Is Monty Hall on Facebook? I don't know, but his signature game show will soon enter the social networking wars. Let's Make a Deal will debut this fall on the site in a format developed by RealNetworks, the folks behind RealPlayer. Will the Facebook zonks get really nasty? Or will dealers live happily and socially-networked ever after?As a couple of new originals struggle mightily on GSN, I'm reminded of Wink Martindale's disastrous Instant Recall on the network last year. The show died a quick and merciful death, but Wink is fortunately still with us. He will do a good deed by hosting a fundraiser in Thousand Oaks, California for local high school choral programs. The fundraiser has to turn out better than that wretched game show on GSN.
My wife happens to be a distant relative of Philo T. Farnsworth, one of the inventors credited (or debited) with the origin of electronic television. The Farnsworth Invention, a Broadway play about the dispute over exactly who invented the box with pictures, is turning up here and there and recently landed in Boise. Farnworth's only appearance on network TV was a mystery guest turn on I've Got a Secret. None of the panelists had any clue who he was.
GSN Live may be on the way out. The network has released a coy statement about "a new brand, format and schedule for our play-at-home games, which will be introduced in August." Sounds like the end of days for the interstitials, which have steadily diminished in timeslots and personnel.
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