Who needs "The Motivator" when you have an evil Santa? Courtesy ABC. |
Winter Wipeout: Deck The Balls
‘Tis the season of big falls and big balls as Winter Wipeout returns for the holiday
season on ABC on December 8. Play-by-play announcers John Anderson and John
Henson will be joined by new co-host and on-field reporter Vanessa Lachey, a
former Miss Teen USA and former co-host for MTV’s TRL. This season of Winter
Wipeout will not disappoint as the show will feature new obstacles,
including an “evil Santa”. Last season’s edition of Winter Wipeout proved to be a success and I hope this season will
be even better. Stay tuned for the season premiere of Winter Wipeout this Thursday at 8:00 p.m. EST on ABC!
The show that puts contestant’s courage, bravery, and
boldness to the ultimate test has return for a brand new season. NBC has
revived Fear Factor as a part of the
network’s winter lineup of primetime shows and has kept Joe Rogan as the host. The
network executives have promised a “bigger budget, bigger stunts, and more fear”. for the revived series. Fear
Factor initially ran for six seasons from 2001 until 2006. Fear Factor also became the first
network reality show to be syndicated. I’m glad to see this show return to
television. Fear Factor definitely
put a new and better spin to reality shows. I’m slightly surprised that GSN
hasn’t picked up reruns to the show yet, given the network’s history of briefly
focusing on reality shows. Click here to check out sneak peek previews of the
spine-tingling season premiere and tune in to the special two-hour premiere of Fear Factor on December 12 at 8:00 p.m.
EST on NBC!
Funny or Die’s Billy on the Street
Fuse Network is set to debut their brand new game show Funny or Die’s Billy on the Street on
December 22. In this series, comedian Billy Eichner ambushes unsuspecting
pedestrians and tests their knowledge on pop culture trivia for cold, hard cash
and cool prizes. Check out the video preview below to see the game in action. Billy
Eichner is better known for his funny viral videos and has even written and
starred in his own comedic stage shows Creation
Nation and Billy Eichner Goes Pop! It’s
interesting to see how many ambush-style game shows are suddenly appearing due
to Cash Cab’s immense success, such
as the new SPEED network game show Pumped!
Stay tuned for the series premiere of Funny
or Die’s Billy on the Street on December 22 at 11:00 p.m. EST on Fuse.
Who's Still Standing?
It looks like NBC has resumed operations for their new game show
Who’s Still Standing? NBC initially
put a kibosh to the series due to multiple injuries to the contestants on set
and technical difficulties. Who’s Still Standing? will be premiering
as a week-long event beginning on December 19 with Cash Cab’s Ben Bailey as the host of the show. On this show, one
contestant, named “the hero”, faces ten other contestants in a series of
rapid-fire, intense trivia rounds. The more contestants “the hero” eliminates, the
more money “the hero” will win. The catch is: the loser of each round will be
dropped through the drop zone they’re standing under. Eliminating all ten
contestants wins “the hero” $1,000,000 in cash. However, if the “the hero”
loses even one trivia round, they will leave the game will nothing. This show is an interesting combination of 1 vs. 100 and Russian Roulette. Shown below is an episode of GSN's Russian Roulette, another game show with a similar premise. On a quick
side note, NBC debuted Deal or No Deal the
same way with a week-long of new episodes, and the show lasted for six seasons.
I hope that Who’s Still Standing?
will have the same success. Check out the series premiere of Who’s Still Standing? on December 19 at
8:00 p.m. EST on NBC! After the week-long premiere, the show will air in its regular
time slot beginning on Monday, December 26 through January 30.
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