New game show: Downfall
 

I can't believe this is for real. Contestants have a certain amount of time to answer trivia questions as their prize is slowly moving down a conveyer belt located on a skyscraper. If they don't answer in time the prize drops off the conveyer belt and smashes.

http://la.curbed.com/archives/2010/0...skyscraper.php


Starts Tuesday June 22

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this show is why other countries hate us.

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Chris Jericho of the WWE is hosting the show, so that in itself could make it entertaining.

But according to ABCs page on the show, they won't be sending the actual prizes over the edge, but "fabricated facsimiles" of the prizes.

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It'd be better if they put the contestants on said conveyer belt and every wrong question would push them closer to the edge.

If someone went over of course there'd be a net or inflatable thing to catch them. or maybe they're on a bungie cord.

I'd watch that though.

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Ok, this makes it a little more acceptable

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It also makes it completely pointless.

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When I saw the title, I thought it would be teams of players competing to come up with the best hitler subtitles.

Didn't Comedy Central have a game show where the prizes were destroyed when the contestants incorrectly answered questions?

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A. That joke is played out.

B. Other countries have VASTLY more ridiculous game shows than we do. In fact a lot of our shows are stolen from over seas.

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I was actually thinking the exact opposite.

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ridiculous, yes, but not involving blatant destruction of expensive property. just goes to inforce the notion that we are an egocentric "throw away" society.

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Ahh my fault, I see where you're coming from now. I can see that I guess but I still don't think it's that bad.

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Catch It Keep It did it better.

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Guess you will be watching as thats they will be doing for the final round - to win the million
dollar prize - the contestant will be standing on the conveyor belt - holding the cash -
if they don't answer 10 questions right before time runs out - they go over. Theres no net
or inflatable thing to catch them though - they are just hooked up to a harness - something
rock climbers use. Also if the contestant is struggling early in the game with the questions and
need to have the conveyor belt back up a notch or two - you can have a friend or relative be
put on the conveyor belt and if you don't beat the clock - they are the ones going over.

I'll be watching - I'm a fan of the host.

If you miss Tuesdays premiere and don't want to watch online - check out your local ABC
channel schedule for next weekend - mine is repeating the show next Sunday afternoon
from 1:00 pm ET to 2:00 pm ET. (The second episode scheduled for Tuesday, June 30 will
repeat on my local ABC channel on Sunday, July 4 from 2:30 pm ET to 3:30 pm ET.)

LB...

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They should put the contestant on the ground at the end of the conveyer belt so they don't know what they're playing for. If they keep getting questions wrong then the item falls on the contestant. It's all good if they lose and the prize was a bunch of jelly beans but the real fun starts when the prize is a pick up truck.

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Can't be anymore stupid than Minute to Win It. This is why other countries take a look at our game shows and laugh.

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As mentioned earlier... Our games hows are usually toned-down copies of foreign shows. Latin American / Hispanic shows are borderline soft-core porn in this country and we'd never get away the stuff they do over in Japan. We seem to copy British shows without a second thought here. I'm actually surprised that this show is not an copy of a British show...

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I just assumed it was.

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You mean "Chris Jericho, lead singer of Fozzy." :)
i'll try and catch it just because of jericho

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that little building is a skyscraper? pretty stupid show over all and jericho sucks.

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watched for 10 minutes. no more. ever.

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For some reason I watched this and boy was it terrible. The firefighter contestant has made me remember why I hate Boston

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yeah the boston guy was a doofus.
the only good thing about the show was that it reminded me to watch the show after it which was interesting.

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I watched the first half. Jericho was an okay host, better than I thought he would be.
I also liked the structure of the game, answer 4 questions in a category, then 5, etc. to keep moving up the money ladder. Unfortunately, the addition of the conveyor belt makes the game move so fast that you barely have time to absorb the questions. And the actual idea of having a conveyor belt drop fake prizes or people is just too stupid. I probably won't watch again.

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^^ Agree with Charlie.

Watched about 30 minutes at work with my colleagues and we all thought it was lame. The questions were fine and Jericho is not a horrible host, but that coveyor belt with shit falling over got really distracting, especially knowing that all those prizes were fake props.

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I thought at first Jericho made a mistake when he said "100-foot skyscraper".

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^^ Me too!

I won't be watching this one again. Stupid contestants, stupid hosts, stupid premise!

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Exactly why I watched it last night. Jericho is a great guy and I thought he did a great job as a game show host. He wasn't afraid to add his little comments which were pretty funny into the show and he was having fun with it. When you meet him he's like what he is on the show. He's a really funny guy.

I'll be watching next week. It's about the only game show I've watched a whole episode of since Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?.

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Not as bad as it could have been, but the novelty of the gimmick has already worn off. It's just the old Letterman bit of dropping things off a five-story building combined with a quiz show. And dropping your friend off the building... who cares? It's not like they are in danger.

Also, repeatedly hyping the fact you are on a 100-story building means nothing if you're only dropping things onto a landing a few stories down.

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Maybe they can retool it so the winner is the contestant who can come up with the best Hitler Downfall parody for different subjects.

Tom, your category is...the BP oil spill! (Cue Hilter video while Tom tries to improv)


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Yes, I remember that. It was a show called "Distraction" (an import of a British game show actually, keeping the original host). The prize destruction was just the ending part. The bulk of the show was contestants answering questions while ... well, being distracted by various things (like paint balls shot at them, pro-wrestlers tossing them about, nudists prancing about, getting electrical shocks, getting pinched with clothespins, and so on). The top scorer at the end was presented with a grand prize - like a new car. But they had to answer a series of questions, with each incorrect response resulting in destruction of their prize. For example, they'd sometimes have all the losers hanging around, with things like paint, knives, bats, sledgehammers at their disposal. And when the "winner" got a question wrong, they got a few seconds to do whatever they wanted to the car.

I missed "Downfall". I probably would've watched it just for Jericho. The premise doesn't sound like much to hold my attention for a show (let alone a season of shows).