Television Was On Trial!

Rating: 7/10 (16 September 2001)

I watched this movie in my Video Lit. class, when we where watching 1950's Television and watched "Quiz Show" because it was about 1950's Television Quiz Shows. Well we had to do an essay on the movie and i thought wouldn't it be cool to put it on IMDB.com, so here i go:

In the 1950's television was new and the shows where good but you never saw it really effect people in anyway. That was true untill games shows from radio came like Twenty-One and 64,000 Question. In these shows you can see real people winning money and it's effecting their lives. When watching the show you see people like yourself answer questions that they might not know, and you never knew who was gonna win. That is why quiz shows where popular in the 1950's.
Then in the 1950's the people found-out of a scandal. When a show like Twenty-One was giving the answer to contestants on their shows so they could have reoccurring contestants. The people's vision of real people of the street was ask questions to see what THEY know, and not just to see reoccurring contestants. They were lied to, and they did not want that. In the outcome, game shows weren't watched.
One big argument of the show is that some people think that NBC who showed "Twenty-One" and Gertiol who sponsor the show should've got punished. Since the manager of the show said that he never told either NBC and Gertiol of the answer giving, they weren't. Personally i don't know what to think, Gertiol i don't care about, but NBC i do. They bring us great shows like "Saturday Night Live", "Friends", "Just Shoot Me", etc.. and they might not be if it wasn't for NBC. But then on the other hand NBC was running this show and should know of everything that was going on, so in which I can't decide!
Now, after awhile that game shows where still going on, but not a real popular hours, they made a come back to primetime. Shows like "Who Wants to Be A Millionaire?", "Survior", and "Greed" became hits, because now shows know not to lie to the public, or at less we hope they do. Even the show "Twenty-One" made a come back, but i never left the ground.
It depends on your viewing public for trust. Now there are shows that we know aren't real, but they are still hits. Shows like "The Jerry Springer Show" (talk show) and "WWF" (wrestling) we know are fake and staged because they told us, and people still watch it because it's what they like. The there are shows like "Who Wants To Be A Millionaire" and "The Rickie Lake Show" are shows that the viewing public wants and believes are real.