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Family Feud
by Chico Alexander

Air time: Check local listings
Host: John O'Hurley
Website: http://www.familyfeud.tv
 
NBA Players (Richard "RJ" Jefferson - New Jersey Nets, David Lee - New York Knicks, Cuttino "The Cat" Mobley - LA Clippers, Grant Hill - Phoenix Suns, Dwight "D12" Howard - Orlando Magic, Chris "CB4" Bosh - Toronto Raptors)
playing for KaBoom!
$42,500, three games
NBA Mothers (Meekness LeCato, Susan Lee, Jackie Mobley, Janet Hill, Sheryl Howard, Freida Bosh)
playing for the Boys & Girls Clubs of America

Giving new meaning to the term "Family Feud", we have NBA players up against their moms. This is a six-on-six Feud. I want a good clean match. Let's play!

Round 1: something a woman might want nearby if she is taking a long hot bath (6). RJ goes with candles... #3. Meekness... bubble bath? Nope. Grant goes with music... #4. D12 gets towels for #5. Chris wants some champagne... #2. Moms try to steal with a robe... Not there! Ballers get 53. Number one: telephone. Other answer: her man.

Round 2: something that's really really hairy (5). David fires with gorilla... #1. Then comes a cat, a bear, a body, and a dog to sweep for 141.

Double: something might be a afraid they'll never do before they die (5). Jackie gets #1, travel. Fall in love, have kids, and get married follow. The ballers try to take it with sex... Not there. Moms get 126. Other answer: get rich.

Triple: 100 single women, something your date might talk about all night that would make it hard to stay awake (4). Grant gets the big one, himself. Then we have sports and the job. The moms have one last chance with car... Got it for the win, 387-141.

Fast Money: Freida & Sheryl get 224 for $20,000!


In the nightcap, the Hudsons (Lillie, Jazz, Terri, Nia, Camyl; $22,600) take on the Lang sisters (Jackie, Carol, Christina, Jenni, Cheryl). Langs lead, 149-90. Triple: a woman associated with Michael Jackson (4). Nia's Janet is #2. Jazz gets #3, Elizabeth Taylor. Terri gets the big one, Lisa Marie Presley. The Langs get one last chance with Madonna... No! Hudsons are five-time champs, 370-149. Other answer: Diana Ross.

Fast Money: Camyl & Lillie get 180, leaving with $23,500.

Remember, contestant applications are available at either 323.762.8467 or by visiting familyfeud.tv.

 

Merv Griffin's Crosswords
by Chico Alexander

Air time: Check local listings
Host: Ty Treadway
Website: www.crosswords.tv
 
Phil Abrams
California
education specialist
Lara Kierland
Minnesota
doctor

Lara is headed to Palm Springs after finding the first Crossword Getaway. She finds the Extra with -$50. She bets $300 on this: Billy and Sundance (- - D -). KIDS win it for $250. Phil leads it by $50, $500 to $450 at the end...

But waiting to stir things up a bit are our spoilers!

Charlie Ira Margaret

Ira spoils Phil for $1100. Phil has a DINNERDATE in San Francisco on the second Getaway, also a spoil for $1550. Margaret spoils him for $2200. Ira finds the second Extra for $1000: path of the most direct route (- - E - I - E). Missed BEELINE for $500. Charlie spoils Margaret for $2450, leading $2650-$500.

Phil starts the round with $2850 thanks to a spoil of Charlie. Phil also finds the last Extra, betting $1000 on this: smooth paint finish (- - - - -). It was not MATTE, it was SATIN, leaving him with $2450. Charlie spoils Phil for $3050 and the win.

He's going up and down the California coast, but is he going to Puerto Rico with another $2000? Like killing two birds with one stone (D O U B L E D - T Y). He pulls out DOUBLEDUTY for the win and $5050 and THREE trips!

If you think you can be a solver on "Crosswords", then call 323-762-8282.

