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William Shatner’s kidney stone is worth what? Find out on his new NBC game show tonight!

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Merv Griffin Entertainment Executive TV producer Roy Bank (C’94) debuts his new NBC game show “It’s Worth What” tonight. If you think you’re good at putting a value on some of those antiques you’ve got lurking in your own attic, you’re going to love this show. And it’s got Cedric the Entertainer as the host! […]

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High Score! Penn alum bringing Pac-Man reality series to TV

Random blast from the past video Merv Griffin president Roy Bank (C’94) is bringing the “world’s biggest game of tag to television”. That’s right.. a Pac-Man sort of game show.  Roy describes it as a “big, crazy “Wipeout”-type event with a lot of energy.”  (source) Sounds like it could be fun.  Can’t wait for the […]

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Penn alum partners with David Arquette to “Rank the Stars”

I’ve covered Roy Bank (C’94) here in the past, and as head of Merv Griffin Entertainment, he’s got a whole bag of tv goodies coming up. More about his gameshow and reality show after the jump! 1) “Ranking the Stars” which takes celebrity panelists and “asks them to rank each other on a given topic, […]

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He’s Producing a Reality Show About a Reality TV School!

Get this… So there’s a “New York Reality TV School” founded by Robert Galinsky to help people actually get ONTO their favorite reality shows. And President of Merv Griffin Television Roy Bank (C’94) is in final talks to create a reality show out of this. Per Portfolio.com, “The series will begin by following him [Galinsky] […]

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DT Hollywood Bits and Pieces

Lots of Penn Hollywood news happening recently in the movies, on TV, in music and on magazine covers…Click here for this week’s scoopage. Jon Avnet’s (C’71) film Righteous Kill starring Al Pacino and Robert DeNiro comes out in theaters today. Logline: “Two Veteran New York City Detectives hunt a vigilante who may be one of […]

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DT Hollywood Bits and Pieces

Lots of Penn Hollywood news happening recently… This past week, Dreamworks Exec Stacey Snider (C’82) was defending her studio’s film Tropic Thunder. Find out why! Roy Bank (C’94) is collaborating with Salma Hayek on a new reality show with a “unique take” on weddings. My past posts about Roy here Did you know that Alison […]

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