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@jeansthoughts How to have a traditional halloween according to the country who (supposedly) coined the term - Scotland! Like i mentioned many of these age old traditions have parellels elsewhere so let me know how different or similar they are to what you grew up with? #scotland #spookyseason #samhain ♬ original sound - Dr Jean Menzies
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This week......
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Sony gets sued.........
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The Floor takes it upside down.....
(switches screen to $7 in a receipt)
and how lucky is this for $7?
Let's................ Get................... Lit!
Amy Irons: From around the world....across the country....and in your neighborhoods, NOW......in its 7th consecutive year, this is.................................
And now, the (Nearly) world-famous contestant...Pierre Kelly!
Me: Welcome to Game Show Live! Let's get right into it with.......
The Talking Through The Medias opening toss up story.
Two former executives on Jeopardy! and Wheel of Fortune have accused Sony Pictures of engaging in unlawful race, gender, and age discrimination and retaliation against them.
Shelley Ballance Ellis, a Black woman, and her Latina colleague Monique Diaz have filed complaints with California’s Civil Rights Department and the National Labor Relations Board, alleging that Sony’s management terminated them and other workers in retaliation for collectively opposing harmful discrimination and toxic working conditions on Jeopardy! and Wheel of Fortune.
The pair have spent close to 50 years combined working on the shows. Ballance Ellis was Executive Director, Licensing and Clearance at Sony Pictures Entertainment, and Diaz also worked in the department. The pair were terminated in April.
They are claiming they were terminated because they objected to racial discrimination in the workplace, the pay inequity Diaz experienced, the glass ceiling and other bias Ballance Ellis faced as an older Black woman, the airing of inappropriate footage of Southern plantations on Wheel of Fortune, racist comments and jokes made in Wheel of Fortune’s control room about Black women on the show, and the dismissal of workers’ concerns about racial bias in the Jeopardy! game questions
. The CRD and the federal NLRB will investigate the allegations over the coming months. The pair are represented by Hillary Benham Baker of Benham-Baker Legal and Peter Romer-Friedman and David Berman of Peter Romer-Friedman Law PLLC.
Ballance Ellis pointed to comments from Maya Angelou in 1995 where she said she was boycotting Jeopardy! for its lack of diverse contestants, and Vanna White’s pay dispute with Wheel of Fortune in the claims.
“As the highest-ranking Black production executive on Jeopardy! and Wheel of Fortune… I had a front row seat as I watched and experienced this racial bias and insensitivity.”
Diaz highlighted an incident where she and other colleagues expressed discomfort over “plantation” shots for Wheel of Fortune. “It was clear that Sony knew there was discomfort with this. My team and I were uncomfortable with having to negotiate footage, location, and photo agreements with representatives of plantations,” she said. She also accused Wheel of Fortune producers about racist and sexist comments made about comedian Leslie Jones and other women of color about their hair.”
“Sony Pictures Entertainment takes all allegations of discrimination very seriously. Earlier this year there was a broad reorganization of our game show group that resulted in the elimination of several roles to address redundancies and evolving business needs of a 40+-year-old operation. Those eliminations were business efficiency decisions and not retaliatory. Further, the past few years have been a time of significant transition and internal reorienting for Wheel of Fortune and Jeopardy!, driven by a new leadership team who are profoundly dedicated to fostering a culture of inclusivity and respect. We are anchored to these values as we usher in a new era for our game shows with tenacity and circumspection,” a Sony spokesperson said.
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And now a very special CW version of The Yay & Yawn for October.
The Yay: Trivial Pursuit. What Levar Burton didn't get for Jeopardy! got it for The CW. It even features a Master Mind and a former Jeopardy! champion in itself as contestants.
The yawn: Scrabble. Raven-Symone hosted it close to Words with Friends but the Grundy one is the classic we all grew up on.
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Australia is about to have a floor of its own. The plans and what goes with it after this.
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Amy: Some members of our viewing audience will receive......
A gift card to Spirit Halloween. Halloween is tomorrow so start picking a last minute one before you go trick or treating tomorrow. Find a Spirit Halloween before November 1st. Defrosting back to life is Pierre Kelly!
Me: I thank you all Amy and we are.....back!
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I cannot believe Retro-ber is coming to a close. But we can't leave it all off without this segment I'd like to call it.......