 

Poker After Dark
by Chico Alexander

Air time: 2:05a/1:05c on NBC
Host: Shana Hiatt & Oliver "Ali" Nejad
Website: www.nbcsports.com/poker
  We're over the hump, and all six players are still in the hunt for this week's title in this week's Title Fight.

Spoke too soon. Jenn's all-in with A-9. Ivey's got Jacks. The flop: 10-3-4. Turn: 4♣. Harman's down to three outs... River... 8♠. Woops. Jennifer Harman is out in sixth place.

Howard "The Professor" Lederer
$13,000
Phil Ivey
$32,000
Chris "Jesus" Ferguson
$25,000
Phil Hellmuth
$19,000
Gus Hansen
$31,000
BLINDS: $300/$600

Three-handed action with a flop of J-3-6. Phil Hellmuth trips treys. Turn: 10♦. Howard spikes a pair of 10s, but this is Hellmuth's hand. He takes $10,800.

Howard's all-in with A-10. Gus has A-8. Flop: 3-J-6. Turn: J♥. Very good for Howard, but we may see a tie. River.. 5♠. Nope. Howard takes $23,000 all to himself.

Jesus is going all-in with Jacks for $21,000 and change. Hellmuth.. gets out of the way for $28,850 going to Chris Ferguson.

Chris Ferguson moves into the chip lead thanks to his win and Ivey's loss. Tomorrow's match will tell the tale.

 

The Price is Right
by Chico Alexander

Air time: 11a/10c on CBS
Host: Drew Carey
Website: www.cbs.com/daytime/price


Record today: 3-2-1
Record this week: 11-12-1
Record this season: 84-57-3
Total today: $76,305
Total this week: $309,987
Total this season: $2,002,607
Perfect Shows/Skunks: 3/0
DSWs/DOBs: 1/0

Jillian, Smith, Robert King, Anna Turner, and Joanna Hernandez are ready to bid for a Spa-in-a-box. Anna wins the $1499 spa, and gets a shot at a brass bed with sleep set in the Squeeze Play. The price is not $43,150. She knocks out the 3... Should've knocked out the 1.

Joanna wins a $1599 freezer and a shot at a Ford F150 in the Card Game. The window is $1000. She draws her way to $17,200. Actual price... $18,... 170! She gets it!

Ingrid Wadlow wins a $1470 chest. Will she take away $10,000 from the Punchboard? Given punches from a $36 CD/DVD repair kit, a $15 crock pot, a $35 battery charger, and a $97 soy milk maker, she punches out four. First, $1000. She gives that up. Then $500... She gives that up. Then comes $5000! She'll take the $5000.

Anna spins out a win in the Showcase. Will she meet Robert there? He wins a $2395 surrey. Next up, a dining room with dinnerware in the Hi-Lo game. The lowest in the Hi-row... $7.62 for a box of Senokot. The Oreos... $3.89! The Clorox wipes... $2.99. V8... $3.15!

Jason Crabbe is down and up thanks to a $680 set of digital cameras. He'll have 10 Chances to win a radio/lantern, an electric acoustic guitar, and a Ford Focus. The numbers in the radio/lantern... 6 0 4. It takes him two to win the $40 gadget. Then it takes him the other eight to at least try for the guitar... it was $940.

Jillian has one more round to make some noise. The prize: a home gym. The price: $2899. The winner... Mary Taylor. She gets to play for a $2499 daysailer and a $3295 bar set. But are they right, or are we going to Switch? Mary Switches... and she wins! She's also a winner at the Wheel.

First up in the Showcase... every trip in the house! Trips to San Francisco, Antigua, Portugal, and Hong Kong could go to... Runner-up Anna, who bids $12,492. Mary gets bands... bands that keep a wad of $1000 together, a collection of CDs by classic rock bands, bands of sound from a stereo, and bands that keep a Ford Explorer together. Mary bids $25,650. Actual price: $29,711, a difference of $4061. Actual price of Mary's trips... $27,036. Anna wins this one by a mile with $38,444.

