On August 24, 2009
ABC’s “Wanna Bet?” Resurrected for Irish TV … But Why?
Seeing what passes for television entertainment in foreign countries has always been somewhat of a hobby for me, even before there were media blogs where I could write about it. (Who knew that “Charlie’s Angels”, renamed “Droles et Dames,” would still be in reruns in France in 1994?) So, as we are currently vacationing in Ireland, I was curious to see an episode of the truly awful ABC game show “Wanna Bet?” last night, which, from what I can tell, aired for a total of six episodes last summer. The premise: a group of four celebrities (or quasi-celebrities) bets on whether average Americans can perform amazingly weird stunts, like a woman who claimed that she could tell the designer of…
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