Posts with tag japanese game show
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
Posted Feb 13th 2008 2:21PM by Joel Keller
Filed under: Video, Game Show, Pickups and Renewals
One of my regular blog haunts is the game show news site BuzzerBlog, and when I logged into it today and saw
this post, I couldn't believe my eyes: FOX and Fremantle Media are apparently putting together an American version of the popular Japanese game show
Hole in the Wall. I was so flabbergasted that I had to see who else reported on it; sure enough, it was
right there in Variety for all to see.
If you're not sure what
Hole in the Wall is, take a look at the video after the jump. Basically, it's a game of human Tetris: contestants have to bend themselves into the shape of a cutout on a fast-approaching wall. If they do it in time, they go through the wall. If they don't, the wall pushes them into a pool of water. That's it. That's the whole game.
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