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Post by vahan on Aug 10, 2021 15:01:09 GMT -5
Yes, I know about the 25 minutes thing. The last game show of its kind, too. Because of this, I expect Buzzr to make quite a bit of money off of commercials.
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Post by stevearino on Aug 11, 2021 10:49:31 GMT -5
After a 40-year absence from TV, the short-lived '70s Game Show "Whew!" is set to return to TV on September 6 via the Digital OTA network Buzzr.
Originally airing on the CBS Television Network from April 23, 1979 - May 30, 1980, "Whew!" was a fast-paced Game Show Created by Jay Wolpert and hosted by GS legend Jim Narz (real name of Tom Kennedy), with Rod Roddy (futurely the announcer of "Press Your Luck" and later "The Price Is Right") as Announcer.
Two contestants per show competed in a game where the Object was to guess a question in the form of an answer much like "Jeopardy!," except each answer contained a Blooper, with a sample being "Donald Trump spent 4 years as U.S. President from January 20, 2017 - January 20, 2021. Mike PENIS was his Vice President." The correct "Answer" instead of PENIS would be Pence.
Contestants either played as "chargers" or "blockers," with the "chargers" having 60 seconds or less to answer 6 rapid-fire questions while the "blockers" attempted to block the game board.
In the event that a charger chose a square that had been blocked, the charger has to wait 5 seconds, then choose another question. Failure to successfully guess a correct answer had the money he/she would have won go to his opponent, the Blocker.
In the Bonus Round, known as the Gauntlet of Villains, the winning contestant had 60 seconds or less to correctly answer 10 questions.
Per the link above, after a mini 6-episode marathon on September 5, episodes of "Whew!" will be telecast weekday afternoons at 4:30 P.M. ET on Buzzr.
One final note: midway through its run, the series became known as "Celebrity Whew!" with '70s stars competing with "civilian" contestants a la the "Pyramid" game shows--among such stars Marcia Wallace, Robert Vaughn and Gary Collins.
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Post by kieran705 on Aug 14, 2021 19:12:47 GMT -5
Whew! will be airing at 4:30PM ET on weekdays, replacing Card Sharks (Eubanks), starting Monday, September 6th.
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Post by aaaa on Aug 16, 2021 12:16:40 GMT -5
Weeks of 8/30 and 9/6 are up. Classic Concentration skips the 7/10-7/14/1989 week of shows, must be a special week, and will skip 7/28/89 also. Whew skips episode 3 on the 9/5 three-hour block, and will show episodes 78-82 of Whew! the week of 9/6-9/10. If the only preemptions of Whew! between May-August were the first Thursdays of the month for the monthly SHaron Lovejoy CBS magazine show, that would make the airdates around August 14-17 and 20, 1979, as they would have had 76 total shows by 8/10/1979 if four preemptions were had so far. Episodes 78 and 79 will air on Sep 12 from 7-8PM EST as well. Randy Amasia's shows would air on 9/17 and 9/20 in the weekdays at 4:30PM, if my math is right, and there are no other skips.
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Post by vahan on Aug 16, 2021 12:49:32 GMT -5
What is Buzzr planning with Whew!? To show one part of the run on Sunday, and another part on weekdays?
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Post by aaaa on Aug 16, 2021 13:05:30 GMT -5
What is Buzzr planning with Whew!? To show one part of the run on Sunday, and another part on weekdays? They are showing 1-2, 4-7 on Sunday 9/5 as a three hour debut marathon. They are showing 78-82 on 9/6-9/10, and 78-79 on Sunday evening 9/12
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Post by kieran705 on Aug 16, 2021 19:07:19 GMT -5
Blockbusters is departing the weekday lineup, and Card Sharks (Eubanks) is replacing it at 10:30AM ET on weekdays beginning September 6th. It will still have the 4AM hour early Monday mornings, though.
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Post by timg on Aug 24, 2021 5:12:06 GMT -5
Any idea what the P+ episodes will be each Saturday night or will they just jump around?
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Post by timg on Aug 24, 2021 5:13:47 GMT -5
What is Buzzr planning with Whew!? To show one part of the run on Sunday, and another part on weekdays? They are showing 1-2, 4-7 on Sunday 9/5 as a three hour debut marathon. They are showing 78-82 on 9/6-9/10, and 78-79 on Sunday evening 9/12 Celebrity weeks starts at episode #?.
