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Another day, another primetime game show. But unlike a good chunk of the ones out there, this one actually involves something other than luck to win the dough. In NBC’s Amnesia, contestants will be competing for cash by answering questions. No, not about fifth grade academia, or which briefcase to open, but questions about minutiae in their lives! Quick—what appetizers were served at your second cousin’s wedding last year? Not as easy as you thought, huh? Watch it now! | More online videos
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Dennis Miller, Amnesia
In NBC's new game show Amnesia (Fridays at 9 pm/ET), contestants compete for big money by answering questions about a subject they should have firsthand knowledge of — their own lives. We spoke to series host Dennis Miller, that hyper-articulate master of minutiae, about helping people remember those potentially moneymaking little details.
TV Guide: Amnesia sounds reminiscent of This Is Your Life.Dennis Miller: It's This Is Your Life meets Jeopardy.... I think Ken Jennings would be better answering questions about trivia than he would his own life, because people don’t seem to remember things. Between the intricacy of the questions and the fact that we [don't] keep tabs on life like it’s a textbook, things fall between the cracks. Therein lies the mirth!
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Dennis Miller, Sports Unfiltered
He’s baaack! Dennis Miller once again steps away from politics for the slightly less controversial world of sports. "Last time I was in sports, I lasted for two years on Monday Night Football, and then John Madden left Fox [for ABC]. And when John Madden wants your job in football and you’re the stand-up comedian in the booth, he’s going to get your job," Miller says of his 2000-02 stint on MNF. His new weekly series, Sports Unfiltered with Dennis Miller (premiering tonight at 10 pm/ET on VS), features a familiar lineup of trademark rants, monologues, interviews and reviews of the top sports headlines. Here's a preview.
TV Guide: Why a sports show?
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Bradley Whitford and Neve Campbell (Party of Five) are set to front Burn Up, a four-hour global-warming thriller being shopped around to the networks, says Variety.... Showtime has given a pilot order to Possible Side Effects, a drama about a family that runs a pharmaceutical company, says the Reporter. Tim Robbins wrote and directed the pilot and will exec-produce the series, but will not star in it.... Versus will premiere Sports Unfiltered with Dennis Miller on Nov. 6, to air Tuesdays at 10 pm/ET.... Lewis Black has been tapped to moderate The Root of All Evil, a Comedy Central series that will "put pop culture on trial" (whatever that means).
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Hey, cha-cha. Dennis Miller will host GSN's Grand Slam, a game show pitting top quizzer contestants (e.g. Jeopardy!'s Ken Jennings and Millionaire's Kevin Olmstead) against each other in tests of general knowledge, math, wordplay and more. Amanda Byram (Paradise Hotel) cohosts, and the debut is Aug. 7.... The 31-year-old Museum of Television & Radio has changed its name to the Paley Center for Media, to better reflect today's media landscape. The center was previously known as Cave of Drawings Grunt and Fire!.... Do you think Harry Potter will be killed off in Deathly Hallows? Vote here (bottom right).
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Dennis Miller, Joe Mantegna and Lauren Tom have joined Bonnie Hunt's untitled ABC comedy about a divorcée detective.... CBS has picked up You've Reached the Elliotts, Chris Elliott's semiautobiographical comedy about a man juggling a so-so showbiz career and his home life.... John Terry (Jack's dad on Lost) is the latest addition to ABC's Secrets of a Small Town.... Ashley Scott (who was so nasty to Jessica Alba in Into the Blue) has come aboard CBS' Jericho.... Richard Coyle (BBC's Coupling) will play Cryptic Man on CBS' superhero drama, Ultra.
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Question: Instead of the usual TV-show questions I'm sure you get often, how about an awards-show question? We recently had Dennis Miller host the Critics Choice Awards and Craig Ferguson host the People's Choice Awards. Personally, I thought they both sucked [because they] never really [got] into their normal rhythms. With Jon Stewart hosting the Oscars this year, I'm not too optimistic, after his hosting of the Grammys a few years back. I wonder if the Golden Globes have it right (one of the few) by not having a host. Sure, the Oscars have the prestige and pomp of being "the best of the best," but I can only think of the Tonys and maybe Emmys with having the hosts best suited for their awards and crowd in the past few years. I know Jon Stewart hasn't hosted the show yet, but how do you think he'll do, and what if the Oscars got rid of a host altogether?
Answer: I'm hoping Jon Stewart succeeds. He's a smart guy, very funny and currently at the top of his game. Which is reason enough to
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A new year, another TV gig for Dennis Miller. The alumnus of Saturday Night Live, NFL Monday Night Football and HBO's The Dennis Miller Show is moving to CNBC. Starting Jan. 26, Dennis Miller — his hour-long prime-time talk show — begins airing four nights a week. As a pro-Bush Republican, he'll do nada to hide which side he leans toward in this election year.
Yet, Miller's always been an equal opportunity heckler of politicians. Why is he so outspoken in favor of the right wing lately? "Well, as far as homeland protection, I am to the right," the comic says. "I'll be honest with you — 9/11 changed me. I'm shocked it didn't change everybody as much as it changed me.
"I'm of both persuasions," he wisecracks. "If two gay guys want to get married, I could care less. If some psycho from another country wants to blow up their wedding, I expect my government to kill him preemptively!
"In dangerous
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A new year, another TV gig for Dennis Miller. The alumnus of Saturday Night Live, NFL Monday Night Football and HBO's The Dennis Miller Show is moving to CNBC. Starting Jan. 26, Dennis Miller — his hour-long prime-time talk show — begins airing four nights a week. As a pro-Bush Republican, he'll do nada to hide which side he leans toward in this election year.
Yet, Miller's always been an equal opportunity heckler of politicians. Why is he so outspoken in favor of the right wing lately? "Well, as far as homeland protection, I am to the right," the comic says. "I'll be honest with you — 9/11 changed me. I'm shocked it didn't change everybody as much as it changed me.
"I'm of both persuasions," he wisecracks. "If two gay guys want to get married, I could care less. If some psycho from another country wants to blow up their wedding, I expect my government to kill him preemptively!
"In dangerous
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