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Johnny Dickshot
Sep 21 2007 09:21 AM

Found this while looking for Top Chef info. An online game where you buy and sell TV shows like stocks for your network and gain or lose points/value based on ratings, ratings improvment, awards won, etc.

It's quite possible I won't pay any attention and almost definitely won't win anything but as a distraction I thought I'd play and tell yas.

[url]http://www.tvbigshot.com/[/url]

You can look me up: I'm "Channel 6 Million"

My lineup is:
Law & Order SVU
Family Guy
Survivor
Big Shots

I never heard of the latter show -- it hasn't debuted yet. I have 19 million left over of my 300 M budget. I guess that means I didn't spend well because I can't afford any more.

metirish
Sep 21 2007 09:27 AM

$89M for Law & Order.....is that an average price or did you pay over the top for it,Big Shots worth more that an established series like Family Guy?

Johnny Dickshot
Sep 21 2007 09:30 AM

I have no idea how they set the values. I just looked at a preview of Big Shots now and I promise you I will never watch it. I may have to sell!

Benjamin Grimm
Sep 21 2007 09:48 AM

Sounds like a fantasy game where you're a network exec instead of a baseball GM.

sharpie
Sep 21 2007 10:13 AM

I don't watch any of those shows so I think you're going to lose. Of course I'm not the demographic that they're looking for.

Johnny Dickshot
Sep 21 2007 11:23 AM

I sold Big Shot and bought The Office and Gossip Girl.

Anyone else wanna play?

Edgy DC
Sep 21 2007 11:27 AM

I used to have a profile at the Hollywood Stock Exchange.

http://www.hsx.com/

I assume it works by supply and demand. More folks buy, and the price goes up. Maybe the price can go up with the actual performance of the show, but it doesn't necessarily have to.

In the end, it helps the guys with ties measure how their buzz is working.

TransMonk
Sep 21 2007 11:43 AM

I'm in.

"Channel 6986"

Lineup:
Chuck
Dirty Sexy Money
How I Met Your Mother
Grey's Anatomy

metirish
Sep 21 2007 12:47 PM

I'm in....I just spent about 40 minutes buying shows....

Channel name - Zoo Station




Are You Smarter than a 5th Grader? - 73M FOX

King of the Hill $42M FOX

The Game $17M CW

Deal Or No Deal $71M NBC


Kitchen Nightmares $39M FOX

Prison Break $57M FOX


This thing started on the 17th so we are ok,scroll down to # 7 for the general scoring rules...

http://www.tvbigshot.com/rules/

metsmarathon
Sep 21 2007 04:01 PM

marathonvision - "watching tv is not a sprint"

Bionic Woman - $46M NBC
Back to You - $39M FOX
Reaper - $16M CW
Two And A Half Men - $94M CBS
The Office - $50M NBC
Smallville - $27M CW

TheOldMole
Sep 22 2007 10:08 AM

I did HSX for a while too.

metirish
Sep 24 2007 08:29 AM

After a great review in the Daily News I dumped "King of the hill" and " the game" and picked up "Chuck",a calculated risk but it leads into "Heroes" so it has a shot.......

Edgy DC
Sep 24 2007 09:33 AM

My Mother the Car $0.25 NBC

Tabitha $0.17 ABC

Big Shamus, Little Shamus $0.07 CBS

Baby, I'm Back! $0.16 CBS

Pink Lady and Jeff $0.02 NBC

A Boy Named Seo
Sep 24 2007 10:34 AM

The Dave Littlefield of television.

Edgy DC
Sep 24 2007 11:40 AM

Tabitha could have a big season; that's why I traded Gossip Girl for it.

Tabitha also brings experience. It has the Robert Urich factor my team had been missing.

metirish
Sep 24 2007 11:42 AM

Seriously I think Edgy is taking the piss.

metirish
Sep 26 2007 08:49 AM

I'm not trying to boost one of my own shows but Kitchen Nightmares is hilarious,I downloaded the season premiere from iTunes for free and watched it on the train....loved it....last week he was at an Italian restaurant in Babylon and Peter the son could not have been more of a Soprano wannabe.....so funny....tonight Ramsey tries to fix an Indian place not far from his own restaurant in the City....

HahnSolo
Sep 26 2007 10:30 AM

Channel: sledgespartnerslegs

My Name is Earl $56M
NCIS $96M (!)
Heroes $82M
Chuck $46M
Reaper $16M

metirish
Sep 27 2007 09:47 AM

Not sure what this means but this is me.

]

* Budget: $11M
* Season Score: 0
* Season Rank: 1
* Showdown Score: 0
* Showdown Rank: 1

TransMonk
Sep 27 2007 09:50 AM

I've got the same scores and ranks. Makes no sense to me either.

metirish
Sep 27 2007 09:55 AM

Just added all CPF users channels to my Spy List, no idea what that is either.

Johnny Dickshot
Sep 27 2007 10:09 AM

I don't think they've awarded any points yet.

The spy list just allows you to see certain channels at a glance. I suppose that would allow one to say, copy a leader quickly.

metsmarathon
Oct 02 2007 06:06 PM

i hope nobody's picked up cavemen...

i'm only five minutes in and its already damned unwatchable

metirish
Oct 02 2007 06:55 PM

i watched the first five minutes as well, utterly stupid.

Johnny Dickshot
Oct 02 2007 08:40 PM

I think the points are supposed to update tonite or tomorrow morning. Got a maintenence thingy up there now.

metirish
Oct 02 2007 09:14 PM

I hope so JD,I've been checking every day like a fool.

