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Post by Spectrum27 on Apr 5, 2017 21:45:15 GMT -5
Okay, so here's something that's really friggin odd- I was looking at the CBS Television City website, specifically at the "Shows" section, and I notice how in October and December of 2000, it's noted that pilots for "Combo TTD & 100K Pyramid Pilot" were taped in studio 36. I asked Randy West on Facebook about this thing, and he was clueless, as the 2000 $100,000/$1,000,000 Pyramid pilots were taped at Sony Pictures Studios- so it seems that Sony was trying to keep these Frankenpilots under wraps. Anybody know anything about this enigma? |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 6, 2017 18:22:32 GMT -5
I am rather surprised that Sony was considering a reboot of Tic Tac Dough in 2000. Knowing the previous reboot in 1990, a lot of people hated it (though I didn't, but I would prefer Wink's version more); and given the bad credibility for the 1990 reboot, it's no surprise that a 2000 pilot never got past the pilot stage. Same could be said about the 2006 pilot of The Joker's Wild - that never got past the pilot stage. And the 1990 reboot was awful (yet it lasted twice as long as Tic Tac Dough '90).
Then again, the previous version of Let's Make a Deal in 2003 did so badly (even Monty Hall claimed he hated it; and the Game $how Marathon version technically doesn't count, as it was not a full series), but the modern day version has been on the air since 2009, getting nearly eight years of solid ratings so far, and there's no end in sight.
The $100,000 Pyramid pilot in 2000 did get past the pilot stage - the reboot was called simply Pyramid, and enjoyed a two-year run.
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Post by Spectrum27 on Apr 7, 2017 18:49:12 GMT -5
Joker's Wild 90 was way better (even with the definition-based format) compared to TTD 90. The 2006 version (and its' partner Combination Lock) didn't get off the ground because of red tape involving the NBC O&Os, not because it was bad (we haven't seen any real footage, all we have is an intro; the Game Show Wiki says it used the classic format w/ Face the Devil, just beefed up money-wise and with a chance to win a luxury car in the endgame). And also, per an NBC press release from that timeframe, they still owned the TTD format rights (not sure if that's true now), so it's possible this was an attempt to pitch both to NBC (the 2000 Osmond pilots had one for syndication as $100,000, and one for NBC prime-time as $1,000,000).
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