Don't blink or you'll miss it

Ever heard of Fuse? No, not the thing that shuts off electricity when there's a power overload.

I'm talking about the cable network. If you don't know about it, don't feel too bad. In the latest week Fuse got a whopping average of 28K viewers for total day. It ranked 97th out of 107 cable nets tracked by Nielsen. We're talking insignificant, folks.

I glanced at its schedule. Fuse runs a few sitcoms and some music videos. Nobody watches the channel, so it's hard to program anything that actually costs money. But game shows are notoriously cheap, so Fuse has decided to try one. They will call it Trivial Takedown, and it's a rewind of a Brit original called Blink.

Alleged celebs - I've never heard of any of them, but this show is pitched at viewers forty years younger than me - will try to identify people and songs based on very short glimpses...in the blink of an eye, you might say. Hey, I bet that's where the Brits got the title!

Fuse has ordered twenty eps. They promise a more elaborate set than the original's green screen (see screenshot). That's nice to know.

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