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Message # 84003.4.1

Subject: Re:TV program with some wetness

Date: Thu 28/01/21 18:54:44 GMT

Name: Francis Chu

Email: francischu@iinet.net.au

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By MK - wamtec@comcast.net Thu 28/01/21 16:37:50 GMT

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One example being the "Hole in the Wall: gameshow developed by the Japanese 20 years ago, that was sold over 40 countries over the next 10 years.

This Dutch show is really late to the game here, because that concept was first seen over 10 years ago on a Brazilian game show and then in several South American gameshows...and now 10 years later the Dutch have it.

But kudos for the Dutch for being the FIRST to develop what became known in UK as "Bob's Your Uncle" in 1992 in the UK, and later copied in Spain and Italy as "Luna di Mial" and the sinking boat wedding couples game was also copied in Argentina as well.  The Netherlands was the first to originate the wet wedding game in 1987 when they called it "Ron's Honeymoon Quiz".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BCYhOpp3Sq0

The Dutch version ran for over 100 episodes from 1987 to 1994, and only a handful of clips are on Youtube. I would love to see more of those old shows. I have the 20+ UK episodes of Bob's Your Uncle and the 20+ episodes made in Italy and Spain....so those are complete, but over 90 of the Dutch episodes remain to be found.

Of course the most famous example of a wetlook concept of a gameshow being exported to many other countries was the German Mann O Mann show, which was sold to over 50 countries over the next 25 years....and was still playing in a new Vietnamese version on Viet TV last year. The interesting stat on that show is that despite the same pool dunking game being recreated in 50 countries, only 2 of those countries (Germany and Greece) had versions where the ladies went in the pool.

Anyway....if you want to see more of similar scenes from this latest Dutch show....you can find lots of old clips from 10 years ago of the Brazilian version of the same stunt.

The old saying "imitation is the sincerest form of flattery" relates to all these copycat shows....but I think the real saying is more like "imitation is the laziest way to make money".

MK

By Erik Elsas - Wed 27/01/21 22:18:55 GMT

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W-byN1DY9CQ