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Category Television - Global Date 10/12/2006 |
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Global Television/Online Update
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A New Game Show From the Creators of Deal or No Deal
“1 VS. 100”
With Host Bob Saget
Premieres TOMORROW, October 13 – 9pm ET/PT
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Joins Exclusive Lineup of Broadband Offerings Available Online on www.globaltv.com
ATTN. EDITORS: Photos/Screen Samples: www.globaltvmedia.com
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(TORONTO) – 1 Vs 100, the new primetime game show hosted by Bob Saget - a tense battle of brains and guts, where one player must outlast "the mob" of 100 people for a chance to win up to $1 million – kicks off its special five-week run this Friday, October 13 – 9pm ET/PT on Global Television with subsequent airings Fridays – 8pm ET/PT.
Following its television premiere, 1 Vs. 100 also makes its broadband debut on www.globaltv.com as part of the network’s growing roster of exclusive online content.
1 Vs. 100 is Global’s latest online acquisition and the third U.S. primetime series to be added since the network launched its online content debut on September 19, joining the ranks of Canada’s #1 reality show, Survivor: Cook Islands and the smash hit Deal or No Deal with host Howie Mandel. Key Canadian original content online includes: Global National with Kevin Newman, Global Currents, Falcon Beach and The Jane Show.
Each exclusive broadband program is streamed online, following their scheduled network premiere with select episodes archived and available on a customised menu. Users can access this programming by clicking the "VIDEO" tab located on the www.globaltv.com home page.
The launch of the globaltv.com premium video player is a successful continuation in the network’s broadband video rollout – the free, advertiser-supported program offerings provide Canadian online users an opportunity to create a personalized Global viewing experience on demand.
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1 Vs. 100 – Popular comedian, Bob Saget hosts the newest game show series where one player must outlast "the mob" of 100 people in a tense battle of brains and guts for a chance to win up to $1 million. The player must answer trivia questions and get every one right , wrong answers from the mob eliminates them from the game, driving up the cash prize for the player. The player must eliminate the 100 people to win the $1 million top prize. However, if the player gets one answer wrong, the game is over and "the mob" will split the player's winnings up to that point.
SURVIVOR: COOK ISLANDS - Hosted by Jeff Probst, Canada's favourite reality program…this 13 th season of the 'Survivor' phenomenon on Global now comes to fans online. Featuring the series' most ethnically diverse cast to date, the castaways are organized into four tribes divided along ethnic lines (African-American, Asian-American, Hispanic and White) before merging in a later episode.
DEAL OR NO DEAL - Hosted by the man who coined the term "bald is the new black", comes the game show that has taken North America by storm...
Canadian actor/comedian Howie Mandel fronts each weekly half-hour, offering a lucky contestant the opportunity to win a million dollar prize - tucked away in one of 26 suitcases all filled with varying amounts of cash...Will contestants play it safe or settle for the Banker's secret offer?
GLOBAL NATIONAL WITH KEVIN NEWMAN - Canada's most-watched national newscast greets another milestone as it celebrates its fifth anniversary. Since its launch on September 3, 2001, Global National has distinguished itself as a critically-acclaimed, award-winning newscast that has been embraced by growing audiences coast-to-coast. Global National With Kevin Newman is also available as a Podcast and via bbtv at www.globaltv.com.
GLOBAL CURRENTS - Global National's Kevin Newman presents a unique documentary series committed to revealing extraordinary perspectives and issues affecting all Canadians. Each one-hour, independently-produced documentary represents the talents of Canada's best socio-political, environmental, humanist and scientific documentary filmmakers.
FALCON BEACH - Setting a new stage for young adult drama in Canada, Falcon Beach tells the story of local and vacationing young men and women sharing three months together in a fictional waterfront community on the shores of Lake Winnipeg. This steamy weekly hour is now heading into Season Two.
THE JANE SHOW - Keeping the comedy writer-actor genre alive, Second City alumnae Teresa Pavlinek stars as "Jane Black", a thirty-something novelist who foregoes her dream in order to join the 'normal' working world - only to discover it's anything but.
Global Television is owned by CanWest MediaWorks Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of CanWest Global Communications Corp, (CanWest) (NYSE: CWG; TSX: CGS and CGS.A, www.canwestglobal.com). CanWest, an international media company, is Canada’s largest media company. In addition to owning Global Television, CanWest is Canada’s largest publisher of daily newspapers, and also owns, operates and/or holds substantial interests in conventional television, out-of-home advertising, specialty cable channels, Web sites and radio networks in Canada, New Zealand, Australia, Ireland, Singapore, Malaysia, Turkey and the United Kingdom.
CanWest Interactive owns an extensive portfolio of consumer and business to business websites, including: the canada.com network, one of Canada's leading news and information online destination; FP Infomart, Canada's largest print and video data subscription service; and a family of leading online classified sites including working.com, driving.ca, remembering.ca, celebrating.com and connecting.com.
CanWest Interactive is 74% indirectly owned by CanWest Global Communications Corp, (NYSE: CWG; TSX: CGS.SV and CGS.NV, www.canwestglobal.com), and 26% indirectly owned by the CanWest MediaWorks Income Fund (TSX: CWM.UN; www.cwmincomefund.com. CanWest Global Communications Corp., an international media company, is Canada's largest media company and largest publisher of daily newspapers. CanWest also owns, operates and/or holds substantial interests in free-to-air and subscription-based television networks, out-of-home advertising, web sites, and radio stations and networks in Canada, New Zealand, Australia, Singapore, Malaysia, Turkey and the United Kingdom.
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