Celebrity Charades
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Celebrity Charades is a game show which was presented June 20-24, 2005 on the AMC television network in America.[1] The show stemmed from a private series of parties hosted by actor Chad Lowe and his wife actress Hilary Swank.
On the show, celebrity teams of five were sent into two separate rooms. In each round of play, a set of five movie titles to be guessed are predetermined by the producers. One person from each team is given the first title; then each must run to a section of the house where his/her teammates are waiting, then pantomime the title. The team member who guesses correctly subsequently runs to the central location where someone is waiting with the second answer to be guessed. This goes on for five answers. When all answers are guessed, the team must come up with the common theme that chains the answers together. The first team to do so wins the round.[2]
There is no prize awarded to the winner. Instead, all participants agreed to donate their appearance fee to a charity of their choice.
Another game show (hosted by Jay Johnson) that previously used that title aired in 1979 as a syndicated series throughout the United States.[3] Celebrity Charades is modeled after a 1962-1964 TV show Stump The Stars, which itself is a successor to the long running Pantomime Quiz of the 1950s. [4]
[edit] References
- ^ Sponsorship announcement for Celebrity Charades from thefutoncritic.com
- ^ AMC Celebrity Charades webpage including link to Chad Lowe explaining the rules of the game
- ^ Tim Brooks and Earle Marsh, The Complete Directory to Prime Time Network and Cable TV Shows 1946-Present ISBN 0-345-45542-8
- ^ TV Guide Guide to TV (2006) ISBN 0-7607-7572-9
