Can’t get enough of your favorite game show? Do you ever get an insatiable craving to watch shows like Password, Family Feud, Celebrity Name Game or Body Language, but didn’t have a listing, or a TV handy? Thanks to a YouTube Channel called Buzzr, you can now watch all new episodes of both classic and new game shows and more, any time, anywhere. All you have to do is grab your mobile phone and call up the channel. It’s serious game show Nirvana.

But these aren’t your grandma’s game shows. The “re-imagined” online versions, produced at the spacious and cutting edge YouTube Space LA, located in Playa Vista, have young, hip hosts and contestants culled from the galaxy of YouTube stars, most of whom can boast hundreds of thousands of subscribers.  I recently had the opportunity to check out YouTube’s state-of-the-art production facilities, designed specifically for YouTube creators to produce digital video content, from production and editing through uploading to YouTube. I have to say I was impressed, not only with the facilities, but with the talent.

I watched a number of Password segments being shot, and actually had the opportunity to play a round, failing miserably–but then again, maybe it was my partner who gave me crap clues. Anyway, I couldn’t help but be impressed by the hysterically quick-witted host, Steve Zaragoza, who cut his online teeth at Sourcefed. I had to grudgingly admit that this Millennial is much funnier, and livelier, than any host from past generations.

And that’s sort of what Buzzr is about — reformatting the vast amounts of game show content owned by FremantleMedia (the guys behind America’s Got Talent, American Idol, The Price is Right and Storage Wars, to name just a few), for the YouTube generation. That, BTW, includes a vast amount of Baby Boomers. I challenge you to find a Baby Boomer’s Facebook page that doesn’t have at least one YouTube share.

But I digress. FremantleMedia  is so invested in this that they’ve created an entire digital content studio, known as Tiny Riot!, focused on developing and producing unique content for its own channels, including BUZZR YouTube and The Pet Collective, and through joint ventures and strategic partnerships such as the Munchies online food channel, and its content deals with StyleHaul and BroadbandTV. The studio also develops and produces digital content around FMNA’s TV properties. FremantleMedia has assigned some of its best, brightest and most experienced producers to TinyRiot!, and I heard through the grapevine that there will soon be a cable TV channel that will run similar content, just in case your mobile screen is too small, and your computer screen is too work related (as are mine).

I admit to being conflicted after attending the YouTube Space/Buzzr/Tiny Riot! event. It made me want to get off my butt and start producing some stimulating video, and it made me want to spend more time on my butt watching all this lively video content that’s already been created. What’s a girl to do?

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Buzzr: Game Show Nirvana