Word: networked
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Five days before the new Twenty One aired, NBC Studios president Ted Harbert and Garth Ancier, president of entertainment for the network, were still putting the show together, including the racial composition of the sequined, leggy babes who lead contestants onstage. They wanted ethnic diversity but feared that a black or Latino woman would conjure up stereotypes of subservient minorities opening doors. The show is to be a dumbed-down version of the rigged show from the '50s. But it's refreshingly unafraid of its past, choosing to copy its set design from the Robert Redford movie about the scandal...
Davies figures that when Millionaire's ratings drop, he still has a viable property for syndication, CD-ROMS, an Internet site and whatever the next interactive medium is. Michael Fleming has been thinking the same way since 1994, when he founded Game Show Network. "We saw a huge underdelivery in the category. And this category lends itself to new technology platforms," he says...
...they're on the air. (They're lucky there's no game show Supreme Court.) On Twenty One, none of the handwritten questions are entered into a computer; when they are removed from the safe, they are accompanied by nine security guards. Contestants at all shows are monitored by network standards-and-practice executives; the contestants are even followed to the bathroom. Everyone at Millionaire, including the electricians, had to sign two FCC forms, and the writers, who sit in a shredder-filled room with a combination lock that is regularly changed, signed nondisclosure agreements of a sort rarely seen...
...quiz show promising an astonishing payoff debuts on network television during the summer doldrums. The new prime-time entry attracts good ratings and earns a place on the fall schedule, at which point it becomes a national craze and TV's No. 1 hit. Competitors scramble to come up with big-money quiz shows of their own, offering richer pots and more intricate contest rules. The year...
...pursuing its own dream of PC-TV convergence. At CES, the world's largest Internet service provider quietly unveiled AOLTV, an interactive TV service via set-top box that will introduce Instant Messages, buddy lists and AOL-style Web browsing to the boob tube by year's end. Hughes Network Systems showed a new form of its DirecTV digital satellite receiver complete with the AOLTV service, and Philips demoed a cable version. Prices were not announced, but current AOL members will probably get a discount...