Hopefully they're just taking a break/vacation for the cast and crew, but the show hasn't been airing, not even repeats, this week.
I noticed old cast member Delayne or a name close to that recently showed up on the Guerros Colombia show, which isn't a big deal as these people seem to bounce around from show to show quite often. I guess it's a good deal if you liked her, she was always alright, never really took slimings and pieings too well, although right before she left she was pied magnificently and took it well.
It can't be cancelled due to cost savings, because the EEG concept in all these countries is incredibly cheap to produce...i.e.
- almost nothing spent on wardrobe, because everybody wears the same cheap sports outfits again and again on every show. The only expense they would have is for laundry...because there are certainly no lavish costumes on any show
- the sets for the games were a cheap one time cost, because they only had to build the pool once and other props once, and then they uised the same props 1000 times for several years.
- no expensive scriptwriters to pay,,,,which is the major savings on all reality show and why the screenwriters hate reality show because it puts them out of work.
- no expensive celebrity cast to pay...because they just hire no name youngsters willing to appear on the show for minimum wage because they just want to appear on tv.
Costs have nothing to do with cancelling these kinds of shows. Does anyone remember the Hole in the Wall show or other shows like College Madhouse. They all have one theme in common....they are repetitive and monotonous and so people get bored with the same people, same costumes, same props and set and same games being repeated every day. It is a miracle that they last 3 years on the air.
I think EEG has reached it's boredom factor level, so now they are looking for another boring and monotonous game show concept.....what about a show called WIPEOUT....oops....that was already done for 6 years before folks got bored with it.
The good news is....all these countries who did the EEG game shows are in South America and they are not subject to political correctness rules as we have in the USA and they are not afraid to do salacious sexy shows...nor are the Japanese or Italians.
A lot of the wackiest gameshows originate in Japan or Taiwan or Brazil and then get adopted in the rest of South America.
EEG may be RIP but stay tuned for the next crazy concept for a gameshow to come out.
BTW ....I lived in Panama for 2 years in the mid 1980's and know the culture and tv quite well....and I can assure you they are not cancelling EEG to in order to make space for more cultured shows like high class drama or opera....they are merely going to replace EEG with another low-brow show which has mindless entertainment.
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