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"Treasure Hunters"
realitybites 1174 desperate attention whore postings
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05-22-06, 12:27 PM (EST)
 
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"Treasure Hunters" |
This one looks like fun - TAR meets National Treasure. It has a special 2-hour premiere on June 18 at 8 PM before settling in on Mondays at 9 PM.Our site has a summary of the show, and the official Web site is ready for traffic. The teams are already nicknamed for your convenience - like "Team Air Force" and "Team Southie Boys". Lots of cheesecake here - three tiara wearers, three that must've just missed, and three other hotties. No Fran & Barrys in this bunch. But this show isn't like that other show at all. Instead of 11 teams of 2 bound by love, friendship, or blood (or 10 teams of 4 family members), they have 10 teams of three bound by friendship or blood (no dating couples here). And instead of a race around the world for $1 million, it's a race with travel to historically significant locations for a grand prize of untold riches (probably Friends DVDs). Both have cryptic clues, physical & mental challenges, and periodic eliminations, but don't all good reality shows have those elements? Don't answer that, WRP lawyers.  Anyway, I'm about to give this show the kiss of death by declaring that I'm going to be following this show. And I'll even sign up for any/all episode summaries. Watch this thread for future updates. I'm realitybites and I approved this post.
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Loree 8616 desperate attention whore postings
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05-26-06, 12:14 PM (EST)
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2. "RE: Treasure Hunters" |
I am looking forward to this show. It sounds like a combination of TAR and The Mole. I still miss The Mole. I want a game where they have to think and solve things rather than just vote off someone they find b!tchy.
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Estee 55195 desperate attention whore postings
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06-09-06, 02:19 PM (EST)
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15. "RE: Treasure Hunters" |
Okay, my bad. I just tried it again. Originally, it wouldn't load at all. Now it loads in a 'You are not a registered user. We have nothing to say to you' page. Either way, I can't see the spoiler, but I'm sure people who can read it will find it informative. Also possibly a never-ending source of spam if the site's registery likes to play tricks. However, I choose to trust the Internet at this time. Not for myself, because I'm not signing up there, but I'm sure y'all can trust that site enough to register. Let me know what happens, okay?
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HaroldBalzaccio 30 desperate attention whore postings
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06-09-06, 07:34 PM (EST)
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17. "RE: Treasure Hunters" |
Just because you're too lazy to register for EZ, don't even hint at the idea that I'm posting spam. I'm quite sure that others here have read the spoiler, and if you'd care to ask around (if that wouldn't be too much of an imposition on your laziness), you'll find that when I post an episode spoiler, it is not only NOT spam, it is 100% accurate. Want proof?http://p085.ezboard.com/fsurvivorsucksfrm32.showMessage?topicID=145.topic There's my last spoiler (Survivor). I've done the same thing many times over, for many shows, including TAR and The Apprentice. You don't have to worry about registering, so a single click should give you the instant gratification you so desperately crave, without the trying experience of fatfingering your keyboard to death creating an EZ nic. If you need more references, ask the Survivor spoiler people here who I am. Until then, don't even dare to insult me.
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HaroldBalzaccio 30 desperate attention whore postings
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06-09-06, 08:56 PM (EST)
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24. "RE: Treasure Hunters" |
>EZBoard itself could send out
>spam to any users who
>register on your site without
>your knowledge. But it doesn't, as anybody here who has been visiting Sucks for the past 5 years knows. And yes, I know many of you post there as well. >"reputable...in the past" means just that...
>in the past... up until
>now... not yet in the
>future. Past, present, future, all the same when it comes to posting this type of spoiler. You insult me by insinuating that I would deviate from my own pattern. >Anyway... welcome to RTVW. You may
>want to take a moment
>to read the board guidelines
>at the top of the
>page. I was welcome here long ago. Perhaps your precious Estee of the 14billion posts should check those guidelines, before jumping on someone she considers a newbie. I've been here for quite a while. Much longer than you might think, if you're making the mistake of judging by postcount. Quality beats quantity every time.
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06-09-06, 09:03 PM (EST)
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25. "RE: Treasure Hunters" |
Ok then, you have yourself a nice evening.
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Estee 55195 desperate attention whore postings
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06-09-06, 06:53 AM (EST)
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11. "Who's doing the premiere summary?" |
(One of the answers is 'Not me': I've got one more LCS semifinal, plus the Fear Factor slap fight.) RealityBites, are you taking it? First one to step forward wins, generally because everyone else steps backward...
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realitybites 1174 desperate attention whore postings
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06-09-06, 09:49 AM (EST)
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12. "Me, of course" |
LAST EDITED ON 06-09-06 AT 09:52 AM (EST)I plan to do summaries of all the episodes, even if some of them don't make it to "official" status. (where's the signup sheet, guys?) On a side note, I'm really nervous because this will be the first show I write a summary for that will have an audience of more than, like, 40 people.  Summary history: * One episode of "Beg, Borrow & Deal" (Who?)
