This was fantastic! It's a real shame that this was not picked up. Todd Newton has always been one of the greatest game show hosts in my opinion. Here we are, 10 years later. I wish someone would reconsider this.
I totally agree with you. Unfortunately, Team Rodent seems content to put actors and musicians into the role of host on the ABC shows, as opposed to seasoned game show hosts.
Quartzquiz i know if youre going to do a revival do the job properly they producers knew what they were doing here, mostly true to the format great choice of host ( affable established), nice set. I like the separation of the super catch phrase pot from individual wins. I think as another poster said it was probably marketed too late for the stations to pick up. Shame. This is the kind of mid 2000s offering that should have sold with either this exact format or a variant of the current UK format and lasted at least 5 seasons, if not to this day. Just my opinion.
This should've sold, Catchphrase was popular in the UK with Roy Walker, and in Australia with Burgo, The Hub could've had this "now it's Discovery Family"
Was never aware of this show... 2006 was a crazy year for The Game Show World. The only thing I remember Todd Newton doing in 2006 was the prize giveaway segments during _Gameshow Marathon_...
I wonder how this show failed in its home country, but became an institution in the UK? Same with Blockbusters. Both created in the US, only ran a season or two, but went on for years in the UK! Well, at least it found its audience. I would've loved to see this over here though!
One reason and one reason only, the hosts made those shows a success here Catchphrase is enjoying a successful revival here hosted by Stephen Mulhern but back in the day, this was Roy Walker’s bread and butter
Nah. The buyers were turned off by the references to "mobiles" and to the home puzzle costing "50p plus 1 MSG at your standard network rate" to text in or "60p, calls from mobiles may vary" to call in.
I think contestants in shows' pilots are salaried. They win the same amount of money regardless of the outcome. If that's true, he was probably told the answer ahead of time, someone had cue cards for K-O just in case he had a slow pace, and was told to wait until nearly the end to say the answer to create drama and make the show more marketable. It's not unfair because he and Kiana would have made the same amount of money no matter what.
I remember when Catch Phrase came out in the early eighties. I only saw it when school was out, but I thought it was a neat idea back then. Had to scratch my head, though, how the contestants could take so long to get the ones in this pilot.
It was a massive hit in the UK, and still running today since 1986. One of the longest running game shows in UK history despite a 10 year break from 2002.
MAJORLY disappointed that this was never picked up. Even though it only ran for 1 year here in the US in the mid-80's, Catch Phrase is one of my all-time favorite game shows. As for whoever decided against picking this up, just what were they smoking? And Todd Newton is DARN good host who deserves a bit of a break in the game show world.
The big problem with this was that not enough TV station would be interested in adding another game show, with the fact that it would have to compete with established ones like Jeopardy, Wheel, Family Feud (which John O'Hurley replaced Richard Karn that season) and Who Wants to be a Millionaire.
Catch Phrase is a solid-performing show, as years of US and UK revivals will attest. I could see this pilot working well as a GSN original in '06, likely as part of a pairing with the Chain Reaction revival from around that same time. It could've worked similarly to the Wheel/Jep relationship, with Catch Phrase being the flashy pop knowledge half and Chain being a tad more cerebral. Heck, why not pair both of those with That's the Question and some other show (Scrabble, maybe?) and create a Wordy Wednesday lineup to perk up people in the middle of the work week?
you may have not known this but according to a documentary about concentartion, catchphrase was made to tell NBC not to destroy the set of concentration
This seems like a really good idea for a game show, it's too made this didn't make it on American Television. I love game shows and I really wish there are more game shows on television. I came up with a few game show ideas I including one based on Boggle and 2 ideas based on Slingo with one of the involving the audience playing
That was a great pilot. Why this didn't sell is anyone's guess. I thought one of the contestants looked familiar to me. Kiana was one of my classmates at Robert E. Lee High School in Houston, TX. I'll have to show this to her someday. Won't she be surprised?
Actually, it should be Fly Fishing, which should be the common phrase. The flies weren't really throwing (casting) anything; just sitting with the poles.
Looks like this had financial backing from ITV in the UK (Granada and the UK commissioning network Carlton having merged by 2006). This is pretty much a carbon copy of the UK version. Strange that this never caught on in its home country really.
It's an interesting question actually and something that I have long wondered. Are Herbie and Mr Chips'the same person/robot? Is he called Herbie Chips? Clearly Mr Clues is just some reject that should have been rejected at the QA level.
@@jeffrey44 Not a bad theory. As you can see in the early UK version, Herbie and Mr. Chips are indeed the same person. He just had a different name. Mr. Clues is just bootleg Mr. "Herbie" Chips.
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This format was sold to Vietnam and ran for 8 years...
I don't think this pilot planned to have cars-- just cash. BTW, I've seen episodes (of the original Art James version) where 5 games also meant a boat, a trip, or $10,000 cash.
