AreYouSmarterThanA5thGrader-related stories
Posted May 29th 2008 10:01AM by Isabelle Carreau
Filed under: Game Show, Awards, TV Squad Awards
Last week, you had a chance to nominate shows for
The Jeopardy Award. This award rewards the primetime game show requiring the most skill. Because of the fact that we are only looking for shows that air in primetime, a lot of game shows requiring skills are out of the running. So is the case for
Cash Cab, which received a lot of nominations,
Crosswords and
Jeopardy.
After the jump you will find the nominees, listed in alphabetical order, for The Jeopardy Award, along with a poll for the Reader's Choice Award. Both winners will be announced next week.
Continue reading The Jeopardy Award nominees
Posted May 22nd 2008 3:20PM by Isabelle Carreau
Filed under: Game Show, Awards, TV Squad Awards
Game shows have been an important part of television since the late 1930s. In 1938, the BBC aired
Spelling Bee, a show that is believed to be the world's first game show. In July 1941,
CBS Television Quiz made history by becoming the first television game show to broadcast regularly. Since then, U.S. viewers were treated with
all sorts of game shows such as
To Tell the Truth,
Beat the Clock, Concentration, Name that Tune, The Price is Right, Jeopardy, etc.
Jeopardy!, which premiered in 1964, is one of the most successful and popular game show in U.S. TV history. Its challenging questions and format helped make it a household name. This is why we named our "Primetime game show requiring the most skill" category after it.
In this category, we include 2007-2008 season game shows that air/aired in
primetime (
Jeopardy! is out of the running since it doesn't air in that block) and that are not reality-type game shows such as
Survivor and
Big Brother. Shows that come to mind are
Duel, 1 vs 100, Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader, and the primetime edition of
The Price Is Right. Personally, I don't think
Deal or No Deal or
The Moment of Truth qualify since they don't require much skill.
Which shows do you think should be nominated for The Jeopardy Award? List your suggestions below!
Posted Apr 14th 2008 1:58PM by Allison Waldman
Filed under: Other Reality Shows, The Apprentice, Video, Pickups and Renewals
Well, here's something about reality TV that didn't make me gag.
Survivor mega-producer Mark Burnett has a new unscripted project, greenlighted by CBS, called
Jingles. It's a competition show in which contestants have to create tunes for products, commercial jingles. No mud wrestling, no unlocking keys to puzzle pieces the size of boulders, no eating slugs wrapped in wild boar bacon. This time it's all about catchy melodies, clever hooks and lyrics that incorporate product info whether the products an erectile dysfunction pill or a new luxury car.
Continue reading Jingles reality show coming to CBS - VIDEO
Posted Oct 16th 2007 11:05AM by Richard Keller
Filed under: Programming, Celebrities, Game Show
Who knew that the American version of Whose Line is it Anyway? would produce so many game show hosts. We have Drew Carey on Power of 10 and Price is Right, Wayne Brady on Don't Forget the Lyrics, and now Improv veteran and bald Adonis, Colin Mochrie, will be hosting a Canadian version of an American game show.
Colin will be hosting Are You Smarter Than a Canadian 5th Grader, which will premiere on Canada's Global network on October 25th. The show will duplicate the format of America's Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader, which airs on FOX and is hosted by comedian Jeff Foxworthy.
Continue reading Colin Mochrie to host Canadian version of 5th Grader
Posted Jun 8th 2007 12:01PM by Richard Keller
Filed under: Programming, OpEd, Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip, TV Squad Lists
Welcome to TV Squad Lists (formerly 'The Five'), a feature where each blogger has a chance to list his or her own rundown of things in television that stand out from the rest, both good and bad.
With the 2006-07 season now just a fading memory in our short attention-span universe, it's a good time to sit back and reflect on what came to pass. The beginning of it was full of excitement and promise. The end of the season was pretty much the same as others before it: some good (and not-so-good) stuff survived, the bad stuff didn't, and stuff that we thought was good went down in flames fairly quickly. There were some surprises in the freshmen class and some resurgences in older fare. In the meanwhile, American Idol remained the show killer.
Continue reading Seven things I learned from the 2006-07 television season
Posted Mar 1st 2007 12:02PM by Keith McDuffee
Filed under: FOX, OpEd, The Five, Game Show
I missed the premiere of
Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader? Tuesday night as I had better things to do, like brush my dog's teeth. But curiosity got the best of me Wednesday night and I figured I'd check this show out. Whoa. What a big pile of poo.
I don't think I need to go over everything that's wrong with this show, but as I'm watching it I started to come up with ideas that could make this one kick ass game show and make it feel a lot more like school when I was a kid.
1) If the contestant fails the game, he/she has to sit in the corner of the "classroom". For three episodes. Throw in a dunce cap for good measure.
Continue reading The Five: Ways to make Are You Smarter Than A 5th Grader? watchable
Posted Feb 9th 2007 5:21PM by Brigitte Dale
Filed under: Video, Podcasts, TV Squad Daily
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