 

¿Qué Dice la Gente?
by Chico Alexander

Air time: 7p/6c on Telefutura
Host: Marco Antonio Regil
Website: www.univision.com/content/channel.jhtml?chid=6&schid=1611&secid=11347
 
Autoridad de la Sierra (Arturo Palomar, Oscar Cepeda, Jose Luis Corral, Juan Soberanis, Simon Baltierri)
Playing for Migrant House of Tijuana
$1000, two games
TV Personalities (Fernando Allende - "Objetivo Fama", Dr. Nancy Alvarez - "¿Quién Tiene La Razón?", Giselle Blondet - "Nuestra Belleza Latina", Felipe Viel - "Escándalo TV", Victoria - "Aceso Máximo")
playing for Save the Children
$500, one game

We've got another special week among us, with a feud between singers and TV stars.

Autoridad leads, 257-117.

Triple: something made into perfume (3). Victoria gets #1, essence. Packaging and bottling round out the board for the win, 357-257.

Dinero Rápido: Fernando & Giselle team up for 203 for another $10,000, giving them $10,500.

Pinedo (Estela, Margarita, Raul, Veronica, Carolina)
Arizona
Plascencia (Bambi, Rigo, Luz, Michelle, Julian)
Los Angeles
$500

Plascencias lead, 179-150.

Triple: a sport or discipline you practice barefoot (4). Julia fires with swimming for #1. Karate and yoga follow. Will the Pinedos steal with gymnastics? No! Plascencias win, 329-150. Other answer: walking.

Dinero Rápido: Julian pulls... "puntos extra". He & Bambi get 226 for $5000 more, giving them $5500!

 

Temptation: The New Sale of the Century
by Chico Alexander

Air time: Check local listings
Host: Rossi Morreale
Website: www.seenontemptation.com
 

JC
auto claims specialist
two days; $2065
T$144

Andrea
deputy probation officer

Debi
executive administrator

INSTANT CASH: $500

First Speed Round: we're tied at 25! Everyone's got a shot at this... an OPI spa day worth $1000. We start it at T$10... T$9... T$8... T$7... T$6... Debi's got it! She's down to T$19.

Fame Game: Debi gets it back with YABBA DABBA DOO! for T$34.

Knock-Off: Summer Olympics Events. JC gets the 10 from the hammer throw. Andrea gets the razz from kickboxing, leaving her stuck at 25. Debi finds the big 15 with handball. JC & Debi run out the board, giving them 49 and 58 respectively. Debi gets a shot at a double oven range from GE and a baking lesson from a pastry chef. The price: $2009. The cost: T$10. Rossi throws in $200 for ingredients... and drops it to T$9 for the tie... Got it.

Speed Round 2: Solo or Duet? JC leads, 59-20-54. He's got another shot at $500... Will he go again for T$5? "I'm all about the cash." He goes Red... $100. The fiver was in the brown.

Final Speed Round: Debi is fast on the buzzer to win this one with T$84! JC leaves with T$188 that he can do nothing with, as well as $600 and whatever he won yesterday. Andrea... well, she just leaves.

Super Knock-Off for Debi is... Atkins-friendly food. Shrimp... $25. Scrambled eggs... $25 more. Sautéed mushrooms... the big $100! She stops right there and opts for St. Lucia. Other answers: bok choy, Splenda, and garlic.

Debi leaves with $7629. Or does she? She forgets about St. Lucia and takes another day at Shopper's Paradise! We'll see her tomorrow!

 

That's the Question
by Chico Alexander

Air time: 9p/8c on GSN
Host: Bob Goen
Website: www.gsn.com/ttq
 
Joe Montana
sales
Faith Olander
mother-of-two

Just to clear the air, it isn't THAT Joe Montana.

