'Deal Or No Deal' to Be Remade for CBS (Sorta) - Sitcoms Online Message Boards

Brian Damage · 03-31-2011, 10:56 PM

It's like Deal or No Deal with envelopes: CBS has ordered game show pilot Secret Fortune, which will be executive produced by American Idol and You Think You Can Dance guru Nigel Lythgoe.
Based on a Wild River Prods. format, Secret Fortune will have contestants choosing from 24 sealed envelopes, each of them containing a check for amounts that varies widely from a buck to a fortune. Eventually, 23 of the envelopes will be destroyed, with the contestant left with the check in the remaining one. Lythgoe is exec producing with Wild Rover's Phil Morrow.

http://www.deadline.com/new-york/

TV Knowledge Fan · 04-01-2011, 02:03 AM

....and since NBC owns the rights to "DEAL OR NO DEAL", they could possibly sue CBS for plagarism over the idea.

James · 04-30-2011, 02:49 AM

April Fools, right? (Brian posted this an hour and four minutes before April 1!)

03-31-2011, 10:56 PM	#1
Brian Damage I'm Rich Bitch Forum Icon Join Date: Feb 03, 2002 Location: What Ain't No Country I Ever Heard Of...They Speak English in What? Posts: 63,107	'Deal Or No Deal' to Be Remade for CBS (Sorta) It's like Deal or No Deal with envelopes: CBS has ordered game show pilot Secret Fortune, which will be executive produced by American Idol and You Think You Can Dance guru Nigel Lythgoe. Based on a Wild River Prods. format, Secret Fortune will have contestants choosing from 24 sealed envelopes, each of them containing a check for amounts that varies widely from a buck to a fortune. Eventually, 23 of the envelopes will be destroyed, with the contestant left with the check in the remaining one. Lythgoe is exec producing with Wild Rover's Phil Morrow. http://www.deadline.com/new-york/
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04-01-2011, 02:03 AM	#2
TV Knowledge Fan Member Senior Member Join Date: Mar 29, 2006 Location: Long Branch, N.J. Posts: 2,577	Actually, this sounds more like a "imitation" than a "remake"... ....and since NBC owns the rights to "DEAL OR NO DEAL", they could possibly sue CBS for plagarism over the idea.

04-30-2011, 02:49 AM	#3
James Member Forum Veteran Join Date: Jan 07, 2001 Location: Dayton, Ohio, USA Posts: 6,370	April Fools, right? (Brian posted this an hour and four minutes before April 1!)