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Offline Todd

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Drew Carey's Improv-A-Ganza
« on: April 12, 2011, 03:23:23 PM »
Did anyone watch the first episode last night? Thoughts?

Personally, while it was hilarious, a half hour was just too short for me. That and the fact that the show really has no structure whatsoever make the episode feel like it ends rather abruptly. Other than that, I really do not have any complaints!
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Re: Drew Carey's Improv-A-Ganza
« Reply #1 on: April 12, 2011, 03:40:24 PM »
The fact that it's like a free-for-all Whose Line makes me extremely happy. This is as close to Whose Line returning as we're going to get. The first show wasn't amazing... but I'm okay with that because of the reasons I just mentioned.
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Re: Drew Carey's Improv-A-Ganza
« Reply #2 on: April 12, 2011, 03:45:03 PM »
Didn't see it yet but it is on my DVR.
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Re: Drew Carey's Improv-A-Ganza
« Reply #3 on: April 12, 2011, 04:31:58 PM »
I-P-G may be the show that blows Whose Line out of the water... *waits to get punched*
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Re: Drew Carey's Improv-A-Ganza
« Reply #4 on: April 12, 2011, 09:17:24 PM »
I love Drew Carey's Improv-A-Ganza it's so funny.  :biggrin:
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Re: Drew Carey's Improv-A-Ganza
« Reply #5 on: April 12, 2011, 09:44:07 PM »
I couldn't enjoy it. It felt like something trying to pretend to be Whose Line, more than a true successor.

What was up with the editing? Segments seemed to abruptly smash into commercials and already be back in action before the commercial ended, and some of the camera shots were a little out-of-place for such a show.

Having a few of the classic games back was a definite plus. I was disappointed, though, that only four games were played in the entire show; as a result, the entire package didn't feel as fulfilling as an episode of Whose Line.

Finally, for having his name in the title, did it strike anyone else that Drew really did very little? I mean, he mostly stayed at his desk on Whose Line, but the disjointed rotating-hosts concept here didn't bring him more screen time, which struck me as very strange.

This show has potential. You can definitely see glimmers of the old Whose Line spirit in it, but the whole thing just doesn't work.
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I'll put this in here, but I didn't want it to overshadow the more interesting topic of specials. Earlier in the show Mike and Beth talked about Jenny McCarthy's appointment to The View and it leads to Mike talking about her appearance on Price. Mike says that he and the staff mulled over whether or not to have her on the show because of the controversy that follows her. They ultimately decided to have her because she's "a great advocate for what she believes in." Now, Mike didn't specify exactly what he meant by "what she believes in" and what "belief" of her's that he's addressing, but that could certainly be taken the wrong way.

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Re: Drew Carey's Improv-A-Ganza
« Reply #6 on: April 12, 2011, 09:46:31 PM »
He was a bit more involved in tonight's show... which hardly featured Charlie Sheen, thank goodness. I figured they'd have him on virtually the entire show.
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Re: Drew Carey's Improv-A-Ganza
« Reply #7 on: April 12, 2011, 10:03:20 PM »
I love how free the games are now... it's just basically "We'll give you some stage time, the audience will give you something to do, and just do whatever you want to make it funny in that time." and that's quite honestly how simple it should be. The games have been re-imagined for the MGM setting and they just work. Bob's Call is the perfect successor to Show Stopping Number, and Options takes Film & Theatre styles to a new level with the presenter being able to make some just plain funny decisions on what to make the performers do.

Drew also showed tonight that he hasn't forgotten his singing lessons from Geppetto. Well played Mr. Carey.
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Re: Drew Carey's Improv-A-Ganza
« Reply #8 on: April 12, 2011, 10:21:22 PM »
Well said drum set in circle man.  I didn't see the entire show but I'll catch the repeat at 11.  I think once they get some kind of feedback on this show they'll fine tune it more and make it perfect.
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Re: Drew Carey's Improv-A-Ganza
« Reply #9 on: April 12, 2011, 10:40:45 PM »
If you go to the site over at gsn it look's like under videos there is a full episodes tab.  That will be good if you miss one
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Re: Drew Carey's Improv-A-Ganza
« Reply #10 on: April 12, 2011, 11:03:59 PM »
Improv-a-Ganza is not being offered for streaming on neither GSN.com nor Fancast. (Fancast seems to have mostly GSN's older content up...and the only full episodes on GSN's site are Baggage and High Stakes Poker.)

I don't have GSN, so I can't watch full episodes at this time...but I did see some of the clips online and I definitely echo some of the other sentiments in this thread. Some bits of it were quite funny and reminded me a bit of Whose Line, but the actual production/editing needs a lot of work...there were way too many cuts to the audience, especially during gameplay (the only time we should really see them is when those on stage are asking for suggestions, otherwise, the cameras should be focused on stage where the action is). 

So, based on what I've seen, I definitely feel that they do have something...it just needs some work in order to be perfect.  I just hope that they can build a good variety of games, both new and brought over from Whose Line...the latter grew stale on me after a few years, and if there isn't a larger variety in the games this time around, it'll get old to me fast.
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Re: Drew Carey's Improv-A-Ganza
« Reply #11 on: April 13, 2011, 08:44:27 PM »
GSN has the first show up on there site
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Re: Drew Carey's Improv-A-Ganza
« Reply #12 on: April 14, 2011, 12:04:52 AM »
Needs to be longer and with less audience jump cuts.
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Re: Drew Carey's Improv-A-Ganza
« Reply #13 on: April 14, 2011, 01:18:07 AM »
Quote from: AussieEvil on April 14, 2011, 12:04:52 AM
Needs to be longer.
Agreed (even though I haven't seen a full show yet).  Whose Line was always a 30 minute show; but when it aired on ABC, they would play 2 episodes back to back.  So I think Improvaganza could work as a full hour program.  Aside from that, it appears to be a pretty good show.
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Re: Drew Carey's Improv-A-Ganza
« Reply #14 on: April 14, 2011, 02:44:51 AM »
Tonight's episode was a little better, but the editing on this is terrible.
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Quote from: thepriceis_J on July 17, 2013, 05:27:30 PM
I'll put this in here, but I didn't want it to overshadow the more interesting topic of specials. Earlier in the show Mike and Beth talked about Jenny McCarthy's appointment to The View and it leads to Mike talking about her appearance on Price. Mike says that he and the staff mulled over whether or not to have her on the show because of the controversy that follows her. They ultimately decided to have her because she's "a great advocate for what she believes in." Now, Mike didn't specify exactly what he meant by "what she believes in" and what "belief" of her's that he's addressing, but that could certainly be taken the wrong way.
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