Tossup Question is WHAT HOLIDAY ALWAYS FALLS ON A THURSDAY? Faith gets control with "Thanksgiving." First question's answer is slash. Or should we say, "Slash", because the question is WHO WAS GUNS N' ROSES' LEAD GUITARIST. Joe gets the first few words, but Faith gets the rest for the lead, 10-4.

Next question has the answer of Mediterranean. Faith solves WHAT SEA CARESSES THE FRENCH RIVIERA? for the lead again, 20-10.

Next up, Geek Squad. The question: BEST BUY RUNS WHAT PC REPAIR CREW BUSINESS? The solver... Joe. He breaks the tie with 34-29 at the half.

Round 2, and we have a two-word answer on tap. Faith runs out the board almost, but Joe solves the question: WHAT CHEF CATERS THE POST-OSCARS DINNER? Wolfgang Puck is the answer for the 67-54 trail.

Next answer has six letters. Running out of time on this: WHAT IS THE MOST COMMON MINERAL ON EARTH? No one gets it. It was "quartz". That means with the score at 81-80, Faith is the winner!

Faith can turn $500 into $5000 in 81 seconds if she can solve this...

WHAT SEA CREAT.RES PR...CE PEARLS? -------

"WHAT SE CREATURES PRODUCE PEARLS? Oysters" THAT's the question for $5000!

 

Wheel of Fortune
by Jason Block

Air time: Check local listings
Host: Pat Sajak & Vanna White
Website: www.wheeloffortune.com


STATS
Total for today: $29,950
Total for Week 10: $153,752
Charity Donations: $233,202 (with the Maxwell House daily $10,000)
Total for the Season: $2,242,718
Bonus Win Percentage: 16/49
Gooseeggs: 11
Toss Up Sweeps/Group Misses: 4/0
Mystery Round Prizes won: 2
Car Wins: 4
$100,000 Losses/Wins: 5/0
$10,000 wedge wins: 8
Wild Cards Hit/Offered/Used:38/49/13
Prizes added to the wheel hit/won:28/17
Free Spins Hit/Used: 27/22
"25" Prizes Hit/Won: 10/3
BIG MONEY SPOT Hit/Won: 9/6
Jackpot wins: 3
$6,000 FINAL SPINS: 5

We are almost done with the celebs and their charity work. Thursday "People Celebrity Week edition is on with Paige Hemmis, Jeff Probst and Alison Sweeney are playing with reality show fans!

(J-Note: This episode was an episode I saw as a member of the press! Stay tuned for exclusive interviews and pictures from this show as a GSNN Extra.)

The $1,000 Tossup is PHRASE. Nancy Kaufman from Bellmore, New York solved COVER TO COVER for $1,000. She is playing with Paige Hemmis who is playing for the Greater Los Angeles chapter of Habitat for Humanity. Susan Moran is from Salem, MA is playing with Jeff Probst who is playing for the Serpentine Project. Nick Giovine is from Old Bridge, New Jersey and is playing with Alison Sweeney who is playing for the California Highway Patrol 11-99 Foundation (her hubby is a cop as well.)

The $2,000 Tossup is AROUND THE HOUSE. Susan and Jeff have $2,000 with BRICK FIREPLACE. We add a trip to Palm Springs worth $7,000 to the wheel. Susan and Jeff start this round which is SONG LYRICS. They dominate and solve START SPREADIN' THE NEWS for $4,100. They have $6,100.

Swanson Jackpot Round is THING and a PRIZE PUZZLE. Nick and Alison start and do some work, but Bankrupt. Nancy and Paige solve DESIGNER HANDBAG COLLECTION for $4,800 and a trip to Milan, Italy from vacationcompare.com worth $5,000. If you have the SPIN ID of BB0022111, you are going to Milan as well. Remember the SONY CARD Bonus. There total is now is $10,800 in cash and trip.

