Livewire! 4/26

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Livewire! Your news.......with sass. Presented by the letters C, E, and O. And by the number 20. And now from our Game Show Live! Newsroom, here comes Pierre Kelly!




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I want to bring in Jackie Fuchs, who in her own words, describes this local Los Angeles pub where J! champions go to hang out. 


t’s the Wednesday evening before the Oscars, and all of the TVs at O’Brien’s Irish Pub in Santa Monica have been tuned to ABC. The bar is screening the first night of the new Jeopardy! All-Stars Tournament. Onscreen Brad Rutter—the show’s all-time money winner—is engaging in some moderate trash talk with his fellow contestants: a little verbal sparring with Buzzy Cohen, the bespectacled music executive who won the 2017 Tournament of Champions, a little more with Pam Mueller, the redheaded think-tank policy researcher who is not only a former Jeopardy! college champion and an All-Star but my personal game-show idol.
Weirdly, as we are watching Brad, Buzzy, and Pam on TV, the live versions of the trio are also in the unpresuming bar, just a few feet away from me. While I am stuffing French fries into my mouth, Buzzy is introducing his family to Brad and Pam.
This isn’t an isolated incident. Every Wednesday for the last five years, I have been testing my trivia mettle against Brad, Buzzy, Pam, and a host of other “Jeopardy!people” at the O’Brien’s Irish Pub Quiz, which regularly draws some of the most recognizable game-show champions in the world. Buzzy won nine regular games and the Tournament of Champions; Brad has won more than $4,455,000 playing Jeopardy! and has never lost to a human opponent (his sole defeat having been delivered by Watson, the IBM supercomputer).
n the early days the O’Brien’s quiz was a garden-variety pub trivia contest with a regular host and straightforward questions on a plethora of topics. The environment was collegial. Players hopped on and off teams, and newbies could simply drop by and join a table that needed a teammate. Winning was nice, but it wasn’t the point.
All of that changed in January 2006, when a former Jeopardy! champion named Jerome Vered stopped in on a whim. Jerome, a writer and former researcher for the show Win Ben Stein’s Money, was no one-and-doner. He was a Tournament of Champions runner-up as well as a finalist on the 2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions.
Impressed with the quality of the questions at O’Brien’s, Jerome returned a week later with a few fellow Tournament of Champions vets in tow. Unsurprisingly, they won, and the first O’Brien’s superstar team was born. Several more would follow. Not everyone was thrilled.
“People were resentful of them at first,” says Beth Milnes, a legal assistant who has been playing the quiz since 1999 and once served as its weekly host, “but we were losing our regulars to new jobs and kids. The Jeopardy! people are the reason the quiz survived.”
Today the quiz is thriving, though Beth—who went on to become a Jeopardy!champion herself—no longer hosts every week. Rather, players take turns writing and asking the questions, which lends the contest an entirely different flavor week to week. Some hosts favor accessible, pop culture-heavy topics: Who was the first actor to have two different characters he’s played made into Lego minifigures (1)? Others prefer more obscure subjects that provoke fist-pounding arguments among teammates: Name four of the nine countries that have a subway but no Subway (2).
The quiz also draws its share of out-of-town Jeopardy! contestants for whom a visit to O’Brien’s is a must-do L.A. attraction, right up there with Disneyland and the Getty Center. Thanks to various secret Facebook groups and an annual trivia convention in Las Vegas, they often already know many of the regulars and are eagerly welcomed onto one of the six to 14 teams competing for $150 in prizes. (Unlike most pub trivia contests across L.A., the spoils at O’Brien’s come in the form of cash, not free booze.)


And That was Jackie Fuchs reporting.



Just like Sydney Ryan leaving the Q for Chicago, this tweet from Buzzr happened.......















Let's all observe a space of silence for Buzzr leaving Twitch for good.













Thank you.



Don't confuse the Easter Bunny with Bugs bunny.....or Buster Bunny....or babs Bunny....


“Lip Sync Battle” presenter Teigen took to Twitter on Easter Sunday to enlist help from her followers, after admitting that she was “so confused” about the holiday, or at least how Easter should be presented to children.

 Teigen’s confusion might best be summed up with the philosophical question, “Which comes first, the bunny or the eggs?”
Wait what is the Easter story for kids? Why do we hide the eggs? To lure the bunny? Does the bunny hide the eggs?” asked Teigen, who has two young children with her husband, singer John Legend. “Do you put something else out to lure the bunny to hide the eggs? Who do kids think hide them? I’m so confused please hurry.”
Teigen’s questions didn’t end there.
“If you’re supposed to put out food to lure the bunny to hide the eggs, how do we explain why we dyed them?” she continued. “We colored eggs for the bunny, then lured him with carrots, then he came back to grab the eggs we dyed to hide them? We’ve gotta simplify this it makes no sense.”
Teigen’s call for help was indeed answered, though the answer only seemed to cause more confusion, at least initially.
“LOL wat [sic]?” read one reply, which continued, “the eggs are not for the bunny. The bunny brings the eggs. They’re for breakfast/brunch.”
To which Teigen replied, “Wait what I thought you hide the dyed eggs LOL.”
Finally, some degree of satisfaction arrived for Teigen in the form of another response, which read, “In my family we would dye eggs and use them + carrots to lure the bunny. the bunny would be happy with what we offered (like Santa with cookies) and exchange the dyed eggs for plastic ones filled with sweets.”
This seemed to quell the confusion for Teigen, who responded, “OK this makes the most sense.”