* The whole season (except one eppie) of BB&D 2 (What? They made a sequel? WHY??)
* The whole season of "I Wanna Date a Race Car Driver!" (Huh?)
* The whole season of "American Dream Derby" (I had a joke in mind, but rejected it due to bad taste) P.S. Guess what ad is playing as I write this? Yeah baby. I'm realitybites and I approved this post.
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06-11-06, 05:40 PM (EST)
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27. "RE: Me, of course" |
a summary of the above mentioned spoiler would be nice
and appreciated.
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06-12-06, 09:43 AM (EST)
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28. "Proposal" |
>If it's good, I might try grabbing one of the later
>summaries of the show from realitybites, just like I did
>for Beg, Borrow, and Deal 2. Ah yes, BB&D 2. That was a fun two months. Three of the contestants stopped by to say hello, and the time slot got changed - twice. Your recap was very good, BTW Anyway, you can do the recap episode if "Treasure Hunters" has one. I hate those things with the heat of 10,000 suns. I'm realitybites and I approved this post.
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06-15-06, 08:07 AM (EST)
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29. "TV Guide and TAR Family edition comparison" |
Here's a TV Guide online article on this from today. My thoughts in this:
1. it sounds cool, I hope it is like TAR except with more thinking clues.
2. I am afraid the initial description sounds too much like TAR family edition. Teams of 3 (which is almost 4), going to historical places in the US and try to make them seem exotic. Even a Brown family (instead of a Black family) and the Fogals, who have God on their side (see: Weavers). Da Vinci Code Meets Reality TV!
by Matt Webb Mitovich Treasure Hunters host Laird Macintosh
Mix equal parts The Da Vinci Code and The Amazing Race, then sprinkle in Nicolas Cage's National Treasure, and you'd get NBC's Treasure Hunters. The new reality-TV competition (premiering this Sunday at 8 pm/ET, with the second episode airing Monday at 9) sends 10 three-person teams boating, jetting and helicoptering across America on a treasure hunt of (buzzword alert!) "epic scale" — seeking out "mystical artifacts," "cracking codes" and uncovering "clues" in the pursuit of a "hidden key" that will lead them to, and unlock, the grand prize.
Acknowledging that one of the producers on Treasure Hunters is none other than Imagine Television's Brian Grazer — aka the very man who gave us Tom Hanks as Da Vinci code-breaker Robert Langdon — executive producer Jane Lipsitz (Project Runway, Last Comic Standing) says, "The things that are successful about The Da Vinci Code are taking these incredibly familiar icons and secrets and mysteries around them, and we applied that to Treasure Hunters. But this is about secrets of American history, so in that sense, it's a 'more secular' version."The way that Treasure Hunters sets itself apart from reality kin Amazing Race is twofold. "There's a big play-at-home factor for the audience," says Lipsitz, "and there's a connective tissue that runs throughout all our episodes, as you have to figure out how all these artifacts connect to bring you to the final treasure." Who's on the hunt? The teams are handily categorized as follows: Geniuses (who boast 10 academic degrees among the three of them); Grad Students (including the reality-TV requisite set of hottie twins); Young Professionals; Southie Boys (Boston buds who brag of, no joke, their "street smahts"); the Wild Hanlons (a cinch to win if mullets come into play); Ex-CIA; Air Force; Miss USA (pageant also-rans who debate early on whether or not to "use" the menfolk yet); and two families, the Fogals (who have God on their side, seeing as papa doth preach) and the Browns (almost embarrassingly, African-American brothers). Noting that "casting is always a key to the success of these series," Lipsitz says Treasure Hunters "takes all kinds of smarts and intelligence — street versus book smarts, rational versus logical thinking — and we wanted to have teams that represented all of that. At first glance, Ex-CIA and Air Force would seem to be in the lead, but we also wanted people with interesting and more relatable approaches to how they solve puzzles. And while there are physical elements , we balance that with the intelligent side as well."It is also Treasure Hunters' ambition to show off the historical side of America, as opposed to the almost-incomprehensible globe-trotting and tropical locales featured on other reality offerings. "A lot of shows out there show exotic foreign places, and we feel like America hasn't been explored in that way," says Lipsitz. "So when arrive at Mount Rushmore, we wanted that to feel huge and magnificent and meaningful and just as exotic, even though it's on American soil."But exactly what is it that is hidden somewhere in these United States? What is the treasure — depicted in the show's opening as a chest of gold coins straight out of a prop closet — that these teams seek? Lipsitz's lips are sealed. "The treasure itself is part of the mystery," she hedges. "Like a real-life treasure hunt, you never know what you're actually going to find!"
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