Podcasts......you should listen to.
That's Right, you heard me, Telehell. They take a look at TV that's so bad, it'll have you scratching your head and saying to yourself.....Why Did I See that? From the Virtual Ed Sullivan special befroe AI was really a thing to the worst SNL seasons, Telehell has over 6 seasons of experience and a new season takes place in January of next year. There's no denying that Telehell burns the worst of TV, not movies or music. Spronkled in with wit and funny stuff, Telehell is also related to Kier's Nostalgia Corner, Retrocirq and Dave's Archives among others. So if you want a trip to Telehell, please click on this.................
And also available on streaming services elsewhere.
Channel 9 has announced that The Floor is coming to Australia with Rodger Corser fronting the ultimate trivia showdown.
Come down and step onto The Floor, the biggest, most exciting new format in the world right now.
In this spectacular battle of brains, 81 Aussies will face off on a colossal, futuristic floor, all competing for a life-changing grand prize of $200,000.
Already a smash hit in multiple countries, The Floor is now ready to light up Australia.
Here's everything you need to know ahead of The Floor's 2025 debut: Combining intense strategy, high-stakes trivia, and edge-of-your-seat suspense, The Floor promises a gripping game of wits and endurance that every member of the family can play along with at home! The game is simple: each player begins with one tile on the floor, representing their subject of expertise. Their aim is to challenge and win their neighbours' tiles and steal their area of The Floor. Whoever wins the entire floor will rule all and claim the grand prize. The Floor is like no other show you've seen before.
Beloved Aussie TV actor and personality Rodger Corser will be the front man of The Floor. You probably best know him for his portrayal of Dr. Hugh Knight in the drama series Doctor Doctor or for playing Detective Senior Sergeant Steven Owen in the crime mini-series Underbelly..
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The stars of the CBS‘s daytime TV shows are having a great time getting into the spooky season spirit. The Price Is Right, Let’s Make a Deal, and The Bold and the Beautiful have all released photos from their upcoming Halloween episodes, and the costumes from the hosts, contestants, and stars are delightful.
The Price Is Right photos reveal that Ghosts stars Danielle Pinnock and Devan Chandler Long will “come on down” to join host Drew Carey for the special themed episode.
Here’s what to expect in each of these upcoming Halloween installments, all of which are airing on Thursday, October 31.
The Price Is Right becomes “The Price is Fright” when players “come on down!” to a ghostly haunted house, with host Drew “Keeper of the House” Carey and announcer George “Graveyard” Gray. Stars of the hit CBS comedy series GHOSTS, Danielle Pinnock (“Alberta”) and Devan Chandler Long (“Thorfinn”) join as special guests, alongside models Miss Alexis “Spiritual Advisor” Gaube, Rachel “Dolly” Reynolds, and James “O’Ghoul-oran” O’Halloran, to present bone-chilling great prizes.
On Let’s Make a Deal, dealers in the best Halloween-themed attire have a chance to win spine-chilling experiences valued at over $130k, including an immersive trip to the Parisian catacombs, a luxurious trip to New Orleans including a gothic cemetery tour, a haunted hayride, and $10,000 in cash hidden in a coffin. Host Wayne Brady and cast deliver frights and delights with their signature improvisational and musical stylings, but watch out for the scariest trick of all, the dreaded Zonk!
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As (Yet to be) seen on TV....................
Buy it Now, the entrepreneur format from The Traitors UK maker Studio Lambert, has been pitched successfully in India.
Mumbai-based Rose Audio Visuals has struck a deal with formats rights holder All3Media International to make an Indian version of the show, which was initially for Channel 4 in the UK and was then adapted for Prime Video in the U.S. earlier this year. No streamer or network is attached at this point.
Sabrina Duguet, EVP APAC at All3Media International, said the new U.S. edition of the show, hosted by JB Smoove, “has reinvigorated interest in this positive and dynamic series and we are confident that that Indian platforms and audiences will embrace its energy.”
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Netflix has ordered a special holiday edition of its hit baking competition series “Is It Cake?,” hosted by “SNL” star Mikey Day.