The $10,000 Mystery Round/Big Money Round is sponsored by Maxwell House who is giving $10,000 each day to Second Harvest to combat hunger. The category is BEFORE AND AFTER. Nancy and Paige start, pick up the Wild Card, dominate and solve RETIRED BOXERS OR BRIEFS for $3,850. They are up to $14,650 in cash and trip!

Make that $17,650 with a WHAT ARE YOU DOING? solve of DIRECTING A PLAY. We go right into a $1,300 a letter FINAL SPIN of PLACES. With Nancy and Paige's solve of WORLD-FAMOUS RESTAURANTS for $5,200, they win $22,850 in cash and trip! Susan and Jeff leave with $6,100 in cash for Susan and $10,000 for Jeff's Charity. Alison and Nick get $0 which we bump to $1,000 for Nick and $10,000 for Alison's charity.

Can Paige and Nancy continue their domination. With the RSTLNE and their choices of D P G A and the Wild Card choice of B with the puzzle of THING we have:

_ _ _ _ _
_ E _ _ R _

Paige and Nancy had FUZZY MEMORY and lost $30,000. But they leave with $22,850 in cash and trip which goes to Paige's Charity.
 

Who Wants to Be a Millionaire
by Don Harpwood

Air time: Check local listings
Host: Meredith Vieira
Website: www.millionairetv.com
  Andrea Ulrich (Minneapolis, MN) has $4,000 and 2 lifelines available, as TV Week continues.

[$8,000]
In its finale, what show shocked fans by revealing that the entire series was imagined to have taken place inside a snow globe?
A: thirtysomething
B: St. Elsewhere
C: China Beach
D: Picket Fences

The 50:50 leaves B and C. Andrea then calls her brother-in-law, Dan, even though she's worried he might not know. As it turns out, though, he says it's not B, meaning that though he also says he's not very sure, he'd go with C. Despite that, though, Andrea walks with $4,000. Good move; it was B after all!

Frank Lockwood (Atlanta, GA): He says he has been a TV junkie since he was 5 or 6. Scooby-Doo brings back memories for him, though he apparently wasn't too good at figuring out the mysteries on the show while watching.

[$300]
Actress Eliza Dushku played Tru Davies in a Fox TV drama with what title?
A: Tru Colors
B: Ringing Tru
C: Tru Calling
D: Sad But Tru

Frank asks the audience, and 52% are saying A. He trusts them... but they're wrong! It's C (35%)! Ouch. That sends him outta here with nothing.

Coryna Barberis (Spotswood, NJ): She says she's an expert on TV, because she has a lot of "useless knowledge" in the back of her head. And if she wins the million, she plans on doing the "Elaine Dance" from Seinfeld! And apparently, so does Meredith!

[$500]
On the classic British comedy series "Fawlty Towers," what is Fawlty Towers?
A: A hotel
B: A prison
C: A private school
D: A nursing home

Coryna needs some help from the audience, and 61% say A. She trusts them... and this time, they're right! She then gets the TV Theme Song Question for $1,000, and a few moments later...

[$4,000]
The love song "At This Moment" by Billy Vera & the Beaters was the romantic "anthem" of a couple on what '80s sitcom?
A: The Hogan Family
B: Family Ties
C: A Different World
D: Who's the Boss?

Though she's leaning towards B, Coryna decides to call her co-worker, Steve. He has no idea, but he guesses C. Coryna then uses the 50:50, leaving A and B. She says B... and she's right!

[$8,000]
In a campy "Dynasty" cliffhanger, most of the main characters are gunned down during Amanda's wedding to a Prince from where?
A: Macedonia
B: Montenegro
C: Malta
D: Moldavia

Unsure of this one, Coryna walks with $4,000. It's D.

Ian Neville (New Rochelle, NY): Okay, he looks really excited. That's apparently because this real estate agent feels like he's at a sporting event.

Due to a lack of time, though, Ian is only able to reach $200 for now. But hey, there's always tomorrow.