Late Night News Updates for April 30, 2014

Good evening, game show fanatics! Tonight's headline story (or should I stay stories) revolves around major changes on Millionaire beginning next season including Cedric The Entertainer's early retirement from the series, the show moving its production from New York City to Connecticut and the possibility of an ex-NFL player/actor hosting the show in the 2014-2015 season. Also, a casting call is currently being held for one of the network's upcoming competition reality series. (Hint: If you're smartphone savvy, you'll might want to "app"ly.)

Game Show Spotlight: Wheel Celebrates 6,000 Shows With “Wheel 6,000 Week”

Beginning today, Wheel of Fortune will be celebrating its 6,000-episode longevity in syndication all week long. Ever since the popular game show knocked off Family Feud out of the top ranking during the 1980s, Wheel of Fortune has been, and is currently, the highest rated syndicated game show in the U.S. Only a handful of game shows have ever been privileged of reaching the 6,000-episode milestone including The Price Is Right, Jeopardy!, and Countdown. To mark the occasion, two Wheel Watchers Club member whose SPIN IDs are revealed will win the temporarily inflated jackpot of $6,000, instead of the usual $5,000 prize and the $5,000 wedge will be replaced with a $6,000 wedge. Also, Pat and Vanna will be reminiscing about some of their memories of the show over its 30-year-history. 

"Bam's Bad Ass Game Show" Review

Set Design- 7

Gameplay- 8

Show Flow- 8

Potential Viewer Ratings- 6

Play-Along Factor- 1

Host- 7

Overall Rating- 6.2

Afternoon News Updates For April 22, 2014

Today's brief game show news update will cover the follow stories from earlier this week: 

- Remaining "Family BrainSurge" Episodes To Air On Nicktoons Channel

- Casting Call For Game Show Looking for Contestants With "High-Energy"

- Could Miranda Hart Become The First Female Host of Cult-Classic U.K. Game Show "The Generation Game"?

- History Channel Holding Video Casting Call Searching For Players To Face-off Against "Pawn Stars" Cast For Cash and Prizes

Check them out!

Teams Revealed For Third Season of "American Bible Challenge"

In about a month from today, The American Bible Challenge will be kicking off its third season off on GSN. On Wednesday via press release, GSN announced the roster of the 18 three-person teams who will be competing in the upcoming season, which begins Thursday, May 22 at 8:00pm ET. Jeff Foxworthy will once again take the helm with Kirk Franklin serving as co-host/music director and give one team the opportunity to win over $140,000 toward their favorite charity. Like every year, these teams come from all walks of life and range in various professions from motorcycle riding priests to former beauty queens. In addition to new teams, this season will also bring new mini-Biblical trivia games including delineating between words from the Bible and words from Star Trek’s Klingon language in “Christ or Klingon” and decoding mistakenly “autocorrected” Bible passages in “Curse You Autocorrect”. Check out the list of the 18 contenders entering into the Biblical arena this season below:

Interesting News: ITV's "Ejector Seat" Bribes Audience To Watch Taping

In the world of game shows, it’s not unusual for shows to give away door prizes and small gifts to select members of their studio audience. However, it is unusual to use those same gifts to literally bribe your audience to stop them from walking out of a game show taping. This was an unfortunate case the producers had run into while filming an episode of the new ITV game show, Ejector Seat. The program, hosted by Andi Peters, has its contestants sit in "ejector seats” and attempt to avoid being sprung out of the chairs by answering questions correctly. The last contestant sitting will have a chance to play the final round for up to £10,000. During the taping, the specially-rigged seats frequently malfunctioned, which caused several delays to occur and the crew members running back and forth on the set to fix them. 

News In A Flash!: Quick Game Show Updates #51

Happy Sunday! Today's article will be highlighting some of the latest game show news last week including some of the news headlines already featured on The Blog Is Right Facebook page in 200 characters or less from international production companies going on a game show shopping spree to new game shows premiere dates. All ratings for syndicated game shows are from the week ending March 30.

FOX Orders Israeli "Boom!" Game Show Format

It looks like FOX will be increasing its recent unscripted repertoire by purchasing a series order of Boom!, developed for the U.S. by Keshet DCP, a joint venture between Keshet International and DC Media. The original Israeli game show format created by Keshet International has been on the move lately since its been out and about on the global marketplace and since the format debuted at the MIPTV market. Lately, Boom! made its first big sale to France’s TF1.

News In A Flash!: Quick Game Show Updates #50

Today's article will be highlighting some of the latest game show news this week including some of the news headlines already featured on The Blog Is Right Facebook page in 200 characters or less from a "hypnotic" game show hitting the U.K. airwaves to a popular CBS game show hitting an incredible milestone tomorrow morning. All ratings for syndicated game shows are from the week ending March 23.