June 4, 2008
Show Me the Money was a short-lived game show on ABC hosted by William Shatner. It premiered on November 22, 2006. 
February 9, 2007
Show Me the Money is a game show created by the producers of Deal or No Deal. The show features a contestant who has to answer trivia questions while dealing with a mechanism that increases and decreases the winnings, and a lot of female dancers who influence the game. The high-stakes program is hosted by William Shatner.
January 2, 2007
(Apparently, Show Me the Money was canceled a couple weeks back. No one sent me the memo. This makes sense, actually. ABC made the announcement at a time that would produce the least amount of fanfare; the holidays.)
Goodbye,
Show Me the Money. You will be dearly missed.
You gave us an epic amount of silliness and, for that, there is no substitute. Where else can we witness a seventy year-old former space captain dance the Salsa with beautiful young women and unsuspecting strangers? Unless Patrick Stewart joins
Dancing with the Stars, the answer is nowhere.
December 27, 2006
Game shows have been around since the beginning of TV. Their popularity has never really waned; just look at the success of long-running franchises like Wheel of Fortune, Jeopardy, The Price is Right, and (one of my personal favorites) Supermarket Sweep. However, the prime-time network game show is an altogether different beast. The late 1990s saw an unprecedented boom in the prime-time game show, ushered in by the mega-hit Who Wants to be a Millionaire?
That show was successful for a number of reasons. One, it was the largest prize that a game show has ever offered. Two, Regis Philbin, however you feel about him, is a warm presence and wonderful host, the perfect guide through an our of trivia and small talk. The success of Millionaire paved the way for programs like The Weakest Link and Greed, but ABC eventually overexposed Millionaire, leading to its doom, and the prime time game show laid dormant. That is, until late last season.