Show Me the Money (American game show)

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Show Me the Money
Created byDick de Rijk
Directed byR. Brian DiPirro
Presented by William Shatner
Composers Doug DeAngelis
Kevin Haskins
Doug Beck
Country of origin United States
Original languageEnglish
No. of seasons1
No. of episodes7 (2 unaired)
Production
Executive producerMike Nichols
EditorChip Brown
Running time60 minutes
Production company Endemol USA
Original release
Network ABC
ReleaseNovember 14 (2006-11-14) –
December 13, 2006 (2006-12-13)

Show Me the Money is a television game show hosted by William Shatner which ran on ABC from November 14, 2006, to December 13, 2006. The show employed an aspect similar to Deal or No Deal , but with open-ended trivia questions.

Contents

The show was taped at CBS Television City in Hollywood. It also aired in Canada on CH.

Game play

Before the game, scrolls were randomly distributed to thirteen female dancers known as the $1,000,000 Dancers. Twelve of the scrolls contained various dollar amounts, while one held a "killer card" symbolized by a black dancer silhouette within a yellow triangle. The dollar amounts were:

$20,000$40,000$60,000$80,000 Warning icon.svg
$100,000$120,000$140,000$160,000
$180,000$200,000$220,000$250,000

Each turn involved a set of three concealed questions (A, B, and C) with a common initial word or phrase. The player was shown this initial phrase, then chose one of the three options. The question was read, and the player could either answer it or pass and pick another letter. Passed questions were permanently removed from play; a player could pass twice on the same turn, but was then required to answer the third question. The player gave an answer and selected one dancer to open her scroll, after which the correct answer was revealed. If the scroll showed a dollar amount, it was added to the player's s bank for a correct answer or deducted for a miss. Negative bank totals were possible. The chosen dancer and her scroll were removed from play after each question.

Once the player had given either six correct answers or six incorrect ones on questions with money at stake, the game ended and the player won all the money in the bank. If the pot fell so far below zero that it would be mathematically impossible to achieve a positive total, the game ended immediately and the player left with nothing, but was offered a last dance with the host and the dancers.

The maximum possible winnings total was $1,150,000, achieved by selecting only the six highest dollar amounts and correctly answering a question associated with each.

Killer Card

If the killer card was revealed, the current question was discarded and a new "sudden-death" question was asked, with no option to pass. An incorrect answer ended the game immediately and eliminated the player with no winnings. If the player did respond correctly, the game continued as normal, but the answer was not counted toward the six needed to end the game and the bank was not affected.

On the premiere episode only, the player was allowed to answer the current question after finding the killer card. The game continued normally on a correct answer, while a miss triggered the sudden-death situation described above.

Broadcast history

The show premiered on November 14, 2006, in the Tuesday 8:00 p.m. timeslot, with one episode airing per week for the next five weeks. On December 8, 2006, after the first seven episodes had been taped, an additional six-episode order as well as a planned move to a Tuesday night timeslot starting on January 2, 2007, were announced, which would have brought the total number of episodes to 13.

Cancellation

On December 15, 2006, ABC canceled the series after five episodes due to continually declining ratings, leaving two of the seven episodes that were produced unaired. [1] The show was replaced immediately with reruns of America's Funniest Home Videos . ABC had earlier decided to cease production of the series, but air the remaining episodes. [2]

Three of the $1,000,000 dancers have since appeared on other shows:

GSN picked up the rights to the seven episodes of Show Me The Money in June 2007, which included the five that aired on ABC, plus the remaining two episodes that the network did not air.

The first episode aired on June 12, 2007, and the second episode aired on June 19, 2007. However, on June 26, 2007, GSN replaced the series with an episode of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire . It is known that GSN pulled the show due to bad ratings for the first two weeks and it was replaced by Dog Eat Dog on the Tuesday nights for the remainder of July 2007. There is no indication that GSN will air the show again, thus the two episodes not broadcast by ABC remain unaired.

(However, GSN's webpage for the show included a photo that appeared to be from an unaired episode. The carryover contestant from the last episode aired by ABC (Bob Glouberman) is shown with the amount of $890,000 displayed on the scoreboard, and was paid despite the fact that the show did not air. [3] )

International versions

CountryLocal nameHostTop prizeNetworkYear aired
Flag of Australia (converted).svg  Australia Show Me the Money?? Nine Network 2007 (planned but never aired) [4]
Flag of Greece.svg  Greece Show Me the Mon€yChristos Ferentinos? ANT1 13 March 2008 – 2008
Flag of Italy.svg  Italy Tutto x Tutto Pupo €3,700,000 Rai Uno 7 August – 21 September 2006
Flag of Spain.svg  Spain Money, Money Josep Lobató€1,080,000 Cuatro 5 February 2007 – May 2008
Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  United Kingdom Show Me What You've Got [5] Dale Winton £8,160,000 ITV1 9 August 2006 (pilot not picked up) [5]
Flag of Vietnam.svg  Vietnam Khắc nhập khắc xuấtMinh Tiệp (2008)
Hồng Phúc (2009–2010)		108,000,000 VNĐ VTV3 12 January 2008 – 30 January 2010

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