| Starface | |
|---|---|
| Format | Game show |
| Presented by | Danny Bonaduce |
| Country of origin | United States |
| No. of episodes | 40 |
| Production | |
| Executive producer(s) | Pat Finn |
| Location(s) | Hollywood Center Studios Hollywood, California |
| Running time | 30 minutes |
| Broadcast | |
| Original channel | GSN |
| Original run | August 1 – November 4, 2006 |
| External links | |
| Website | |
Starface is an American television game show which ran on GSN on August 1, 2006 to November 4, 2006. Reruns aired until January 2007.
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The show, known as Fame Game in its early development stages, was hosted by Danny Bonaduce. It is a trivia-based game involving questions about celebrities and other elements of pop culture. Three contestants competed, with the winner playing a bonus round for the grand prize. The show was taped at Hollywood Center Studios.
Contestants ring in to answer questions worth 50 points, with no penalty for a wrong answer. The first question of the round is identifying a celebrity from a photo. Follow up questions are then asked related in some way to the previous question. Some sets of questions in this round may be asked as "(National Enquirer) Hot Corner", where the star being used is a very sexy celebrity (such as Carmen Electra or Leonardo DiCaprio, for example). Also commonly featured is "(Celebrity) Train Wreck", where the celebrity being used is one that has been in recent life trouble.
Correct answers are worth 100 points. In this round, at least one set of questions featured a puzzle question under one of these segments:
"Below the Beltway": Pictures of a politician, past or present, are shown, starting at the person's waist, and going up his/her body, one at a time. A sound clip from Hail to the Chief precedes this portion of the competition.
"See Cups": Pictures of a female celebrity are shown, starting at the person's breasts, and zooming out from the body, one at a time.
"Yearbook": Pictures of a celebrity are shown, starting at youth, and going through maturity, one at a time.
For each segment, a clue is given for each stage of the reveal, after which players can ring in and guess. An incorrect guess locks the player out for the rest of the reveal. All three players are once again eligible to answer follow-up questions.
Also occasionally used is the following category:
"15 Minutes of Fame": This rarely used category is about people who only became famous because of a relation with a celebrity. The answers to the follow-up questions were often designed to dis the would-be celebrity.
This segment has been used in every single episode so far, and is almost always the last segment in the second round:
"Mug Shot": As its name suggests, a mug shot of a celebrity who has been arrested at least once before (Christian Slater, Paul Reubens and Martha Stewart, to name a few). A few of the follow-up questions are usually based around the crime that got the celebrity arrested.
The contestants each put on a mask of the same celebrity. The questions are about that celebrity, and the players must phrase their answers in first-person form. Each correct answer is worth 200 points, and the player with the highest score at the end of the round wins the game and advances to the bonus round. If a tie occurs, a tie-breaker question is asked; a right answer wins the game, and a wrong answer loses the game.
The player is shown pictures of two different things (celebrities, animals, food, etc.), and is read a series of statements. Each statement pertains to one of the two options. If the player answers 10 questions correctly in 60 seconds, he/she won a trip; otherwise, $100 was awarded for each correct answer.
The show recycled several well-known game show sound effects: the sound for buzzing in was recycled from two earlier GSN original series, Mall Masters and National Lampoon's Funny Money, the right answer sound was similar to the sound heard when a letter pops up on Wheel of Fortune, the buzzer for a wrong answer came from Shop 'til You Drop, and the bonus round music was later used on Merv Griffin's Crosswords.
GSN decided not to renew the show for a second season due to poor ratings. In early November, the show was replaced by I've Got a Secret in the 9:30 PM timeslot, leaving only a 3:30 PM weekend airing until January 2007, when the show was completely removed from the schedule and Match Game PM took its former weekend slot.