When Canada Dry had a wet dream
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Pacific Bay is under an extremely severe heat warning until Saturday so we decided to take a holiday someplace cooler. We are live at the Strathroy West Middlesex Memorial Centre. Hockey season is already over and the temperatures are much warmer than in the USA. But they're not here for spring hockey league season. They're here for this.
We are at the National Air hockey Pro-Am invitational. Myself along with Gillian Hayek are hosting this 3-day event around July 4th weekend, so expect Canadians to come watch some fine air hockey action. But instead of watching some air hockey, let's talk game shows. We kick it off with...........
The Tubi opening toss up story.
Former “Love Island USA” star Alannah Keyser issued an apology to TikTok on Saturday after being kicked off the Peacock reality show for using the n-word in a resurfaced video.
The video shows Keyser rapping along to Roddy Ricch’s 2019 track “The Box” and singing the lyrics with the n-word.
“I’m coming on here to address some things that have been circulating online,” Keyser said. “I do want to begin by addressing the video of me singing along to a Roddy Ricch song that contains a racial slur. I’m sorry to whoever has seen that video and has been offended by it, that was never my intention. The video is from six years ago, and that word is just not in my vocabulary anymore.”
She added, “I do want to say directly that I do not support racism or discrimination of any kind, and I never have. When I first found out that these things were going around online, it really broke my heart, and I couldn’t do anything about it. But this has definitely been a learning lesson for me, and it sucks that I didn’t get a chance to really show my personality and who I am.”
Keyser is the second “Love Island USA” Season 8 contestant to get the boot for saying the n-word. In late May, Vasana Montgomery was fired in the days leading up to the Season 8 premiere after two videos of her using the slur went viral. In last year’s Season 7, two contestants, Yulissa Escobar and Cierra Ortega, were also caught using racial slurs and had to exit the Villa.
Before we go to break, may I remind you to Please use #GameShowLive on social media to spread the word and kill the negativity to us, please, would you? Of course you would. At the end of the program, I'll give you the contacts to buzz me but whatever you shall do or whatever you don't do, sit tight. After the ad break, 5 things Canadians miss aboot, the Mistplay Game Break, a performance by Gillian Hayek herself and the warp ahead! It'sGame Show Live! you hosers.
https://youtu.be/EIIxvbonsrA?si=s49Qpu_YGfYi5XmJ
And now for your Twitch Clip of the day.
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Oh hey, welcome back to Game Show Live! It's Canada day and many of you remember things Canadians miss. SO here are 5 of them.
The theme from Hockey Night In Canada. 74 years it lived and had the best theme tune since the NBA got Amazon Prime or the NFL getting Fox.
The Mad Dash. Video Village downgraded to a candy land status.....but with a Q&A twist to it.
SCTV. A show that answered the call to SNL in America and had a cast that went on to greater fame.
You Can't Do That on Television. The program that introduced green slime to Nickelodeon and became a standard of the network for years to come.
I had to fit one more in and here it is..............
Video and Arcade top 10. We had Starcade in the 80's and Nick Arcade in the 90's and Arena in the 2000s. Up north, it's a show about video games with a competition feel to it. Anything else I missed? I'll give you the contacts below for it.
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WOW Presents Plus has unveiled the cast for the inaugural season of Drag Race México: Latina Royale, which is set to premiere globally on July 30.
The drag race competition, completely in Spanish, is set to be hosted by Lolita Banana and Taiga Brava and feature fan-favorite queens from Drag Race México and franchises around the world.
Queens from the U.S., Brasil, Spain, Germany, and Holland will be featured in the competition celebrating Latin pride.
The 11 queens competing in Drag Race México: Latina Royale are:
- Alexis Mateo (RuPaul’s Drag Race US)
- Barbie Q (Drag Race Germany)
- DesiRée Beck (Drag Race Brasil)
- Elektra Vandergeld (Drag Race México)
- Eva Blunt (Drag Race México)
- Horacio Potasio (Drag Race México)
- Mariana Stars (Drag Race España)
- Matraka – México (Drag Race México)
- Miss Abby OMG (Drag Race Holland)
- Regina Voce (Drag Race México)
- Xunami Muse (RuPaul’s Drag Race US).
