I just got the Game Show Marathon DVDs from the UK and I have to admit I was pretty impressed. They played 7 games over there like we will have here; 4 of which are US standards:

--Card Sharks
--Price is Right
--Sale of the Century
--Family Feud (this was the finale)

The recreation of the sets was top notch. In the case that a show had several incarnations, they actually used a mix of the sets (for example, Contestants' Row on TPIR was from the 80s version, while the wheel used was from Bruce's PIR from the 1990s). They showed plenty of old clips from the old version, and even brought back the contestants shown in those clips in the studio for the day!

Ant and Dec were the hosts. They started off kind of annoying me during their first game (TPiR), but by the finale they seemed to be taking things a little more seriously. The celebrity knockout format was cool, although it all depends on the celebrities I imagine.

All in all, this is something every game show fan should be looking foward to.

 

posted by Brad @ 1:41 PM   0 comment(s)