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Elizabeth Banks Named Host Of Press Your Luck Revival
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The bonus round takes WAY too long and brings the pace of the show to a screeching halt. The show's very good, but Banks is wasted here. Get that paycheck, girl... but you're better than this. Give me that Power Rangers sequel, dammit.
She's a great actress, <3 Wyldstyle. I hate to see her stuck on a game show instead of getting movie roles. Hopefully she's getting paid.
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"better than this"
"stuck on a gameshow"
There's this show on CBS that's been running for 47 seasons, perhaps you've heard of it, it's called The Price Is Right. People will be jumping at the chance to host it once Drew retires.
And also, again, it's super rare for a woman to be the host of a gameshow in the United States. This isn't some ho hum job.
"stuck on a gameshow"
There's this show on CBS that's been running for 47 seasons, perhaps you've heard of it, it's called The Price Is Right. People will be jumping at the chance to host it once Drew retires.
And also, again, it's super rare for a woman to be the host of a gameshow in the United States. This isn't some ho hum job.
Looking at this story, and what eventually happened to him was interesting. Mostly because, he died in 1999 at the age of 49. Making him 34 years old in this video. Aging is mysterious.
Missed the show, though, hope it was decent, I grew up on Press Your Luck.
These last couple of years of ABC trying to revive all these game shows has actually really surprised me with how much they try and stay faithful to the originals, even down to stuff like set designs and sound effects. Press Your Luck might be one of the biggest examples of this, with the exception of the addition of the bonus round, which seems unnecessarily drawn-out and loses all the head-to-head competitive aspect that made finales in the original PYL so interesting. Seeing the view on the final spin, knowing that the result of this one press is going to decide things one way or the other, was really cool. Now they do that.....and then there's somehow still another 20 minutes of show left.
I wonder why they felt like they needed to stretch this out to being an hour long. 30 minutes for two rounds was fine, or if they wanted to make it an hour they should go through a third round of the board and find a way to up the stakes that way. Banks at least provides good energy but the pacing of things does seem odd now.
I wonder why they felt like they needed to stretch this out to being an hour long. 30 minutes for two rounds was fine, or if they wanted to make it an hour they should go through a third round of the board and find a way to up the stakes that way. Banks at least provides good energy but the pacing of things does seem odd now.
Random Number Generation has come a long way since the eighties. I wonder if the new show uses true randomization or if it's still pattern based.
Also, not Michael's fault. It's all on them. Shame he died so young too.
No, both the original and the GSN versions of the show were a half an hour. The "bonus round" pads the show out and allows the audience to form a connection to the winner.
Are we supposed to be happy for her taking such a major step down? She was in huge movies like Hunger Games not so long ago.
rose tinted glassesI just hope they go back to hand drawn Whammies the CG Whammies for that revival in the 2000s despite being better detailed lacked the charm of the original.
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