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Ice Cold Cash
''Ice Cold Cash'' is a Canadian game show that ran from February 10 to June 6, 2012 for 28 episodes on Food Network. Reruns of the show aired on Dabl in the United States from 2020 to 2023 and still currently air on GameTV Go as of 2025. Overview Host Joseph Motiki dresses as an ice cream seller and pedals around in an ice cream cart. The general public approaches the cart as if to get ice cream or a frozen treat, only to be told he has nothing in stock. Motiki explains that he only has cash and that there are ten questions that may be food, drink, or culinary related. The first question is for $10 and every question thereafter doubles. When contestants reach $160, they can't leave with anything less. There were two segments in the show. The first one was where people were given a kitchen gadget or a food and asked if they knew what the kitchen gadget or food was. The correct response would get them $20. A second segment is a game of charades Charades (, ). is a parlor game ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Game Show
A game show (or gameshow) is a genre of broadcast viewing entertainment where contestants compete in a game for rewards. The shows are typically directed by a game show host, host, who explains the rules of the program as well as commentating and narrating where necessary. The history of the game shows dates back to the late 1930s when both radio and television game shows were broadcast. The genre became popular in the United States in the 1950s, becoming a regular feature of daytime television. On most game shows, contestants Quiz, answer questions or solve puzzles, and win prizes such as cash, trips and goods and services. History 1930s–1950s Game shows began to appear on radio and television in the late 1930s. The first television game show, ''Spelling Bee (game show), Spelling Bee'', as well as the first radio game show, ''Information Please'', were both broadcast in 1938; the first major success in the game show genre was ''Dr. I.Q.'', a radio quiz show that began in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joseph Motiki
Joseph Frederick Motiki (born July 31, 1972) is a Canadian actor and television host. He is best known for hosting the TVOntario children's block ''TVOKids#The Space, The TVOKids Crawlspace'' and the Food Network (Canadian TV channel), Food Network game show ''Ice Cold Cash''. Early life Joseph Motiki was born in Toronto, Ontario after his parents emigrated from their native South Africa to live in Canada. He grew up in the Borough of East York and attended high school at East York Collegiate Institute. He was an honours student who was active in athletics, and was president of the student government. Motiki enrolled at Ryerson University and graduated from their Radio and Television Arts program. Career While attending school, he beat out 350 people to become the host of ''What'', a late night phone-in show for a youth audience on TVOntario. The pilot episode aired on May 30, 1994, and the show was broadcast live on Tuesday nights starting September 27, 1994, for one season. D ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shaw Media
Shaw Media, Inc. was the television broadcasting division of Shaw Communications. It owned the Global Television Network, which broadcasts nationally via 13 television stations, as well as 19 specialty channels including Slice (TV channel), Slice, HGTV (Canada), HGTV Canada, Showcase (Canadian TV channel), Showcase, Food Network (Canada), Food Network Canada, and History (Canada), History. Shaw Media consisted of the broadcasting assets of the former Canwest. Shaw Media properties were acquired in April 2016 by sister company Corus Entertainment. History As Canwest Global In 1974, a group led by Israel Asper bought the assets of Pembina, North Dakota television station KCND-TV from broadcaster Gordon McLendon, moving the station to Winnipeg as independent station CKND-DT, CKND-TV. Asper, through his company, Canwest, eventually bought out his partners in the Winnipeg station. A few months later, the Asper group joined a consortium that bought CKGN-TV, a network of six simulcas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Food Network (Canada)
Food Network is a Television in Canada, Canadian Discretionary service#Exempted discretionary services, exempt Discretionary service, discretionary specialty channel owned by Rogers Sports & Media. Based on the Food Network, U.S. cable network of the same name, It broadcasts programming related to food, cooking, cuisine, and the food industry. History Food Network is one of five specialty networks that were relaunched by Rogers on January 1, 2025, after the June 2024 announcement that it had 2024 Canadian specialty television realignment, acquired the rights to Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD) factual and lifestyle brands. The channel succeeds a previous iteration of Food Network that was majority-owned by Corus Entertainment; this channel rebranded as Flavour Network on December 30, 2024, with a programming slate that phases out first-run Food Network programs in favour of other acquisitions. References {{Warner Bros. Discovery Americas Food Network (Canadian TV channel), ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Game Show
A game show (or gameshow) is a genre of broadcast viewing entertainment where contestants compete in a game for rewards. The shows are typically directed by a game show host, host, who explains the rules of the program as well as commentating and narrating where necessary. The history of the game shows dates back to the late 1930s when both radio and television game shows were broadcast. The genre became popular in the United States in the 1950s, becoming a regular feature of daytime television. On most game shows, contestants Quiz, answer questions or solve puzzles, and win prizes such as cash, trips and goods and services. History 1930s–1950s Game shows began to appear on radio and television in the late 1930s. The first television game show, ''Spelling Bee (game show), Spelling Bee'', as well as the first radio game show, ''Information Please'', were both broadcast in 1938; the first major success in the game show genre was ''Dr. I.Q.'', a radio quiz show that began in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dabl
Dabl () is an American digital multicast television network owned by the CBS Media Ventures subsidiary of Paramount Global and operated by Weigel Broadcasting. Dabl launched in September 2019 with a female-targeted lifestyle format. It aired reruns of cooking shows, home renovation shows, Undercover Boss, and more (see full list below under 'former programming'). In December 2023, Paramount transferred management duties to Weigel. The network switched to airing Black sitcoms (sourced mainly from the Paramount library at first, plus other companies later including Warner Bros.) from the mid-1990s through the early to mid-2010s. History 2019–2023: Lifestyle channel On June 17, 2019, CBS Television Distribution (now CBS Media Ventures) announced the launch of Dabl as a lifestyle-oriented digital subchannel network targeting a female audience. The network would be carried on CBS's owned-and-operated stations (which covered 39% of American television households), and, at t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charades
Charades (, ). is a parlor game, parlor or party game, party word game, word guessing game. Originally, the game was a dramatic form of literary charades: a single person would act out each syllable of a word or phrase in order, followed by the whole phrase together, while the rest of the group guessed. A variant was to have teams who acted scenes out together while the others guessed. Today, it is common to require the actors to mime their hints without using any spoken words, which requires some conventional gestures. Puns and visual puns were and remain common. History Literary charades A charade was a form of literary riddle popularized in France in the 18th century where each syllable of the answer was described enigmatically as a separate word before the word as a whole was similarly described. The term ''charade'' was borrowed into English from French in the second half of the eighteenth century, denoting a "kind of riddle in which each syllable of a word, or a complete w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2012 Canadian Television Series Debuts
1 (one, unit, unity) is a number, numeral, and glyph. It is the first and smallest positive integer of the infinite sequence of natural numbers. This fundamental property has led to its unique uses in other fields, ranging from science to sports, where it commonly denotes the first, leading, or top thing in a group. 1 is the unit of counting or measurement, a determiner for singular nouns, and a gender-neutral pronoun. Historically, the representation of 1 evolved from ancient Sumerian and Babylonian symbols to the modern Arabic numeral. In mathematics, 1 is the multiplicative identity, meaning that any number multiplied by 1 equals the same number. 1 is by convention not considered a prime number. In digital technology, 1 represents the "on" state in binary code, the foundation of computing. Philosophically, 1 symbolizes the ultimate reality or source of existence in various traditions. In mathematics The number 1 is the first natural number after 0. Each natural number, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
