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The Gurin Company Teams With Relaunched Action Time To Revive Classic Format ‘Game For A Laugh’
Peter White Television EditorThe Gurin Company, run by Phil Gurin, whose credits include exec producing ABC’s Shark Tank, has teamed with Jeremy Fox’s format firm Action Time to bring back British entertainment format Game for a Laugh.This comes after Fox relaunched Action Time, the formats firm that he ran after creating The Krypton Factor. Fox left DRG, the international distributor that he founded, in September 2018.The Game for a Laugh reboot is the first Action Time project to emerge since he relaunched the company that he first started 40 years ago.The show ran between 1981 and 1985 on the UK’s ITV and revolved around a variety of practical jokes, pranks and studio games such as the Dunk Tank and Pie Chair.
