Filed under: Industry, Game Show

If you have a leisure suit in your closet and think it’ll never be in style again, you may be wrong. Everything has a way of coming back around, even game shows. With that in mind, Queen for a Day, a game show that ran in daytime for 20 years, is being resurrected for today. RDF USA has obtained format rights and plan to present their resurrected, revamped edition to cable and broadcast nets this week.

Queen for a Day was originally a radio show, but appeared on TV in 1947 and ran on and off until 1970. It was sort of the Extreme Makeover: Home Edition of its day, albeit on a much more modest level. Female contestants would appear to tell her story of woe and misfortune in order to be eligible to become queen for a day, wherein she would win prizes, be feted with a crown and robe, offered roses and other gifts. “Make each woman a queen, for every single day,” was the host, Jack Bailey’s closing line everyday. If it sounds hokey, it was. Comedy shows regularly satirized it.

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Filed under: Other Sci-Fi/Supernatural Shows, Industry, Programming, Reality-Free

I always get antsy when companies begin to go beyond their niche. I mean, does Dunkin’ Donuts really have to begin selling pizza and sandwiches too?

The Sci-Fi Channel is expanding beyond the worlds of Battlestar Galactica, Star Trek, and sci-fi in general. We’ve already seen wrestling on the network, and the execs at the network state that more stuff like that’s coming. Sci-Fi Channel GM Dave Howe says that the definition of the network is “What if?” As in “What if The Sci-Fi Channel made a bunch of really shitty made for television movies?” This “What If” slogan also includes movies like Field of Dreams. Execs are even thinking about changing the name of the channel.

Needless to state, many science fiction fans aren’t happy with this, including members of The Science Fiction Writers of America. Television fans are already upset for Television Land airing more and more reality shows and movies, and now this. What’s next? TCM airing cooking shows and auto racing?

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