Screaming at Briefcases - the Canadian Edition!

Is anyone else intrigued about the hype, the sheer squeal-like-a-girly-girl excitement that is accompanying the “Deal or No Deal”’ Canadian special? As far as I can tell it will air after the Superbowl (how Canadian!) and have real Canadian contestants and real Canadian briefcase models (real Canadian breasts? We‘ll see). The big joke, at least according to the ads, is that it will also feature a Canadian host - Howie Mandel. Ah haha ha ha… ha? I must admit I watch the show sometimes because I like seeing people win money and freak out. I also love how everyone tries so hard to continue the lie that the banker is a real person, and not an actor hired to be a silhouette dishing out mathematical equations. The clever rouse is so complete the banker even has his own blog. Here you can read his most entertaining and pointless thoughts. Did you know the banker considers himself “a very very very sexy man”? He is also “definitely not Steve Guttenberg“. This is riveting stuff people.

Where was I going with this? I started reading the banker’s blog and got off track. My point was that we, as a Canadian audience, are very excited by the prospect of Canadians winning lots of money on a big, popular game show. I’m wondering if it’s possible for Canadians to come up with their own game show. Instead of the meagre one or two episode “specials”, how about a real weekly Canadian game show where Canadians could participate and win big money? Okay, granted, if it were on the CBC or some other cash starved network the money might not be “big”, but it could be enough to make us care. Hell, throw in some gift certificates to Canadian Tire and we’d be happy. Does anyone else want to see this? Am I the only one who would be totally psyched to see a farmer from Tillsonburg win five thousand bucks in prime time? I think it would be nice to root for the home team, as it were. And no, Canadian Idol doesn’t count. Canadian Idol doesn’t really count as anything.