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And now for your Game Show Live! Crowning moment of awesomeness of excellence. 

The four-man team from Edinburgh beat Oxford University's St Edmund Hall by 155 points to 140.
The University of Edinburgh team is the first from Scotland to win since 1984 and the first non-Oxbridge finalist in six years.
Team captain Max Fitz-James hailed his team after winning the coveted prize.
Speaking to BBC Scotland's The Nine, he said: "The main secret is to be good as a team and that came in the selection process; they really made an effort to find people who had a complementary basis of knowledge so it wasn't just down to one person, we did it as a team.
"The best training was watching past episodes and doing it together as a team, so we would get together every Monday and watch past episodes, pause and try and answer the questions before the team.
"This is the third year in a row that Edinburgh reached the semi-finals so we were very pleased we got one further than that, and even more pleased when we finally lifted the trophy."

So the Univeristy of Edinburgh.......you get the crown. 

(song stops)

As of today which was 11am central time, Elizabeth Eckert dropped a brand new single to the whole wide world. See what you all think of this jam the record label didn't allow it to but Game Show Live! has it on the spot. This....is Trophy girlfriend. 

Voice Swapper?

NBC’s The Voice and The Village are swapping Tuesday time periods. Beginning April 23 and continuing through May 21, The Voice will air at 9 PM, moving from its current 8 PM slot, and The Village will take The Voice‘s spot at 8 PM.
The Voice relies on live-viewing, which is more of a challenge at 8 PM during spring and summer, especially with the change to Daylight Saving Time. The decision comes as the competition reality series hit a ratings low on Tuesday this week.
Meanwhile, The Village got off to a soft ratings start, with a big chunk of its audience coming from delayed viewing, so the thought is that a move to 8 PM would not significantly impact the show’s overall ratings. Additionally, The Voice at 9 PM would likely boost 10 PM drama New Amsterdam, which took a ratings hit after 9 PM anchor This Is Us wrapped its season and was succeeded by The Village.

This also came in too: 


Read that yourself, but the mailroom was flooded with comments on newfangled featueres of the show including this from Donny Pearson: 

#ManOhMan. Hopefully, this Monday's episode will be a heck of a lot better as far ratings go.

Let's hope the new time swap and Monday's show will be a turnaround for the better. Madi2themax, where can they send cross battles, save points and reports on what got stolen in the neighborhood of Grimsborough? 

Madison: To write to Pierre with your questions, comments or just plain fun stuff,  please send it to the email address below or write it via snail mail to:
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Be sure to include a self addressed Stamped envelope when you write. Back to the voice of Bartlett, Tennessee,  Pierre Kelly!

Me: Thanks Madi. ANd why is your chair in the booth not turning around? 











The Hollywood Reporter says John Legend and his production company will move to ABC Studios.
The EGOT winner and his partners signed a three-year overall deal with ABC Studios, where they will develop scripted TV projects for all platforms.
"We here at Get Lifted Film Co. are thrilled to be working with ABC Studios and welcome the opportunity to tell remarkable stories that resonate with our growing audience," Jackson said Tuesday in a statement.
ABC Studios president Patrick Moran said: "John Legend and his Get Lifted partners, Mike Jackson and Ty Stiklorius, have a strong, contemporary point of view. Their enormous success is no surprise considering their excellent taste and ability to tell stories that are timely and unique."


There’s Comic-Con, Wondercon, Vidcon and now we have Realitycon. MTV said today that it will host the first Realitycon, where stars, producers and creators of the popular TV genre will convene.
The inaugural event will take place summer 2020, but there will be a soft launch later this fall on a yet-to-be-announced date. The Realitycon venue and additional global events also will be announced soon.
The conference will not only be limited to MTV reality shows. From The Real Worldto Survivor to The Bachelor to Jersey Shore, Realitycon will feature fan activations, performances, interviews, and roundtable discussions exploring the impact of reality TV on society, representation of diversity in media and influence on entertainment. You can also expect to see stars and creators from the most popular reality shows Big Brother, The Challenge, Duck Dynasty, Love & Hip Hop, Mob Wives, The Real Housewives, RuPaul’s Drag Race and The Hills.



We started April acapella Awareness month with our mixed tag mixmasters Scott & Ryceejo.....and now they'll end it with a mashup of both Disney and not disney. Let go!







That's all for now, but remember one thing: Will contestants of The Price is Right go to Starbucks and get decaf to calm themselves down after the show?


So until next time and all the time....play on playas. 

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