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'Trust Me, I'm a Game Show Host': Would you?

'Trust Me, I'm a Game Show Host': Would you?

TBS attempts to blend its comedy brand with a prime-time quiz show in the hybrid series "Trust Me, I'm a Game Show Host" (10:30 p.m. Tuesday).

Comedians D.L. Hughley ("The Hughleys") and Michael Ian Black ("Ed") are the show's dueling hosts. For each contestant Mr. Hughley and Mr. Black offer a "fact," one is true and another is false. The contestant must decide which game show host to trust; if they choose correctly, they advance up a money ladder.

"Just because something is believable, it doesn't mean it's true," Mr. Black tells contestant Ambree in Tuesday's series premiere. "I could tell you D.L. writes his own jokes, doesn't make it true."

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'Trust Me, I'm a Game Show Host'

When: 10:30 p.m. Tuesday.

Starring: Michael Ian Black and D.L. Hughley.

The two facts presented are sometimes equally believable or equally ridiculous.

One matchup in the first episode is "an electric vibrator was developed and marketed before the electric vacuum and electric iron" versus "Thomas Edison invented a form of bubble gum and held the patent before selling it to the Wrigley brothers." (Yes, "Trust Me, I'm a Game Show Host" tries to scandalize/amuse with some of its innuendo-filled "facts.")

When it comes to "facts" about TV, "Trust Me I'm a Game Show Host" could stand to do a little more homework. One semi-accurate fact labels the 1992 NBC program "Steel Justice" as "a show" but it was actually a one-shot TV movie.

First Published: October 20, 2013, 12:00 a.m.
Updated: October 20, 2013, 6:17 p.m.

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