The first two seasons of Drag Race México are available worldwide exclusively through World of Wonder’s WOW Presents Plus streaming platform. WOW Presents Plus is the exclusive and global home of the Drag Race franchise.
Executive Producers of the show for World of Wonder are Fenton Bailey, Randy Barbato, Tom Campbell, and RuPaul Charles.
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ITV2’s Love Island UK is heating up as the Casa Amor boys and girls enter the villa to shake things up.
The dating series hosted by Maya Jama is introducing 12 new bombshells — 6 girls and 6 boys — to test the couples’ connections as they continue their love journey.
Some relationships might end completely, and some Islanders might find a stronger connection with one of the new Islanders as they continue grafting.
The 12 new Islanders entering Casa Amor are: Charleen (25, Dublin), Mara (25, Luton), Martha (25, London), Olivia (23, Doncaster), Nevaeh (22, Gloucester), Julia (26, London), Tommy (23, Essex), Gabriel (24, London), Jordon (28, Surrey), Will (23, Barnsley), Carlos (22, New Forest), and Aaron (26, East London).
The Love Island UK Season 13 Casa Amor twist starts on Sunday, June 28 at 9 p.m. BST on ITV2 and stream on ITVX. For U.S. viewers, the episode will start streaming on Hulu on Tuesday, June 30.
Love Island is produced by Lifted Entertainment, part of ITV Studios, and WPP Media Motion Entertainment.
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Building the Band is hanging up its microphone.
Netflix‘s music competition series, which was best known for filming with Liam Payne shortly before his untimely death, has been canceled after just one season.
Netflix declined to comment, but a source confirmed the cancellation, which was first reported by The Sun newspaper in the UK.
Produced by Remarkable Entertainment, Building the Band brought together 50 singers to compete for a chance to form their own band without seeing each other.
Former One Direction singer Payne served as a mentor alongside Pussycat Dolls’ Nicole Scherzinger and Kelly Rowland, who was part of Destiny’s Child. Backstreet Boys’ AJ McLean was on hosting duties.
The series culminated in three live shows that were filmed in late August 2024 in front of an audience in Manchester. Two months later, Payne died after falling from a hotel balcony in Argentina. The Netflix show was dedicated to his memory.
After premiering last July, Building the Band‘s finalists, 3quency, SZN4, Soulidified, and Midnight Til Morning, have all released original music and toured.
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The next era of ballroom starts now.
Dancing With the Stars began as a reality TV show that partnered recognizable celebrities with professional dancers, but over the years, the pros grew to have their own passionate fan followings. That led ABC to create its brand new spin-off, Dancing With the Stars: The Next Pro, where the winner will receive a spot on the parent series as a full-time professional.
Hosted by Robert Irwin, a wildlife conservationist who won the Mirror Ball trophy in Dancing With the Stars Season 34, the new program features 12 up-and-coming dancers who move into one house and compete in a grueling competition.
Three-time Mirror Ball champion Mark Ballas and his mother, “The Queen of Latin” Shirley Ballas, serve as judges. They will be joined by a recognizable lineup of returning professional dancers who act as rotating mentors/guest judges.
The Next Pro is just the latest in a long line of DWTS spin-off series. Other short-lived examples include Dance War: Bruno vs. Carrie Ann, Skating with the Stars, Dancing With the Stars: Juniors, and Dancing With the Stars: Athletes.
Season 1 debuts July 13 on ABC. Unlike its parent series, The Next Pro is pre-taped and will not air live.
The contestants...
- Adele Zaikman (unknown age, unknown hometown, ballroom)
- AJ Pritchard (31; Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, UK; ballroom)
- Allen Genkin (unknown age, unknown hometown, ballroom)
- Benjamin "Benji" Castro (unknown age, unknown hometown, ballroom)
- Briar Nolet (27; Oakville, ON; contemporary)
- Erik Linder (unknown age, unknown hometown, ballroom)
- Jake Monreal (22; Miami; ballroom)
- Natalie Jolley (20; American Fork, UT; ballroom)
- Nina Mayster (age unknown, hometown unknown; ballroom)
- Selena Hamilton (21; Norwalk, CA; contemporary)
- Stephani Sosa (26; Provo, UT; ballroom)
- Tristen Sanders (unknown age, unknown hometown, ballroom/hip-hop)
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Somebody's kissing and making up because...........
