OWN: Are You Normal, America - New Game Show

[jus4hugs]

From Harpo Studios comes Are You Normal, America? - the new game show that will help viewers figure out how normal (or not) they are!

This lively game show will answer our most burning questions by using a highly scientific and deeply revealing poll, in addition to a "jury" of real Americans, man-on-the-street polling, real life situations shot in the field and in-studio demonstrations. Each episode will feature contestants who will win big money in their quest to learn if they're normal or not. Along the way, audiences will be entertained, enlightened and ultimately comforted by the fact that we're all pretty abnormal...but that's what makes life fun!

This isn’t a typical trivia show…this is game show where STRANGERS will be paired up to solve riddles and must be able to work as a team. The questions will require you to share intimate details about your personal life…things you wouldn’t typically talk about with strangers.

This is a comedy-driven show, so it’s all in fun…with the goal of winning lots of cash!

Scheduled to air next month [June]
http://hollywoodjunket.com/2012/03/1...ow-set-report/

[Lingofan97]

Oprah's Network isn't doing so well, so in the long run this may fail. I remember in 2011 her network was very close to getting taken off.

[espnews26]

Judging from the title, I thought this was cooked up by the religious community in their efforts against the homosexuals.

[Lingofan97]

But the description is different. Not very different though

[breeziebeez1]

I think it sounds kind of interesting, depending largely on how it's done. Going to keep an eye for it. Thanks for the tip Just4hugs

[CaseyAbell]

From the blog with a screenshot of the first episode's contestants...

Abnormally slow

Just watched the first episode of Are You Normal America on the OWN web site. Can I have my wasted hour back, please?

My main complaint was pace. The basic idea was old but okay, pretty much the same as other survey-based shows. The show polled a thousand-plus sample on gripping issues...like whether you've ever sucked a sex partner's toes. If the show had moved along briskly, the silliness might have been halfway or maybe a quarter-way bearable.

Trouble is, they pounded every question into the ground and then dug it up and pounded it back into the ground again. Contestants Scot and Charlë didn't just have to figure out if toe-sucking was "normal" (done by more than 50% of the poll sample). We also had to get street interviews on toe-sucking. Plus views on toe-sucking from the "poll posse," ten members of the poll sample who turned up onstage. Plus extensive comments on toe-sucking from the show's hosts. By the time we had moved on to another question, I was almost sucking my own toes in sheer, screaming boredom.

The money wasn't huge, but this is cable and not even big-time cable. Host Barry Poznick was irritating, and co-host Kim Coles didn't do much. At least that kept her from grating on my eardrums like Poznick. OWN has well-publicized ratings problems, and this effort probably won't help much.

One mostly irrelevant note: there are 4,328 pictures of Oprah Winfrey on the OWN web site. I counted them. Had to do something while the show dragged on.

[espnews26]

I completely forgot about the show until the scrolled the TV listings and saw the description of the episode involved pissing in the shower. Show sounds idiotic and a failure. No wonder OWN is a failure and losing tons of money. Although, this is just a drop in the bucket to OPRAH.

[phimat37]

I will not watch anything on OWN. Are you kidding me.

[patnvanna83]

"UPDATE TIME WITH 50% MORE BAD NEWS"

here's more bashing of Are You Normal,America? courtesy of the new york daily news:http://www.nydailynews.com/entertain...sEnabled=false

[asia021409]

Here's the Examier reviews...They review are opposite to Nydailynews..
OWN network premiers new game show, 'Are You Normal, America?'
http://www.examiner.com/review/own-n...normal-america

[Lingofan97]

"UPDATE TIME WITH 50% MORE BAD NEWS"

here's more bashing of Are You Normal,America? courtesy of the new york daily news:http://www.nydailynews.com/entertain...sEnabled=false

Not surprised. The show sounds horrific. OWN trying a game show is possibly worse than GSN trying reality

[patnvanna83]

Not surprised. The show sounds horrific. OWN trying a game show is possibly worse than GSN trying reality

in which anyway you slice it, it will fail on both accounts

as a matter of fact this show is for the Howard Stern crowd, let alone Howard "King of all media" Stern himself.

[CaseyAbell]

Here's the Examier reviews...They review are opposite to Nydailynews...

The Examiner review is kind of lukewarm, though no doubt it's much more positive than either my review or the Daily News blast. Of course, the only reviews that literally count come from The Nielsen Company.

[patnvanna83]

*UPDATE TIME*

"Are You Normal"?...only if by "Normal" you mean Cancelled:http://thefutoncritic.com/news/2012/...s-235313/9838/