I assume there are people who will disagree, but I think it's the most stupendously stupid quiz show idea ever conceived, and it's as boring as hell too. Could the host possibly be any duller?
* Vox has a lengthy piece on the woeful prospect of Hollywood being stuck for the next 20 years in "expanded movie universes". The worst news in the article:
The Transformers films, for example, are no longer being treated as a single series but as a larger world to explore.* To my surprise (as I didn't care much for the second one), Kung Fu Panda 3 is actually getting good reviews. It may be maintaining its popularity better than Shrek.
Last summer, Paramount hired a gaggle of writers to spend a few weeks brainstorming ideas to broaden the series, an effort that apparently produced at least nine different movie ideas — and producers have said that five of those ideas look viable.
Pointless is pointless!
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