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Colbi King: From the Game Show Live! newsroom, it's time for.............



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Your news......with sass. Presented by Gamestop. Stock up on your favorite games and accesories while the stocks take a........IDK. Here now is..... Pierre Kelly!


Me: Hi everyone, good afternoon from the greater Pacific Bay area and ‬TGIF! Hope you are well. And if you aren't well, well........

Today is National Puzzle Day. We thank Buzzr for giving us Concentration back in 1976. A reason to see rebus puzzles from a bygone time. Here's a nerve to make a double play in a free look as we get............wired!





Looks who's coming to the Puppy Bowl party - and not just attending but HOSTING the party! The O.G. dynamic duo, Martha Stewart and Snoop Dogg, are joining in on the other 'big game' this year, as hosts of PUPPY BOWL XVII, streaming on discovery+ Feb. 7 and airing on Animal Planet Sunday, February 7 at 2PM ET/11AM PT. Join in with Martha and Snoop as they host the ultimate tailgate party, root for the adoptable puppy players, and see who will end up top D.O. DOUBLE G in this epic Puppy Bowl matchup!

Martha Stewart and Snoop Dogg kick off PUPPY BOWL XVII in style, donned in their own Puppy Bowl gear including custom orange and blue team jerseys representing each of the puppy teams - Martha backing Team Ruff and Snoop rooting for Team Fluff - with a game-day set up that is sure to inspire all other Puppy Bowl tailgate parties with custom snacks, games, and of course a little bit of team smack talk! Joined by a posse of puppy players from Annenberg Pet Space, Paw Works and SPCA LA, Martha and Snoop will provide play by play updates throughout the game, cheer on their teams while giving each other a few challenges along the way... including breaking out their culinary skills to create a mouth-watering snack for the party (wings and cupcakes anyone?!) and a friendly Puppy Bowl-themed cocktail competition.

Audiences will also get a shout out from Martha's own pups, French Bulldogs Crème Brûlée and Bête Noire, and Chow Chows Empress Qin and Emperor Han, in addition to Snoop's French Bulldogs, Juelz Broadus and Choc, all of which are ready to cheer on the Puppy Bowl players. Get ready for a PUPPY BOWL XVII tailgate with a duo so fly, it's next level!

PUPPY BOWL XVII is produced for Animal Planet by Bright Spot Content, an All3Media America company. Simon Morris is executive producer and showrunner with Cindy Kain and Sandy Varo Jarrell also serving as executive producers. For Animal Planet, Dawn Sinsel serves as senior executive producer and Pat Dempsey is supervising producer.




Ready.....Set..........tie your shoelaces!



It’s been 11 months since “The Amazing Race” shut down production on Season 33 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, and unsurprisingly, it’s still TBD when production will resume.

“We are absolutely champing at the bit to get back out and shoot ‘The Amazing Race.’ I know [creators] Elise [Doganieri] and Bertram [van Munster] are definitely keen to get the team back together and for us to go,” Phil Keoghan said Wednesday during a virtual panel for his other CBS show, “Tough as Nails,” at the Television Critics Association winter press tour. “As far as when, I mean, if you have any inside information, please let me know. We’ve got to make sure the world is safe.”


“The Amazing Race” was one of the first shows to suspend production, doing so in late February after filming three episodes with stops in England and Scotland. While dozens of shows have resumed production with COVID protocols in place, it’s obviously a totally different beast with a globe-trotting series. “Safety is paramount. It’s No. 1. We have an impeccable safety record on ‘Amazing Race,'” Keoghan noted. “Keeping people safe is our No. 1 priority. We gotta get people out to make a TV show, but we want to get them home safely as well.”


Keoghan was able to make a second season of “Tough as Nails,” which premieres Feb. 10, in COVID times. The production followed strict measures, sometimes reapplying seven times to get a challenge cleared. “Some shows get COVID clearance to shoot in one location; we had over two dozen,” he pointed out. The Emmy winner credits the production team for ensuring they got through the whole season without a single positive test.

“I think the cast agreed that they felt very safe,” he said. “With regards to safety and making sure everyone was healthy, it was our No. 1 priority, to make sure we got out of this COVID-free, and I’m very proud that we have done that.”

“Tough as Nails” premieres Wednesday, Feb. 10 at 8/7c on CBS.