Sky and ITV have agreed terms over their £1.6B ($2.1B) acquisition deal and the move that will shake up British broadcasting could be announced in the next fortnight, according to Reuters.
As part of the deal, Reuters confirmed previous reporting that The Great British Bake Off producer Love Productions will be sold to ITV Studios.
The deal is for ITV’s Media & Entertainment arm, not its Studios production and distribution division, and it first emerged late last year.
In May, ITV followed up by saying it remained in “active discussions” with Sky. Reuters said it is now being finalized by lawyers and an announcement could be made in the next couple of weeks.
ITV Studios, which makes the likes of Love Island and Squid Game: The Challenge, will remain separate and will add Love Productions to its stable, a huge boon given the Great British Bake Off IP. Sky, a division of Comcast, bought 70% of Love in 2014 and the remainder in 2020. Founder Richard McKerrow exited last year.
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The Great Food Truck Race kicks off a new season on Sunday, July 26th at 9pm (all times ET/PT) on Food Network and streaming the next day on HBO Max and this time around, it will be a battle of savory and sweet. With four trucks that specialize in savory dishes and four sweet-themed trucks, the eight competing teams each represent a dynamic mix of flavors, strategies and culinary creativity in their quest for the win. Host Tyler Florence will lead the route starting in Nashville and through the Great Smoky Mountains, stopping in cities with vibrant food scenes - all while adding unexpected twists and turns from the very first mile. Every week, the teams must prove their cooking expertise, marketing savvy and selling skills in themed challenges to beat their rivals - and for the first time, the bottom two teams each week will go head-to-head in a taste redemption battle to see who earns the right to stay and who heads home. The season will culminate in an action-packed finale on Sunday, September 6th at 9pm from the legendary Churchill Downs in Louisville, where only one truck will be awarded a life-changing $50,000 grand prize.
The teams competing are: Bug & Bear's Cannoli - Los Angeles, California (Joseph Serpico, Matthew Wilson, Dina Pecci); Cason Funnel Cakes - Richmond, Virginia (Terrance Cason, Andre Cason, Morris Green); Deadproof Pizza Co. - Derry, New Hampshire (Thomas Lomanno, Dante Marino, Lisa Bosteels); Grounds Donut House - Bronx, New York (Carmela Varotta, Gabriella Amoroso, Stephanie Hill); Hele Rolls - Kapolei, Hawaii (Brittany Lopez, Jasmine Milam, Mari Wills); Jollof Bowl - Baltimore, Maryland (Ethel Kamara, Andrea Kamara, Lekan Oketunji); Stuph'd Beignets & Burgers - New Orleans, Louisiana (Dionne Lewis, Duana Lawrence, Sherman Clarke) and Waffadilla - Hampshire, Illinois (Shawn Peterson, Madison Peterson, Gavin Mari).
Fans can get to know the competing teams and relive the most dramatic moments of the season on social using #GreatFoodTruckRace. Viewers can also follow the adventure and meet the teams on FoodNetwork.com, plus get summer grilling inspiration from host Tyler Florence.
The Great Food Truck Race is produced by Critical Content for Food Network.
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Okay people it's time for a Mistplay Game Break. What's the name of this movie?
- IT was released in 1977.
- It was set in Charlestown, Pensylvania
- Paul Newman was the star of this movie
- a Trio of brothers played hockey in this film.
https://youtu.be/3jAXjec5N7U?si=f2wffuq9qAVvxtq-
That's all we got. Happy Canada day to those who celebrate up north. Here's to the Tim Horton's and maple syrup on your pancakes. we're back next week because BJ Snowden won't be here, but Amy Irons will be here after being on Global Cup duties for the month. So excited to reunite for A & I. In the meantime...........
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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