Johnny Dickshot
Oct 03 2007 08:02 AM

My spy list shows metmarathon leading the race so far:
cpf rank. team (dork) score overall

1. marathonvision (metmarathon) 596 1187
2. Channel6986 (transmonk) 366 3731
3. Channel 6 Million (Dickshot) 326 4440
4. sledgespartnerslegs (Hahnsolo) 321 4530
5. ZooStation (irish) 225 6447

Congrats! We're all in the top 50%.

There are around 16,000 teams overall. The leader has ~1100 points.

Rotblatt
Oct 04 2007 09:27 AM

I'm on as well!

S.H.A.R.K. TV - currently ranked 1349 with 655 points.

John Cougar Lunchbucket
Oct 11 2007 09:03 PM

I sold some shows and bought some others. I don;t know what I'm doing but appear to have traded water for another week. Rotblatt's Shark Week TV is kicking ass.

S.H.A.R.K. TV (rotblatt)
Current Score: 954
Rank: 797

marathonvision (metmarathon)
Current Score: 837
Rank: 1615

Channel6986 (transmonk)
Current Score: 669
Rank: 2994

Channel 6 Million (Lunchbucket)
Season Score: 547
Season Rank: 4675

sledgespartnerslegs (Hahnsolo)
Current Score: 482
Rank: 5683

ZooStation (irish) 225 6447
Current Score: 453
Rank: 6122

metirish
Oct 11 2007 09:11 PM

Weird that I had just done the tally of scores.

Roblatt is killing it, I dumped "Deal or no Deal" and picked up "Heroes"

HahnSolo
Oct 12 2007 07:41 AM

Question:
I drafted NCIS for the sole reason for the bonus points for winning its time slot. And I believe it has, each week. But when I go to the show's page, it lists 0 for time slot wins. Where are my bonus points, darn it!?

metirish
Oct 17 2007 04:47 PM
Edited 1 time(s), most recently on Oct 18 2007 09:30 AM

New scores are in.

S.H.A.R.K. TV (rotblatt)
Current Score: 1470
Rank: 533

marathonvision (metmarathon)
Current Score: 1243
Rank: 1861

sledgespartnerslegs (Hahnsolo)
Current Score: 1115
Rank: 2934

Channel6986 (transmonk)
Current Score: 1075
Rank: 3385


ZooStation (irish)
Current Score: 932
Rank: 5386

Channel 6 Million (Lunchbucket)
Season Score: 929
Season Rank: 5434


Can't get any closer that that, well played all.

HahnSolo
Oct 18 2007 09:27 AM

What am I, chopped liver here?

sledgespartnerslegs (Hahnsolo)
Current Score: 1115
Rank: 2934

metirish
Oct 25 2007 09:48 AM

New scores are in.

S.H.A.R.K. TV (rotblatt)
Current Score: 1904
Rank: 462

marathonvision (metmarathon)
Current Score: 1539
Rank: 2171

sledgespartnerslegs (Hahnsolo)
Current Score: 1494
Rank: 2549

Channel6986 (transmonk)
Current Score: 1422
Rank: 3134



Channel 6 Million (Lunchbucket)
Season Score: 1253
Season Rank: 5030



ZooStation (irish)
Current Score:1105
Rank: 6883


Lunchbucket and I swap places again.

metirish
Oct 31 2007 08:19 PM

New scores are in.

S.H.A.R.K. TV (rotblatt)
Current Score: 3200
Rank: 132

sledgespartnerslegs (Hahnsolo)
Current Score: 2079
Rank: 2931

Channel6986 (transmonk)
Current Score: 2045
Rank: 3217

marathonvision (metmarathon)
Current Score: 1979
Rank: 3825


ZooStation (irish)
Current Score:1836
Rank: 5387


Channel 6 Million (Lunchbucket)
Season Score: 1798
Season Rank: 5958

metirish
Nov 07 2007 12:08 PM

Scores updated today.

metirish
Nov 08 2007 07:20 AM

This strike might screw up our game.

John Cougar Lunchbucket
Nov 08 2007 07:44 AM

I got hammered last week, but I think it's becuz I had so many shows on Wednesdaty which was Halloween. Figure ratings will be up again this week. Survivor is just sitting there but wins its slot -- the only points I got last week.

metirish
Nov 08 2007 07:55 AM

Something weird happened since yesterday , points and ranks have changed since yesterday.

S.H.A.R.K. TV (rotblatt)
Current Score: 2880
Rank: 219

sledgespartnerslegs (Hahnsolo)
Current Score: 2079
Rank: 2657

Channel6986 (transmonk)
Current Score: 2045
Rank: 2923

marathonvision (metmarathon)
Current Score: 1979
Rank: 3518


Channel 6 Million (Lunchbucket)
Season Score: 1789
Season Rank: 5546

ZooStation (irish)
Current Score:1573
Rank: 8296

metirish
Dec 23 2007 08:49 PM

updating this, I guess the writers strike is fecking this up.


S.H.A.R.K. TV (rotblatt)
Current Score: 4229
Rank: 234


Channel6986 (transmonk)
Current Score: 2910
Rank: 2272

sledgespartnerslegs (Hahnsolo)
Current Score: 2789
Rank: 3036



Channel 6 Million (Lunchbucket)
Season Score: 2641
Season Rank: 4313


marathonvision (metmarathon)
Current Score: 2617
Rank: 4553


ZooStation (irish)
Current Score:2215
Rank: 9050

John Cougar Lunchbucket
Dec 23 2007 09:10 PM

I lost interest after software glitches ruined 3 weeks of scores. Perhaps they work out the bugs for next season.