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Face it

Finally got around to watching Face Value on the BET web site.

From the promos the show sounded like a Street Smarts knockoff - they seem to be popular nowadays - and that's pretty much what it was. Passers-by in Vegas got asked various personal questions and two teams of contestants tried to figure out how they answered. You've seen it before and Face Value did not offer a particularly fresh take on the format. But the show wasn't all that obnoxious, either, despite (or because of) titillating promises of political incorrectness.

On the debut ep Sheryl Underwood, who plays every game show in sight, and Brandon Jackson led the two teams. Deon Cole hollered a lot as the host, but you have to yell when you're on the same show with Sheryl. The questions were goofy and personal enough to entertain the studio audience, which liked to shout out suggestions to the teams.

Sad to say, the show laid an egg with the most important reviewer. Nielsen pegged its viewer number at 176K. Since BET averaged 426K viewers in prime time in the latest week, Face Value may face a bleak and brief future.

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