A Haute Second


Each episode of Max Original HAUTE DOG features three groomers facing off in head-to-tail creative contests for the title of "Best in Show" and a $10,000 prize. Tasked with turning their K-9s into K-10s, the series introduces top pet stylists from across the country whose interpretations of imaginative challenges and out-of-the-box themes - from "royalty" and "fairy tales" to "safari" and "superheroes" - spotlight the best looks for man's best friend. With hilarious commentary from two fabulous judges, celebrity dog stylist Jess Rona and actor/comedian Robin Thede, along with comedian Matt Rogers as host, HAUTE DOG showcases canine breeds of all kinds in a dazzling array of creative trans-fur-mations! HAUTE DOG returns with new episodes on THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 4 on HBO Max.

Season 1, Episode 8: "Pup Stars"

Three groomers compete in two "pup" star challenges to give their adorable pooches multi-platinum makeovers inspired by today's biggest recording artists. Debuts February 4.

Season 1, Episode 9: "Fairy Tails"

It's story time as our groomers transform mixed-breed dogs into magical princes, princesses, and fairy-tale creatures - but only one will be crowned the fairest of them all and fly away with $10,000. Debuts February 4.

Season 1, Episode 10: "Disco In-Fur-No"

This throwback episode boogies back to the 70s, when bell-bottoms and sequins were all the rage. But only one of our three groovy groomers will turn their pup into the ultimate disco dog! Debuts February 4.

Season 1, Episode 11: "Super Paws

It's a bird. It's a plane. It's... super-canine! Armed only with their shears, our groomers fly into action to turn some furry friends into their personal heroes. Debuts February 4.

Season 1, Episode 12: "Dog Years"

Three top groomers show respect for their elders in two hilarious challenges that spotlight timeless "grandpaw" looks from yesteryear. Debuts February 4.



Last Year, a bunch of Twitch streamers sumbitted applications to be candidates for a monthly segment that has the follwing qualifications:


must have a length of at least one year, can be of any variety or stick to a common game, viewership numbers on average and the most important category of all: the ability to play Jackbox games on any days or a moment's notice. Yes, Livewire! is proud to award.....


The Twitchhead of the month award! This month's recipient: GamingGoneDad. The reason why the name came into our minds is that he is the father to 2 kids and one sweet baby. Plus she has a wife (gamingGoneMom) who streams on occasion. But let's get into him right now. Every Monday, Wednesday and Friday and sometimes on weekends, he dives into the world of Jackbox with a fantastic community, and and if you look at his headgear, you know he is a diehard Kansas City Chiefs fan. You didn't know that right? His family was right around the time Len Dawson took it to their 1st super Bowl win the most recent when Patrick Mahomes broke the 50-year curse in Miami while the 49ers choked last year. Back in October, he did a 24-hour stream. Here's what it looked like:





How's that for endurance? If you're ready for gaming, it's.........


https://www.twitch.tv/GamingGoneDAD 


SO GamingGoneDad, because it's a name that's not bad, because I've got something that won't make you sad because it'll make the Tampa Bay Buccaneers really mad because I'm glad.......


https://youtu.be/QCt2L9VSL1Y


You are the Twitchhead of the month for January of 2021. You get an imaginary plaque to hang on the wall, bragging rights and what else, Colbi King? 


Colbi: A Kansas City Comets T-shirt to prove that sporting events in Kansas City is alive and well. Over to you, shooting star of plenty. 

Me: Thank you so much Colbi. Tune in next month for another asteroid becoming a rock star. 


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Lorenzo's Cod Liver Oil



Let’s Make A Deal host Wayne Brady is to guest star in Showtime’s American Gigolo pilot.

Brady, who had previously featured in The CW’s Black Lightning, will play Lorenzo in the TV reboot of the Richard Gere film.

Lorenzo in the best friend, roommate and mentor of male escort Julian Kaye, played by series star Jon Bernthal. If the project goes to series, he will recur.

The project hails from David Hollander, Paramount TV Studios and Jerry Bruckheimer Television.

Written and directed by Hollander, American Gigolo the series is a present-day reimagining of the iconic film. Bernthal will play Julian Kaye, who is introduced 18 years after he’s been arrested for murder and struggling to find his footing in the Los Angeles sex industry, while seeking the truth about the setup that sent him to prison all those years ago and also hoping to reconnect with Michelle (Gretchen Mol), his one true love.




We turn now to our new & improved bulletin board.



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But if you want to see America Says back aagin, well, the wait is over.















The façade of the Whitley house is divided into the gameshow’s iconic blue grid, with four trivia categories. The “IN THE CHANNEL” category is devoted to places to visit in the Irish Channel. The “QUARANTINI” column includes COVID-era cocktail suggestions. The “WALK IT OUT” category concerns the Crescent City’s endless number of Carnival marching groups. And “STREET SMART” tests our knowledge of the origins of New Orleans’ quirky street names.

