Tuesday
Labels: Minute To Win It, NBC, Val St. John
Minute to What?
New Game Show, Minute to Win It debuted last week on NBC. Former Food Network personality Guy Fieri hosts contestants who perform questionably simple, but moderately difficult, tasks within one minute.
First, um no, that's not Val's voice heard during the competitions. Secondly, we are not super fans of Guy Fieri (Don't know why, but many have said that maybe it's the personality or his oddly distracting appearance -?). According to some, Minute is an 'Americanized' similar format of British Game Show, The Cube (Dropped by Fox) and even replicated down to similar terminology used during the game.
Nonetheless, tasks during the show (A few of which are posted on the NBC site for prior practice) often include knocking things over or stacking things for the 'Money Prize Ladder'. Hey, remember when Game Shows used to give out actual non-cash prizes (Ala Wheel of Fortune - shop for products (aka Prizes) provided by Sponsors)? Ah, those were the days...