Foreign Versions and Attempts
- A version based in Puerto Rico, entitled Control Remoto, was canceled after 3 months on WAPA-TV because MTV threatened a lawsuit for copyright infringement.
- A British version of the show was co-produced by Action Time Productions and Granada Television and aired on Channel 4 from 1991 until 1994. It was hosted by Tony Wilson and featured comedian Phil Cornwell, with guest appearances by the character Frank Sidebottom and Mrs Merton.
- An Australian version aired on Network Ten in 1989 under the name The Great TV Game Show. It was hosted by Russell Stubbs with Jane Holmes and the regular panelists were Russell Fletcher, Margie Nunn, Linda Gibson, and Michael Blair. The show failed to see out the year along with a number of Network Ten game shows that were launched at around the same time.
Read more about this topic: Remote Control (game show)
Famous quotes containing the words foreign, versions and/or attempts:
“There is a close tie of affection between sovereigns and their subjects; and as chaste wives should have no eyes but for their husbands, so faithful liegemen should keep their regards at home and not look after foreign crowns. For my part I like not for my sheep to wear a stranger’s mark nor to dance after a foreigner’s whistle.”
—Elizabeth I (1533–1603)
“The assumption must be that those who can see value only in tradition, or versions of it, deny man’s ability to adapt to changing circumstances.”
—Stephen Bayley (b. 1951)
“Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity, because his freedom is always won in his never wholly successful attempts to liberate himself from necessity.”
—Hannah Arendt (1906–1975)