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Thursday, December 5, 2024
The Big Fat....
If you watch much television, you know the business is all about repetition. Soon after Dallas became big in the 80's, there were hundreds of prime-time soaps on the air. When Everybody Loves Raymond hit rating gold, dozens of sit-coms with goofy guys with hot wives were soon on the air. When Survivor surged, we were flooded with endless hours of reality competition shows.
Currently, it seems the format network television repeating, is countless hours of game shows in prime-time. I used love watching game shows when I was home sick from school as a kid, or on Christmas vacation, especially when they had celebrities. My fondness for game shows however, (Jeopardy excluded,) didn't follow me into adulthood, and I can't stand the current crop of quickly, (and cheaply) produced game shows.
The problem with copycatting hit TV shows, is that they dilute the success of the original. Generally when the copies start airing, the ratings for the show that inspired it begin to fall. Many remember the huge hit ABC had when it first aired Who Wants To Be A Millionaire in prime-time. As a series of specials, it was must watch TV. As soon as it became a regular scheduled series, and their were competitors copying the format, the ratings took a nose dive and the prime-time version was cancelled. Too much of a good thing...
One genre of game show that American networks have yet to find a way to copy is the naked game show. Sure, some have made their way to streaming services, but Networks are still to scared to push nudity boundaries when it comes to nudity.
There are far too many idiots on social media, (and even more thanks to the orange anus) waiting to protest with their hypocrisy and faux outrages. They're chomping at the bit, just waiting to plan bans and boycotts. Of course networks in the US have no problem pushing the boundaries of violence, with so many procedurals killing, raping and torturing humans in as many ways as they can. But... sadly, so many would rather watch a body gutted with a hatchet than to see it nude.
Thankfully much of the rest of the world is far more open to the beauty of the human form. In some countries, including: Denmark, Canada, Germany and the UK, nudity is fairly common on television, and it's more likely a content warning is put on violent content than on nudity. Thanks to the Internet, even though we can't see them on our channels, we can watch many of them on-line.
The Big Fat Quiz of Everything is a British game show that's only broadcast on Channel 4 once a year, usually in the last, or first, week of the year. Hosted by Jimmy Carr, the show is a comedy panel game in the style of a pub quiz. Three teams of two celebrities, mostly comedians, are asked questions about the year gone by in various categories, writing answers on an electronic board in front of them. At the end of each round the answers are displayed and points awarded.
In this episode from 2016, the celebrity contestants must guess which three iconic statues the male models are modeling. Except for some grey paint, the models are all completely naked. If you check out the clip, you'll see some of the models can't suppress their giggles with some of the comments from the celebrity panel.
12 Days: David Alpay in Ice Sculpture Christmas
'Callie, an aspiring chef, with her childhood friend David, enters Callie into a club's annual Christmas ice sculpting competition against her boss. Callie's passions for cooking and ice sculpting are met with romance and Christmas spirit.'
The channel I watch Hallmark movies on replays movies from previous years 24/7 in November and December. Recently I flipped on to see 2015's Ice Sculpture Christmas. I'd seen the movie when it originally aired, but didn't remember I'd seen it until about a half-hour in. I remembered as I recognized actor David Alpay, the male romantic lead in the film.
I can't believe I haven't featured David before on the site, I've enjoyed him in a number of roles. The Toronto born actor got his start playing the lead in the 2003 war drama Ararat. Alpay quickly began getting guest roles, mostly on Canadian made shows including Wild Card and Slings and Arrows.
Ararat (2002)
Alpay continued to work consistently, obtaining roles on shows including; The Tudors, The Borgias, Rizzoli and Isles, Drop Dead Diva, Quantico and The Vampire Diaries. In addition to appearing in several Hallmark films, Alpay's most recent roles include appearances on; Red Rooms, Nancy Drew, Castle Rock and Grease: Rise of the Pink Ladies.
Birdland (2018)
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