I'm pitching a game show

[exprod]

I'm pitching a game show idea. I can't settle on a title for the life of me.
I'd be open to suggestions for title and any imput that pops into your head.

Working title is "Psychic Helper"
Log: Seven people who claim to be psychic help seven couples win contests. Every week the loser goes home.

synopsis: Seven people who claim to be psychic are teamed up with seven couples. They go to vegas and are given a stake. The psychics help them with choices like selecting slot machines to play, blackjack, poker and so on.
The next week they pick daily lottery numbers and powerball numbers.
The next week they make sports bets.
The next week they go to the racetrack to play the horses.
The next week they go to the track and play the greyhounds.
The next week they visit the current game show "Deal or no deal" where the psychic helps them pick a suitcase from among the 26. The one who picks the case with the most money wins. The two remaining psychics are off stage while the cases are opened to see which one holds more money. Then the winning psychic gets to play "Deal or no deal"with the winning couples case.
The psychic and couple are paid and rewarded according to how much the psychic wins. They each win that amount of money.

[ If "deal or no deal" doesn't want to deal, we'll play a similar game.]

QUESTION: Anybody have a psychic challenge pop into their mind?

[dpaterso]

Very tempting to say, don't advertise for psychics to volunteer to take part in the show -- if they're any good, they'll turn up by themselves without any prompting. And that's the first challenge! :)

It's... an interesting idea... the only problem I can see with it (forgive me) is that there's absolutely no guarantee any of the "psychics" will be able to pick winners in any situation. Sure, Law of Averages says there could be a couple of lucky winners. But Murphy's Law also decrees there could be none, and at the most awkward moments.

I'm assuming you've registered your game show concept (somehow... I don't know what the procedure for this is) before posting it here for all to see? If you want this thread deleted after you get feedback, let me know. Good luck with it.

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[BottomlessCup]

"The Grift"?
;)

It sounds kind of repetitive to me, since they're all gambling contests. Maybe they could find something.

[WritingFool]

Not trying to burst your bubble here, but if any psychic had that ability dont you think they would already be using it for themself?

Prove me wrong, but I think the only market you can hope for is public access channels.

Why dont you hide a key to a lock with 1,000,000, and see what psychic can do what they do to find the key. But then again....any "seer" with that ability would already be enjoying his winnings

Good luck with it anyways

[xhouseboy]

I'm pitching a game show idea. I can't settle on a title for the life of me.
I'd be open to suggestions for title and any imput that pops into your head.

Working title is "Psychic Helper"
Log: Seven people who claim to be psychic help seven couples win contests. Every week the loser goes home.

synopsis: Seven people who claim to be psychic are teamed up with seven couples. They go to vegas and are given a stake. The psychics help them with choices like selecting slot machines to play, blackjack, poker and so on.
The next week they pick daily lottery numbers and powerball numbers.
The next week they make sports bets.
The next week they go to the racetrack to play the horses.
The next week they go to the track and play the greyhounds.
The next week they visit the current game show "Deal or no deal" where the psychic helps them pick a suitcase from among the 26. The one who picks the case with the most money wins. The two remaining psychics are off stage while the cases are opened to see which one holds more money. Then the winning psychic gets to play "Deal or no deal"with the winning couples case.
The psychic and couple are paid and rewarded according to how much the psychic wins. They each win that amount of money.

[ If "deal or no deal" doesn't want to deal, we'll play a similar game.]

QUESTION: Anybody have a psychic challenge pop into their mind?

If I had an idea for a game show, I wouldn't post it anywhere.

Not at all casting any doubt on the good people of this board, but anyone could be lurking and decide to also pitch a tuned version of your idea. Someone who already has the connections. Although I don't think it will happen in this case.

The guy who created Big Brother is now a billionaire.

[Chesher Cat]

You're not pitching a game show - it's a reality show format.

I doubt it will fly. For all the reasons people listed and more. You wouldn't be able to cross-promote with Deal or No Deal unless it was the same prodco. And I don't think Vegas would want to promote psychic gambling. Kinda like what they think of card counting.

But if you're passionate about it, I say go for it.

[StephieM]

Not a bad concept for a reality show, but here's the problem. True and honest psychics are far and few between and the ones that are true and honest perfer to use their gift to help people emotionally not financially. Most people have this concept that psychics can accurately guess the future or that they can guess ahead of time what horse is going to win, or what lottery numbers are going to come up. Not so. Psychics read energy. Depending on how weak or strong that energy is, determines their accuracy.

If, IF, this gameshow/reality show was to become something, all the not so psychic people (who claim to be psychic) will try to get on the show just for the money, and all the real psychics won't want nothing to do with it, because even if they agreed and end up not guessing right they will be considered a failure as a psychic and would never beable to give another psychic reading or beable to help someone when it counts.

Sorry if it sounds like I'm bashing your idea. Just trying to give it to you at face value. But who knows I could be wrong. If you're really excited about it and think you can make a go of it, then go for it. You never know until you try. :)

Steph

[clockwork]

In this day and age of conniving, manipulative, back-stabbing game shows I'd have thought a better approach would be to have a group of people try to convince another group that they are psychic. They advise them on gambling, their life etc and at the end of it, the ones that manage to do it, win. You could even throw one 'genuine' psychic into the pot to mix things up. Then, you just encourage the contestants to be as snippy and offensive to each other as they possibly can.

My point is, I think you have to tap into the most interesting part of psychic power which, to me, is - is this person for real or not? I don't think I'd ever just accept someone as psychic, even if they had a framed certificate from the psychic correspondence college. I'd want to test them out. Putting that into your gameshow format, what if the families of the contestants provided the would be psychics with background info on the contestants (sort of like cheat sheets) which they had to study and memorise so that when they meet up, they are then able to psychically divine what their dog's name is and where they got that scar.

Like screenwriting, game shows need conflict and drama and I don't think you get enough from your current pitch as is.

And btw, I'd cut out all mention of 'Deal or no deal.' A pitch should not get that specific because a producer won't think, "hey that's a great idea, I love that show," - he'll think, "man that's going to be a logistical and litigious nightmare." Or worse, "Deal or no deal? I hate that show!"


Also, by the time your pitch is considered, optioned, developed, green-lit, researched, cast and ready to be shot, Deal or no deal might not be the bee's knees. Over here, (UK) it's kind of found its time-slot and has a loyal audience but it's not on the same level as Millionaire.