A faux tweet noted Tetris Primetime, which turns the familiar falling-blocks game into a live online game show.
YouTube offers a few samples of the goings-on, including this effort by a Las Vegas player. I watched some of the video. It's pretty much what you would expect. Online players compete against each other to fit the blocks together.
New Zealand actor Millen Baird hosts the show, though his duties seem limited to an intro at the start and a come-back-again farewell at the finish. It's not like HQ, where the host reads the questions and gets plenty of face time.
Tetris Primetime is not making much of a splash, drawing only a few thousand viewers. One extra doodad is that viewers get to see how they did against other players in their local area. That way there are more "first place" finishers, which might make the show a little more appealing.
For a while HQ looked like it was going to usher in a new era of wildly successful online game shows. Then the entire sub-genre crashed and burned. But hope springs eternal in the game show universe, so good luck to Tetris Primetime.
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