud
Dylan Lane of Chain Reaction
Pat Kiernan of World Series of Pop Culture
Author Wesley Hyatt on Emmy-winning game shows
Laird MacIntosh of Treasure Hunters
Teresa Strasser of How to Get the Guy
Ricki Lake of Game Show Marathon
Michael Falk, Jeopardy! 2006 Tournament of Champions Winner
Is Survivor Slipping?
Vanna White of Wheel of Fortune
Bob Juch of Millionaire
Sheetal Shetty of Deal or No Deal
Wink Martindale
Did Richard Karn Get the Shaft on Family Feud?
Bob Boden, Laura Chambers on Peter Tomarken
Bil Dwyer of I've Got a Secret
Don Knotts: a TV Legend Leaves Us
Robert Purdum: $132,000 Wheel Winner
Adam Wade of Musical Chairs
Michael Davies: His New Sony Deal
Nipsey & Adam: They Were the Pioneers
Peter Marshall: 40th anniverary of Hollywood Squares
2005 Player of the Year: Brad Rutter
Lin Bolen
Betty White
Jeopardy! college champion Nico Martinez
Deal or No Deal's Scott St. John
Harry Friedman, Wheel and Jeopardy! executive producer
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