The WNY Game Show Network: New to Time Warner Cable Subscribers!
A new cable channel is being introduced and will soon be offered to Buffalo subscribers of Time Warner. (The network is only broadcast in HDTV by the way so you are **** out of luck if you have an old set...)
Even more notable is that only Time Warner Cable subscribers who live in "another dimension" will be able to clearly pick up this channel... But I digress.
HERE ARE SOME OF THE SHOWS ON THE WNY GAME SHOW RERUN NETWORK:
http://wiw.org/~jess/wp-content/uplo...6/12/press.gifPress Your Luck With the Buffalo Police!
...Based on the 80s hit series "Press Your Luck," this show will feature journalists vying for stories rather than money. H. McCarthy Gipson and Byron Brown will host the show and will ask local journalists silly trivia questions. If the journalists answer the questions correctly, they are given a chance to "spin" on an electronic board of squares. Behind some of the squares are hidden stories about Buffalo crime. Behind other squares is The Whammy! http://www.editthiskristen.com/write...mmy-779519.gifOh yeah, we all remember The Whammy! Only in this game show The Whammy is actually a pushy Margaret Sullivan in disguise! If the journalists land on The Whammy! she will jump off of the screen and start pushing the journalists toward Gipson and Brown and screaming in a shrieking voice, "Come on! Come on! Make them tell you what happened on the East Side last night! We have a right to know! To heck with the witnesses who might be put in danger! We wanna sell papers and we're running out of ideas! EEEEEEEEK!"
Of course, landing on The Whammy! means that the journalists lose all access to those hidden crime stories... And it's back to reporting about sausage thefts from freezers in South Buffalo.
Where in the Region is Carl Paladino?
This show is based on the classic 90s PBS kids series "Where In the World is Carmen Sandiego?"
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"Where In the Region is Carl Paladino?" will feature an a capella singing group and a bunch of other silly characters who gather around to pick apart clues as to where in the region local developer/cult figure Carl Paladino could be.
A computer generated cartoon Carl Paladino will fly across a map of the Greater Buffalo Niagara region and settle into a mystery location. A face will pop up on the screen saying things like, "Mr. Paladino is in an area surrounded by large houses and shopping centers. There are a lot of middle aged women with Botox injections and kids named Ashlyn and Jayden..." Contestants will then scream out, "I know! I know! Clarence! He's in Clarence."
On the next episode the face on the screen will say, "Mr. Paladino is in a place with a lot of people with dreadlocked hair and black rimmed glasses. They are carrying cups of gourmet coffee and heading for a protest rally. They are being followed by street people asking for money." Contestants will then scream out, "I know! I know! He's in the Elmwood Village!"
Deal Or No Deal? No, really...
"Deal Or No Deal... No, Really" is WNY's answer to "Deal Or No Deal." They could not afford to have Howie Mandel host the show, so they had to settle for Kevin "I Was the Why Guy" O'Neill (with a shaved head and earring.) The briefcase models will be the also rans from last year's Miss Canal Fest Pageant.
The contestants are local politicians, civic leaders, nonprofit execs and others from Western New York. They are competing for briefcases full of cash ALL DONATED BY TOM GOLISANO... Golisano himself acts as "The Banker" and decides whether to "make an offer" or see if the contestants are willing to just go ahead and stick it out.
There was some controversy however during the most recent episode's taping... Michelle Ianello and Joe Mesi nearly got in a fight because Ianello claimed that Tom "The Banker" Golisano was "making a deal" with Mesi and was taking away the chance for anyone else to get a deal... Ianello was last seen running off the set with several briefcases in hand while Mesi was getting ready to throw an upper cut punch.
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Are You Smarter Than A Legislator?
Are You Smarter Than A Legislator? is Erie County's version of the hit game show "Are You Smarter Than A Fifth Grader?"
In this show however, the fifth graders go up against members of the Erie County Legislature in a battle of wits regarding simple county policymaking and decisions... (oh, and simple math.)
In this week's episode, Lynn Marinelli goes up against Kate, a feisty ten year old. Kate and Lynn Marinelli are both asked the question, "What is the best way to monetarily deal with Erie County's looming fiscal crisis? The choices are: a.) raise taxes b.) cut back on basic needed public services c.) go to bars on Hertel Avenue hoping for some good photo ops..."
Lynn Marinelli was thrown off the show for giggling and shooting spit balls with Tim Kennedy before the question could be answered.
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