MXC-related stories
Posted Aug 27th 2009 1:02PM by Danny Gallagher
Filed under: CSI, Nip/Tuck, Dexter, TV Squad Ten
A good show can keep you so entertained that you're willing to fight sleep to watch the rest of it. A great show physically keeps you awake.
It gets into your bloodstream and forces more adrenaline into your heart.
It turns the synapses in your brain into ferrets on espresso that dash back and forth between the lobes and fires your mind on all of its cylinders.
It is visual cocaine, which is much healthier than actual cocaine and doesn't require a frequent visitor punch card for an eyes, ears, nose and throat doctor.
These are the shows that assault all five of the senses or less depending on how good of a health plan you've got.
Continue reading TV Squad Ten: Most visceral shows
Posted Jun 16th 2009 11:35AM by Danny Gallagher
Filed under: Reality-Free, TV Squad Ten
There is nothing inherently wrong with turning a TV series into a video game spinoff. It can fill in the gaps between seasons to quell the viewers' hunger, let audiences explore characters from new perspectives and even give the more hardcore couch potatoes some much needed exercise even if they only burned 1/100ths of a calorie solely through their thumbs.
The problem is video game developers pick TV shows that should never even become a travel sized board game. Developers have given the greenlight to games based on shows like
American Idol,
Desperate Housewives and even ...
Grey's Anatomy?!? I hope that last one was a first-person shooter.
There are far better shows that offer far more entertaining elements for a kick-ass video game. These are the shows that should be next in line for a pixelated re-treatment.
Continue reading TV Squad Ten: Shows that deserve to have their own video game
Posted Jul 10th 2008 8:42AM by Erin Martell
Filed under: Other Reality Shows, Industry, Video
The makers of
MXC are not happy with the "creative" minds behind ABC's summer hit
Wipeout.
Spike initially called out the Wipeout folks in a press release announcing the
MXC marathon,
"MXC, The Original, Not The Ripoff, Weekend." Now Larry Strawther,
MXC's executive producer, is
upset with ABC and YouTube for removing a video that Strawther released in order to establish
Wipeout's ripoff status.
The video in question is after the jump.
Strawther has also accused YouTube of "[altering] the search results algorithm to benefit ABC and punish
MXC." He's right; a search using the terms "
MXC" and "
Wipeout" leads you to videos showing motocross wipeouts. Strange.
Continue reading MXC's feud with Wipeout continues - VIDEO
Posted Jul 3rd 2008 8:10PM by Kristin Sample
Filed under: Other Reality Shows, Programming, OpEd, Game Show
Spike TV is calling this holiday weekend, "
MXC, The Original, Not the Ripoff, Weekend." On July 5th and 6th the network will be paying homage to Spike's original series based on a Japanese game show. Wait, so doesn't that make Spike's show the ripoff of the Japanese show? Maybe not.
MXC uses real footage from the reality game show
Takeshi's Castle and creates a whole new comedic storyline.
Spike TV makes sure to point out that
MXC is not dubbed or a literal translation of
Takeshi's Castle. The show is written and voiced by the following actors: Victor Wilson, Christopher Ranga, Mary Scheer, and John Cervenka.
Continue reading Spike to do MXC, the original, not the ripoff, this weekend
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