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New Reality Show ‘Moment of Truth’ Makes Everyone Squirm
Fox’s newest reality game show, "Moment of Truth," tests contestants’ ability to tell the truth – at all cost – for up to $500,000.

'Weakest Link' Almost Disaster for NBC
After what was nearly a huge embarrassment for NBC, the network has decided to let the former spouse of an executive keep her game show winnings from 'Weakest Link.'

Muslim Tv Channel to Stage Interfaith Game Show
Contestants from different religions to compete against each other for cash prizes and mutual respect

The Prime Time Reality For Deal or No Deal Models
It is a new wave of game shows such as "Are You Smarter Than A 5th Grader", "1 vs. 100", "Power of 10" and most recently the Mega-Hit Deal or No Deal that lead the pack. Many may ask themselves how it is that a show featuring average contestants opening cases for money has grown to be the number one show in America?

Boxing: Unlikely Contender Keeps Faith With Providence and Destiny
Peter Manfredo Jr tells Donald McRae how he made it from US reality boxing game show, The Contender, to a Millennium Stadium bout with Joe Calzaghe.

Fox Tv Urged to Drop Adoption Show
Fox TV is under pressure to abandon a scheduled adoption gameshow, Who's Your Daddy?, after thousands of people protested at the programme in which children try to identify their father for a £50,000 prize.

Coughing up the answer
Accusations of fraud in TV game shows are nothing new. Police are currently looking into a claim that a number of the participants in I'm a Celebrity, Get Me Out Of Here were not in fact celebrities at all, but rather tragic rejects from the provincial panto circuit.

Russian gameshow winner to boldly go
When a Russian Soyuz rocket blasts off for the international space station in less than a year's time, the two cosmonauts on board should be accompanied by the super-fit and super-lucky winner of a TV gameshow.

TV show to revel in family misfortune
Perhaps the entire legal department of the American TV network ABC took holidays at the same time this year. It is difficult to see how else it could have approved a new reality-based game show which looks like the biggest recipe for expensive lawsuits and grievous bodily harm in the history of television: