Game Show Acquires Three Series
By Multi Channel News Staff -- Multichannel News, 8/29/2001 3:00:00 PM
Game Show Network has reached across the Pacific for a popular Australian program, as well as acquiring two other skeins.
The network has grabbed the rights to Down Under reality show Who Dares Win, as well as Press Your Luck and $1.98 Beauty Show, network officials announced Wednesday. All three will bow on the network beginning Sept. 1, the day Let's Make a Deal spins into its regular time slot.
Who Dares Win -- originally produced by Mason Media Group Pty. Ltd. (formerly Mason Brant Entertainment) for Australia's 7 Network -- showcases unsuspecting contestants, set up by relatives or friends, who are challenged to accept elaborate dares. Those who navigate the often-dangerous stunts win paid vacations with the people who recommended them. Additionally, the half-hour show contains simpler 'man-on-the-street' challenges in which participants win cash.
GSN will air Who Dares Win, hosted by Mike Whitney and Tania Zaetta, Saturdays and Sundays from 7 p.m. to 8 p.m.
Press Your Luck, featuring Peter Tomarken, pits three contestants in a battle to earn spins by answering trivia questions. Players use the spins to earn prizes and cash situated on a rotating game board, while avoiding a bankrupting whammy.
Press Your Luck will be stripped Mondays through Fridays at 9:30 p.m., repeating at 1:30 a.m.
Finally, $1.98 Beauty Show is a Chuck Barris spoof of traditional pageant protocol. Rip Taylor hosts the contests, which yield the winners bouquets of carrots and other garden vegetables, as well as cash prizes two cents short of two bucks.
It will air at 11 p.m. Saturday and Sunday nights, repeating at 3 a.m.
Let's Make a Deal, following a weeklong marathon, debuts in its Saturday-night slot at 8:30 p.m. Sept. 1.
'We're thrilled to have the United States premiere of a great action-adventure stunt game -- the Aussie hit Who Dares Win -- on Game Show Network,' president and CEO Rich Cronin said in a prepared statement. 'And with Press Your Luck and $1.98 Beauty Show, we're continuing to introduce all-time American favorites to a whole new generation of game-show fans.'
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