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Re: Yankee News Quiz

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delmelzaJul 4, 2013
 

 
I did like Says You on NPR and have been to some of the recordings when they have come to my city.
The only other panel show I know of besides Wait Wait Don't Tell me is Ask Me Another which I have not heard enough of to offer an opinion on

http://www.npr.org/programs/ask-me-another/


I grow up in the 60's and remember many usa tv panel shows like What's My Line/I've got a Secret & To Tell the Truth which once were very popular.
The art of panel games & Wit seems to have disappeared in usa media.

They have done 2 pilots for Have I got news for you- both failed

and the usa version of Never Mind the Buzzcocks barely lasted 1 series ( never saw it so again I cannot judge it)

--- In just-a-minute@..., Tony Baechler <tony.baechler@...> wrote:
>
> No, I didn't like the USA version of the News Quiz either and I'm in the US.
> I agree that we really don't know how to do panel games anymore, at least
> on radio. It's amazing to me that we've forgotten how to do decent quiz
> shows as well. We don't have anything like Brain of Britain, Round Britain
> Quiz, Quote Unquote, or of course JAM. That's what attracted me to BBC
> shows in the first place. We have Jeopardy! but I find the questions too
> simple and generally disappointing. Americans don't seem to be able to
> think in terms of puzzles like you hear on RBQ. I would like to find a huge
> archive of British quiz shows. I would consider buying them for a
> reasonable price, but the BBC America shop doesn't sell most radio shows
> except perhaps Agatha Christie.
>
> Then again, the American school system is getting worse and worse, so people
> aren't smart enough to understand the questions, let alone actually answer
> them. A while ago, I was reading an article that teachers would correct
> wrong answers on student tests so the students would get perfect scores.
> The reason was because teachers got bigger bonuses for better performing
> students.
>
> It's amazing and disappointing to me that we gave up on even trying to
> produce decent radio while the BBC kept going and improving on it. It's
> next to impossible to find good radio drama and you certainly won't find it
> every afternoon. Advertisers aren't interested in paying for dramas and our
> equivalent of public radio (NPR) doesn't often want to carry it. I saw that
> the World Service archives have some Brain of Britain shows which I'm hoping
> to get fairly soon, if I can figure out a streamlined way to download them.
> Help in that regard would be appreciated. I'm also looking for past
> archives of Counterpoint, especially since I missed series 27 this year.
>
> On 7/4/2013 9:37 AM, delmelza wrote:
> > They did this already once last year- it wasn't that good
> >
> > ( Americans seems to have Lost the knack of How to do Panel shows)
> >
> > There is a News Quiz like radio panel show ( one of the very few) in the usa called Wait Wait Don't Tell me- except they have people call in as well as 3 'celebrities" to answer questions on the news.
> >
> >
> > http://www.npr.org/rss/podcast/podcast_detail.php?siteId=5183214
>
>
> --
> Have a good day,
> Tony Baechler
> mailto:tony.baechler@...
>

 
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