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Post by CardSharksFan8689 on Aug 24, 2021 5:36:22 GMT -5
I do have some questions, regarding fresh content:
1. Has Press Your Luck ended the latest round of fresh episodes, and if so, what episode number/date did they stop at? If fresh episodes are still occurring, what episode number/date is airing as of this post?
2. Has Card Sharks with Bob Eubanks stopped fresh episodes, or have fresh episodes resumed airing yet? I know Buzzr aired the October 1 and 2, 1986 episodes, so chances are, we're not that far away from the nine episodes that GSN jumped over between the 2010 and 2014 leases (the 2010 lease covered 200 episodes from the premiere up to and including October 13, 1986, while the 2014 lease covered 140 episodes from the car game debut - October 27, 1986 - to episode #349 sometime in mid-May 1987.
3. Has Super Password aired the first episode in GSN's first limited lease of 200 episodes (which aired back in April 2012)? I know that week had two male celebrities, including Bill Cullen, playing, and one of the puzzles on that episode was "MISS AMERICA".
Regarding the Miss America puzzle, I was caught off-guard when I discovered "BARKER" and "BEAUTY" as consecutive clues to the puzzle, and was led to believe that by 1985 a Miss America winner would become a future Barker's Beauty on TPIR, and that really didn't happen until 2002 when the Miss America winner of 1992 became the first Miss America to serve as a Barker's Beauty.
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Post by aaaa on Aug 24, 2021 6:49:41 GMT -5
I do have some questions, regarding fresh content: . Regarding the Miss America puzzle, I was caught off-guard when I discovered "BARKER" and "BEAUTY" as consecutive clues to the puzzle, and was led to believe that by 1985 a Miss America winner would become a future Barker's Beauty on TPIR, and that really didn't happen until 2002 when the Miss America winner of 1992 became the first Miss America to serve as a Barker's Beauty. Barker didn't host Miss America, he hosted Miss Universe and Miss USA through 1987
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Post by rewindium on Aug 24, 2021 7:42:26 GMT -5
Press Your Luck got as far as episode 389 from March 22, 1985 earlier this month. Buzzr went back to the four remaining episodes of 1984 and first two of 1985 then continuing with 356
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Post by gameshowfan750 on Aug 24, 2021 14:22:20 GMT -5
I do have some questions, regarding fresh content: 1. Has Press Your Luck ended the latest round of fresh episodes, and if so, what episode number/date did they stop at? If fresh episodes are still occurring, what episode number/date is airing as of this post? 2. Has Card Sharks with Bob Eubanks stopped fresh episodes, or have fresh episodes resumed airing yet? I know Buzzr aired the October 1 and 2, 1986 episodes, so chances are, we're not that far away from the nine episodes that GSN jumped over between the 2010 and 2014 leases (the 2010 lease covered 200 episodes from the premiere up to and including October 13, 1986, while the 2014 lease covered 140 episodes from the car game debut - October 27, 1986 - to episode #349 sometime in mid-May 1987.
3. Has Super Password aired the first episode in GSN's first limited lease of 200 episodes (which aired back in April 2012)? I know that week had two male celebrities, including Bill Cullen, playing, and one of the puzzles on that episode was "MISS AMERICA". Regarding the Miss America puzzle, I was caught off-guard when I discovered "BARKER" and "BEAUTY" as consecutive clues to the puzzle, and was led to believe that by 1985 a Miss America winner would become a future Barker's Beauty on TPIR, and that really didn't happen until 2002 when the Miss America winner of 1992 became the first Miss America to serve as a Barker's Beauty. Buzzr has actually already aired those nine episodes (#201-#209) that had been skipped by GSN, and they stopped at #210, the premiere of the Car Game.
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Post by vahan on Aug 25, 2021 15:55:57 GMT -5
view-source:https://buzzrtv.com/schedule/schedule_by_date/2021-9-17/America/New_York
New schedule up. Buzzr skips #0579 of Classic Concentration, but it appears we're getting the Woodstock episodes. Also, Narz Concentration is fresh, and Whew! continues with (I think) Randy Amasia's run.
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Post by aaaa on Aug 25, 2021 16:30:36 GMT -5
Randy on Whew! would air 9/17 and 9/20 if my math was right and Buzzr doesn't do any skipping on 9/20. Narz Concentration starts the new to Buzzr episodes on 9/13 then?
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