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I don't have fever for the flavor of My Games Fever

Published Tuesday, December 19, 2006 by seanlmccarthy | E-mail this post

Richard Huff of the NYDN weighed in today on the new FOX-TV daytime game show, My Games Fever. I'm not sure Huff conveyed just how god-awful this two-hour program is. It's as if someone said, well, we got folks hooked on Sudoku, and people will watch home shopping channels, so why don't we just produce a live, 120-minute word-game show? Yeah, it's that bad. It airs weekdays from 1-3 p.m. in Boston on FOX25. The day I watched, the two hosts clearly didn't know what to do with the lengthy dead air, waiting for someone -- anyone -- to call in with an answer to the puzzle. And every viewer would guess incorrectly. And then the hosts would try desperately to fill the time with anything to make you think you were actually watching a shopping channel, when really, 'twas merely a word puzzle. No need to stay tuned for the final answer. It's not worth it.