As they say on Best Week Ever, in case you missed it: Winners at last weekend’s Game Show Awards on GSN:
Best Game Show: Are You Smarter Than a Fifth Grader?
Best Game Show Host: Howie Mandel, Deal or No Deal
Favorite Classic Game Show: Match Game
Best Reality Competition Show: Dancing With the Stars
Favorite Dating or Relationship Show: The Newlywed Game
Favorite Celebrity Team: The Brady Kids (Barry Williams, Mike Lookinland, Eve Plumb and Susan Olsen) for their appearance on Trivial Pursuit: America Plays
Favorite Game Show Models: The Briefcase Models, Deal or No Deal
Most Outrageous Game Show Contestant: Excited Contestant Dances a Jig (Josh Silberman), The Price Is Right
Favorite Game Show Theme Song: Jeopardy!
Favorite Parting Gift: Turtle Wax
Favorite Interactive DVD Version of a Game Show: Deal Or No Deal
Favorite Celebrity Player: Betty White, for her appearances on Million Dollar Password
Best Announcer: Rich Fields, The Price Is Right
Smartest Game Show Contestant: Kathy Cox, Are You Smarter Than a Fifth Grader?
Favorite Game Show Catchphrase: “Come on down!” from The Price Is Right
Favorite Price Is Right Pricing Game: Plinko
Favorite Game Show Sound Effect: New Puzzle, Wheel of Fortune
Favorite Prize: A new car!
Favorite Board/Box Game Turned Game Show: Trivial Pursuit
Favorite Online Game: Bejeweled
Did GSN get it right? You can’t argue any time Plinko or Betty White get some love, but Howie Mandel as best game show host? Better than Trebek or the delightful Drew Carey? Nah.
All the tube news that’s fit to surf …
– IGN.com’s counting down the “25 Funniest Will Ferrell Characters.” It’s a great list (when Roger Klarvin, Ferrell’s character in the funny “luv-ahs” skits on Saturday Night Live, only merits a spot at number 20, you know there are some great ones coming up). This is a big week for Ferrell – not only does the big-screen makeover of Land of the Lost open on Friday, but he’s nominated for a Tony Award on Sunday.
– VH1’s upcoming miniseries The Great Debate is sorta like Lewis Black’s Root of All Evil in reverse. Instead of debating which of two pop culture ideas is the worst, The Great Debate will feature talking heads like Omarosa, Jerry Springer and Tila Tequila debating which is better – Star Wars or Star Trek, Rocky or Rambo, Jeopardy or Wheel of Fortune … you get the idea. The week-long series kicks off on July 6, and fans can weigh in now by voting on such topics as “Funny or Not?” (including Adam Sandler, Dane Cook and Kathy Griffin), “Sibling Rivalry” (Kevin or Matt Dillon? Owen or Luke Wilson? Paris or Nicky Hilton?) and “Hot or Not?” (including Michael Phelps, Fergie and Zach Braff). Sounds like a fun summer series, though you have to wonder, weren’t any of the Best Week Ever peeps available? Omarosa and Tila Tequila aren’t exactly, to play off the title, the great debaters.
– So you wanna be a star? Auditions for American Idol, season nine, kick off in Boston on June 14.
– The ratings are in, and the season premiere wasn’t a fluke. Plenty of people are still rubberneckin’ at the trainwreck that is Jon & Kate Plus 8. More Gosselin news: US Weekly is featuring the fam on its cover for a sixth consecutive week. Almost makes you nostalgic for the days when Britney was doing something crazy every week, huh?
– Claire (Hayden Panettiere) is getting a college roommate on Heroes next season, and she’s being played by Californication‘s Madeline Zima.
– The Jay Leno Show will debut on NBC on Sept. 14.
– Breaking Bad‘s second season just ended, but there’s already a preview clip for season three.
– And Grandma Gilmore, a.k.a. Gilmore Girls (and Dirty Dancing!) great Kelly Bishop, will guest star in the new season of Army Wives … as a cougar!
Charlie Sheen, Russell Brand and Louis C.K. are getting most of the attention, but I’m most excited that one of the best new shows of last TV season — Wilfred — returns for its second season on FX tonight (10PM ET). Season one of the series ended with a cliffhanger — had Ryan (Elijah Wood) […]
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