Året er 2017. Verdensøkonomien har brutt sammen. Det er mangel på både mat og olje. USA er en totalitær politistat, oppdelt i militære soner som styrkes med jernhånd. Egne meninger tolereres ikke. TV er mektigere en noensinne og mest populært er programmet THE RUNNING MAN. En makaber katt og mus-lek der uskyldige innbyggere utpekes som forbrytere og jages av spesialtrente commandostyrker. Men denne gangen møter de livsfarlig motstand...
A teenager reflects on his life after being accused of cheating on the Indian version of "Who Wants to be a Millionaire?".
Both dumped by their girlfriends, two best friends seek refuge in the local mall. Eventually, they decide to try and win back their significant others and take care of their respective nemeses.
The Griswalds win a vacation to Europe on a game show, and so pack their bags for the continent. They do their best to catch the flavor of Europe, but they just don't know how to be be good tourists. Besides, they have trouble taking holidays in countries where they CAN speak the language.
Den gjennomført ukarismatiske Herbie Stempel begynner som konkurransens helt. Han var nøye plukket ut av produsentene, de regnet med at folk ville elske en uskjønn nerd med dårlige tenner og masse unødvendig, fragmentert kunnskap. Men fjernsynet må som kjent stadig komme opp med noe nytt for å holde grepet på sine seere. Den dagen Stempel blir bedt om å svare feil og ser seg selv erstattet av den vellykkede og vakre Charles Van Doren, sønn og nevø av to Pulitzer-prisvinnere, raser verden sammen. Og Stempel hjelper villig etterforskeren Dick Goodwin for på den måten å få sin hevn og oppreisning.
En komedie med mange innfall om George som driver en tv-stasjon, en oppgave som detter på ham fordi hans onkel tilfeldigvis vinner en kjempegevinst i poker. George lykkes i å få seernes oppmerksomhet blant annet ved at han lar stasjonens dørvakt lede et barneshow, noe som gir et ganske underlig resultat. Og oppe i denne skrullete historien finnes rare sidehistorier der hovedpersonen parodierer, kjente figurer fra Steven Spielbergs filmer, fra "Ghandi" og fra musikkvideoer.
Salesman Roy Knable spends all his free time watching television, to the exasperation of his wife, Helen. One day, TV salesman Spike convinces Roy to buy a satellite dish offering 666 channels. The new addition to Roy's home entertainment system sucks him and Helen into Hellvision, a realm run by Spike, who is an emissary of Satan. For 24 hours, the couple must survive devilish parodies of TV programs if they want to return to reality alive.
Daniel and Stéphane, two salesmen working in the same store but who cannot stand each other, decide despite everything to team up to participate in television games so they can pay their debts.
The story of hard-luck Melvin Dummar, who claimed to have received a will naming him an heir to the fortune of Howard Hughes.
In a surreal universe where bananas fire laser beams and soup cans are used as grenades, a wacky cast of gangsters are thrown into a deadly game to battle it out over a mystical longboard in this trippy take on the Tarantino crime genre.
Martín's lucky hit when he wins the most lucrative prize in television history puts his life upside down.
A man and a woman participate in a new game show where partners have to choose between love and money.
In this satire, a police detectiveis investigating the disappearance and kidnapping of the host of a television dance show. However, instead of finding his man, he is trapped into becoming a contestant on a children's quiz show. What's worse is that he becomes a very successful contestant.
Maths teacher Ted Slauson became adept at recording and memorizing prices of products featured on the iconic game show The Price is Right, an obsession dating back to the show's inception in 1972. This passion and dedication for the show culminated in him helping a contestant place a perfect bid during a 2008 showcase, an innocent act that would create one of the biggest controversies in television industry history.
On Christmas Eve, a relentlessly cheerful woman escapes from the killers hired by her husband, and embarks on a series of strange encounters.
Highest score wins! Challenge a friend or beat a mysterious foe by answering random rapid-fire trivia questions on science, art, geography and more.
Famed composer Michael Giacchino catapults a hapless Patton Oswalt (as himself) into an outrageous series of challenges in his infectiously silly tribute to the eccentricities of Japanese game shows.
The King is the story of Graham Kennedy, Australia's first and greatest home grown TV superstar. It traces his rise from working class Balaclava kid, through radio, TV, film, and back to TV again. It also tracks Kennedy's personal tragedies - the loneliness, the unrealised ambitions and the terrible pressures of being Australia's first homegrown superstar in the 1950s and 60s.
Alex Trebek hosts a documentary about television game shows featuring interviews with a number of game show hosts and producers.
A week in the life of "The Gong Show" host and creator Chuck Barris.