Produced in Canada. Jeez, for such a game show offering a large prize, it sure was anything but high-class in its production values (and this show premiered just after Who Wants to be a Millionaire came stateside!). Years later, the show's producers were involved in a scam where they made an online version with a promised $10,000,000 grand prize, in which players had to pay $100 to enter and the winner had to go to the Caribbean to get the money.
How do you make 'peruse' out of 'surprise' with only one e? Or maybe just no one cared because they weren't going to be able to pay him anything anyway.
Definitely the worst game show of 1999. Cheap set, making gameplay balls-hard just to win a small prize, scamming people with that 900 number, and, oh yeah, Ian Jamison is basically Chris Tarrant if he was hit with the ugly stick. (BTW, they produced the show in Edmonton, if I'm not mistaken.)
Speaking personally, the whole production just feels skeezy, especially the “hey, college students, call us” part. It reminds me of the credit card companies who used to (I assume they still do) stand outside dorms on campus and offer college students something like free pizza if they sign up for a credit card. To most college students, hey, free pizza, I’ll sign up for whatever, and then boom, they’re in credit card debt, along with their student loan debt, up to their eyeballs before they know it, and the pizza is long gone. (OK, don’t give your correct info when you fill out those forms, sure-but it’s a volume game, all it takes is a few people who don’t think of that.)
Produced in Canada. Jeez, for such a game show offering a large prize, it sure was anything but high-class in its production values (and this show premiered just after Who Wants to be a Millionaire came stateside!).
Years later, the show's producers were involved in a scam where they made an online version with a promised $10,000,000 grand prize, in which players had to pay $100 to enter and the winner had to go to the Caribbean to get the money.
They even plugged that on the air. Apparently they ended up scamming 800 people out of $100 each.
@@marcpower4167Actually, it was 8,000 who got scammed.
I think Ian Jamieson was born in England with a British accent, but he moved to Canada.
How do you make 'peruse' out of 'surprise' with only one e? Or maybe just no one cared because they weren't going to be able to pay him anything anyway.
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Definitely the worst game show of 1999. Cheap set, making gameplay balls-hard just to win a small prize, scamming people with that 900 number, and, oh yeah, Ian Jamison is basically Chris Tarrant if he was hit with the ugly stick.
(BTW, they produced the show in Edmonton, if I'm not mistaken.)
The most moldy game show in the world !
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Why was the 1-900 number scammy?
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Speaking personally, the whole production just feels skeezy, especially the “hey, college students, call us” part. It reminds me of the credit card companies who used to (I assume they still do) stand outside dorms on campus and offer college students something like free pizza if they sign up for a credit card. To most college students, hey, free pizza, I’ll sign up for whatever, and then boom, they’re in credit card debt, along with their student loan debt, up to their eyeballs before they know it, and the pizza is long gone. (OK, don’t give your correct info when you fill out those forms, sure-but it’s a volume game, all it takes is a few people who don’t think of that.)