PBS To Come Out With New Game Show
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| Swiss cheese, one of the topics of the new PBS game show |
With the success of recent game show sensations such as Who Wants To Be A Millionaire and The Weakest Link on the respective ABC and NBC networks, Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) has decided to join the race.
"We wanted something hip, something unique," PBS Programming Manager Rufus Edward Higginbotham commented. "Unfortunately, the last creative idea we came up with was The History of the Wasp in 1991, so we really had to put our minds to work."
The brilliant brainstorming team spent months in the drawing room, agonizing over the most minute details of the new show. At one point, Production Assistant Chester Roland was literally pulling his hair out. "The guy had a full set of hair four months ago," Higginbotham commented. "Now he looks like a smaller, whiter, British version of Michael Clarke Duncan, that guy from The Green Mile."
It all worked out in the end, however, when little Archibald Dane, who doesn’t work for PBS but for some mysterious reason always hangs out at the corporate office, excitedly said, "Make a show about Lucille Ball. You could call it I Love Lucy Game Show."
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| 29th President, Warren Harding |
And so the I Love Lucy Game Show was born. The concept of the game includes three contestants standing at podiums answering questions about Warren Harding and Swiss cheese. The cheese idea was inserted into the mix when Roland sadly admitted that there might not be enough questions about Harding. "With a Swiss cheese topic," he said, "we can expand upon new horizons. We can ask questions until we drop. Or something to that effect."
"We’re still debating about who the host will be," Higginbotham said in a conference last Wednesday. "It’s between children’s folk singer Raffi and Spartacus hero Kirk Douglas. We were thinking about John Travolta, but then we reconsidered. I mean, come on. Battlefield Earth."
"I lost all my respect for him after Battlefield Earth," random New York city passer-by Tony DeWindt said of Travolta. "I mean, come on." Apparently the folks at PBS agreed with this statement, as does everyone at Cynical Times. Come on.
It has been announced that the game format will be similar to Jeopardy, where the host gives the answer and the contestant gives the question. Example questions are "This man was the 29th President of the United States," "This man was President of the United States prior to Calvin Coolidge," and "Mrs. Harding was this man’s wife." An example of a contestant’s answer would be "Who is Warren Harding?"
"We know that the show will do great," Higginbotham said. "I think it will be a challenge for the contestants. The questions are varied, and some of them are really difficult. It will be interesting to see how the premiere turns out this upcoming September. We think we can win our time slot!"
Tune in September 9, 2001, at 3:30 A.M. Eastern Standard Time.
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