This blog avoids high culture whenever possible. In fact, game shows in general are a bracing antidote to the culture vultures. Our little genre usually disdains artistic pretensions and hoity-toity sensitivities (despite some of What's My Line's stuffier features).So when I saw a reference to Shakespeare in my usual Google News search on "game show," I got a little worried. Oh gee, just what we need, the Bard meets Wheel of Fortune.
Turns out I wasn't far wrong. Only it's The Merchant of Venice meeting a "lurid TV game show called Destiny where Portia, the blonde bimbo presenter, is also the prize." The Royal Shakespeare Theater is staging this, ah, interesting experiment somewhere in England. So at least I don't have to worry about stumbling across it on TV.
Sometimes the Brits ain't better than us, no matter what BuzzerBlog says. What's next, Hamlet dueling Ken Jennings in a medieval Danish version of Jeopardy? Maybe I shouldn't give people ideas.
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