Before we get to the newly relaunched Card Sharks, we need to revisit a failed pilot from 1996 that I found on YouTube thanks to game show icon Wink Martindale, who actually played the game on the original Sharks.
Denver-based sportscaster Tom Green, who'd hosted the cable series, Sports on Tap, which aired on SportsChannel before it was bought out by Fox, not on ESPN as some people claim, was hired by All-American Television, at the time the rights holders to the Mark Goodson library of shows, to be the MC. Stylistically, this was amateur night. The set looked generic for its time, and All American, which distributed Baywatch back then, thought they were hip. Not here, as you're about to see.
Card Sharks would, in fact, return five years later, with Pat Bullard as host, and that iteration lasted one solitary season.
We'll look at the new version with Joel McHale (ex-Community) tomorrow.
Rating: D.
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