Consisting of four episodes launching Nov. 28, “Is It Cake? Holiday” will feature the return of nine “All Star” bakers from across the first three seasons of “Is It Cake?” for a holiday showdown. The contestants will “craft tasty replicas of ice skates, wreaths, nutcrackers and more in this holiday spin on the mind-bending baking competition” and try to “baffle the celebrity judges with their festive and delicious deceptions and fight their way to the ultimate grand prize.”
Guest judges for the season include Rachel Bloom, Wayne Brady, Sebastian Maniscalco, Hannah Berner, Tiffany Haddish, Devon Walker, James Austin Johnson, Chris Witaske, Sasheer Zamata, Terry Crews, Punkie Johnson and Randall Park.
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Buzzer?! I don't even know her!
The Queen of the North herself, Brooke Lynn Hytes, is coming back for another lap of Canada's Drag Race alongside mainstay judges Brad Goreski and Traci Melchor.
This series kicked off 2024 with the crowning of Venus, aired its second edition of Canada's Drag Race: Canada vs. the World that crowned Lemon as the Queen of the Mother-Puckin' World, and is set to take over the holidays (and beyond!) with Canada's Drag Race season 5. With a fierce lineup of 11 new competitors, the time has come to meet the queens!
- Helena Poison (32; Toronto; @thehelenapoison)
- Jaylene Tyme (52; Vancouver; @Jaylenetyme)
- Makayla Couture (21; Toronto; @makayla.couture)
- Minhi Wang (39; Toronto; @heyminhiwang)
- Perla (29; Toronto; @callherperla)
- Sanjina DaBish Queen (32; Toronto; @sanjinadbq)
- Tara Nova (23; St. John's; @istaranova)
- The Virgo Queen (25; Toronto; @Thevirgoqueen)
- Tiffany Ann Co. (32; Vancouver; @tiffanyannco.duh)
- Uma Gahd (36; Montreal; @umaghad)
- Xana (26; VAncouver; @xanasrevenge)
Season 5 of Canada's Drag Race premieres on Thursday, November 21 on WOW Presents Plus (and Crave in Canada).
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alpa Studios, founded by “The Voice” and “Big Brother” creator John de Mol, has launched “Trivial Pursuit,” a quiz show format based on the Hasbro trivia game, at TV market Mipcom in Cannes.
Talpa is working in partnership with Hasbro Entertainment, the entertainment company that leverages Hasbro’s collection of brands to develop and produce premium film, television, animation and digital content.
“Trivial Pursuit” premiered on The CW Network on Oct. 3. It is a question-packed entertainment format hosted by Emmy Award-winning actor, director, producer and podcaster LeVar Burton (“Roots,” “Star Trek: The Next Generation,” “Reading Rainbow”).
Maarten Meijs, CEO of Talpa Studios, said: “We love game shows, and Hasbro Entertainment is a pioneer in this domain. This partnership allows us to bring one of the most iconic board games of all time to life as a television format. The promising premiere demonstrates the strength of this show, and we look forward to expanding its reach internationally.”
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Who Wants To Be A Millionaire with Jeremy Clarkson returns with a run of celebrity specials this Winter on ITV. The show has also been renewed for another series of 16 episodes to air in 2025.
Who Wants to Be a Millionaire is back with a series of brandnew celebrity specials for the New Year - with some wonderful surprises for Millionaire fans, this promises to be the best celeb series yet.
Each brave celeb is playing for their chosen charity - who will crumble, who will shine when they face Jeremy Clarkson and the hot seat, and can anyone better Richard Madeley’s £125,000 from the last series?
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Time now for a Mistplay Game Break.
According to a Google Trend, what was the most popular Halloween costume of last year?
Think about that after we let Tammy Tuckey into the Spotify soundstage. Since it's Halloween, I thought we'd throw this in.
Thanks TT. Now the answer. It is.......................
It is of course, barbie because of the movie that the Academy Awards saw over Oppenheimer. When can there be a movie about 2XL or R.O.B. the NES robot?
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I did mention Retrocirq earlier in the blog and they got something new for you.
It's time to celebrate..................
Don't forget to email me at kellypierre8@gmail.com, coppockonsports@yahoo.com, Pierre Kelly on FB and @Johnny_Arcade on X which is formerly Twitter. Also I'm on Snapchat as MisterGSN and Instagram as MrJackbox2. We will return next Wednesday, and until we return, Play on playas.
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