Tuesday, June 2, 2026

What Might've Been: Show Me! (1990)

 Here's an unsold pilot recently uncovered.

NBC had commissioned Show Me! from an independent producer in 1990. Three pilots were produced before the network decided not to pick up the show.

Ex-MTV VJ Mark Goodman, having seen how his pal, Alan Hunter, had managed to do a fill-in gig on Triple Threat a couple of years earlier, was tapped to host this pilot. Our celebrity panel includes impressionist-actor Fred Travalena, no stranger to being an MC himself.


What were they going for? Sounds like You Don't Say for stand-ups. Goodman looked perfect in his first go as a game show host, but was never given another audition. Mark would later return to the MTV Networks family, this time at VH1, for a time.

Rating: B.

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