Whitley’s Jeopardy house is interactive. To play the game passersby can use their cellphones to digitally access the answers and questions using one of those QR bar code grids. Erin Whitley said 50 or 60 people have played so far. Unfortunately, she said, there are no cash prizes, just “bragging rights.”

Erin, 29 hails from Mandeville. Aaron, 30, is from Pensacola. They’re both members of the Funky Uptown Krewe, which usually welcomes Carnival with a rowdy, rolling streetcar party on Jan. 6. But that was called off this year, thanks to you know what.

The Whitleys are also part of a startup, regionwide association of do-it-yourself house decorators called The Krewe of House Floats. The group has divided up the city into neighborhood subkrewes. The goal is to produce socially distanced walking/driving tours as COVID-safe substitutes for conventional parades. The group is in the process of producing a map of all the float houses.

To watch the float houses pop up across the city may be witnessing the beginning of a new custom. Who knows, in the future, float houses might be as much a part of Carnival as king cakes? Part of the pleasure is the individuality. Float houses are like costuming for architecture.

This is the site of the “Jeopardy” float house, one of the most charming coronavirus antidotes so far.

Where is 2371 Chippewa St.?

And we move right along.

Not exactly a true crowd in mind......

When To Tell the Truth was rebooted in 2016, it kept the same general format, but with a modern revolving group of panelists and a new host — Anthony Anderson. Now, with another season on the horizon, new potential fans have questions about how the show works, if there's a live studio audience, and when Season 6 was filmed.

Once upon a time, To Tell the Truth did feature a live in-studio audience. Most game shows of the past did and, in earlier seasons of the revamped version, before the COVID-19 pandemic struck the world, it too had a live audience. It's unclear if, going forward, some seasons will have to nix a live audience due to social distancing rules or, at the very least, be much smaller so producers can space them out.

But, for the most part, the show is big on having an audience in-house to make every comment and wild moment that much more exciting. Because not only do the celebrity panelists have to make themselves look like fools while guessing correctly and incorrectly while they try to figure out who the impostor is, but whoever loses at the end has to tweet out a lie about themselves. 

It's all in good fun, but as with most shows of this nature, having a live audience makes the atmosphere even lighter.

Because To Tell the Truth isn't filmed live, ABC could film multiple seasons at one time and keep the episodes for when a new season rolls around. The Season 6 promo makes it seem like an audience was in the studio, so either it's footage from an older taping or the network figured out a way to safely film during the COVID-19 pandemic. Regardless, it's still the same game show to keep you guessing from the comfort of your own home.


The month of January is almost over. I can't believe the very first month of our 5th season on Podcast Hill is getting to be off to a good start. SFC Productions celebrated the month with....................


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bkWUJfIotfU


Jackbox janarium. Yes, every  self-proclaimed, self-obsessed, unapologetic, ain't ashamed to show it, ain't afraid to tell the truth, fearless, santicified, holy ghost filled, everloving and everlasting.........Jackbox games nerd around the world got together for one big promotion. Here's how it went. 







In week 1, Sage played some of his favorite games he has ever played all his life. 


 

The second night had players on their fingers, mouses or stylus pens for a quick draw session. But the shirts were the highlight of teh week. The third week focused on having more players play to make it a fantastic party! Week 4 came and we took a field trip to the Cricket Wireless Scrawliseum to discover who the trainers strengths and weaknesses are and came up with certain champions and oppostions to them. This saturday, Sage will display the best of Jackbox. A greatest Hits compliation as chosen by you, the viewers. There was also fun facts like........... And also........ Even this one was good.



You  can watch what went down by going to......


 https://www.youtube.com/sagefuncom


Please say hi to the Damsels of Dorkington for me, would you? 


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Finally, look at this......





Sitting out in winter weather in our nation's capital is Bernie Sanders, a former presidential candidate watching Joe Biden get inagurated. It not only became a meme phenomenon but Jamie Pettito, formerly of Do It Gurl got to flex her singing ability in this video. Roll it!











#todayIlearned that if my house was a fun house, I can water the flowers in the greenhouse where the Arcade 1up machines are, wash clothes in the Prize O mat to get tickets to see Tori Amos' comeback tour or raid the fridge for a hover scooter. Where's the Power Prize? I'm guessing in the pool somewhere. 

So with that, it's goodbye for me and we'll all get together again when you hear this sound:

http://tpirepguide.com/qwizx/gssfx/canada/bs-buzzin.wav

Then you know it's time for Livewire! Until next time, play on playas.  

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