Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/All About Faces


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The result was keep‎__EXPECTED_UNCONNECTED_PAGE__. Closing as keep per consensus. Sources are present which can be incorporated into the article for expansion. (non-admin closure) The Herald (Benison) (talk) 09:36, 4 April 2024 (UTC)

All About Faces

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No refs on the page for many years. Seems like a minor television game show, but I'm not seeing Reliable Sources which could be considered for inclusion. JMWt (talk) 08:10, 28 March 2024 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Television and Canada. JMWt (talk) 08:10, 28 March 2024 (UTC)

Keep per the significant coverage in multiple independent reliable sources.  The review notes: "Screen Gems and Dan Enright have turned "Candid Camera" into a game show for the firstrun syndication market, and WPIX-TV has slotted it in the all-important 7:30 p.m. strip for the New York ratings chase. During each half-hour segment, five situations are shown in which a hidden camera records a citizen hoaxed into making a decision. An example in the opening show had a stranger (show cast) trying to cajole a man into delivering a ticking package to the Chinese embassy. At the moment of decision, the frame is frozen and two teams of contestants in the studio try to figure out what the persons deci- sion will be. On the initialer, William Shatner and a partner were pitted against Gwen Verdon and a partner." The review notes: "The show has a rapid pace, what with the number of situations presented in each half hour, and a beneficial comedic spontaneity via ad lib aspects by the actors on location. The intriguing twist of the audience being in on something the subject isn't, works here as it did in "Candid Camera." Host Richard Hayes suits the comedy format nicely. "All About Faces" is produced in Canada."  The article notes: "All About Faces, CTV's new morning show, premiering this fall, is about those first impressions. With all the visual humor of a situation comedy and the fast-paced action of a game show. All About Faces proves just how right—or how wrong—our first impressions can be. Host of this series is Richard Hayes, a veteran performer of many television variety and talk shows. ... The guest panelists are chosen from a broad range of interests: arts, science, theatre or journalism and each bring a partner. Each team will be given $50 to start the half hour with, using portions of it to bet on their predictions."  The article review: "Actually, I'm alongside you, Mr. Salvatore. I'd be even more committed to your cause if I could be sure "All About Faces" (WPIX-TV, Sundays, 7:30 PM) was really the lowest point of idiocy. ... "All About Faces," which began competing for the title of the most idiotic games show last August, is a fairly original program by TV's standards. By that I mean it combines elements of "Candid Camera" and "Let's Make A Deal." The derivative game shows, or "unoriginals," only copy one of the earlier classics, not two. ... For those of you who aren't gamespeople, and don't know what Mr. Salvatore and I are fighting about, "All About Faces" opens with a film crew going into the streets and duping people into doing silly things which degrade human foibles. For instance, recently a model in hot pants engaged a newly married man in conversation before giving him her phone number. "By the way," she asked, "are you married?""  The article notes: "A hidden camera captures on film ordinary people in typical situations (for example, a woman receives the wrong order in a restaurant and the waiter disagrees). Except for the innocent victim, the entire situation is staged so that the person is intentionally placed in a difficult position where a decision must be made. At that critical moment the film is stopped and the contestants must guess what will happen next."  The article notes: "Like many other syndicated American TV programs, "All About Faces" is produced in places such as Toronto because its cheaper to make cheap TV shows in Canada. If the show had been produced in Sodom (New York) or Gomorrah (Los Angeles), there might have been even less money up for grabs on "All About Faces." ... Now I wouldn't want to be the one to encourage escalation of prizes in game shows, but charity is such a good cause, it's difficult to imagine any harm that could be done it by upping the ante on "All About Faces.""  The book notes: "This daily syndicated comedy-game show was produced in Canada for American television. On "All About Faces," each program consisted of situations in which a hidden camera recorded an unsuspecting citizen who was forced into making a decision. Sample challenges included a woman sitting in a restaurant and ordering a meal and the waiter bringing out something totally different. Does the woman send the food back or eat it? At the moment of decision the film clip was stopped and two teams, each composed of a celebrity couple, tried to guess the outcome. Each team, which began with $50, could bet any or all of their money on the outcome. The team with the most money at the end of the show was the winner."</li> <li> The book notes: "All About Faces (1972). Hosted by Richard Hayes, Screen Gems' All About Faces was a daily revision of an ABC networker of 1961, About Faces, and would later be reshaped for CBS' 1972 Amateur's Guide to Love—which in turn was reshaped into the 1978 syndie Love Experts. So many incarnations for so thin a premise: the celebrity contestant teams on All About Faces would view prefilmed sequences, then try to predict how the little "dramas" depicted in those sequences would turn out."</li> <li> The book notes: "Game. Two competing celebrity teams, composed of husband and wife or boy and girlfriend. Each team receives fifty dollars betting money. A previously filmed sequence involving people confronted with unexpected situations is played and stopped prior to its conclusion. After the teams wager any amount of their accumulated cash, they have to predict its outcome. The tape is played again and answers are revealed. Correct predictions add the bet amount to the player's score. A wrong answer deducts it. Winning teams, the highest cash scorers, donate their earnings to charity."</li> <li> The book notes: "Richard Hayes hosted this lackluster game show, similar in format to Gene Rayburn's The Amateur's Guide to Love and similar in title to Ben Alexander's About Faces. On this one, celebrity pairs were shown brief film sequences and tried to predict their outcome."</li> </ol>There is sufficient coverage in reliable sources to allow All About Faces to pass Notability, which requires "significant coverage in reliable sources that are independent of the subject". Cunard (talk) 12:20, 29 March 2024 (UTC) </li></ul>
 * Keep per Cunard's sources. Toughpigs (talk) 15:36, 29 March 2024 (UTC)
 * Keep - good sources. Nfitz (talk) 17:22, 29 March 2024 (UTC)


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