Friday, June 7, 2013

Chasing twitter

The twitter feed for GSN's version of The Chase is busy lately as the show tapes one episode after another.

Mark Labbett, the beastie boy, is praising Brooke Burns, the hostie girl. Brooke is bubbling about Mark and everybody else. Chad Mosher is posting details of the gameplay: three contestants and a five grand Cash Builder timed at sixty seconds. And grumpy me is wondering how all this will actually play on the network. I know the game show Interwebs are a-twitter (pun intended) but this show offers none of the special promotional opportunities that American Bible Challenge did.

I get the feeling that we'll see results somewhere between GSN's Pyramid and the Bible quizzer. In other words, The Chase will perform respectably but not spectacularly. (All this is by GSN standards, of course.) Except for rabid fans of Brit game shows - not much of a group on this side of the pond outside of a few web boards - there's no built-in audience for the show as there is for American Bible Challenge.

We'll find out soon enough. The show is heading for its debut September 3, Chad says.

UPDATE: Hollywood Junket has posted a generally enthusiastic review of the tapings. Seems that the American contestants take more risks than their British counterparts.

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