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Author
Publisher
Lyons Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Game and quiz shows first started appearing on radio broadcasts in the 1930s, led by the CBS network's Professor Quiz, hosted by a man who was neither a professor nor even a college graduate, the first of several frauds that seemed to be endemic to the genre. Professor Quiz was followed by other such game shows as Uncle Jim's Question Bee and Ask It Basket, which in turn spawned successful box games for at-home play. The show Truth or Consequences...
Series
Publisher
Distributed exclusively by Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Description
A self-proclaimed genius (Coleman) enters a TV quiz show. When he runs the jackpot up to $40 million, the sponsors panic and bring in Holm, a femme fatale as smart as Coleman, to foil him. Price portrays the wacky sponsor.
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
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Description
Jamal Malik is an 18 year-old orphan from the slums of Mumbai. With the whole nation watching, he is just one question away from winning a staggering 20 million rupees on India's version of 'Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?' When the show breaks for the night, police arrest him on suspicion of cheating. Desperate to prove his innocence, Jamal tells the story of his life in the slum where he and his brother grew up. He describes their adventures together...
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