Posted on 09/17/2009 1:47:10 PM PDT by Steelfish
TV's 'Newlywed Game' Features First Gay Couple
By DAVID BAUDER, AP Television Writer
Thursday, September 17, 2009
Even as states and jurisdictions made gay and lesbian marriages legal, "The Newlywed Game" has played it straight — until now.
The long-running game show, now on the GSN cable network, said Wednesday it will feature its first gay couple this season on a celebrity edition. George Takei, who played Mr. Sulu on "Star Trek," will appear with his partner, Brad Altman.
They just celebrated their first anniversary after being married in Los Angeles last September, but they're nothing like the giggly young couples the game is known for. Takei and Altman have been together for 22 years.
"What we want is to display the normality and the joy of having a happy union," Takei said.
"The Newlywed Game" has been on TV off and on since it premiered in prime-time on ABC in 1967, mostly with Bob Eubanks as host. Singer Carnie Wilson is now host of the show, which is in its second season on GSN and done well in the ratings for the network.
The show always teased and tested couples about how well they know each other, with the slightly lascivious Eubanks delighting in questions about "making whoopee."
It has since featured older couples, interracial couples and some who have lived together many years before marriage. Even long-ago contestants were retested as part of "Oldyweds Game" segments.
Kelly Goode, GSN's programming chief, said she couldn't speculate on why gay couples were never included in the past because GSN, the former Game Show Network, has only been responsible for the show for two years. She said it was in the game's rules that the couple needed to have a legally-recognized marriage to play.
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So which one goes off stage when the wives (i.e. women) are asked to go off stage for the husbands (men) to answer the first round of questions?
mainstream is now fringe ... why watch crap.
I didn’t even know it was still on the air. When one of them goes off-stage with the “wives,” we will have too much information.
Hosted by Carnie Wilson?
Daughter of Brian Wilson? Sang with Wilson Phillips years ago?
Haven’t heard that name in years!
I’m thinking Sulu is the catcher.
So if Carnie asks George Takai, “where is the most unusual place you’ve made whoopie”, he won’t answer, ‘in the butt?”
I don’t want to know. Whimper.
In a different time this would be a walk to the gallows
Aye Aye, captain. Torpedoes away.
I dont think people realize that it is probably ILLEGAL to excude married gays from these shows. They will be more shocked to find that schools will be required to give equal time to straight and gay marriage in class discussions and in text books.
Check out the photo in #8. Chekov and Uhura right [ahem] behind.
Pillow biters.
Do the “pitchers” ask questions of the “catchers”?
Do the “pitchers” ask questions of the “catchers”?
it’s a signal to the pitcher of either 1, 2 or 3 wiggling fingers
when it’s time for the change up it’s the whole fist
That’s Uhura?
I thought it was the Enterprise.
Yup, it's true... Mr Sulu has "boldly gone" where no man should go.....
Gives new meaning to the spit-ball, screwball, or even side-arm. No ‘cleats’ are involved, I’m sure.
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