For those who have no idea what I'm talking about, here's a brief rundown: taking the familiar "put a bunch of friends in a place together" format (a grotty Irish bar in downtown Philadelphia), Sunny flipped the set-up on its head.
In the latter it's slapped-together formats like the Gizmondo (complete with links to the Swedish Mafia).
"Singer" Bob Geldof found his true calling in putting together Band Aid to raise money for the Ethiopian famine in 1984, creating the people-in-a-studio-together format that has given the world so much (it's hard to imagine life without the melodic harmonies of Ferry Across the Mersey, to give just one example).
There's the cute alien from ET, rendered here as a semi-robotic owl with a touch of Wall-E's Eva; the end-of-childhood adventures of Stand By Me; the homes-in-peril themes of The Goonies; the homemade filming motifs of Super 8; the last-night-together format of American Graffiti; the found footage gag from Chronicle – this is not so much plagiarism as grand larceny.
He acknowledged that his concept had been to bring together the formats of the Miss America pageant, "The Dating Game" and ABC's "Millionaire" show.
It replicates the early days of rock'n'roll when R&B and country music existed together before format segregation.
I also began to research my own ideas, putting together a format for So We Bought a Computer, which I eventually presented for Channel 4 in 1985.
"Food competitions blend together, the format is pretty much always the same," says noted food writer and occasional Food Network guest Michael Ruhlman.
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Together the two formats make a juggernaut, especially with children's and family-oriented titles.
(Chinen) Eli Degibri-Kevin Hays Duo (Thursday) Mr. Degibri, a saxophonist, and Mr. Hays, a pianist, have worked together in numerous formats, but this duo — also documented on "One Little Song," a self-released album from 2006 — best captures their close rapport.
